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The only computer access I have right now are my phone and a tablet. I went looking to see if there are any good games, and I can't find any. I have Warlight, which is awesome, but it is more like a board game than video game, and I need another option.

I thought I scored when I found xcom, but it suffers from the same problem that the desktop versions do. It hides a potentially good game inside an unusable interface. They focused so much on trying to make it look good that they sacrificed useability. Units get lost in the scenery etc.

Anything else I saw that looked like it had potential came with in game purchases.

I am also not interested in multi-player or online games.

Please, can someone recommend a good single player game with no in game purchases? I am willing to pay for the game, but not the continuing pay to win bullshit.

I like strategy games best, but am pretty open to anything.
The only computer access I have right now are my phone and a tablet. I went looking to see if there are any good games, and I can't find any. I have Warlight, which is awesome, but it is more like a board game than video game, and I need another option. I thought I scored when I found xcom, but it suffers from the same problem that the desktop versions do. It hides a potentially good game inside an unusable interface. They focused so much on trying to make it look good that they sacrificed useability. Units get lost in the scenery etc. Anything else I saw that looked like it had potential came with in game purchases. I am also not interested in multi-player or online games. Please, can someone recommend a good single player game with no in game purchases? I am willing to pay for the game, but not the continuing pay to win bullshit. I like strategy games best, but am pretty open to anything.

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[–] jobes 2 points (+2|-0)

Plague Inc. is just a Pandemic 2 clone, right? I loved Pandemic, but it has some serious flaws (Madagascar and Greenland to name them)
[–] TheRedArmy 1 points (+1|-0)

I'm only familiar with the board game Pandemic, which is basically the opposite of this game (save the world from disease instead of kill everyone); I have no idea how similar Plague Inc. is to either of those. My impression was that Plague Inc. was the first such game of this type, although that could be wrong.

Greenland was the hard bit for me, personally. Once you get the strategy down, though, it's handle-able. Virus was hard, as I recall, but I did eventually beat the game with it. I think Zombies were the only one I couldn't beat the game with - too noticeable too early; humans get alerted earlier than they should.
[–] jobes 1 points (+1|-0)

Pandemic 2 was a flash game from 2008 that was the first I know about with that premise. It got national news coverage for being a controversial game. No zombies, but you chose whether to be a virus, bacteria or parasite.
[–] TheRedArmy 1 points (+1|-0)

If it's from 2008, it seems likely that Plague, Inc. is based on it. It had those forms of plagues, but also prions, fungi, and 3-5 other things. Details escape me now.

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