All Illusory Mobile Game Ads Have Manifested into Reality

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Maddy Myers
has actually run Polygon’s games area given that 2020 as replacement editor. She has actually operated in games journalism given that 2007, at Kotaku, The Mary Sue, and also the Boston Phoenix.

If you’ve played mobile games or perhaps simply scrolled with social media sites, you’ve no doubt seen a deceptive advertisement for a mobile game. Maybe it was an advertisement for Hero Wars, like this one depicting a number-based tower game — an advertisement that births no resemblance to the real game. Or possibly it was an advertisement for a Water Sort game that does job as marketed, yet additionally makes you see a video clip advertisement in between each and every single problem. Sure, these games are totally free to download and install, yet there’s still an expense developed right into playing them.

What if you could pay $10 to play 5 of these timeless problem games, with no deceptive or self-important ads or microtransactions entailed? A brand-new computer game has actually obtained you covered, describing itself with this happily lengthy title: Yeah! You Want “Those Games,” Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let’s See You Clear Them!

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I simply bought and also mounted Yeah! You Want “Those Games,” and also it’s precisely what it claims on the tin. My individual preferred minigame is “Color Lab,” a variation of the Water Sort problem games, among which I as soon as came under the catch of downloading and install on my phone, just to uncover it teemed with advertisements. I did wind up acquiring an ad-free variation and also playing it till it obtained as well tough to continue without the unpreventable ask that I see advertisements once more to open extra beakers. Again, this is really typical — certainly with these sorts of mobile problem games, you’ll be asked to see advertisements or acquisition microtransactions, without any choice to pay a level cost rather.

Yeah! You Want “Those Games” doesn’t consist of any type of advertisements or microtransactions, although it does have a restricted variety of challenges readily available to play. The various other 4 minigames are “Pin Pull” (comparable to Rescue Hero: Pull the Pin), “Cash Run” (comparable to Money Run 3D), “Number Tower” (the exact same facility as the deceptive Hero Wars advertisement up top), and also “Parking Lot” (comparable to Parking Jam 3D). My just grievance, shown to the various other “Mostly Positive” examines on the game’s Steam page, is that I desire way much more minigames and also challenges. That’s since I enjoy what’s readily available thus far!

These are not deep or tough games, yet often, you don’t desire that. Sometimes you simply desire something easy to play while you’re pushing the sofa, phone in hand, half-watching episodes of The Blacklist. In the instance of Yeah! You Want “Those Games,” I’ll simply place it onto my Steam Deck and also have a much much better experience than I make with my little collection of mobile games, since I won’t need to silence my phone while it plays unlimited advertisements for various other predative mobile games. That’s greater than worthwhile of my $10.

 

Source: Polygon