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Best android \iPhone games or time wasting apps

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My comp is out, so am stuck with my phone. So besided straining my eyes to read Fels stuff.Any good or interesting stuff, I should be aware of?
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I've lost nearly a week to Minecraft PE on my phone. It's maddenly addictive.
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Clash of Clans is a great time waster
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dellstart wrote:My comp is out, so am stuck with my phone. So besided straining my eyes to read Fels stuff.Any good or interesting stuff, I should be aware of?
I think it would help if you let us know what types of PC games you like.

I am also interested in finding new phone games to play.

I have recently tried SpaceRPG, which is a space trading game. Not bad so far.

Another empire style builder I like is Pocket Trains. You ship cargoes around to earn cash and BUX to build more routes and train parts respectively. What I like about this one is the time required to play. You can get send a few trains in 30 seconds and then turn the game off. Its not like you have to play to a save point like others.

Demon Hunter 4 is a Diablo style clone.

Unfortunately I have also found there is a lot of junk games out there.
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I've been playing Ingress - it's an alternate reality game, need to actually walk (ride, jog, drive, etc) around and capture territory for one of the two teams (team green or team blue).

There's a three main actions in the game:

- Hacking Portals (gives you equipment and keys to that portal)
- Attacking/Capturing Portals (lets you establish incoming links)
- Linking portals (lets you link from the portal you're near, to a remote portal - if it's friendly and there's no blocking links, Three portals linked together in a triangle form a field and capture that territory)

It's pretty damn impressive seeing some of the efforts - people have to actually carry keys they've captured (or been given by other players they've physically met) to portals that they want to link.
So, when you see say a reasonable portion of the Atlantic and most of Europe being captured: https://i.imgur.com/5Mfq2B3.png or a decent portion of the northern hemisphere: https://i.imgur.com/xuhOG5u.jpg -- more than a few people have had to travel a long way to make that happen.
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I think FTL has a phone app. I dumped 150+ hours into that. It's a rougelike and there is a learning curve, but it's addicting and you can play for a few minutes here or there.
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Spec8472 wrote:I've been playing Ingress - it's an alternate reality game, need to actually walk (ride, jog, drive, etc) around and capture territory for one of the two teams (team green or team blue).
I have downloaded it, but haven't messed with it yet. It looks like it combines gaming and geo-caching.
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Griffinmane wrote:
Spec8472 wrote:I've been playing Ingress - it's an alternate reality game, need to actually walk (ride, jog, drive, etc) around and capture territory for one of the two teams (team green or team blue).
I have downloaded it, but haven't messed with it yet. It looks like it combines gaming and geo-caching.
Only the "moving around in the real world" part of geocaching.
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