Thanks for the heads up. Since this is a user-recommendation list and I haven’t played the vast majority of these games (I merely double check on the surface, Google, Perplexity), just a question before I delist the game:

• have you been playing the game yourself to the point you reached a pay wall?

If yes, consider the game nuked.

I tried playing the game a bit, but some puzzles aren’t too quick to solve so I haven’t met any paywall yet.

Added to the “Netflix games” section. Thanks :)

So, I checked those games:

• Zombotron contains ads so I moved it to a bottom, hidden section for games with minimal ads/IAPs

• Dock The Rocket added IAPs, so same as above

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon has two entries in my list, and both match criteria. One is from the Play Store and has optional IAP for donations only—see rule #3 of criteria. The other entry is a link to the game in F-droid, so no ads or IAPs.

Thanks for reporting this. Some games start free without ads or IAPs, then devs add them later on. I don’t blame them, as that’s their work and people must eat, but I’ll double check the games you mentioned and remove them if they don’t match entry criteria any longer.

Oh bother! I’ll add that one too XD

No problem mate. No need to remove any suggestion next time! I’m keeping strict rules for my list, but lots of users are OK with some extra, optional IAPs so it might be useful to them :)

Apparently there’s also some in-game currency (candy packs) that can be infinitely purchased through microtransactions, so it breaks rule #2 of entry criteria—the only IAPs allowed are ads removal, full game unlock, and proper DLCs.

That’s why I laugh when people say they voted in someone rich because he/she is already loaded so don’t want more money–thinking they’ll do the people’s interest now, rather than their own.

The richer, the greedier.

Fixed it with your link. Thank you ;)

Added under the Management category (I think it’s the most fitting of those in the list?)

Thanks!

Added now. Thank you!

I don’t play idle, but in my premium games list some users suggested Magic Research and Magic Research 2—pretty much the only games in my idle section. They’re both paid, but it’s an upfront, one-time payment :)

Here’s Magic Research 2 Demo so you can try for free.

Thanks :)

I do, for premium paid games: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/40095654

I don’t have a list for free games with optional/cosmetic IAPs, however

@ijeff@lemdro.id you can unpin the old list and pin this one. Thank you!

That’s like paying $30 for normal people.

Or less, as I considered a Q1 with a monthly salary of $3000. If your salary is lower than that—like mine is—then the fine would be worth less than $30.

Google must be like “you sure that’s enough for you? I mean, we made BILLIONS with that data we stole afterall lol”

Just a heads up. I’m the OP of this list but the account I used for it is now lost as lemm.ee was shut down on June 30th. Therefore, this post can’t be updated any longer, and it can’t be linked to…

However, I made this new, identical account (on tchncs) and will re-upload the list on lemdro.id. So, if you want, I’d recommend unpinning this old list and pinning the new one, which will be identical for now but at least I can update in the future, and I can link it.

Cheers!