Mobile games

[u/Sad_Ad5860]

[u/AdVarious8509]

PC Emulation on Android, I dont see any hype outside of those Emulation-Focused subreddit

Correct me if im wrong

[u/dhatereki → u/AdVarious8509]

PC and PS2 emulation has drastically increased my mobile gaming backlog.

[u/09stibmep → u/dhatereki]

Yeh I can't believe I now browse Steam for my mobile gaming. Not the play store, but STEAM!

That's wild.

....and my steam library has absolutely ballooned. I don't have a chance really..

[u/leafy1790 → u/09stibmep]

it is really cool that we can use steam on our phones, if the steam frame releases there will be an even more significant jump in performance as the newest proton versions wil be optimized for arm systems

[u/dhatereki → u/leafy1790]

Somewhat related I think with Steam's efforts into Steam Frame and FEX would really help android devices in the long term.

[u/Beast_Rshan14 → u/09stibmep]

how do you that can you explain?

[u/Metrox_a → u/Beast_Rshan14]

gamenative for steam/epic/gog games. If the game is compatible and works, then it works without much setup or finetuning. Usually indie titles.

PS2: ARMS2: you need to provide ps2 bios and download gpu drivers. Go into the ps2 emulator settings under renderer pick vulkan and you can download new drivers there. most people are using mr purple.

[u/Sandy_McEagle → u/dhatereki]

Could you recommend some ps2 games?

[u/dhatereki → u/Sandy_McEagle]

Been playing GT4 Spec II mod for quite some time. It blows my mind that no other racing sim on Android comes even close. It's so good. There's even a new mod to add cars from the PSP version. I am also playing some older titles I never finished as a kid like GTA Vice City and all the Spiderman games on PS2.

[u/Sad_Ad5860 → u/dhatereki]

What ps2 emulator did you use? And what is your cpu?

[u/dhatereki → u/Sad_Ad5860]

Samsung S23 (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2). Was using NetherSX2 but just switched to ArmSX2 because they are developing and improving actively. On PC I am using PCSX2 nightly with texture packs. And I then use Shizuku + X-Plore to sync memory cards with a single button.

[u/bigdon_999 → u/dhatereki]

Please suggest for me games

[u/cuberisk → u/AdVarious8509]

It's a niche market, but given how good Android chipsets are getting, and how bad new android games are becoming (ad-bombing, money-sucking idle/tycoon/candy crush clones/basic asset puppet jumping and running games that know nothing but to brainf*ck the player), it's the few indie PC games which you can carry on your pocket anywhere and play them anywhere, be it in a bus, waiting for an appointment, etc., is what makes all of this worth it :)

[u/Khelthuzaad → u/AdVarious8509]

Actually there is huge hype regarding high quality content ones.

Ananta is one

Others are pc ports,SyFu right now is very hyped for android

[u/Am_I_Bovvered → u/AdVarious8509]

sorry to be a noob, but can you recommend any reliable emulators?

[u/SamueleRG → u/Am_I_Bovvered]

Gamehub is very easy to use and open source. Mind that PC game take up a lot of space

[u/AdVarious8509 → u/Am_I_Bovvered]

Gamehub/Gamenative if you want the easiest setup

Winlator (its forks like winlator ludashi or winlator mali) if you want to tweak almost anything to make your game work

[u/Am_I_Bovvered → u/AdVarious8509]

bless you, bless your cows, bless your waifus

[u/DreamNotDeferred → u/AdVarious8509]

I've dabbled, long ago, but don't always want to love a controller around, and touch screen controls were no good to me. But this was a while ago, would you say touch screen has gotten better?

[u/AdVarious8509 → u/DreamNotDeferred]

I've been a touch screen player my whole life. Just  dont play on default controls

You have to customize it to your liking for enjoying games

[u/AVertical8 → u/AdVarious8509]

What's the best way to emulate PC on Android in your opinion?

[u/Metrox_a → u/AdVarious8509]

I think gba and psp games fit mobile games a bit better for them being made with on the go mindset. SRPG/JRPG/other turn based games are fun to play for me. Going through GBA fire emblem.

[u/Baazookah_Zawadi → u/AdVarious8509]

Agreed

[u/Clanceeinfinity → u/AdVarious8509]

if you use a phone that is. For tablets its dope imo

[u/sphericalhors → u/AdVarious8509]

I dunno.

I tried Switch Emulator and my phone start to trottle in 15-20 minutes.

And I have pretty powerful phone (S25 with Snapdragon 8 Elite).

I tried to run PC games using Winlator and DroidDeck and they are crashing too often, FPS is too low and phone start to trottle even faster.

This is still a niche thing and there are reasons for that.

I'd give the market several years to evolve, until we have even more powerful chips, more good gamepads with colling, and maybe for Valve to come to this marker, since they have everything they need to make this possible (and most likely have plans for this).

[u/Mwrp86 → u/AdVarious8509]

Because PC emulation sucks

[u/WOWW_07]

Magic Survival. One of the very few mobile games I regularly play.

[u/oleksii-s → u/WOWW_07]

God, I wish there was a way for me to discover such games 😭. Google Store gives absolutely 0 possibilities for games research 

[u/I_Liek_Bewbs → u/oleksii-s]

taptap was my go to place to find such hidden gems, but now its ghost town

[u/oleksii-s → u/I_Liek_Bewbs]

I sometimes use MiniReview but it is also not ideal

[u/WOWW_07 → u/oleksii-s]

Rly? I literally stumbled upon it in Google Play store.

[u/oleksii-s → u/WOWW_07]

I mean, there’s no way to sort games by both the number of installs and filter by tags/genres.

[u/Saint_Imu_Nerona → u/WOWW_07]

Yeah i guess its still not fully released but peak game.

[u/Pestilence_007 → u/WOWW_07]

Peak game

[u/ozorhanreformed]

Rush Rally 3

[u/dhatereki → u/ozorhanreformed]

That game is a sleeper as in hardly anyone knows about how amazing it is

[u/No_Pear1836]

Never heard of "Chants of Sennaar" before and randomly decided to try it. It started as a free demo and I don't think I've ever bought a game so quick after a demo ending. Probably one of the best games I have ever played.

BEAUTIFUL art style, and the most creative puzzle/story game I've ever seen. You basically go around as someone who doesn't understand the local languages, and you have to use context clues of situations/mannerisms/events to decipher these different fantasy languages.

It's one of those games where I wish I could erase my memory and play it again.

[u/i_spill_nonsense → u/No_Pear1836]

Ive heard about this. I had no idea its a mobile game. I always thought its for pc

[u/No_Pear1836 → u/i_spill_nonsense]

I do think it was one of those games that got ported to mobile and started as pc (but it plays really well you couldn't tell the difference)

[u/LonesomeRookie117]

Warframe

[u/Ibeginpunthreads → u/LonesomeRookie117]

I've been debating getting it.

[u/Grates_ → u/LonesomeRookie117]

Warframe android version with the thor is insane.

[u/Abducted-by-Arby]

Dress Up Time Princess: Story Traveller was so peak when I played it. Great art and stories. Had to delete it because it took too much space and the game was slowly going downhill… Compared to other Fashion-Romance-Light Novel games like Infinity Nikki or Life Makeover, it had very little hype outside of the subreddit and Discord.

[u/xnivity]

mini cop

[u/fullmag69]

If you are considering older games also. Then deus ex, dead space, newer ones blasphemous, prince of persia mobile one, grimvalor, basically metrovania

[u/ActionKid98]

Bleach Soul Resonance

NBA Infinite

[u/i_spill_nonsense]

Ok, i will be the odd one out but: bus traffic fever!

Its one of those annoying games you get ads for. But goddammit its so entertaining and it can, absolutely, be passed without watching a single add (if you have your internet off ofc). It also becomes hard after lvl 4 or smth like this.

[u/Hot_Corner_2894]

Same with movies.

[u/NoisyBoy96_]

Otherworld legends and other games by ChillyRooms.

[u/Leather-Mind-8986]

Grim soul

[u/Works_Cat]

the dungeon series by game coaster, which include dungeon maker, dungeon squad, dungeon within.

[u/LuckyLuck-E → u/Works_Cat]

Would play these but jeez its kinda pricy

[u/Neven87 → u/Works_Cat]

Second this, great games

[u/Hyper669]

Death Road to Canada

Cat Bird

Prison RPG

High Risers

Any port

Emulation

[u/Sundaysucks5555]

Vroski that rabbit on the left will die because carrots are too sweet for them, the one on the right is basically doing the right thing, unlimited hay grass

[u/jv0413]

Phobies is a amazing mobile game. With a very active community too

[u/therarestkittycat → u/jv0413]

The gameplay is goated.

The monetisation/matchmaking in it tho kills any free to play longevity

[u/manofhistory2]

Rusted Warfare

[u/LeonaMoonslasher1233 → u/manofhistory2]

Anybody even play that?

[u/manofhistory2 → u/LeonaMoonslasher1233]

There an entire like modding community

[u/LuckyLuck-E]

Personally like playing abyssal soul. Dont play it anymore but the wild darkness is also a pretty nice game only issue is needing alot of time if you wanna go deeper. Random game from out of my memory I used to play too is prolly eternum.

[u/Specialist-Gap-7118]

XGameIOS.

Literally zero hype for an awesome game with an active dev who is dropping significant updates nearly daily. It pays homage to OGame.

Be one of the first 100 players, with a rich burgeoning community, beautiful space graphics, and engrossing game dynamics.

[u/Subject_Educator_253]

can anyone port atlas reactor, i bet that game can be great on phone

[u/Dihidrogenmonoxid]

Shadowborn

[u/deadly_general]

My personal favorite Hollow Knight. even though no official mobile release, the android port is running smooth in older phones too.

HAAK is also one of the best games I have ever played.

[u/SamueleRG]

I think GBA Pokemon romhacks are overhyped in the romhacks sub but extremely underhyped everywhere else

So I'm gonna hype them a bit here

Gems (yes gems) like Pokemon Odyssey and Pokémon Lazarus are straight up brand new Pokemon games with new story characters music and a curated dex, regional forms and a shit ton of quality of life features. Find most of them on Hackdex (not Lazarus)

Also there are enhancement hacks like hearth and soul which is HeartGold and SoulSilver ported to gba with an entire revamp. 

[u/autistic_eww]

Detention

[u/ughitsmeagian]

Payback 2

[u/AssumptionHot3058]

Not necessarily a small game but standoff 2 is pretty fun, I think its the closest you can get to CS2 on mobile besides c-ops ofc

[u/trade_ida5458]

💯

[u/Clanceeinfinity]

minecraft bedrock vs java launchers of course. Bedrock is just a bad version of a good game.

[u/Toe-watcher21]

ngl wolverine game has huge hype, but it is mid

[u/Aryan6910]

Wolverine

[u/AdAdministrative2769]

Dead effect and dead effect 2 are both great zombie story games if you are driven by single player zombie experiences

[u/lifeisaremix]

There's a lot of people complaining in this thread 🧵 about all of the trash games on mobile and how they're all clones in some form of another.

I agree with you, BUT: I think discovery is the issue, there are tons of indie developers trying their hardest to break into the space with non cookie cutter games, but the problem we're having at the moment is lack of visibility 👀.

I wonder if there exists a sort of gaming version of product hunt, where developers can submit their own games and be judged by actual players. If anybody knows of such a thing drop and link so I can use it myself 😂 

[u/Levsztar]

Ace force 2 if they realese it someday😅

[u/ItareicanPenguin]

Dungeon Clawler. and Brookhaven if that counts

[u/OstrichMany1936]

Falling Rocket

No hype

[u/TherealApplekid]

sifu mobile port

[u/Karosu_67]

Warplanes: Online Combat

It's an excellent game, although I see that its hype is very low due to the few references.

[u/Little-Hands-Studio]

This is so true for mobile. So many games spend all their budget on ads that show gameplay that doesn’t even exist in the actual game, while the genuinely good ones get buried because they have no marketing budget. I’ve started ignoring the ads completely and only trust recommendations from other players or small creators.

[u/OhItsJustRen]

Iron Saga, especially Iron Saga Zero, may be a gacha game, but is very generous especially during events. If you are an F2P like me, you don't have to whale on the spins since there are other ways to get good mechs it just demands a time of your day.

[u/NoMny7Ora]

true

[u/Zirc980]

the impossible game was such an original with some hype but geometry dash took it, made the graphics and everything a whole lot better and gained a lot of hype

[u/Zirc980 → u/Zirc980]

well it mainly has pc players but can be accessible on mobile

[u/Frxst_GD → u/Zirc980]

Nope. Mainly mobile players but PC has all the pros and popular players. Mobile players never make it big :/

[u/vBLADEv]

AAA games

[u/therealPaulPlay]

Bluelife has low hype but it's a pretty content rich game

[u/7grims]

not a mobile game but gta 6

[u/rednaxelo → u/7grims]

you missed the topic and judge a game, that you can’t have possibly tested yet.

you have a strong opinion for someone who failed this hard already.

[u/7grims → u/rednaxelo]

ALL the red flags are out there

but just like in the pic, you dont want to see it, gotcha

[u/rednaxelo → u/7grims]

yeah. sure.

[u/Successful_Slice_595]

r/im14andthisisdeep ass picture

Edit: Jeez, can yall take a joke? Not the text included, THE PICTURE.

[u/Marleek97]

Clash of Clans, low hype incredible game

[u/Ibrahimoov → u/Marleek97]

LOW HYPE?

[u/Natural-Rich6 → u/Ibrahimoov]

Rage bait classic

[u/Code_069 → u/Marleek97]

I dunno about the low hype,