Mobile Games

Hello out there,

I don’t discriminate against any particular device, be it a PC, Console, or Phone. If the games are good and they aren’t buggy I can fall in love with it.

Mobile games are… special. There can be fantastic games for mobile but you have to shift through a lot of trash before you find the good stuff.

There’s a certain type of game called “gacha ” that I can’t get behind at all. You might not have heard of the term but you have probably played the type of game I’m talking about.

In gacha games there’s a ton of different characters you can “collect” by spending real life cash or you can sometimes get lucky and open a box to have a “Chance” to get the character you want. It’s not always a box sometimes it’s a direct “summon” or some other weird mechanic like that.

I got stuck on one once. It was Mobius Final Fantasy. For the first like year, the game stayed pretty fair with its free to play options. Once it started catching up to the Japanese version though is when it got bad. You had to grind over and over for hours. It had an auto battle system but I couldn’t sit and watch the game play itself for more than 5 minutes before shutting it off.

There’s a lot of those games. I suggest you stay away from them no matter how good it looks.

My favorite games are the games you pay for. There’s usually a fee between $1-$20. (I hardly ever see a mobile game above $20.) These paid games are usually fully fleshed out games. You do need to watch out though because some of them are Gacha games with a $1 starting fee.

While I complained about Mobius Final Fantasy there are other RPG’s out there that are full RPG’s with a story and everything. I’m a pretty big RPG fan but that’s pretty normal for writers since RPG’s are all about story.

Other games out there are competitive games. I talked about me and competitive games and how we don’t mix. There is an exception though. I play a mobile game called “Brawl Stars” it has several 3v3 teams game types and a 1vs10 battle royale style system as well. They are all pretty fun. I don’t take the game seriously, which is probably the only reason I can keep playing it and not get angry.

I recently found a game that’s free to play and pretty great called “Sky” which is 80% exploration and 20% socialization. It has beautiful scenery and has a really fun glide mechanic. You wander around and collect flames/wings which allow you to glide longer. Collect enough flames and they become a candle. You can gift candles to other players and increase your friendship. There’s also little benches with a small candle in the middle where you light it up and sit and talk to someone. It’s really cute.

Another one I’ve been playing a lot lately is called “Death Road to Canada”. It’s pretty much the old school “Oregon Trail” game but with zombies. You stop off at random locations and gather as many resources as you can. Sometimes you’ll get stuck in a hoard of zombies and have to fight your way through. I once got a flame thrower and demolished wave after wave of zombies only to get to the very end and die to a single zombie. It was embarrassing but it only made me want to play it more!

Another free game that I’ve had on my phone for a really long time is “Godville” remember when I told you about Mobius FF and it’s auto play features being boring? Godvill is almost 100% auto play. You’re a god and your subject goes out and kills creatures, collects weapons and armor. It will gather around one thousand gold bricks and make a temple dedicated to you.

After you complete the temple it starts collecting wood and makes an Ark. After the ark it starts gathering two of each species… etc. You know the god mythos stuff.

It’s completely text based and you can only interact with your “GodPower” which you can use to either harm or heal the character. I tend to heal mine as you can see to the left.

The best part about Godville are the little diary entries. I left the picture a bit bigger than normal so you can have a look.

Beyond those games are games like Minecraft or other “ported” games but there’s one special game that really stands out.

The Room, is one of those games that graces your phone with beauty and puzzle solving. It’s absolutely fantastic. There’s three sequels to the original and each one has their own puzzle to solve. They don’t try to out do each other, they are just fun physics based puzzles.

I’m not sure if the developers have moved the game to PC yet but the gameplay is perfectly suited for a touch screen.

There are plenty of other games that I could probably get into but I don’t want to ramble too long.

Do you have any mobile games that you like? Maybe I’m completely wrong about Gacha games and you’re now on a keyboard crusade. We’ll see about that one. *cracks knuckles.*

Anyways I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day! Happy Friday everyone!
Katherine

PS: I’m sorry I didn’t put the links to the respective sites I may end up doing that later. You can disregard this when or if I do.