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This is one of the main reasons I use Kagi. I have sites like fandom and fextralife blocked in my search results.
One of the things I miss about early internet years was all the independent fan sites and forums people had. Now, so much is just posted to these garbage platforms that control everything.
The article might as well be “Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because We Have a Vested Interest In Selling Steam Decks” just as Apple isn’t porting iMessage (and other apps) to Android because they have a vested interest in selling iPhones.
I’m all for games being as cross-platform as possible, but considering how Apple doesn’t offer apps such as iMessage, Facetime, etc. on other platforms, I’m less sympathetic to them for this.
Apple users chose a famously closed ecosystem, so they shouldn’t be surprised when some things aren’t available to them.
I’ll recommend a few from different genres:
- Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (later FE games also allowed the player to choose between male and female)
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (or Bloodstained: RotN for a newer, but aging, game)
- A Hat In Time (not sure if this is really that old but it’s an amazing platformed)
- any Touhou game
- Life Is Strange (again, not sure if you’d consider this old)