What made you like these games?
I donāt know about mobile games, but my favorite game serials are Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Victoria. They are all made by Paradox interactive studio. And I love total war serials. All of them 
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My favorite mobile games would be Monument Valley and Republique, I think. In both cases they felt like a natural fit to the devices they were played on, rather than games shoehorned and compromised to squash pre-existing designs into different devices, or simplified such that it didnāt matter.
Also, unlike many other mobile games Iāve played, neither of those felt like a distraction, or as if they were designed to help fill time. They were both solid entertainment in their own right, which could definitely compete with the offerings on my PC and consoles if I were at home and deciding what to do for an evening. In particular, Republique is one of few mobile games Iāve played that achieved immersion and atmosphere on a similar level to good games on other platforms.
To be fair, there are probably plenty of other mobile games by now which have achieved similar. I havenāt played a lot on mobile for quite some time, so I simply wouldnāt be aware of them.
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Republique is actually now on Steam.
It might be on a console, as well.
Sword of Xolan has, hands down, the best mobile joystick controls I have ever experienced.
Ultraflow is just badass! and has a great soundtrack and sfx. Probably one of the only minimalistic games Iāve ever enjoyed for more than 3 minutes, not minimizing the efforts of the developers.
The only game I play on my phone is Desert Golfing, for long boring train trips. I donāt really consider a mobile phone to be good for anything much more complicated than that.
My favorite mobile title would probably have to beā¦ Monument Valley? Loved the visuals, the narrative and everything about it really. Itās also a title that has a start and finish, in a mobile market thatās heavily saturated with titles designed to keep you forever. If you havenāt checked it out yet you should, its one of the only mobile titles I found myself playing at home.
I wish I knew this existed earlier, I feel like my life was wasted without mobile FTL.
The earliest memories of gaming I have would probably be replaying the first Vectorman level over and over without ever actually progressingā¦
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@Buhlaine : I think thereās also a mobile version of one of the X-COM games, which might interest you if youāre into stuff thatās a more gamer-oriented experience with an end point that happens to also work on a mobile.
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Diep.io is probably my favorite mobile gameā¦ in that its probably one of the few I go back to playing sometimes.
FTL is a game I always thought would get an even better sequel and it never did.
I still like pocket fleet. It was a web game ported to mobileā¦ Itās not a great game, but itās basic multiplayer with catchy mechanic. I did play galaxy on fire 2 on mobile, however that ended up being more of an effort to see if I liked gaming on mobile.
It turns out, that I donāt like it very much. Big Games are just sooo much better.
My son and I played quite a bit of Puzzle & Dragons, sitting next to each other watching each other level up the characters and such. Beyond spending time with my son I donāt think I enjoyed the game much, but because he liked it I played it for a good while.
It was a novel concept to me at that time - not knowing/understanding the addictive nature of those types of games. The game didnāt sink far enough to urge me to spend any money, but that āoptionā loomed in the design.
Neither my or my son has played another of those ātypesā of games since then.
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My Fav game of all time has to be Flimboās Quest. You can find it and play it on what still is the Ultimate in tech, the Commodore 64.
It still spins the Spectrums jaw. Anyone saying otherwise, well, you donāt want to go down those roads, trust me. I have a three week old trout, descaled, ready to slap you withā¦^.^
I should tell clash of clan my favorite game.Now-a-days one of the best famous game and most one playing this. But i like mini militia more than clash of clan. Mini Militia is a great game to time pass with friends.The best thing about this game is you canāt be bored to play this game 24/7.
When I was 6-7 yo my elder brother came home from a university for vacations and brought ZX Spectrum 48. This machine and dozens of its modifications were extremely popular in USSR in 80s and early 90s. You could buy one in a shop, at any radio-market or you could get a keyboard, a scheme, a bunch of raw components and build your own personal computer. If you couldnāt or didnāt want to buy a TV modulator to connect the computer to the TV set, you could just hack the TV set - sometimes it was the easiest way with better image quality.
So, the first game I ever saw and played was Atari Pole Position:
Nothing special about it except that it opened a whole new world for me.
The first mobile platform I had was Soviet programmable calculator Electronica MK-61. Specs:
- 105 byte long program
- 15 memory registers
- 4 stack registers
Since the Spectrum was my brotherās computer and his university was in another city, I played games mostly on this calculator. The games could be found in different popular technical magazines.
This one is a turn-based simulator of a small space shuttle for travelling around planets with no atmosphere. You write 3 input parameters into memory registers (thrust vector direction, amount of fuel to burn, time to burn it), run the program, and get the results: your horizontal and vertical positions and h/v speeds. The goal is to take off at point A, fly to point B and perform a safe landing as close to B as possible.
There were games like that for going into orbit, docking to an orbital station, travelling from mĆ¼nar lunar orbit to Earth and aerobraking and landing on Earth.
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As to modern mobile games, I just canāt take them seriously. Tiny screens, defective controls, ads everywhere. PC games give me the best graphics and best overall experience, and that old MK-61 calculator gave me the best hardcore gaming experience. Thereās just no room left for modern mobile games.