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by Hermel 1481 days ago
That's the key!

The Play Store and the App Store do not even have a search filter for games without in-app purchases. I'm sure that is on purpose.

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Apple arcade seems to fulfill this function ( albeit subscription cost instead of in app purchases )
The trouble is that sometimes in-app purchases means the game is a demo, and you use the in app purchase to buy the full game. There are good games that follow this model that you’ll miss out on if you filter out in app purchases.
Perhaps they would stop doing that if such a filter existed in the first place.
Usually paid games don’t have in-app purchases. This site is also helpful: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
it would make sense to scrape the data, and create an alternative search engine with such filters imho...
Good point. I get upset with Hulu because they won’t distinguish ad-supported titles in their apps.