As someone who just recently made that leap, I have to say its not as huge and daunting of a switch as it may feel, but its also not nothing of a swap.

I’d def recommend people start by using alternative app stores and getting used to that before making the swap. Was def a helpful first step for myself.

Was using F-droid for the longest time as primary app store (where I could).

This comment inspired me to swap to droidify though. A month-ish in and I’m super pleased with everything since I swapped.

Just wanted to tag in with my own personal support for this recommendation.

Which repo is ironfox in?

Oh.

Welp, my opinion still stands, even if this isn’t the right context for it.

Hmmm, that does seem weird that they wouldnt be putting in DRM. I guess I’m on board with it. They do make super solid games. I hope this showcases what can be achieved by games that do t include DRM at their core.

Anti-cheat in single player games never made sense to me. Maybe if it includes microtransactions, then i guess i could see a use case, but like, if I want to cheat at your single player game, what use would there be in stopping me?

I really like your way of explaining that.

It still feels dirty, but when is war and geopolitics ever actually clean? I feel a lot more heartened that this was the right choice after reading your response.

I understand the sanctions part and wanting to head off any potential state interference with projects like this, but “infosec reasons” feels very hand wavy.

I think I’d be a lot more comfortable if we had seen malicious/bad faith actions/communications or maybe some more specific and tangible reasons to suspect them being compromised on the part of the Russian maintainers before they were just removed.

Like, I don’t want to sound like a corporate shill, but Valve has been the most consumer friendly corporation I’ve ever seen. Even if they do meet the criteria for a monopoly, they are the model of what a company that finds itself as The Monopoly should be, in my opinion.

I have no intent to sign up for this “lawsuit”, even though I stand to gain some $500 from it. I hope Steam lives long and prospers.

Haven’t played Origins, but I’ve spent a lot of time with Odyssey which has my highest recommendation.

From a friend who’s opinion I trust, I’ve been told Origins is the less fleshed out version of Odyssey. He says that Origins started Assassin’s Creed on a new RPG focused track that really just worked for Origins and Odyssey (he claims they biffed Valhalla).

Just blew 2 hours of my life on this game.

Can confirm, its solid.

Obligatory Shattered Pixel Dungeon recommendation.

You can get it on the F-Droid store, but there’s also a bunch of other versions (some easier some harder) in the main google store.

Medieval setting plus the similar sounds of “Bannerlord” and “Manor Lord”.

I realize that was a total mistake to assumed that now.

Good to know!

Good to know, thanks for the feedback!

Is this just a Mount and Blade: Banner Lord ripoff? Kinda sounds that way?

I’ve wasted too many hours on Shatter Pixel Dungeon.

You can get the source for OG Pixel Dungeon off GitHub, but there’s a maintened version on the F-Droid store (Shatter Pixel Dungeon). There’s some other free versions floating around too, not sure if they’re on the F-Droid store too, but I know they’re on the play store.