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What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That mobile game where you slowly build up a city, train lots of troops, launch attacks on other players’ cities, form alliances and so on, before getting soundly thumped by the Koreans.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

From a personal perspective. Those have such a low investment requirement for the basic gaming loop.

Over the course of the day there will be small unavoidable breaks, 5-15 minutes long during which there isn't much to do. Cant really boot up a PC for more serious gaming session with such a small time even if I'm near a PC at that time, usually not.

But there's always a smartphone within reach. So this sort of random town building games are perfect to kill few minutes, pretty much same as killing some time doomscrolling or watching some YT videos.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I just keep mindustry paused on my phone and build bits of factory when I have time.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 2 points 5 days ago

That's a good approach too. I'll try that one out as well.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Reversed Front? Jk - I know Korea isn't part of China yet