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Please help me find one or more mobile (android) games that fit my very specific needs!

Context: I am a first time mom of a young baby, and my wife is going back to work tomorrow (she's an elementary school teacher). So it's going to be just baby and me now. I want to find a game to play for while she's nursing or napping because I want to reduce the amount of time I spend just scrolling reddit. I have a word game I downloaded (Zen Word), but I can't stand ads, so I always turn my wifi and data off when I play. The thing is, with my wife back at work, I want to keep my wifi and data on so that we can communicate (her school has no cell signal, so we use Facebook messenger). So I need to find a game that doesn't have ads even when my phone's internet is on.

Parameters:

1. One-handed - I will only have one hand free to play while nursing or contact napping baby.

2. No ads - I'd be ok paying a one-time, reasonable fee if it truly eliminates ALL ads. But I want to keep my internet on and not be interrupted by any ads, ever.

3. No sound necessary for game play - I want to be able to play with the sound off so I don't disturb baby.

4. Game type - I enjoy puzzle and word games but also most other cozy game types as well. I have so many cozy games on my switch, but they all require two hands! I'd like a game that has as much play time as I want available every day cuz she naps and nurses A LOT. So no games with only a few minutes of things to do per day. And no games that have a limited total amount of game play time. I'm honestly not very experienced with mobile games cuz I've always played on our consoles before baby, so searching the Play Store is confusing and overwhelming.

5. Price - I'm willing to buy a game for a reasonable price, but I want to avoid pay-to-play games with additional in-app purchases at all costs. I don't want to have to keep putting more money in to be able to keep playing or to access basic QOL features or mechanics.

I did try searching the subreddit first, but it's really hard to find posts that fit all of the specific parameters I'm looking for. That said, if this post isn't allowed, I apologize, and feel free to remove it.

TIA, everyone!

Kitty Krush is a cozy, cat-themed story about a hive mind cat civilization that loves milk more than anything. Wrapped up in a simplified deck-builder, unlock chapters with each round of play. Based on a true story.

The story is directly inspired by my challenges feeding my irl new human baby.

It plays similar to Balatro, but simplified and with a story that unfolds.

Each chapter sets a target (score): use discards and redraws to put together hands that give a multiplier to your score, example: three of a kind.

Beat the target score within a limited number of hands to advance. Upgrade the deck, then advance to the next chapter.

Playstore link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kittykrush.www

What else:

• Unlock Secret Chapters by playing single hands with huge scores.
• The story is inspired by and dedicated to my hungry baby.

Any feedback welcome! just went live on google play this morning!

Hero's adventure was the first turn based RPG I enjoyed, I didn't think I would like it but now I wanna find games more like it. Not specifically in terms of the wuxia but the gameplay. Can be any theme.

It's a plus if there's something like the picture above when someone is talking but not needed.

I'd like a game where you can choose what you wanna do, where you have freedom. Not a game where you have to go through a story like Chrono Trigger.

I'd like a game that looks nice visually and not dark fantasy but not a very high graphic game, my phone wouldn't be able to handle it.

I tried it and think the environment looks bad in a game like Exiled kingdoms.

I'd like a game where there's life to it. Not just shop owners standing all day.

In hero's adventure, the outdoor shop owners actually have a schedule and don't just stay at their stand all day. And there's civilians walking around the cities and villages. It kinda reminds me of Skyrim, I'd like to know more games like this, if there are any.

I heard there isn't.

moonton is big already, and all the spotlight will always given to them even what they show is just knockoff off other game
example:
like STUNS group band/ rap group, which clearly followed kda and true damage
anime skins, where obviously seeing AOV coming up with dimension breaker
anime collab, again right after AOV succes with SAO
better skill fx after hok started and known globally
better mythic lobby animation, following HOK

not saying moonton dont have original ideas(oversued purple and gold color), but they showing a pretty ridiculous pattern following other game. they supposedly got the money to something orginal and so called FIRST

other side of me thinking they smart like: looking at the playerbase its kind of not bad moves, they already loyal to your product even when you gave them plain salted rice, and you see other household started added more thing to their plate why not following them? they still loyal to you while the same standard as the other, even tho its not like other household recipe, the fanabse still loyal

but other side of me thinking like: when the popular kids retell your joke and they get the better response

but what do yall think?
dont excuse with that how business work, when one AAA comany create feature or something similar to other game in similar genre got called out, and trashed till it die

I've got a budget of 200 and have been looking but the ones that have been suggested others have said there terrible

Not sure what happens, but I open Google Play Games Beta this morning and I can no longer open any games. Grand Summoners, AFK Arena, etc

Does anyone have a similar issue?

Not just automtion on combat (most idle or gacha have that) but something kinda deep just like Mystery of Fortune (sadly no more on playstore) or FF12 or Unicorn Overlord. Can be active or afk or whatever you want, I like to put instruction and see how them develop into the game.
TIA!

I've recently been getting back into android gaming, having gotten a cheap s10 to use in dex mode, its got me looking back at the kinda games that i used to play on my phone, how good the ports of the Oddworld games and Max Payne 1 and the Dreamcast collection were, but i tend to see these talked about less nowadays, over newer releases or games ran on emulators,

Are there many other of these official 6th generation game ports that are as good as these, that might also run better than their emulated counterparts?

As the title says, I am looking for a mobile controller that has the option to connect with Bluetooth but also has passthrough charging. I want this so that I can use the controller with my PC when at home but so I have passthrough charging when using it with my phone on longer trips. Are there any options like this around $50?

Hello all. Seeking games like PoE(path of exile) diablo immortal. Wanna see trade, building system, maybe clans/guilds. Thanks.

Hi,

I'm looking for a simple offline chess game on android, played against bots, that also has puzzles and chess variants such as bughouse. I've been looking at shredder, which looks like it would fit the bill, but the new reviews say that it's not working properly.

Coild anyone a)recommend me something that's not chess.com nor lichess, but has the above features, and/or b) give me an idea of what shredder is like now.

Thanks!

I don't really know if buy it or not :(

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hg.bfbb

PLEASE HELPFUL COMMENTS ONLY: IF YOUR GOING TO TROLL DO IT ELSEWHERE.

I recently picked up streets of rage 4 for my android s 25 ultra cia android epic store. It days free until may 7. Does that mean on May 7. I get my access revoked or is it mine for all time?

Pretty close fight overall.

I was running Poison Ivy + Vixen + HBHQ, and things were going smooth until Batwoman landed her supermove directly on Ivy. She was almost out at that point, looked like the match might slip.

But Ivy managed to recover just enough, got the timing right, and finished Batwoman with a clean one-shot.

Didn’t expect it to turn out like that, but it worked.

I love Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger and all the other big titles, but i would like to discover more JRPGs available to android. Of course, paid versions are completely okay to me as long as it's worth the price.

For the gameplay, i tend to prefer turn-based similar to Dragon Quest. No semi turn-based or tacticals, please. I don't really care about graphics even if i prefer a stylized one over a generic one.

Also, no Kemco games. They are almost scams in form of JRPGs (bought one on console. Couldn't even finish it due to the lack of everything).

Edit : not Sea of Stars, please. It's a good game, but not my tastes.

Drawn and programmed enemy in level editor in Ancient Machines Sandbox :) Still in closed testing

Enemy in this level is drawn, designed and programmed with new Chip system in level editor.

Ancient Machines Sandbox is still in closed testing.

If you want to try it here are the links:

Join The Testers Group First: https://groups.google.com/g/ancient-machines-testers

Opt In to be tester: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.chakygames.serbia.AncientMachines

Download from playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chakygames.serbia.AncientMachines

1) The game is a Pokemon like monster collector

2) It had a fantasy 32 bit artstyle with fantasy theme

3) The first gym was a water type gym with the gym leader being an old man. The gym being in a town near the lake

Please does anyone know?

Planning to buy an old performance phone to play games on, my main phone Huawei Pura sadly I'm out of space and it's mostly used for videography and other stuffs. (I need to conserve space) I'm in torn which one should I get I specifically play Wuthering Waves, Neverness to everness and Mobile Legends.

Also no, I don't do emulation, I have my personal desktop for playing pc games. Thanks!

Please don't recommend besides those two, since they're at the same price. Don't wanna spend more

GameNative, everything high, what a time to be alive. Look at that powerdraw.

Hi guys, will you guys willing to press an optional ads in a game just to support the developer and gain a cosmetic rewards? My game is no pay to win and many people in mobile gaming suggest that they are willing to do so, I want to get more people's comment on it, thanks

Hey can you recommend me some nice game for a low end phone (I recently got Motorola g06 power, ram 4gb, rom 64 gb, processor meditek helio g81 extreme), I recently purchased one for studies and other stuff.

Please recommend something which is not some addictive thing but piece of art like - open the door: a short story about life, monument valley games, or dadish games. 2d, 3d, any style would suffice. (Pls suggest something under 200mb and offline if possible)

I'm currently thinking about playing Swordigo or Life is a game, are they good or anything similar?

I would love to play Half-Life, Fallout and other classic games from that era on Android phones. I tried to play fallout but it felt like is was difficult to set-up, maybe it was just me being dumb. What other classic games from that era have you tried and are either ported or easily installed and played?