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Weird text-based quasi-RPG.
http://candies.aniwey.net/ You may initially think this is non-interactive like ProgressQuest, but it does actually open up into a game. Just wait for your candies to accumulate, then a vendor will show up and sell you stuff, and you can go do some quests and start farming lollipops and pretty soon you'll be in too deep to quit. Let's say I want to talk about a game that's simultaneously on XBox Live, Steam (PC) and iPhone.
Should I just roll a dice to choose which thread to put it in? But really, that candies game is pretty cool.
Through vigorous cheating I've made it all the way to hell! You stop fucking whining like a bitch just like Spriititi and just post about whatever you're playing on whatever you're playing on. Jeez get a grip gaylords. If I played any browser games I'd be waffling on about them here already.
Guess most of people here have already played this, but this is one of my all time favorites.
This is a swf game that can be played on or offline. http://armorgames.com/play/3991/barbarian-onslaught-the-secret-of-steel Just pick the platform you played on. If you keep playing the same game on three different platforms then MAKE UP YOUR BLOODY MIND, A.D.H.D. CRAZY PERSON FFS man.
Which I've probably already posted at one time or another. But now that we have a dedicated thread they should be easier to find.
Top Down Gameboy Thing: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/555641 Necronomicon Card Thing: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/458568 Not Even a Game Thing: http://2012.beercamp.com/ Garden Puzzle Thing: http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/sky_garden Coding Thing: http://armorgames.com/play/6061/light-bot-20 Gap Puzzle Thing: http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/gap_monsters Jiggle Sushi Thing: http://armorgames.com/play/10471 Sweet / Sour Puzzle Thing: http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/cover_orange_players_pack_3 Physics Bricks Thing: http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/blosics_2_level_pack Zombie Swarm Maker Thing: http://armorgames.com/play/13150 Zombie Car Thing: http://www.notdoppler.com/earntodie2012.php Bison Launch Thing: http://www.kongregate.com/games/juicybeast/burrito-bison-revenge Statue Physics Thing: http://armorgames.com/play/1871/totem-destroyer Fcuking Platformer Thing: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/511754 Auditory Directional Thing: http://www.cipherprime.com/games/auditorium/ Weird Head Thing: http://www.feedthehead.net/ Defender Construction Thing: http://www.kongregate.com/games/casualcollective/the-space-game Puzzle Thing About Physics Balls: http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/civiballs_2 Self-Cooperative Thing: http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/cursor10/ Turn Based Puzzle Thing: http://www.nitrome.com/games/turnament/#.UYPJerVebmc Door Opening Thing: http://www.foddy.net/Evacuation.html Educational Thing: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/ I sort of filtered these, but they're in no particular order. Where one person or group has made many interesting or well made games I only listed the most interesting or well made. I hate your productivity. http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=1479.0
simple/addictive rpg subgame playable on virtual handheld in System Shock2; I still play it using SS2 (even it is out now as a standalone), set low-res, turn-off sound, play Star command on tablet is a reasonable parralell to FTL for those that like that sort of thing. Much less polished but still recommendable.
Zombie road trip I can't seem to delete. Even though I've got the best stuff now I want to unlock the rest for the sake of flipping and head shooting. Dark meadow is a decent enough infinity blade take. Bit lacking in depth in terms of gameplay though. Looks pretty and has a silent hill type storyline, though less deep. I suppose shallow is a good way to describe it, still interesting while it holds the attention though. I was excited to see the where's my water update, version 2 whatever, but as soon as it obligated me to harass my friends in order to proceed I binned it. Cookie clicker everyone in the office is distracted by. One producer did an excel to figure out the optimum buying strategy. My lovecraftian grandmas freak people out with their penis bodies. So... Back to candy box. I admit I couldn't get interested enough in it the first time around. Getting close to 2 billion CPS...
I like the achievement comments: "You can stop now" "You should really go to bed" http://jayisgames.com/games/ernesto---a-quick-rpg/
basically a puzzle RPG, you plot a route through the dungeon trying to upgrade your guy enough that you can kill the dungeon god at the end. I haven't done it yet. Useful tip: as long as you don't die, you can undo your steps and try a different route. http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/
A simple number matching game, engaging enough that I put in the effort to actually beat it. Implemented in HTML5 so you can play it on a phone too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magmafortress.hoplite
Picked this up after seeing it recommended on Eurogamer (I think) and it's been pretty fun. Kinda like a mix of chess, RPG, and dungeon crawler. Hoplite is groovy. (Weird coincidence since I just finished posting about it at another site.) Just what I want from a mobile game. You can also get it on iOS.
Here's Tom Francis dropping a few words on it: http://www.pentadact.com/2014-03-29-the-randomised-tactical-elegance-of-hoplite/ You all bought FTL iOS and thats why things are so quiet here.
Still playing Hoplite by the way, hope Magma Fortress does a sequel or follow up quest. Yeah FTL on iOS pretty cool, playing it on Ipad. That and Frozen Synapse on Ipad it cool.
Otherwise theres quite a few neat Boardgames on the Ipad to play solor or hotseat. Quite nice to play these conveniently without breaking out the whole gear and taking up a table. Agricola, Stone Age, Space Hulk, Suburbia etc... And all these games aren't 'free to play'.
So let's hope there's a counter to all the candy crush and app flipping clone shit. Funny those are all adapted games from other platform / format, board/PC :D
Sure there has to be some serious proper natively developed tablet games though...right ? http://jamesdonnelly.github.io/Isotopic256/
Adds the concept of unstable isotopes that disappear after a certain number of turns. These ones were before that one.
http://candies.aniwey.net/ http://candybox2.net/ This one is more recent. http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ I played A dark room months ago, liked the exploration parts, but mwh version is way better :D. The candy ones back when I played them.
Cookie clicker I already played, and a coder here learned how to open it up and hack in all sorts of stuff. Finally finished a dark room so I can get back to work now... Liking a dark room a lot. Love the combination of building up the village and going out on expeditions.
Never played one of those RPGs before where you're a ASCII character in a grid of ASCII characters, but it's way less painful than I imagined, definitely lets your own imagination do the work. If you want to play a proper Roguelike, but with graphical tiles, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a good one to get into easily. You can also play it in old school ASCII as well.
Sure is! http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/
Dice Wars single player:
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html KDice--multiplayer Dice Wars: http://kdice.com/ Hex Empire (only SP I guess): http://www.kongregate.com/games/uunxx/hex-empire Warlight--SP and MP: http://warlight.net/ Note that you can play Warlight without paying anything. It only limits the types of games you can set up. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kumobius.android.carpet&hl=en
Came in the last Android Humble Bundle, pretty fun and addictive This is a very simple game. You just need to find the square that is a different shade than the other squares.
http://game.ioxapp.com/color/ Hitman Go looks surprisingly nice, but it was made in Unity?
10 minutes later: Phone is hot enough to fry an egg on. Yes, its Unity. Plays well though, simple and direct gameplay thats fun. If you wanted to be mean you could call it a glorified flash game with 3D graphics, but that's refreshing nowadays. Any recs on a good time wasting android game for a plan? Something in the civilization / sim city sort of genre would be good I think. Don't mind paying a bit.
7 hours in United regional jets. Perhaps the direct option was not the best...
I've found knights of pen & paper since I asked. Anyone played that? I thought it was a lot of fun. It's simplistic, grindy, old schooly RPG that doesn't take itself seriously. I don't know if it would hold my attention for 7 hours straight though, but it's fun for its price, which for me was like $1 or something.
there's also hoplite: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magmafortress.hoplite&hl=en
a roguelike game. I've been super addicted to Boom Beach. Really fun strategy game, kind of like a lite version of something like Civ or CoH
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supercell.boombeach&hl=en Missed the "no Wi-Fi" part. You should get Carmaggedon if you never played it on PC. Only 99 cents and definitely worth it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stainlessgames.carmageddon&hl=en Re-read the thread and saw hoplite before necros recommended it -- seems perfect! Just have to try to stop playing it before the trip...
Might try knights of pen and paper. Not sure about a game where reaction time matters like carmageddon, but heck, I ended up playing a lot of knights of pen and paper. Grindy rpg is good for a plane I guess :)
I'm nearly at the end of the main quests I think and its getting a bit boring now. I think I might have missed a mechanism for getting better equipment somewhere... Good one, mfx. It reminded me of another game that doesn't seem to have been posted here.
http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/ It's basically just status bars and numbers:
https://swarmsim.github.io Oddly, it has a devoted fanbase for whom it is Serious Business (TM): there are some very involved and math-y discussions regarding optimal strategies, eg. http://www.reddit.com/r/swarmsim/comments/30furo/formula_a_proposed_tierup_rule/, http://www.reddit.com/r/swarmsim/comments/2xkksf/faq_please_read_this_before_posting/, http://www.reddit.com/r/swarmsim/comments/2zz7pe/clone_vs_rush_vs_swarp_comparison_with_numbers/, etc. multiplayer game where you can eat smaller blobs to get bigger, then eat the other players.
http://agar.io/ Dunno if this has been mentioned? I was watching the burd play it recently and it looks absolutely lovely as a mobile game, great use of simple graphics and engaging (if easy?) puzzle gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me4ymG_vnOE My wife and I both loved it. Non stressful gameplay, fun graphical style, not too annoying puzzles...
Bought it, played it. Not enough exploration of mechanics for me. My daughter liked it for a while.
And it's sucked me back in now. Even my grim Quaker soul can find the charm in this.
Nothing to contribute :( but I'm burning out on all my current mobile stuff and hoping someone has a recommendation
It feels like they sacrificed the gameplay somewhat. Like I dumped on it in the other thread - the debris disintegrates too fast when you knock stuff over so you can't cause much knock on collapse effects.
Ultimately it left the game a bit too shallow to hold my attention - which is a shame because I enjoyed the earlier ones a lot. Especially Star Wars and Space with the addition of the gravity mechanics. The immediacy and feedback is very well done in this version though, the picture in picture of the birds and pigs is great and the stuff flying out of the screen is a nice touch. Maybe I'll give it another go, but the change seems to be one of ideology - you hit the thing or you don't, without any of the 'you hit the thing in just the right spot so collapses onto the other thing. That's still there, but much less. Fallout Shelter - decent builder (disclaimer, we did it)
Lumosity - Interesting non-game about mind training Out There - Frustrating interactive fiction with a bad interface... but worth a look Tap Titans - generic clicker, but better production values than most and some neat ideas thrown in Candy Box 2.
http://candybox2.net/ Not sure how I missed this one back in the day (but still played A Dark Room). But I can confirm that it is the pinnacle of games design and all other games are mere vague shadows of its greatness. Quake is off to one side a bit. but Hoplite is very very good for a million reasons. Simple and streamlined but fun and continues to be fun for quite a while, for me anyway.
Just got Legend of Grimrock for my phone too, that is quite enjoyabe. I also got Operation Dracula which is a bullet hell style shoot em up. It's pretty rad but was overpriced - was the same $ as LOG! I've been thinking about getting Fallout Shelter for a while now! Will definitely check it out now. Yes, it's awesome. Really hope he continues making games. I ended up unlocking most of the achievements but eventually gave up on the most complex ones.
LoG... I played it on PC and finished it... not sure I'd play it again. Does the mobile version bring new content or is it a port? Fallout Shelter is free, which is a good price. It's a nice enough time sink for a while but may b overly casual mobile depending on your tastes. This is probably a foolish question, but I guess the fallout game has a lot of that waiting mechanic?
It's essentially a builder game where you harvest resources and set your dwellers to do tasks like harvest, train or explore the wilderness.
Building is instant as long as you have the Caps and the monetization is limited to buying lunch boxes - no 'pay to rush' crap :D Just have to progress enough to bring back the load game menu. It's odd that even that is disabled at the start.
Thanks for the recommendation Drew, this game is fantastic. Feels so familiar, but I don't think I've played anything just like it. Excellent strategy game, the tactics around the movement are really satisfying, it's almost chess-like at times, but with spears and demons so obviously better.
Since I didn't contribute last time...
Alphabear by Spryfox is a pretty cool "make some words" game in the vein of Scrabble, Boggle, etc. http://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear/ ijed: Thanks for the suggestions. Lumosity is cool -- I wish it was like 5$ and everything was unlocked right away Tap Titans was way too monotonous. Not so much a recommendation as 'I was forced to play this'...
I think I deleted it after the above post. Happy Wheels!
The game is fun enough, watching yourself get mashed into pulp, impaled, shot, blown up etc. but I'm now stuck on building levels in its fully functional level editor! Doing inventive things with giant fans, spikes and bounce pads. Traps should ideally humiliate as well as dismember. I'm playing it on iOS, the original flash game is from 2010: http://happywheelsaz.com/happy-wheels.happywheels
Doesn't look like there's an Android version yet. http://david-peter.de/cube-composer/
Interesting browser game where you perform operations on multiple stacks of cubes to create the desired final result. I haven't played much yet because it is very awkward on my phone screen. Not sure yet if it ever gets really challenging. http://strlen.com/avoid-the-monsters
Aardappel's game has been taking up a lot of my of my phone gaming time lately. There's a few bugs (of which he's aware) but the core gameplay is fully functional and a lot of fun. I remember liking that when he first made it, nice and simple.
Has Aard done anything more on Lobster or made any other games do you know? I know he's working at Google now... but I've lost track of what he's up to now since I don't go on Facebook and that was how I knew what he was up to. As far as I know that's the only complete game. On the site there's links to a Minecraft style game and a shmup game but they seem to be just demos.
Awesomely put together, but would like it to be harder. The very last level of forgotten shores starts to get interestingly challenging so here's hoping for more...
Yes, on-topic spam is certainly a new development, but I think it's still spam based on the style of writing.
99 cents on both iOS and Google Play: https://twitter.com/joel_k_baxter/status/662426902552965120
That's my jam yep. bought it on your recommendation and it's really fun. That comment on the twitter post that says it's like SpaceChem-lite is dead on, but I'm someone who would have preferred if SpaceChem was a bit easier so this is great
Anyone got any pro-tips?? I just got a Chromebook to have a super-portable tablet style thing (but with keyboard) when I'm away from proper PCs, and have had a look at the games but they mostly seem to be boring as fuck sim village shit or ugly as fuck retro arcade shit....
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/app/3-games?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher YAWN etc. Ideally I'd like a single player light-weight (obviously designed for touchscreen / touchpad shizzle) RPG / RTS -ish game with kinda decent gfx. Offline capability would be perfect (but optimistic I guess). Something from the warhammer type universe would be nice but there is precisely fuck all available on Chrome for that. I tried a dragon thing and it was boring village sim and I tried a pirate thing and it was boring village sim too. Help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3-_RQV0Qk - this looks like just the right sort of style and gfx quality in the riding around bits. The hex turn based combat looks meh as fuck and I dunno how much SP is feasible though. Will give it a look - just as an example.
I got my first mobile game recently, it is awesome:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.hit_point.nekoatsume I really hope CZG and Bal and Vondur and Daz are on this shizzle. Someone already got me to download that.
I opened it once, then closed it. I haven't deleted it yet though. This might help people:
http://teamshambler.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/review-of-chromeos-rts-games.html Lol Shambler buys a mobile and is surprised 100% of the games available are shovelware garbage made in eastern european or asian sweatshops, and all clones of each other.
Mobile gaming is the festering, cancerous arse-polyp of the games industry, with no exceptions that I am aware of? Which is quite nice: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-tribes/id1006393168?mt=8
And not a Clash of Clones, or free to play in any particularly manipulative way. Only one game mode, and the tribes are identical apart from different starting scenery and technology. But pretty fun, undemanding stuff. Lol Shambler buys a Chromebook and is surprised when a small indie start-up like GOOGLE (who run the Android Apps store) somehow haven't managed to get any remotely interesting games or apps working in their little device
Talking about stuff like... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tt2kgames.xcomew https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChilledMouse.WQ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/warhammer-40-000-armageddon/id935248214?mt=8 Incidentally I've just started dicking around with mobile apps and some of the - admittedly simple - ones of those are far better than 99% of the dross available for ChromeOS (Monunment Valley, Zen Koi, etc) https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.gunshippenguin.openflood is terribly addictive
XCOM enemy within was great.
Warhammer Quest was just as tedious and expensive (relatively) as the board game. Didn't play the third one. There are good games companies doing stuff on mobile, but they're rarely the supposed big dogs (ie. ones earning the most cash and cannabalising each other). But for genuine hardcore gaming I think you're going to be disappointed. Not that the platform(s) can't support that type of game, just that the economy / ecology of developers isn't suited to it. But I keep on playing stuff, hoping that a solid game will somehow appear. XCOM was one such case in my opinion, even if it did cause laptop sydrome (ie. phone hot enough to fry an egg on). THat's the thing. I don't want genuine hardcore gaming. I'm as PC Master Race as anyone. I want genuine good stylised, simple, well themed casual games - I've only just started dabbling in them and, well, okay, it's really a Chromebook / ChromeOS problem. I can't even play fucking neko atsume on it ;)
I wouldn't mind WHQ being tedious and expensive, I'd give it a try for the style, Warhammer is part of my geeking heritage. About cost, I would happily have more games where you pay fucking upfront and get a decent game. XCom is Ł9 or something?? Fucking great, I'm sure you're getting a proper game for that!! WHQ is just a cynical cash grab though. I only played through it out of spite. Although I think I then also bought one of the expansions when drunk :P
XCOM is the best one I've played to be honest. I do remember Frozen Synapse on tablet: http://www.frozensynapse.com/ Which was another Nueromancer styled game - violent and incredibly nerdy. There was a massive difficulty spike in the middle of the campaign mode though. I see now that the original is $1USD on iOS and the new version prime is at $5.00. Tempting... Freemium / pay to win / pay to advance bullshit.
Straight up dishonesty, marketting shite to fucking morons under the guise of it being "free"... WHQ wasn't free to play, just incredibly shallow for the price tag.
Neither was XCOM, but that was basically the full game ported to mobile, which was deep as the mines of moria. Raging I can't get that one. Why the fuck did I get a chromebook again? Oh yeah cos it was small, chic and cute. Bit like being a fashion-following apple slag, except at 1/4 the price.
Tbh I have a decent phone but most games aren't worth the time. I would rather browse Facebook or Twitter
I don't spend a lot of time phone-gaming on my Android doohickey, but I've found some quality stuff. Hitman GO, Lara Croft GO, Hoplite, Spider 2, Super Hexagon, The Sequence, 80 Days, Monument Valley, A Good Snowman... off the top of my head. I even think that games like PvZ2 and Alphabear are quality despite their F2P trappings.
Dunno about ChromeOS though.
Didn't Bastion and Don't Starve get shipped for that? Or am I thinking of something else? (does a quick Google) hmm it looks like that version of Bastion no longer works. I also don't really play much on my android phone but the ones I did were entertaining.
Hitman GO, Lara Croft GO, My Kingdom for a Princess, LYNE, and Just Colors to name a few. I think all have some sort of in-app purchasing but I never found intrusive or anything of the like. Which do have free 2 play, but are much more fun to play without using it.
http://www.zeptolab.com/games/pudding_monsters/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rune-raiders/id497702195?mt=8 On Android, definitely. There's far too many crap making the good games hard to find.
Anyway, this is just one of the many problems with Android gaming. http://phoboslab.org/xibalba/
"Fight your way through the Mayan Underworld in this retro First Person Shooter. The path leads you through lush jungles, eerie catacombs and high tech bases filled with dangerous creatures, traps, vital powerups and weapons." Come on baby we all know where it's at: http://oldschool.runescape.com/
Can anyone confirm whether incidental damage dealt to wizards/ demolitionists by bombs counts against you in the demon partisan challenge?
I don't think so. But it's been a while :-) I seem to have all achievements except for speed run, pacifist and hoplite master.
You unlock wizard beam?
As I remember incidental damage doesn't count, unless you bash the bomb and it explodes / crushes / drowns the demon in lava. So basically, don't upgrade bash, just get all the leap stuff and health stuff and avoid combat as much as possible. Some guy writes Flappy Bird code into Super Mario on the SNES by simply playing the game in a very specific way:
https://youtu.be/hB6eY73sLV0 http://slither.io/
mouse to steer, left-click to sprint (sacrificing length.) Crash your head into another snake's body and you die. You can kill snakes bigger than you if you're lucky. Dam - looks ok. Lovely music. Wish i had some time to play it.
I'm nearly through Lara Croft GO. Sweet :) if so reply to this post with your credit card number and expiry date plz
here's a non-spam post:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/targaciej/klocki small puzzle game that starts slow but gets more complicated after the first group of levels. Haven't finished it yet so i don't know how complex it gets. It's a demo, kind of. There is a version on Steam with different levels that's pretty cheap (.99 € here).
http://steamcommunity.com/app/499440 Another game, called Hook, by the same author is also on Steam. http://steamcommunity.com/app/367580 And it too has a flash demo version on Kongregate. http://www.kongregate.com/games/targaciej/hook These are fun little puzzlers. Had to look it up. Hmmm. Let's see...
- Retro graphics and sound taken to the absolute extreme (3-colour palette pixel art) - CHECK - Randoml-sorry-PROCEDURALLY generated levels? CHECK - "Unforgiving roguelike gameplay" where you are meant to "learn the game by dying repeatedly" - CHECK It feels like I've played this game before I've even played it. My Chromebook can now use Android apps after a year of being cripple by ChromeOS's pitiful non-selection of rubbish apps. Woofuckinghoo.
So I need a photo editor (as close to Photoshop as poss), a video editor (as close to Windows Movie Maker as poss), and as many good looking strategy / RPG games as you lot can recommend. Isometric Diablo-clones and RTS-lites very welcome. Absolutely NO village sims nor retro-pixel BS THANKS Come on someone must have some ideas. Got Warhammer Quest, Icewind Dale, Shadowrun, Dawn Of Titans, Xenowork and WH40K Drop Assault to try but would still appreciate recommendations.
Didn't see it.....not sure it would be useful as although it's ideally suited I got plenty of da hulk on the PC Version.
Been liking this quite a bit. Nice graphics, very easily controllable, decent Warhammer theme, you pay for the game so you can actually play it without too much BS getting in the way, the tactics-lite are enjoyable. Seems just the sort of game that works perfectly on tablet.
I would prefer a rotatable 3D view for a better atmosphere, also more dramatic / well-themed dungeon designs would be good. Also seems a bit easy on medium but that's okay. |
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