Anyone got any pro-tips?? I just got a Chromebook to have a super-portable tablet style thing (but with keyboard) when I'm away from proper PCs, and have had a look at the games but they mostly seem to be boring as fuck sim village shit or ugly as fuck retro arcade shit....

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/app/3-games?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher YAWN etc.

Ideally I'd like a single player light-weight (obviously designed for touchscreen / touchpad shizzle) RPG / RTS -ish game with kinda decent gfx. Offline capability would be perfect (but optimistic I guess).

Something from the warhammer type universe would be nice but there is precisely fuck all available on Chrome for that. I tried a dragon thing and it was boring village sim and I tried a pirate thing and it was boring village sim too.

Help. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3-_RQV0Qk - this looks like just the right sort of style and gfx quality in the riding around bits. The hex turn based combat looks meh as fuck and I dunno how much SP is feasible though. Will give it a look - just as an example. 

Track and field with acting bonus game.

http://redcarpetrampage.com/ 

Is not the ChromeOS game I am looking for. 

And I tell you no lies.





Oh, I do both those things all the time. NM. 

I got my first mobile game recently, it is awesome:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.hit_point.nekoatsume

I really hope CZG and Bal and Vondur and Daz are on this shizzle. 

Someone already got me to download that.

I opened it once, then closed it.

I haven't deleted it yet though. 

This might help people:

http://teamshambler.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/review-of-chromeos-rts-games.html 

Lol Shambler buys a mobile and is surprised 100% of the games available are shovelware garbage made in eastern european or asian sweatshops, and all clones of each other.

Mobile gaming is the festering, cancerous arse-polyp of the games industry, with no exceptions that I am aware of? 

Which is quite nice: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-tribes/id1006393168?mt=8

And not a Clash of Clones, or free to play in any particularly manipulative way.

Only one game mode, and the tribes are identical apart from different starting scenery and technology.

But pretty fun, undemanding stuff. 

Lol Shambler buys a Chromebook and is surprised when a small indie start-up like GOOGLE (who run the Android Apps store) somehow haven't managed to get any remotely interesting games or apps working in their little device

Talking about stuff like...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tt2kgames.xcomew
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChilledMouse.WQ
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/warhammer-40-000-armageddon/id935248214?mt=8

Incidentally I've just started dicking around with mobile apps and some of the - admittedly simple - ones of those are far better than 99% of the dross available for ChromeOS (Monunment Valley, Zen Koi, etc) 

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.gunshippenguin.openflood is terribly addictive 

XCOM enemy within was great.

Warhammer Quest was just as tedious and expensive (relatively) as the board game.

Didn't play the third one.

There are good games companies doing stuff on mobile, but they're rarely the supposed big dogs (ie. ones earning the most cash and cannabalising each other).

But for genuine hardcore gaming I think you're going to be disappointed. Not that the platform(s) can't support that type of game, just that the economy / ecology of developers isn't suited to it.

But I keep on playing stuff, hoping that a solid game will somehow appear. XCOM was one such case in my opinion, even if it did cause laptop sydrome (ie. phone hot enough to fry an egg on). 

THat's the thing. I don't want genuine hardcore gaming. I'm as PC Master Race as anyone. I want genuine good stylised, simple, well themed casual games - I've only just started dabbling in them and, well, okay, it's really a Chromebook / ChromeOS problem. I can't even play fucking neko atsume on it ;)

I wouldn't mind WHQ being tedious and expensive, I'd give it a try for the style, Warhammer is part of my geeking heritage.

About cost, I would happily have more games where you pay fucking upfront and get a decent game. XCom is �9 or something?? Fucking great, I'm sure you're getting a proper game for that!! 

I *CAN* play the WebQuake port, albeit shareware only and mouse look doesn't work... 

WHQ is just a cynical cash grab though. I only played through it out of spite. Although I think I then also bought one of the expansions when drunk :P

XCOM is the best one I've played to be honest.

I do remember Frozen Synapse on tablet: http://www.frozensynapse.com/

Which was another Nueromancer styled game - violent and incredibly nerdy. There was a massive difficulty spike in the middle of the campaign mode though.

I see now that the original is $1USD on iOS and the new version prime is at $5.00.

Tempting... 

Freemium / pay to win / pay to advance bullshit.

Straight up dishonesty, marketting shite to fucking morons under the guise of it being "free"... 

WHQ wasn't free to play, just incredibly shallow for the price tag.

Neither was XCOM, but that was basically the full game ported to mobile, which was deep as the mines of moria. 

Raging I can't get that one. Why the fuck did I get a chromebook again? Oh yeah cos it was small, chic and cute. Bit like being a fashion-following apple slag, except at 1/4 the price. 

Tbh I have a decent phone but most games aren't worth the time. I would rather browse Facebook or Twitter 

I don't spend a lot of time phone-gaming on my Android doohickey, but I've found some quality stuff. Hitman GO, Lara Croft GO, Hoplite, Spider 2, Super Hexagon, The Sequence, 80 Days, Monument Valley, A Good Snowman... off the top of my head. I even think that games like PvZ2 and Alphabear are quality despite their F2P trappings. 

Dunno about ChromeOS though.

Didn't Bastion and Don't Starve get shipped for that? Or am I thinking of something else?

(does a quick Google) hmm it looks like that version of Bastion no longer works.