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ono, (edited ) do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.
amanneedsamaid,

I agree, open source games are designed with fun in mind instead of attention grabbing garbage and ads.

sylverstream,

Thanks, that’s a good idea!

morganth, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

This is probably not a terribly helpful answer, but on the iOS side, there is Apple Arcade, which is a huge library of “free” (aka included with the subscription) games that don’t have any ads or microtransactions. If there’s an Android equivalent, just give her that as her app store. You’d spend a set amount per month and keep her away from the predatory business models.

korewa,

Exactly where I landed after giving them a fire tablet.

sylverstream,

Fire tablet is Android, right? Or am I mistaken.

korewa,

Yes I have that Amazon subscription think for kids apps it’s mostly junk games

SmoochyPit,

It is, but by default it’s locked to Amazon’s App Store. With this tool, a computer and a few minutes, you can sideload Google play and Google services. It also has lots of other customization options, like installing different launchers. I’d imagine that “Google Play Pass” would work then.

sylverstream,

I guess Play Pass for Android is similar. Thanks.

ranandtoldthat,

Play pass is surprisingly not terrible.

sylverstream,

Yeah just subscribed, so far pretty good. It’s annoying you can’t see easily what non games are included (like Tasker)

PM_ME_FEET_PICS, do games w Browser games you have burned a lot of time on?

Urban Dead was fun back when I played it. Used to be on the forums a lot and organize curing centres or safe zones.

Dominate Game. Great online risk game with elo system. You could play the default maps in the browser but thier client let you play tons of customer player made maps. Sadly this one got taken down a long time ago, is has a spiritual successor as Dominate 12.

Supremacy 1914. Only played 2 matches of this game, but do to its nature it was over the course of 6 months or so. I believe they have a download client now and the game is also on Steam now.

mindbleach,

Barhah!

variants, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

There’s an app called mini review that has reviews for games you can browse through there but not sure if there is a kids section but it’s helpful to filter out as heavy games.

I’ll never forget my friends kid being upset on our camping trip while we waited in the car in a store run saying how he has no wifi out there so he can’t watch his ads for coins

Hades,

This is also great because you can filter out games with ads and microtransactions. See minireview.io/browse?monetization-android=no-ads+…

BigTrout75, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

Netflix offers free Android games with no ads too. If you have ad subscription it might work

sylverstream,

Sorry, no Netflix here. Thanks anyways.

otter, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

The play pass might be the way to go, since the paid games are a lot better. There are also a lot of guides online for which games are good.

You can also look into games that are ports of old PC games, as well as emulators (which open up a whole new world of games)

sylverstream,

Thanks, yes play Pass looks cool so far.

Also going to look at emulators. Thanks.

upstream, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

Tbh I gave up on mobile gaming about 8 years ago. Got so tired of sifting through the crud looking for gems.

ZILtoid1991, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.
@ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

Install an emulator for her alongside with some roms. Unfortunately, that's pretty much the only option we have nowadays.

sylverstream,

Interesting, hadn’t thought about that. Will read more about it!

sic_semper_tyrannis,

Lemuroid is a great open source emulator. Vimm’s Lair is a great place to find games/ROMs. It’s difficult to play games though that require the bumper buttons on a touch screen. Maybe consider getting her a retro gaming handheld device. They can either run based on Linux, so an emulator, or Android which can operate like normal and then you can select an emulator to play. ETA Prime has lots of reviews of these devices.

sylverstream,

Awesome, thanks! I’ve tried retro gaming before but they didn’t really like it, we also had a Wii for a couple of weeks, but perhaps I should try again.

REM0VED, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

RetroArch

Snoopy, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.
@Snoopy@jlai.lu avatar

It’s not easy finding good game, harder for young kid :

  • Andor’s trail
  • Room
  • Mindustry
  • Mindtest, control may not be good
  • Milo milo, can’t recall its name but its a puzzle
  • Dragon quest
  • Broken age
  • Machinarium (and all anamita game)
sylverstream,

Thanks, will look them up!

DAMunzy, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

Private DNS server. Blocks most ads even in games.

Here’s what I posted in another thread:

Private DNS FTW!

dns.adguard.com

On Android:

  1. Swipe down and select settings (the gear)
  2. Search for: DNS
  3. Select Private DNS.
  4. Select Private DNS again.
  5. Select Private DNS provider hostname.
  6. Enter: dns.adguard.com
  7. Select Save
  8. Enjoy most ads being blocked in apps.
  9. Might work poorly on public wifi (Walmart wifi for example doesn’t work with a private DNS set).

On Apple:

  1. Fuck if I know.
kosmoz,

Mullvad DNS works well for this too: mullvad.net/…/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/

Using DoH (DNS over HTTPS) means it should work on networks that try to block usage of private DNS servers.

sylverstream,

Thanks, I already have set up pi hole. See the last paragraph in my post as well.

DAMunzy,

My bad. I did miss that final paragraph but hopefully the private DNS can help someone else. Cheers!

Legendsofanus,

It helped me a lot! I already knew about adguard but didn’t know how to set it up. You explained it in such simple words, bravo

tra, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

“Shattered pixel dungeon” is a rouge-like top down rpg with no ads and is quite fun. You can only pay if you choose to support the dev.

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

As much as I like that game, the learning curve is steep af! Unless the little one handles frustration well, it will be a hard sell.

tra,

Yeah you are probably right.

DeriHunter, do games w Assassin's Creed Mirage Review Thread | (76/100 OpenCritic)

Never understood who play ac, these games are great for the first hour but then the games becomes so dull an repetitive, same missions same stories it becomes very tedious

slauraure, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

I think the category you’re looking for is premium games. On mobile it appears to mean that the game is complete and not sold in pieces.

Lmaydev, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

Play pass is really good for games but my kids still constantly want shitty ad filled ones tbh.

Setting up adguard DNS worked really well but it can break games if they’re dependent on ads. Which isn’t a bad thing in my opinion.

sylverstream,

Yeah agreed, my kids have accepted that stuff doesn’t work if they rely on ads, and they are fine with it (after some initial batyles).

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