• Madrigal@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    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.

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      5 days ago

      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.