So, what are some good, true open-world games on iOS?
Clay
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You have the GTA games – San Andreas, in particular. As much as I’ve wanted iOS games to stick for me, the only one that really has is Carcassone.
I’ve been enjoying Ticket to Ride, Small World, and a little bit of KOTOR. The 13-year old graphics in KOTOR are a little tough to get used to.
magnet
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The Quest is an open world RPG with great reviews. But the graphics are very old school.
Radiation Island is open world survival vs zombies and such. Extremely well done. With an adventure mode if you don’t want to constant do battle. And only three bucks.
Follow your own path in an environment of breathtaking beauty and gigantic scope. Explore huge forests inhabited by dangerous wolves, bears and mountain lions. Investigate abandoned villages and old military compounds where zombies guard vital tools, weapons and clues to the secrets of this world. You can even swim and dive, if you can avoid the hungry crocodiles.
Mini Metro is 99 cents. Get it!
My own is quite similar (disclaimer: most of these might have been released in the past few years, and I just played them this year for all I know!)
5 - Baseball Highlights: 2045 (tablet) - It has been my “leading to sleep” companion since this summer. It is the port of a very relaxing baseball themed card game, with a nice routine to it but also some thinking. The computer opponent is adequate, and I have been grabbing each and every expansions as soon as they got released.
4 - King Rabbit (phone&tablet) - An amazing and very elegant semi-action puzzle game (the action part can be… manipulated) with sometimes various solutions. I absolutely 100%ed it, and can’t wait for new levels. Was payware, is now free to play with zero ads, I think?
3 - Imbroglio (phone) - It’s a Michael Brough game, meaning it is as unimpressive at first as it becomes captivating and headhurting when you finally understand how the systems interplay. The engrossing loop of building and refining a layout that allows you to chase hi-scores got an appeal that is very strong for me.
2 - Hungry Cats Picross (tablet) - It’s a color filling picross game. I have erased the game so I could reinitialise my progress, and replay the game over again twice already, because the initial 30 hours of picrossing weren’t enough. Free, with removable ads.
And #1 would be Twilight Struggle for me too I guess. The game has been devouring my soul for the past few weeks, and the port seems very competent.
I haven’t played this, which is funny because I own the board game. I looked at it when it first came out and it looked somewhat amateurishly-implemented, so I avoided. If it is in your top 5, I will take a look.
This was exactly my experience. After purchase, I didn’t play it much. Recently came back to it and found I couldn’t stop.
I’m tylertoo on their MP server if you want to play a game.
Mine would probably include something like:
Reigns
Steamworld Heist
Neon Chrome
Guild of Dungeoneering
Solitairica
I think it was: I didn’t pick the game up until the author implemented an AI, which happened earlier this year. Some of the quirks have been worked out, some others haven’t quite been (for instance, the game features a phone mode with an interface devoid of animations that makes it near unplayable in my opinion - the tablet version is very functional though). Most importantly to me, although the interface is a bit dry, the game never ever crashed on me, auto-saves progress (in case I fall asleep!), and seemed to not have many rules glitches, if any.
Invited you to my Twilight Struggle spanking (I’ll prolly defcon suicide by error by the 3rd turn). I also just grabbed Crashlands, because I am tired of grinding the first days of Don’t Starve!
There’s a lot of great recommendations here. And I’m definitely going to pick up a few of them, but one thing that I like is games that have a daily challenge of some sort. I find games with a daily event draw me in, I play a few minutes and I go away feeling satisfied. Are there any games you guys have played that you like but have daily challenges?
My list is boring:
7 Little Words
Hexcells ( just got this last week but I love it )
Solitairica
… sadly there’s not much other gaming I do on my iPad. Otherwise I browse or do financial stuff on it.
I’ve eyed hex cells before, but not picked it up for some reason, even though it is very much right up my alley. Just grabbed the bundle.
I personally enjoyed the first Hexcells very much, but was a bit bummed down by a mechanic introduced halfway in both its sequels asking you to “count” cells in an hexagonal pattern. It was a really time-consuming task, and not a stimulating one at all - for my own little grey cells configuration at least.
The only one I can think of I tried recently was Mini Metro. I didn’t give those challenges a try, I must confess, but I was very impressed by the iOS version and its intuitive gameplay.
Temple Run 2. Daily challenges, weekly challenges, and twice-monthly global challenges.
Stop laughing. I have apparently chosen this endless runner to be better at than I am at any game ever.
Seriously. I will kick anyone’s ass at Temple Run 2. Come at me bros.
Baseball Highlights: 2045 is on sale for $1.99 right now. So if it was on your watchlist this might be the time to snag it.
Woohoo! On sale at GooglePlay too
Just read on BGG: he put this on sale to reward those who avoided a pirated version that popped up on the Amazon store, or whatever it is called.
He wrote:
Just got a lawyer last year. Looking forward to using him.
Google and Apple both asked for my credentials before I could sell the game. Amazon didn’t/doesn’t.
Elhokar
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I wish there was a game like Crusaders Quest (gacha/collect heroes/cards-ish) that wasn’t so…Eastern/Anime.
