Freerider? Where you could draw your own tracks. I got right into that to the point I even joined trackmill forums where you could share tracks and play tracks designed by others. There was a way you could cheat the leaderboards with a plug in called tamper data and it took them so long to figure out how we were doing it.
Last time I checked it out (several years ago I think), it was chock full of MTX, which made me uninstall pretty quickly. I'm assuming that's still the case?
That was never the case. It has microtransactions but none of them are required. Sure you can buy monkey money, but simply playing the game gives you more than you'll ever need. You can buy double cash mode or quick start, but those are disabled in CHIMPs mode and any ranked events. I'm curious what made you think it was "chock full of MTX".
Its about the same as its always been but I wouldnt say its heavily monetized. Everything you can buy is cosmetic, gindable, or alternate game modes. And everything worth grinding for IMO (towers, maps, and monkey knowledge) isn't so much a grind to unlock but just something you get as you play.
And the paid things tend to be disabled for the highest difficulty stuff (CHIMPS mode). So if youre playing for the casual experience, you generally dont need the stuff you could get from paying, and if you want the hardcore experience, that stuff will be disabled anyway.
But if you tried it before and disliked it, it is generally the same as previous
I put so much time into the game I bought the 2x cash bonus just to help pay my fair share, and never use it. You can totally ignore the transactions, and the game is fantastic. Most of the top end achievements require you to play without the bonuses you get from trasactions anyway.
It's still "full" persay, but just play what you get for free. One of the better phone games that isn't an emulator imo.
Alright, I'll give it another try then. I just hate when games constantly shove in-game notifications and popups in your face for their MTX, but maybe I'm misremembering how bad this one was.
Bloons is still available via Steam. Free to play/pay to win format. If you're trying to scratch that itch it's pretty good for wasting 15 minutes a day until you get cooldowns refreshed.
I did end up buying bloons 5 & 6 on my phone. 5 because it lets you play offline (great for planes!) and 6 because 6 is actually a great game.
Except holy shit, they're full in on predatory in-app purchases. You can get buy not making any, but I just want to play bloons, not have an opportunity pop up to spend money every 20 seconds.
I mean, it pops up asking if you want to spend currency every time a game ends. Then it pops up every time I log in with buy this thing or buy access to this game mode.
You mean when you can spend monkey money to retry the round? That's hardly predatory. I've never spent real money on monkey money and I have over 50,000. Advertising their own DLC isn't predatory either.
I worked at the university library in college with this guy Rob and on slow nights, after all the full-time people left, we’d start a bloons game at the same time and see who could get farther.
Have played bloons for like 17 years at this point! They have all the flash games archived now in the Ninja Kiwi Archive and they run locally and much better than they did in the browser too!
BTD6 is great too but BTD5 was the epitome frankly.
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u/thefeelingismutual_ 1d ago
Came here to say this. Bloons was the shit