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New to Android gaming, recommend me some games please

Looks like you're mostly a fan of RPG and action/RPG games, so here's a few I've been playing recently.

And you can find more suggestions here:
RPG Recommendation
Best RPG Games
high quality turn based rpgs?


Tales of Illyria - $3.95 for the "early access" version. Great story (lot of reading), turn based battles, described as a mix of Oregon's Trail, choose your own adventure books, and D&D and I'd say that's accurate.

Knights of Pen & Paper - $1.99. Basically takes the experience of playing a sit-at-a-table pen and paper D&D type game and puts it into a phone game. Good replay value on this one too since you can choose different combinations of players and characters.

Bard's Tale - $2.99 (50% off price). This one's an action RPG. There's some IAP options to get items and talents faster and I personally was happy to buy them, it's still less than you'd pay for a console game, and imo more fun to play.

Yesterday -$2.49 (50% off price). Best way to describe it would be it's a detective-RPG where you have to figure out clues and has an interesting story. Pretty dark stuff though, not for small kids.

Puzzle Quest 2 - free for trial area, then $4.99 to unlock the full game with all characters. It's an RPG where the battles are done as puzzles to unlock attacks or spells.

Andor's Trail - free, no ads, no IAP. I got this back when I was on my OG Droid and still play it today. The game is in-progress so some quests can't be completed yet, and some areas don't exist yet, but it's got a good story, skills, choices to make that you can't go back on, and an update is expected maybe in a couple months.
 
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Umm wow much more than I expected, thanks so much! As I'm going through these videos and links I like a lot of these games. It's like you know me already, umataro42!

For tales of illyria I love going on adventures/traveling and then battling! Only thing is, will that 3.95 pay for the game when it comes out too or will it be more at that time? Do you recommend me buying early access or waiting for the full release?

Again, really loving the looks of the games!
 
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I'm really enjoying the Early Access version, I've been playing since last week and the story's still going so it feels like there's already a lot. I'm pretty sure if you pay the $3.95 now you'll get the full game once it's done as an update. And if you have any problems with installing the devs offer a refund if you contact them (they're pretty responsive).

If you like the retro 8bit look, you should also check out Gurk (free) and Gurk II (99cents).
 
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To clarify a couple things...

Regarding Tales of Illyria, I'm very much under the impression that if you buy the game now, you're getting it for good. It's pretty much finished and they are mostly adjusting minor details, and I haven't seen anything to suggest that you would have to re-buy it when it's completely finished. Oh, and it's awesome.

Regarding a Bard's Tale, it's a pretty direct port of a Playstation 2 game--in other words, the game was designed without IAPs in mind. The IAPs they tacked on are basically cheats that are entirely unnecessary. This is in stark contrast to most mobile games nowadays, which are designed from the ground up to nudge the player into buying IAPs; I wouldn't want someone who is IAP-averse like I am to get the wrong idea and avoid Bard's Tale, which is essentially IAP free and is one of the best Android games available.
 
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