If you were stuck alone with one video game...
Added 2025-03-25 04:01:01 +0000 UTC
This week, The Resties talk about the value of the Game Developers Conference and hike up a mountain of questions.
One example? This question from Bestlies/Resties listener Emily:
If you were going to be stuck alone for one year with just one offline video game, what game would it be? You have all your basic needs met, but you can’t go outside or talk to others, and there’s nothing else to do.
We answer that Q and many more. Some silly and some existential!
Some of the games discussed:
Balatro
Easy Come, Easy Golf
Chainsaw Juice King: Idle Shop
Slay the Spire
Monster Train
Nanograms Katana
PGA Tour Pro Golf
Jetpack Joyride
Fruit Ninja
Question for the comments:
What's the most recent great mobile game you played?
Comments
Thank you for encouraging people to keep themselves and others safe by wearing masks in crowded spaces ❤️
Mk
2025-04-03 12:21:33 +0000 UTCWill have a new fixed upload ASAP!
Chris
2025-03-26 14:44:47 +0000 UTCYeah just hoping they'll re-up or something
rylander
2025-03-26 01:48:27 +0000 UTCSame! I am a Besties/Resties completionist!
Johnny Van Cura
2025-03-26 01:21:06 +0000 UTCI could then preform the lusty argonian maid as a one man show.
Whatsup Studmuffin
2025-03-26 00:37:01 +0000 UTCI would say elder scrolls because I have never played it and it's a looooong game and then I would read every book in Skyrim
Whatsup Studmuffin
2025-03-26 00:31:01 +0000 UTCIt’s rimworld for me
Daniel Chernault
2025-03-25 23:18:22 +0000 UTCMy stuck alone game would either be Factorio, or I’d finally take the time to understand Dwarf Fortress.
Casey Robertson
2025-03-25 21:37:25 +0000 UTCPlease reupload with the ending of the episode. The abrupt cutoff made me sad :( lol
Cindyy
2025-03-25 20:41:40 +0000 UTCSame for me
Matt Maher
2025-03-25 19:29:58 +0000 UTCCan confirm, it cuts off at that time on Spotify
Claire
2025-03-25 19:00:14 +0000 UTCSame, it just happened to me now :(
Elle
2025-03-25 18:53:46 +0000 UTCAlso yes
DeadbyDawn
2025-03-25 18:46:20 +0000 UTCLooks like the upload is corrupted, Resties/Besties :( cuts out around 47:10 on here and on my podcast app
Ben Kennedy
2025-03-25 17:25:25 +0000 UTCI find that the only types of games I really enjoy playing on mobile are puzzle games. E.g. NYT's daily games, sudoku, nongrams, etc. My suggestion is actually by Zach Gage (who got a shoutout this episode), puzzmo.com! There's no app but the website is a progressive web application meaning when you save it to your homescreen it behaves like a proper app. It's a relatively cheap subscription but I've found it to be a suitable replacement for my NYT Games subscription. I like the crosswords in particular, they are sized between a standard 15x15 crossword and a mini 5x5 and the clues are often more interesting, personal, funny, and trend towards a younger/nerdier audience than NYT (e.g., a crossword back in January was entirely themed around Spelunky). They also have a hints system so if you're stuck, you don't need to "cheat" by googling.
Ben
2025-03-25 17:24:40 +0000 UTCSame here
Your Friendly Neighborhood Astrophysicist
2025-03-25 17:23:34 +0000 UTCDitto.
Leo
2025-03-25 16:51:50 +0000 UTCY’all, New York Giraffe is now canon in Mets lore: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/Kpupq3eczx
Kyle Keller
2025-03-25 16:45:22 +0000 UTCSame here…
Andy Lewis
2025-03-25 16:26:23 +0000 UTC@Russ you can now run UFO50 on android in the same way as postmaster (with your own game files) https://github.com/Skyline969/UFO50AndroidUnofficial I play on my Odin 2 but the RP5 I think you have would also work great
Phillip Cunliffe
2025-03-25 16:06:34 +0000 UTCSame issue!
Brannon Hoff
2025-03-25 15:34:37 +0000 UTCAlso for me. Tried redownloading, same problem
Kormakur Gardarsson
2025-03-25 14:53:27 +0000 UTCSame, always on the kids side, even tho I was raised the opposite way it sounds. Parents let me watch saw movies, play Dead Frontier (zombie MMORPG, check it out!), read asoiaf in elementary / early middle school. Consequently, I could trust in them and speak openly, and grow my own sense of independence, responsibility, and boundaries (I'm still a wimp for horror videogames). My friends with controlling/extremely careful parents don't let their parents help them grow thru their 20s now. Other than arachnophobia from seeing the big spiders in LOTR and Harry Potter, I'm not forever traumatized lol.
soapy hiss
2025-03-25 14:20:24 +0000 UTCI recently picked up Poinpy and man, what a game. Really feels like if Downwell had a control scheme that made sense for touch screens.
Devin White
2025-03-25 14:12:32 +0000 UTCI don’t know why but when you were discussing what directors you would like to see adapt a video game to film, my mind went straight to Yorgos Lanthimos and the absolutely wild adaptation he could make of The Curse of the Golden Idol 😵💫
greyandgory
2025-03-25 14:10:48 +0000 UTCIf some modding is allowed, the only answer for me is Minecraft. It can feel like outside, it has the compelling progression gameplay loop stuff, and it allows you to take on effectively infinitely large and complex construction projects.
Goositrous
2025-03-25 14:02:02 +0000 UTCI always either pick Dark Souls II or New Vegas for these things, but this time I am going to shake it up and say MOUNT AND BLADE: WARBAND. I do think the image of someone (well, myself) playing a Strategy/Action-RPG with hard-line mechanics like M&B on a ornate wooden desk with its clawfooted legs submerged to its ankles in the sand of the beach of a tropical isle would be quite the aesthetic. Plus that game is near indestructible bug-wise, and the ones it does have won't nuke your play file from orbit on a whim.
Casey Francis Alger
2025-03-25 13:46:24 +0000 UTCIt is no longer as true, but for a while I called Hoplite "The only good mobile game." There was one challenge I was banging my head against for days and it was such a relief when I finally finished it.
Andrew
2025-03-25 12:54:57 +0000 UTCWhenever the subject of the age appropriateness of games for kids comes up, my knee jerk reaction is to side with the kids. When I was a kid, my parents didn’t want me to play “violent” games, and were particularly sensitive to gun violence. I distinctly remember them absolutely freaking out about the horrors I had witnessed when I borrowed Turok 64 without their knowledge. I also remember feeling, though I lacked the vocabulary to express, that it was a silly, arbitrary thing to worry about. It’s a game, the guns are a game mechanic, I know the difference. They had projected in to me a level of sensitivity and I guess corruptibilty that even at a young age didn’t exist. I’m sure my feelings on this are informed by the fact that I’m not a parent, but are we really sure kids can’t be trusted to engage with (very broadly within reason) whatever games they want?
Goositrous
2025-03-25 12:10:46 +0000 UTCYou guys absolutely clocked it, my question is 100% because of all the time I spent playing Animal Crossing during lockdown and fantasizing about the sound of stepping on grass. I think my answer to this is Baldur’s Gate 3, which has the benefits of being very long, replayable, people seem to be invested in the characters, AND I haven’t played it yet, so it would stay fresh longer. (This is also a gamble, because it could just not click with me.) I think the Sims/simlike games might be the real correct answer, though.
Emily Coleman
2025-03-25 11:49:11 +0000 UTCSame ☹️
Patrick Riney
2025-03-25 11:06:21 +0000 UTCYep, unfortunately so.
Derelict Anus
2025-03-25 10:32:32 +0000 UTCInto the Breach…it didn’t click with me the first few times I tried it but I really wanted to take advantage of my Netflix subscription so I gave it another go.
SlimLeaper
2025-03-25 10:30:33 +0000 UTCSame issue here 47:11ish
Evan
2025-03-25 09:55:27 +0000 UTCFor me, too 😕
Allan Thomaz Stiubiener
2025-03-25 09:38:09 +0000 UTCIt's broken for me too at the same place
SoZettaSlow
2025-03-25 08:50:50 +0000 UTCDitttoooo
Halophyte
2025-03-25 06:03:05 +0000 UTCis it just me or does the podcast drop out at about 47:13 ?
anna gundlach
2025-03-25 05:55:25 +0000 UTCre: roblox, some ad blockers (e.g. ublock origin) have "element pickers" - i.e. you can block certain bits of websites every time you visit them. i use it to hide the youtube shorts recs in my subscriptions, i'm sure it can be used to hide most everything about roblox that isn't just the main game
Kit Geraghty
2025-03-25 05:11:44 +0000 UTCI've recently been playing "Forgotton Anne" and am absolutely smitten by it so far. It's an open-world Platformer Adventure game available on all of the things—Android, iOS, Steam, Switch, and so on—and if its gorgeous hand-drawn Ghibli-esque art and animation don't get you in the door, its narrative, puzzles, characters and world will get you there. And yes, I intentionally described it as a "Platformer Adventure" rather than a Metroidva... err, "Search Action" game— it's an Adventure game through-and-through which the player just happens to interface with via platformer mechanics. Note: I'm mainly playing it on my Retroid Pocket 5 with physical controls, but the touch controls seem solid from what I've tested.
Braden Roy
2025-03-25 05:00:55 +0000 UTCUFO 50. It's designed for this
rylander
2025-03-25 04:53:53 +0000 UTCHoplite is an evergreen favorite of mine. Simple and complex, with hundreds of challenges to be had.
Mark Smith
2025-03-25 04:42:28 +0000 UTCMobile game: (apart from Balatro!), an earlier Besties recommendation I keep going back to is "Slice and Dice". Each run is a series of combat encounters with randomised enemies vs your party. Everything determined by dice roll. Fun, quick, hugely varied and a f#$%-ton of challenges, modes and unlocks! Big plus as a mobile game- works in either portrait or landscape
Nick Fielding
2025-03-25 04:41:16 +0000 UTCIf an online game was allowed then my immediate answer was definitely going to be Deep Rock Galactic. I continue to return to it for every new season or holiday event, and every time I do, I am once again utterly delighted by every moment with that game. But if I had to pick an offline game, it's gotta be Hades. I was just thinking recently that despite the 250+ hours I've sunk into it, I've only ever used one save slot. A fresh playthrough is starting to sound really appealing. Seeing the characters' introductions again, getting to experience those relationships from the start, and revisiting those earlier moments throughout the main story whole knowing where things ultimately go just seems like it must be a great feeling.
BucklingSwashes
2025-03-25 04:24:55 +0000 UTC
