Adam Kos Everyone keeps talking about how AAA titles aren't available on mobile platforms and how it bothers us and how our smartphones are super powerful but we can't really use their potential. But perhaps we are to blame for everything. And judging by Apple's behavior, he too has seen through us and is trying to bring just such content, which focuses more on old games in a new presentation than graphically perfect titles.
We are, of course, talking about Apple Arcade, that is, a subscription service that will make available to us a comprehensive library of games without ads and in-app purchases for a single fee (if 200 titles can be considered a comprehensive collection). If you look at the titles that have been added within the platform, they are usually old familiar games that have been only slightly optimized graphically, otherwise they mostly bring original content.
Bridge Constructor, Hidden Folks, Crashlands, Spades, Hearts, Splitter Critters, Oddmar, Dandara, Kingdom Rush Frontiers TD, Tiny Wings, Crossy Road… All of these titles that were recently added to Apple Arcade (with a few exceptions) feature with the epithet "plus" after your name. So these are old well-known games, you just don't have to buy them separately and you get them on a golden platter. And it's visibly successful, otherwise there wouldn't be more and more coming.
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Top charts
But Apple Arcade is just one of the cases where you can see this retro gaming trend. You will also come across it in the App Store charts, where retro titles are accompanied by simple games and virtually no graphically advanced titles. If you look at free-to-play games, the only really mature title is Pokémon GO, which is ranked 42nd. But it has been a hit in its own right since its release. If you go further, PUBG MOBILE is at 52nd, Call of Duty: Mobile at 65th, League of Legends: Wild Rift at 74th and FIFA Football at 81st. The other titles, up to the hundredth place, are simply simple games or various retro titles. And if not, at least they proudly claim retro. So they are not overflowing with modern technologies, amazing graphics and actually not even interesting gameplay.
In terms of paid games, Pou is still ahead of Minecraft, among which Plague Inc. sometimes intervenes. You can find GTA: San Andreas in 16th place, GTA III in 30th, Hitman Sniper in 53rd and that's basically all up to a hundred. E.g. Alien: Isolation is 102. And that one, even if it's just a PC port, should really be a great representation of AAA gaming. Well, yes, but when it is overtaken by almost a hundred others and to learn simpler titles, it is a difficult motivation for the developer (GTA titles are also ports).
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One Wordle to rule them all
And then there is the phenomenon Wordle, which you may have heard of. How do you imagine the most simple game? Just try Wordle and you will have the answer. It's actually not even an application, it's just a web application, the purpose of which is to guess one word a day, for a certain number of attempts. And that's all. It's as simple as that, and judging by the responses and the current wave of interest, it's also addictive.
It is clear from all this that the world does not actually want to play any super advanced and technologically advanced titles on mobile phones. In them, the world will still be satisfied with only those mobile games that it started with at the time of the arrival of the App Store. Now it would just like to revive the labyrinth title, when you had to tilt the phone to transport the ball from point A to point B without it falling off the playing field and we are back at the beginning, i.e. in 2008.
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Vratislav Holub 