Saw a game on Google Play that had great reviews (4.6k AVG with 77k reviews) so downloaded it thinking I finally might have found a good mobile game only to find it was trash like almost every mobile game I’ve ever tried.
Is it me, am I the problem, or are virtually all mobile games terrible?
Edit
Thanks for everyone’s feedback and suggestions, I’ve been trying out some of your recommendations as well as trying out Steam Link to play my steam PC games
There are a ton of good mobile games but the reason you can’t find them is because 99% of what you see in app stores are paid advertisements. Every section is basically paid, and the few which aren’t get botted by major companies. That app that has 5 million downloads and 4.6 average score? Most likely spammed with bots that give it 5 stars. Google Play is a disaster.
Here are some Android games I would absolutely recommend:
Fancy Pants Adventures
Data Wing
The Battle of Politopia
Sonny
Plato
Cube Escape Collection
Pocket City (or its sequel)
Bloons TD 6 (paid)
Dicey Dungeons (paid)
Dead Cells (paid)
Downwell (paid)
Baba Is You (paid)
Levelhead (paid)
Kingdom Rush series (paid, usually on sale though)
If you own Netflix you get to play their catalogue of games for free. I recommend Into the Breach, Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon, Oxenfree
I could go on, but the point is ignore everything you see on the store. The store is garbage. Try to look for games that are well-talked about online.
A chunk of those aren’t mobile-first games. Dead cells is like an award winning game on PC and console. They’re good games. Maybe the metric should be “is this on other platforms , too?” Somehow the shitty models of mobile games haven’t fully developed on other platforms.
Thanks for those Netflix suggestions, didn’t know about that at all.
Into the Breach was my final push into getting a netflix subscription. It’s that good.
Polytopia is awesome. It is free to play offline, and only requires one one time purchase to play online. No ads.