iOS Games Thread Catch All

All these fine people worked on Cultist Simulator in a significant way (core team of 5-6). One toolbag shouldn't taint their work even if he's the main designer and writer. It's an innovative and inspiring game with clever ideas, moody music, and great art. It's worth experiencing.

Kennedy appears to be an asshole at worst and that should affect whether people want to work and interact with him. I don't think it rises to boycotting his work based on what's public.

I recall discussion about whether to buy Red Dead Redemption 2 or whether to skip it in anger over how Rockstar treats many of its coders and other productive staff as slaves. The answer many employees said was to buy it to see the amazing work done by individual people even if you didn’t think the company as a whole was reputable.

I bought cultist simulator after hearing the chatter about the sale here but before I learned about what a bad person Alexis Kennedy is.

Yeah I’m in the boat of trying out a game even if the reputation of the company behind it gets tainted. That’s rarely the fault of the rank and file developers. I remember going through a similar process when Shadow Complex first came out.

I’ve gotten back into CoD Mobile. If anyone else here is still playing it please friend me. I’m RawkGWJ. Same as everywhere else that’s not meat-space.

I got Sandship: Crafting Factory (also on Android) and it's really interesting, but I hate it at the same time.
First, it's a polished Factorio-like. Automate the processing of materials and using these materials to create parts, so like iron plates, rods, gears. Use these to complete quests and to build structures.

That part of it is pretty great. The touch interface is kinda clunky. It can be hard to just 'do the thing you're trying to do' sometimes. But the worst part is of course the Free to Play implementation. As usual there are timers and 2 currencies. The timers limit how quickly you can complete 'contracts' and research things. The earned currency (gold) limits you pretty heavily after the first 20 minutes, its basically energy from other F2P games in that it fully refills on level up and its your primary limiter of being able to initiate actions like Research and Upgrades.

There are no purchases that give you any permanent upgrade. All purchases are just gems and timer boosts.

The effect of the Gold and Time limitations is that you spend very little time actually playing with and optimizing your factory and most of it just waiting for timers that give you the gold you need to unlock new research.

So basically, another quality game ruined by F2P garbage. I'd pay $15 for this on PC with the game restructured around actual game-based progression and all timers ripped out.

Pretty much sums up how I felt about it too.

Yeah, I was pretty excited about Sandship, but there's honestly not much "game" in there. At max level there's not much reason to make any of the products other than to fill sales requests.

I'm a much bigger fan of Mindustry on the iPhone. It has the whole conveyor belt machine mechanic, plus an awesome RTS campaign.

Yeah Mindustry is pretty neat. It got me through xmas vacation with inlaws, but I wasnt really compelled to play much after that. Its rough on a phone.

But I got a ton out of it, like probably 10 hours and many avoided 'so when are we gonna see grandkids?' conversations. So yeah, +10 or so to Mindustry

"Try a few of the brownies, and you may see grandkids tonight!"

Are there any closet fans of Raid: Shadow Legends up in here? I want to talk shop.

I revived my account for Transformers Forged to Fight this week. Just had a hankering to play a slick mobile fighter. It’s still as good as I remember it. Maybe I’ll actually pull a 4* bot one of these days...

I’m tempted to try the Eve Online Mobile game that just came out. But also the next season of CoD Mobile starts in a few days, so I might be preoccupied with that.

EvE Echoes is EvE Online for mobile. There are some minor mechanical differences (e.g you’re not allowed to even attempt to lock onto players in High Sec), but overall it’s EvE. The whole star chart is there, everything is as remembered from my stint with it so long ago.

Currently the market is in shambles - not enough ISK to go around, BP’s are scarce along with minerals and Planetary mats.

NulSec is really empty. No big corps stifling that part of the game. It’s refreshing.

So if you want to try EvE Online, it’s a great substitute for now.

I’m a total EvE noob. Never played it. Athros, if you don’t mind, would you give me an idea of the gameplay loop? Is it just WoW in space or something else entirely?

It's accounting, risk management, business, personal diplomacy, resource management and military strategy and tactics... in spaaaace...

In essence, it's a second job.

Robear wrote:

In essence, it's a second job.

Gross!! :barf:

RawkGWJ wrote:

I’m a total EvE noob. Never played it. Athros, if you don’t mind, would you give me an idea of the gameplay loop? Is it just WoW in space or something else entirely?

The best basic look comes from Reddit: For Those New to EvE: A much needed PSA

I spent a few years with weekly (at least) scheduled mining and defense patrol sessions, with a corp. In return, they provided free insurance for my ships, and I was able to take advantage of our relationships with other corps, to a degree. As well as the corporate infrastructure for berthing rights and manufacturing. When there was a war, I had to show up more frequently, in case ships were needed for missions. A good corp is a good home in the game. If you're going to play at all seriously, you need a corp behind you, even if it's one of the public or training ones.

Goddamn it, this stupid iOS game is going to make me reinstall EVE Online, isn't it.

merphle wrote:

Goddamn it, this stupid iOS game is going to make me reinstall EVE Online, isn't it.

Not for me. I’m uninstalling it. I see the time commitment and remember why I stopped playing EvE Online.

Me too. Same exact reason.

What time commitment?

I’ve bounced off Eve probably a dozen times over the last decade, mostly due to the crap interface, but the concessions they made to streamline things for this version seem to address most of the issues I have with Eve. I’ve already put in a dozen hours with this version and ended up reinstalling the PC version and booting up my ancient character as well.

Help.

EDIT: okay, nope. Spent a couple more hours with the PC version tonight and it’s still hot garbage. There’s no reason I should need to click through 4 different windows to perform a simple action. Mobile version is still fun though.

EDIT 2: sigh. Spent most of my free gaming time playing on PC since posting this and when mining or during long jumps I play on my phone.

Before my first born came along I had a wonderful time with Final Fantasy XI. That was the first FF MMO RPG. The time commitment, though, was what you’d expect from a game like that. Soon after my son was born, it was clear to me that I didn’t have the free time required to really participate in that type of game. It was my one and only deep dive into an MMO-RPG.

Maclintok wrote:

Are there any closet fans of Raid: Shadow Legends up in here? I want to talk shop.

Fans, it's a game... a Player ? I still play. If you want information on how to spend money tho, I'm not your gamer, as I'm f2p all the way. Almost 100 days as of this typing.

Manach wrote:
Maclintok wrote:

Are there any closet fans of Raid: Shadow Legends up in here? I want to talk shop.

Fans, it's a game... a Player ? I still play. If you want information on how to spend money tho, I'm not your gamer, as I'm f2p all the way. Almost 100 days as of this typing.

No, no I haven’t spent on the game since mid-2019. Actually phoned it in for many months until a couple months ago maybe. I came back to the Classic Arena in shambles. I dropped way down from Gold IV and have spent most of my time fighting my way back from Bronze IV to now fairly stuck at Gold I.

Arena is my favourite mode so seeing them mishandle this even after their failed patch last week is breaking my heart. On the plus plus I completely revamped my Defense and offensive teams but I can’t compete with essentially Platinum tier rejects all pooling into the lower ranks.

What is your focus in Raid as a 100 day player?

Maclintok wrote:
Manach wrote:
Maclintok wrote:

Are there any closet fans of Raid: Shadow Legends up in here? I want to talk shop.

Fans, it's a game... a Player ? I still play. If you want information on how to spend money tho, I'm not your gamer, as I'm f2p all the way. Almost 100 days as of this typing.

No, no I haven’t spent on the game since mid-2019. Actually phoned it in for many months until a couple months ago maybe. I came back to the Classic Arena in shambles. I dropped way down from Gold IV and have spent most of my time fighting my way back from Bronze IV to now fairly stuck at Gold I.

Arena is my favourite mode so seeing them mishandle this even after their failed patch last week is breaking my heart. On the plus plus I completely revamped my Defense and offensive teams but I can’t compete with essentially Platinum tier rejects all pooling into the lower ranks.

What is your focus in Raid as a 100 day player?

Mainly upgrading my heroes, and trying to kill the Clan Boss. I'm trying to get my 7th heroes with 6 stars, I'm still farming the food for it. Think I'll be aiming for High Kathun, but I just got 2 Legos, and 2 others epics... so, I don't know?

Oooh which Legos and Epics did you get recently?

I am long overdue for a cb team retooling. With Arena bringing me down I may as well make the clan boss my new project.

I have a Back to the Future Lego set which is totally epic. I have a big ol’ Slave-1 Lego model as well. Epic!

Well it's been almost a year since Apple Arcade was launched and I thought it was about time I used my free month trial of the service!

I've had a look at some of the games available and chosen the following five games to play during my trial:

Manifold Garden - A serene gravity flipping puzzler
Pilgrims - a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost
Sayonara Wild Hearts - a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph
Mini Motorways - a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city by the team behind Mini Metro
Beyond a Steal Sky - the follow up to the classic 1994 adventure game Beneath A Steel Sky

If anyone has any recommendations for alternative games or feedback on my selection, I'd be happy to receive them before I jump in

Subscription gaming would be a waste for me now—it’s hard enough to justify multiple subscription streaming services we use—but I would like to sometime try Butter Royale but it’s only available there still.