[sspiff]

Interesting.

My 5 year old sons favourite app on his Android tablet is ScummVM.

I bought all the Putt Putt, Freddy Fish, and Spy Fox games on Steam, and after copying the data files over to ScummVM on Android, my son has been enjoying them a lot.

I'd much prefer him spending his time with these rather than these toxic mobile games that target young kids with repetitive loops locked behind countdown timers and in app purchases.

[BSDobelix]

And in 5 years when your for example on a long roadtrip you can buy him "The Longest journey" (don't forget the HD patches https://tljhd.github.io/)

[hedora]

Those games are infinitely better than anything I could find in the app store, and the whole collection was (is?) $50.

[jurgenkesker]

Currently around that price indeed on Steam Sale, and lower if you only look for Spy Fox bundle or Put Put or whatever you want. Very nice.

[joshstrange]

I replayed all the Spy Fox games on my steam deck a few months ago, so much fun. Point and click isn’t great on the deck but it was manageable and the nostalgia made up for it.

[whazor]

They are also sold as games on the App Store, but I think they use an older version of ScummVM and it was really broken for us.

I am hoping some more iOS improvements/fixes could be done. These games are amazing (still are very funny to my 4yo!). I would like to see a bigger touch area and proper touch dragging support.

While I also think they don't make games like these anymore nowadays. Please comment below with examples to proof us wrong.