[bdw5204]

A good heuristic for determining whether a game is worth your time is to determine if the game will provide the same experience regardless of when you play it. If the answer is no, the game probably isn't worth your time and you probably shouldn't be playing it.

Features that require you to play a game n days in a row or that require you to play a game at certain times of the day or that require you to stop playing the game and come back the next day are red flags in terms of the game being low quality because there's no need to exploit people's FOMO if you've actually created a good work of art that stands on its own merits.

I also more or less completely ignore phones as gaming platforms. Those platforms have such bad reputations that a game (that isn't a port of a retro classic like the early Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy or Grand Theft Auto games) even being available on them tends to be a red flag that it is a low quality game. There's no reason why good games can't be released on iOS or Android but generally speaking they aren't because of the stigma that those platforms have due to all of the "free-to-play" garbage that has been released on them over the years.

[yCombLinks]

I disagree with this in the sense that some games are only relevant when they are new, due to online play. I've played some great games for a year or however long until everyone moved on that I consider worth the experience.