I do like having games on my phone, but it’s always a struggle looking for games with 0 microtransactions. So would like a game I can out right pay for, or one with ads. The ability to disable ads for $5 is chill though.
I’ve played a lot of games that you can “have fun being f2p” but some days I just get really sick and tired of games I play trying to sell me things every 30 seconds.
So do you guys have any?
If not I may go back to playing GBA games on my phone XD
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Fran Bow . It’s a psychological terror click adventure, available on both Mobile and PC. On mobile I think it has 5 different chapters, and 0 transactions other than the buying price. Really recommend it!
Minecraft pocket edition has microtransactions but it only ever pushes them on the menu never actually in game so maybe that’s a compromise? Also it’s simple but this port of Simon Tatham’s portable puzzle collection is pretty good and has no ads or microtransactions https://f-droid.org/en/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles/
… What is mc pocket edition even trying to sell?
Maps, skins, mods, texture packs and cosmetics
The first 4 of them can be obtained from third party sites for free
The stupid paid texture packs and maps and skins on the marketplace
iPhone or android?
There are a decent number of indie games, at least on iPhone. I play Balatro, monster train, binding of Isaac, stardew valley, slay the spire, dead cells, dicey dungeons, alto’s odyssey on iPhone (some with a controller).
Oh Android, but those are all great suggestions and appear to be on android as well! I haven’t played all of those, but I’ve heard wonderful things about all of those on PC. Didn’t realize all of those have pc.
Yeah, discoverability kind of sucks (on both OSes) because they get flooded out by microtransaction slop. I have Apple Arcade (because I use the other Apple one stuff and it’s cheaper just to package it), and filtering by that makes life easier. Several of those are included.
The other option that excels on Android is emulation. You might kind of need a controller for real time games, but there are a lot of substantial turn based games on older platforms that hold up well and are tolerable with on screen controller for menu navigation.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is great, it’s an open-source dungeon crawler. Neither adds, nor transactions, micro or otherwise. If you want to pay tho, there’s a donation link for the dev team.
And if you still want too play GBA games, check check out the Lemuroid emulator, it’s also open source and has no adds. Works for nintendoDS too.
You can find both of these on F-Droid. They’re also be on Google Play, but since I’ve only tried the F-Droid version idk if the other has adds.
the dev team
The team is one guy. His name’s Evan.
I also highly recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I’ve been playing it for years.
There’s also a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup on mobile. Although the UI is quite clunky with the control and shift commands imported from PC. But the gameplay is more elaborate than Shattered Pixel Dungeon, I’d say.
Great game. Been playing it for years.
However, the mobile UI has some serious issues since it was more of a secondary thought. It’s really easy to accidentally tap to move somewhere and ruin an entire run that you were really enjoying. There’s no undo or any way of editing the save to help recover the run. I’ve stopped playing for months because I was just so discouraged after shit like that constantly happening. In fact, I’ve hit that point just now.
Some stuff like that’s definitely happened to me. My dumbest defeat was after drinking a potion of levitation to get last dome disintegration traps, accidentally tapped he wrong part of the screen, thought I might still have enough fuel to make it to the chest and I’d use my pirit chain on the way back… But nope, I fell right on a trap and died. I had an ankh, but not a blessed one, so even tho I could make it back to that room’s entrance I had no way to recover my bag.
Soul knight is good, but does have micro transaction
I have the following games on my iPhone:
- Infectenator - https://apps.apple.com/se/app/infectonator/id547566699?l=en-GB
- Plauge Inc. - https://apps.apple.com/se/app/plague-inc/id525818839?l=en-GB
- Mini Metro - https://apps.apple.com/se/app/mini-metro/id837860959?l=en-GB
- Reigns - https://apps.apple.com/se/app/reigns/id1114127463?l=en-GB
- Freeways - https://apps.apple.com/se/app/freeways/id1203896014?l=en-GB
- Myst - https://apps.apple.com/se/app/myst-mobile/id6444813759?l=en-GB
- Chrono Trigger - https://apps.apple.com/se/app/chrono-trigger-upgrade-ver/id479431697?l=en-GB
- 80 Days - https://apps.apple.com/se/app/80-days/id892812659?l=en-GB
- Netwalk - https://apps.apple.com/se/app/netwalk-network-puzzle-pro/id1614316916?l=en-GB
Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic, if you feel like playing rollercoaster tycoon 1/2 on your phone. They slightly altered the UI to make it more touch friendly.
Sweet! Imma make Mr Bones Wild Ride
Freeciv on Android is an almost feature complete re-creation of Civilization 5 with minimal graphics. You can also download the JAR and run it on a desktop if you have a Java SDK installed. As a Civ player that started with 4, I found it easier to pick up than freeciv which is trying to replicate something more like Civ2.
The Lifeline series from 3 minute games is excellent if you like a twist on choose your own adventure games.
Old school RuneScape
Slay The Spire
How is the mobile port? I like the PC version but recall someone saying the mobile port specifically wasn’t great.
It’s exactly the same game
The only quirks I’ve noticed are minor. You sometimes go back to your home screen if you try dragging a card too close to the edge of the screen. Sometimes the the lower background elements don’t stay in the background and cover pertinent information
Into The Breach
The Netflix version of mobile games have their micro transactions removed (or at least all the ones I’ve downloaded).
Wow this is amazing. My dad and I used to compete against each other to get the highest score on our old PC. Thanks for the recommendation
I had no idea this was ported to mobile, thank you for informing me. May all your pillows be your preferred temperature for sleeping on both sides for the rest of your life.
I like vector pinball as well.
Old school RuneScape
There is a f2p that you can get hundreds of hours out of, but the full game has a monthly membership. It’s possible to sustain the membership with the in-game money you make just skilling/pvm drops.
