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Comment by sspiff | Hacker News Reader

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.

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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/)

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

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.

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.

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.

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