Phone Gamer - 

This cute nuclear throne knockoff wants me to pay over $20 to play as the frog. LOL, no sympathy for crap like this.

Phone Gamer - 

My stubborn refusal of exploitative monetization means there’s really not much to play on my phone.

Phone Gamer - 

@KommaChameleon phone games are bullshit. It’s honestly insulting how, in the 11 years of smartphones that we’ve had, gaming on them maybe had a couple spikes of brilliance surrounded by generally utter crap and the business model around them seems dedicated to keeping it that way

Phone Gamer - 

@poss_bot yeah... plus the whole app-ocalypse thing (iOS demanding 64 bit apps and a reapproval for everything) means the back catalogue is pretty weak.

Also Candy Crush has been the top grossing game for about six years. Healthy marketplace~

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Phone Gamer - 

@poss_bot My favorite niche on mobile are digital board games. That’s one area where the focus on touchscreens has brought us a lot of great conversions that probably wouldn’t otherwise exist, and push notifications make a lot of sense for correspondence play.

But these days you can’t really even find clever arcade experiences that aren’t riddled with ads and upgrade loops.

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