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[Aoi]

Always been a a fan of Night of the Full Moon; loosely speaking, it's in the vein of StS.

It's technically micropay, but mostly for extra game modes and alternate classes that aren't inherently necessary. I think they may have added ad-supported bonus gold, but that's not necessary... Even without its help, I have it 100%'d (other than a class that got added since then).

[BigD145]

Best recommendations for offline Android games for a phone? I'm flying out to Europe this evening and I've got 12 hours of flying ahead of me to fill, which will mostly be in airplane mode.

Mostly looking for Strategy type games rather than action games. Wouldn't mind some colony builders or slay the spire types if any good examples of those exist.

Perfectly fine just paying money for the game, I don't really care for micro-transaction based stuff most of the time.

Squarenix releases, probably: Tactics Advance. Trese Brothers games: Star Traders. UnCiv. Uciana.

[delphonso]

At least a couple of those could be run on a GBA emulator, too - if they weren't ported to your device.

[n9103]

My list of apps that have lasted through multiple new phones. Free or Freemium that aren't strongly impacted by MTX.

Native Android games:
Polytopia for a Populous-like.
UnCiv for a Civ 4/5-like.
Antiyoy, or any of the other games by the same dev for different takes on simple-ish games. Antiyoy is a Slay-like, but also can be played as straight Slay.
Cyber Knights or a few other games by Corey Trese (sp?) are good turn-based tactical rpgs, reminiscent of early 90s graphical roguelikes.
Mindustry for a Factorio-like game. VERY close in fact.
Majesty, a pretty faithful port of the PC game.

Other
Snes9x for (shocking) SNES emu
DosBoxTurbo or MagicDosBox for DOS (and Win9x if you're willing to deal with that process)
Steam Link for remote desktop to home PC. Probably not so great for general mobile gaming, but, if you dock your phone to a screen and M+K, it's very useful for general gaming if you have a strong internet connection.

[Folly]

Tower of Fantasy, an eastern Action-MMORPG being commonly compared to Genshin Impact, is getting it's western launch in a few hours. Available on PC and Mobile.

[bloop_bleep]

Dungeon Cards. A dungeon/board game where the cells are cards.

[Iduno]

Tower of Fantasy, an eastern Action-MMORPG being commonly compared to Genshin Impact, is getting it's western launch in a few hours. Available on PC and Mobile.

129 GB install, so probably going to be much larger after updates and expansions? That's huge.

[Folly]

129 GB install, so probably going to be much larger after updates and expansions? That's huge.

My game came to 22.6GB on PC. You might be seeing 12.9 for a mobile install or something?

[Iduno]

129 GB install, so probably going to be much larger after updates and expansions? That's huge.

My game came to 22.6GB on PC. You might be seeing 12.9 for a mobile install or something?

Yeah, it looks like the installer claimed one amount of space, then the game required a different amount? Maybe it's a typo or they're planning for the future.

[AzyWng]

I've heard some... less-than-good things about Tower of Fantasy.

[Folly]

I've heard some... less-than-good things about Tower of Fantasy.

That reddit post describes gamers finding ways to circumvent Chinese law so that outsiders could play the Chinese version of the game(before it went Global), possibly with aid from the game publisher.

The post also suggests that the publisher paid for some sloppy copy/paste positive reviews of their game. And while paying for good reviews is definitely scummy, it's also widely acknowledged that literally every game publisher does it now, and indeed they have to do it to remain competitive in the current market.

I'm not saying ToF is the perfect game or anything, but nothing in that reddit post makes me second guess my decision to play for even a second.

[Aoi]

Still doesn't quite say glowing things about the company. (My last few experiences with PW's online games were also less than stellar...)

How is it though, for anybody that's tried it? The ads caught my eye enough to click, then the contents of them seemed... just kind of uninteresting? Genshin Impact on mobile didn't really do anything for me either though, which suggests that I'm not their target anyways.

[Folly]

How is it though, for anybody that's tried it? The ads caught my eye enough to click, then the contents of them seemed... just kind of uninteresting? Genshin Impact on mobile didn't really do anything for me either though, which suggests that I'm not their target anyways.

They've pretty much copied Genshin Impact's formula, to be honest. Action combat with hot-swappable weapons, each with different combos and cooldowns. Landscape that is vast but largely unremarkable. Lots of collectables scattered around. Missions in the daily, weekly, and story varieties. Dungeons and World Bosses that are pretty straightforward grinds for upgrade materials.

I'm a bit turned off by the overwhelming 'free stuff'. Every few minutes of gameplay I look over to see a dozen tabs with little dots indicating that I need to click through the menus to claim rewards for something I did, and it very quickly became tedious.

Still, the exciting action and consistent progress are keeping me engaged and enjoying myself for now.

[delphonso]

I'll add that here in China, paying for reviews isn't just common - it's an accepted, common-place practice. Some even would say it's necessary, equivalent to paying for ad placement.

The game holds no interest to me either way. Just chiming in.

[Chiefwaffles]

I've heard some... less-than-good things about Tower of Fantasy.

I don’t understand that reddit post.

As far as I can tell, it seems to just be a guy saying that a positive review and players circumventing region locks are… a nefarious scheme by the developer? With literally zero proof?