What is Reddit's opinion of The Simpsons™: Tapped Out?

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For years now I've been occasionally returning to The Simpsons: Tapped Out. I have absolutely no idea why. For the three people who haven't heard of it, it's a complete waste of time based around the idea of building your own version of Springfield, with the occasional barely functional minigame, masses of items exclusive to real-money transactions and writing that sounds like a teenager's mediocre fan-fiction. There are almost always events on the go, and each one comes with its own set of distractions that tend to get in the way of the usual activities. It is made by EA and therefore has loot boxes for you to gamble away your life savings on and turn them into useless decorations. Occasionally you get one for free and my most recent prize, a golden mansion, came complete with a storyline that mocked me for spending real money (keep dreaming EA). Still, I've been visiting my personalized Springfield once a day for the last week and have been mildly entertained at EA's expense.

I don't yet know what to make of Mixee Labs. At its core, it's just a runner with a large selection of playable characters. Each character has its own gimmick and play style, and you're tasked with completing a run to obtain three stars with each one. It's how you unlock these characters that's somewhat unique. You purchase, using gold that you've collected from playing the game, "essences". Two essences can be mixed together to create a new character or "mixee". The few that I've unlocked so far have been pretty bizarre, bearing hardly any relation to the items of junk that I mixed to produce them. Once you begin to see through this process, which really is just another way of handing a random character to you, it becomes a game about collecting things and it's nice to have a collection game where the items aren't just useless jpegs in disguise. Coins can be obtained through optional adverts.

Mixee Labs reminded me of a handful of other games, one of which was an old favourite that made its way back onto my device. Crash of Cars is an online multiplayer car game where you fight over coins using a selection of weapons that unlock as you progress through its level system. Unlocking a weapon doesn't actually equip it to your vehicle, but instead means that you'll begin to find it available as a temporary pickup whenever you play. Cars are unlocked by buying what are effectively loot boxes with gold earned in-game. Like other games in the genre, the actual payout from a single game would prompt a Chinese factory worker to unionise, and you'll get the majority of your loot from watching adverts, pretending to share screenshots (nobody actually shares these things, right?) and opening time-gated free gifts. There's been a few new features since I last played such as a load of new maps to fight on, daily missions, the addition of private matches and the ability to actually choose which map to play. It'll try to part you with your real-life dosh to get more loot, and as winning duplicates of your already owned vehicles upgrades them, there's a pay-to-win mechanic in there of sorts, but as you can quickly just start up another game at any time and without any kind of energy system it doesn't make a massive amount of difference if you got instantly slaughtered or not.

hello this game might help you https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ea.game.simpsons4_row

It's possible that what you are looking for is not actually an incremental game, well, at least not a conventional one.

There is a big subset of [mobile] games where you log in, buy upgrades and wait for them to build. VERY idle, no ascensions.

I'm not a big fan of such games myself(I like resets and active playing), so won't be able to point you to the best ones, but it's something like The Simpsons: Tapped Out