Steam games that force players to watch advertisements are banned, Valve emphasises
www.eurogamer.net
Valve has emphasised its rules around advertising, explicitly prohibiting games that force players to watch in-game ads.
  • ShadowRam@fedia.io
    29·
    13 days ago

    This is exactly why I don’t play games on mobile.

    I absolutely don’t have the time to wade through that shit.

    about a year ago, I was like, “It’d be nice to have a few mindless games on my phone”… tried like four… just ADS ADS ADS…

    Even the ones where I liked the game, and wanted to just remove the ad bullshit for a price… nothing…

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20·
      13 days ago

      Loop hero

      Vampire Survivors base game is free and has the option of watching and ad for a free revive (which you don’t get at all on other platforms)

      Slay the spire

      Balatro

      Plenty of great games without ads

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      GooglePlay search favors popular trash, but there and on F-Droid you can still find some fun ones without ads. Searching from outside, like on a regular web search engine or lemmy\reddit subs for free games may help. I don’t mind piracy but I was glad to obtain Antimine and Mindustry. Also, there are ways to block internet or patch apps, but they usually imply you have root and may break things if not careful.

      Idk about iPhone apps, but I’m sure the first solution would work too and the second means jailbreaking thus cutting off most of their praised ecosystem.

    • Anivia@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      Yeah, there is a tiny amount of good mobile games, like oceanhorn or world of goo. You’re better off just sticking to emulating console games on mobile, than playing native mobile games

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      On my phone, I have two games:

      • PySolFC - FOSS collection of a bunch of solitaire-like games, with varying levels of attention required
      • Lichess - FOSS chess game, with puzzles, bots, and MP

      The first is available on F-Droid, not sure about other stores, and the second is probably available everywhere (I got it on Google Play).

      I, too, got tired of sifting through ad-riddled BS and just didn’t play games on my phone for years.