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Just a bit of useless trivia: today is the first day I've turned on my actual desktop PC since Friday night. All my Internet stuff between then and now has been via bedside smartphone.
Whenever I haven't been dealing with dog crap (both metaphorically and literally) or reading Iron Druid novels or otherwise just sleeping and generally "being sick," I've been playing quite a bit of the MLP:FiM game, Wordscapes, and Deiland on the phone. I also quickly got fed up with The Sims: Freeplay (due to an increasing [i.e. non-zero] amount of annoying, unsolicited, autoplaying ads [as opposed to the "you have to actively click on them to view them and get free shit" ads, with which I was perfectly okay]) and completely uninstalled it.
I was kind of starting to miss real video games, though. Deiland (made by Chibig, the same company that made Ankora, a game I mentioned in a previous post) is one of the few mobile phone games I've played that feels like an actual, proper game, as opposed to the collection of advertisements and microtransactions loosely draped with a thin veneer of "game" that just about everything else on Google Play that claims to be a game appears to be, at least in my experience.
Speaking of Deiland, there is a version of that on Steam, too, so I think I will plug that, even though I have not yet personally played that version myself. The Steam version has a price tag attached to it (as opposed to the mobile version, which is free), but based on the Steam videos and screenshots, it looks to be much more graphically advanced than the phone version, and appears to have more gameplay as well (and maybe even a bit of an actual story, too, unlike the phone version, where the only story bit I've seen is the pre-menu intro). And it looks like Mûn, the main character from Ankora, plays a bigger role in the Steam version of Deiland, too. In the phone version, she's just a shopkeeper who shows up every once in a while.
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Oh, and while Ankora is not on Steam, Chibig does have another as-of-yet-unreleased game on Steam called Summer in Mara, which also looks like it could be pretty interesting.
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Hmm, Summer in Mara is actually a Kickstarter project, currently with 53 hours left to go. I won't be backing it myself, because I'm kind of over the whole KS thing, but here is the link, if anyone else wants to do so.
Just a bit of useless trivia: today is the first day I've turned on my actual desktop PC since Friday night. All my Internet stuff between then and now has been via bedside smartphone.
Whenever I haven't been dealing with dog crap (both metaphorically and literally) or reading Iron Druid novels or otherwise just sleeping and generally "being sick," I've been playing quite a bit of the MLP:FiM game, Wordscapes, and Deiland on the phone. I also quickly got fed up with The Sims: Freeplay (due to an increasing [i.e. non-zero] amount of annoying, unsolicited, autoplaying ads [as opposed to the "you have to actively click on them to view them and get free shit" ads, with which I was perfectly okay]) and completely uninstalled it.
I was kind of starting to miss real video games, though. Deiland (made by Chibig, the same company that made Ankora, a game I mentioned in a previous post) is one of the few mobile phone games I've played that feels like an actual, proper game, as opposed to the collection of advertisements and microtransactions loosely draped with a thin veneer of "game" that just about everything else on Google Play that claims to be a game appears to be, at least in my experience.
Speaking of Deiland, there is a version of that on Steam, too, so I think I will plug that, even though I have not yet personally played that version myself. The Steam version has a price tag attached to it (as opposed to the mobile version, which is free), but based on the Steam videos and screenshots, it looks to be much more graphically advanced than the phone version, and appears to have more gameplay as well (and maybe even a bit of an actual story, too, unlike the phone version, where the only story bit I've seen is the pre-menu intro). And it looks like Mûn, the main character from Ankora, plays a bigger role in the Steam version of Deiland, too. In the phone version, she's just a shopkeeper who shows up every once in a while.
---
Oh, and while Ankora is not on Steam, Chibig does have another as-of-yet-unreleased game on Steam called Summer in Mara, which also looks like it could be pretty interesting.
---
Hmm, Summer in Mara is actually a Kickstarter project, currently with 53 hours left to go. I won't be backing it myself, because I'm kind of over the whole KS thing, but here is the link, if anyone else wants to do so.
