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Stick Ranger! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.danball.stickranger&hl=en
It's a bit strange and you might want the wiki, but there's nothing like having a boxer punch 20 times a second with each punch releasing an AoE shockwave that steals health, while covered by an archer who fires 11 homing arrows that explode.
The game I mentioned in the OP actually comes as a mobile game. Link [<strong>here</strong>]
In fact, most crafting systems across all platforms work similarly to the way I described. It's the most common variety AFAIK. If you check any of them out, I think you'll find that in practice, it's not really inconvenient to manually add ingredients and that sort of thing. It's ordinary and expected IME.
Obviously I don't know the limitations you're working with, though. Maybe such a thing is indeed impossible given your dev tools.
Stick Ranger. It may have sub-adequate graphics, but the game itself is very fun. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.danball.stickranger
Was it Stick Ranger?