true on the only good mobile games not being mobile games, though you’re wrong about the number being small. Emulation means that entire console libraries are available. I’ve been plinking away at the SNES library for the past couple of years on my phone and am still spoiled for choice.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I understand just fine. The only good mobile games aren’t mobile games. They are ports of normal games for mobile devices. Which is a super incredibly small number of games.
orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wow, an expert on all mobile games—based on exactly how many hours scrolling and judging from your porch?
There are over 700,000 mobile games on Google Play and the App Store combined. Over seven hundred thousand. You really think you’ve played, let alone fathomed, the quality of that entire universe?
Lumping all mobile games together because of a few gacha titles is like calling all movies “just commercials” because of some awful reality TV. Face it: the world’s moved on, but you’re still shouting at clouds.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
One does not need to play every single piece of shovelware to be able to identify shovelware.
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope. You must play a game before you call it shovelware. Anything less is just lazy, uninformed hot air.
If you can’t be bothered to actually try what you’re criticizing, you have zero business judging it. That’s not opinion—that’s ignorance.
So stop pretending you’re some gaming authority when all you’ve done is shout from the sidelines without ever stepping on the field.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
So you’ve played every single game ever made, huh? 🙄
nogooduser@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If there are 700,000 games then you must judge games without trying them. Otherwise you’d be constantly playing games to see if they’re any good and would still not get through them all.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
How many of the mobile games that you specifically mentioned aren’t gatcha games?
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I could have just as easily listed Monument Valley, Florence, or The Room—none of which are gacha.
And hey, I just did.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
OK, just making sure you’re aware that the reason everyone is talking about gacha games is because they’re the ones that you brought up!
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are over 700,000 games on the play store. … and 699,900 of them are basic, traditional mobile games that are basically a gamified e-store for imaginary goods…
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How about we stick to facts instead of making things up?
As of July 2025, there are 14,139 premium, paid games on the iOS App Store—meaning games that are not free-to-play, not gacha, and have no microtransactions.
To put that in perspective: iOS alone has more complete, self-contained games than the NES, SNES, N64, and GameCube libraries combined.
42matters.com/stats
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Bro are you a sales rep for this data company and this whole post is just a way to drive people to your product? Because that’s about the only explanation I have for, all t h i s.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It was obvious hyperbole to point at how you are still hilariously wrong. Congratulations on being too stupid to understand how speech works.