Sounds like a game for, ahem, adults.
Sonic 2, Riptide GP2, and Rayman Jungle Run (among others) are free at Amazon today.
I see long lists of recommendations on this page, but Ctrl-F doesnāt locate
King of Dragon Pass
so Iāll mention
King of Dragon Pass
just so it has some visibility on the current page (I know it has been mentioned in the past.) Itās really a tremendous game. I play it on a note 2 though, and the UI is pretty small as is; Iām not sure itāll work that well for a smaller screen than that.
Also, you can buy it with your Amazon space bucks, which is how I rationalize owning it on PC, IOS and Android.
Xcom wonāt save your game or any option changes unless youāre connected? W the proverbial F? Youāre selling an app for portable devicesā¦you think maybe, those devices might not always have access to internet? I was seriously looking forward to this on my nexus 7, as it looked and played great for the 30 seconds I used it before getting a refund. Am I missing something? Just want to make one more check before I perma bail on this title.
regarding King of Dragon pass, it doesnāt work under Lollipop. I upgraded to it on my Nexus 7 last weekend, and since then, KoDP crashes back to the Home screen when I try to launch it. Iāve emailed the devs, and they say theyāre working on it, though.
Oh, so sorry, brain malfunction. I was thinking of Elder Sign: Omens, the android version of a Call of Cthulhu board game.
I just discovered Banner Saga for sale in the Amazon App store (currently 50% off for $4.99).
http://www.amazon.com/Versus-Evil-LLC-Banner-Saga/dp/B00OAJ352W/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Iāve had this on my Steam wish list for a while, but Iād not heard (or forgotten) about the Android version. Has anyone here played either version? Any thoughts on the game in general and/or whether the Android version holds up?
This Gamespot review (for the PC version) makes me think it could be a nice tablet game.
@thither: Thanks for the suggestion. Iāve been curious about that board game for a while, so maybe Iāll check out the Android version first.
Itā 4.99 on Google play too.
I did 1.5 play throughs of banner saga. Took 30 hours.
Combat is fairly interesting. Units all have special abilities. Ui is fine on PC.
ā¦and itās now $4.99 on Steam for the next day, too!
I realize this will be the lamest question to every grace this thread, but bear with me: Just now entering the world of android with a 5.5" phone Most of past few pages all reference some variation of Nexus tablet. How the heck does one know if something is going to be suitable for a phone screen rather than a full sized tablet for any given game? It seems that most requirements are nothing more than āAndroid 4.x+ā, with no real mention of real estate.
I believe that developers set minimum screen size when they publish their apps. If yours is too small, it will be listed as incompatible (on the desktop play store) or just wonāt show up at all (on the mobile store).
Thank you. That would have likely been obvious once I started playing around on the store once the phone arrives, rather than clicking on the links from my PC :)
@Daagar:
Magnet may be correct, but in my experience with my Nexus 7, itās always tough to know whether the UI will suit your needs until youāve actually seen/played the game. I know Iāve played tons of games on my tablet where I struggled with the controls and thought: āGosh this must be terrible on a phone.ā
Some games (especially the Spiderweb RPGs, like Avadon and Avernum) have text that is uncomfortably small on my Nexus 7, so thatās one thing Iād worry about. Iāve also largely avoided action games on my tablet because I donāt do well with āvirtualā d-pads, and it can be annoying to have my fingers/thumbs blocking my view of the action.
But I think this is all very subjective. It seems like lots of other people enjoy these games on their phone, so my guess is youāll have to try a few and see how your tastes align with other reviewers.
The Google Play store lets you filter reviews to only show reviewers with your device. Iāve found this to be extremely helpful, but I suppose you need a fairly common device for this to be useful.
Conquest of Elysium is also very hard on the eyes on my Note 3, so Iād say in general it is tough to know if a title is all that size optimised.
Thatās not a slight on the game - is scales and zooms nicely - it just makes the game less easy to enjoy.
Thanks all. It is a phone first and foremost, not a portable gaming device so not a big deal. Just saw this thread float to the top and realized āheyā¦ā.
Just a bump to note that KoDP works under Lollipop now, and with Google Play integration (whatever that does).
Also, Inkleās Around the World in 80 days is due to be released on Android in the next couple days. I canāt wait. Now they need to get back to the last two Sorcery! apps.
So Iām beginning to understand why people say discoverability in these stores is terrible. I had always assumed that the āNew + Updatedā button on the first page of the Play Store actually had the most recently-released games in it. No, Iām beginning to realize itās just paid advertising or something. Iāve been watching all week, and neither 80 Days or Galaxy Trucker has shown up in there. On the other hand, there is a category āGames: Top New Paidā, that ranks ānewā games by what assumes is gross sales. 80 Days is up near the top of that as of this writing, but Galaxy Trucker is nowhere in the top 100 that I could find, probably because itās only $2.99 (!! a steal at that price!), and only has a couple hundred downloads thus far. On the plus side, scrolling through this category did let me find BattleLore:Command, what looks like a faithful adaptation of the boardgame. Sure, itās 2nd edition, but Iām a sucker for the system. Why didnāt anyone tell me this was out?
What I would give for a simple āNew Gamesā tab that just listed all recent games in order of release date (most recent first). Thatās the way it works on the Xbox 360, and I just log in every now and then and scroll through each category (Arcade, Demo, Indie, etc), looking for something interesting until I start recognizing stuff from the last time I logged in. That way super new or poor-selling games donāt just drop off the list quickly.
Also, has anyone played any of the Crescent Moon games (Ravensword, Aralon)? Iāve seen them described as kind of Elder Scrolls-y (though I imagine waaaay dumbed down). I also found they have a new sci-fi version of the system, Exiles or something like that. Any thoughts?
Baldurs gate 2 āenhancedā is in the google play store.
Yeah, saw that. Played it years ago, and Iām not sure I want something that in-depth on a tablet for goofing around.