Sorry for taking so long to reply. I'm just in my assessment block at the moment & didn't have a chance to check here. until now. Next week I have my first exam plus the assignment I'm working on is due. Yelp. xD
Yea I have yet to encounter any games on the app store that are not cash-grabs. The one's I do encounter usually have a bunch of ads instead. A friend had me get GoW & gosh now that's a real pay to win game. If you spent money you grow power like it's almost nothing. Not enjoyable when you're a F2P, but I play it to keep my friend happy. She spend over a $100 on the game and is now up to 100 billion power. Then there's me who is only on 8 million. To compare: 100 000 000 000 vs 8 000 000 (I have no hope, that 8M took me over a month to get) xD
Anyway I enjoy playing games like GoW (but I kind of hate GoW itself - it bores me just looking at it) such as Lords Mobile (like the colours, heroes, & I have good, fun guildmates who sometimes ask me to try out other games with them), and Oceans & Empires (not so much, a friend suggested it, but i do find the Alliance cities in this one pretty cool). But you'll find me chatting more than actually trying to gain might or power. I guess I enjoy being a part of an actual guild and pretending to act superior (All you have to do is write formally & people think you're an experienced and smart player). But yea, I guess all games become cash-grabs eventually. If they don't, they'll be filled with ads. How else will they make money?
I also like some virtual games. Zeon was so far the best in terms of gameplay but the community on there is terrible. The quests, the dungeons & the controls are amazing, but what really hit me is he romance stuff which really is a bit too much and probably why the community might seem so corrupt. Idk. Just stay out of Global/All Chat.
I think so far good simple games that are not so much cash-grabs are Clash of Clans & Clash Royale. They still have in-app purchases, etc. but at least the players who do buy stuff don't get so powerful they smash everyone who doesn't have the money for it. Otherwise yea I have yet to encounter an app that does not demand money & is still very enjoyable to play. Not so good with Clash of Clans is that it does have waiting times, meanwhile with Clash Royale, there are no waiting times but it's pretty basic. Out of the two I like Clash Royale more as just a basic game where you don't really have to have the best cards to win, as it's based mostly on strategy and how you use the cards you have. Another downfall for these two games though is that it's hard to find a good clan/guild & stay in it.
I haven't played mini metro, nor Agar.io, but have heard of them. At one point I was about to install Agar.io but didn't really end up doing it since I was trying to limit the amount of mobile games on my iPod.
Um yea... Can see that after all this time I'm still playing the same games with the extra addition of Oceans & Empires. Anyway what PC games do you like? I haven't really played a lot of PC ones other than Kongregate (& other arcade websites), G-Mod, Minecraft, WoW & Roblox (Maybe a couple others... I can't remember).
(And is Vyx still doing that ProBoards Forum Roleplay?) ^^