Final fantasy tactics

Advance Wars series

I’ve been replaying Link’s Awakening on my phone using a gbc emulator, you could try that. I’ve also just found Winlator so I might start also playing Sam and Max, you might see if those point you in any directions.

+1 towards turn-based games for your commute, keeps it easy to still be engaged with everything around you so you don’t miss a stop or something. i really love the Mystery Dungeon games, which are roguelikes in the literal sense that they’re procedurally generated dungeon crawlers where you start from scratch (or scratch-ish depending on how beginner friendly the title) when you die. the pokémon spinoffs are the most well known but there have been a lot of crossovers with other series as well as a line of completely original games called Shiren the Wanderer

i also have to mention Densha De Go, not because they would be particularly feasible but c’mon. don’t you wanna drive a train while riding a train? it’s real-er than VR!

Removed by mod

I just did a playthrough of Earthbound on my retro handheld that had the Maternalbound rom hack installed. It’s a cliche choice but super wonderful none the less

DOS emulator with classic ADoM

Arcade:

Bank panic

Black Tiger

Wardner

The Speed Rumbler

Wonderboy in Monsterland

All 9 or 10 out of 10s.

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But yeah, set a timer-alarm to finish gaming 5min before your stop.

Chrono Trigger. It’s known as the best turn based RPG ever.

Devil Dice on Playstation

Picross 3D

Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure

RYMDKAPSEL on Android isn’t retro but has very simple graphics and feels as hard as a lot of retro games do

gonna throw out my favorite. shadowrun on the genesis. can’t save at any point like while under attack or in the middle of a matrix run but you can save often and it works out good.