As a kid, I used to spend hours and hours on XCOM 2, Rome: Total War, and Alien: Isolation. One moment I'm frantically saving soldiers in XCOM, and five minutes later I switch to Total War where half the empire decided it's the perfect time for war. Then there was Alien: Isolation, which literally made me stop breathing every time I heard a xenomorph.
These games just stick in your mind, but over time you have less and less time to sit at your PC, so you start shifting gaming more to your mobile. Then one day nostalgia hits you. You see an old screenshot, a YouTube short, or a random gameplay clip and immediately feel the urge to reinstall half of your childhood library.
This happened to me recently. I started watching gameplay for Rome Total War out of nostalgia, and then I realized that abig amount of those PC classics actually exist on Android. These aren't shortened mobile versions but full games.
All of this is thanks to Feral Interactive, a studio that specializes in porting old PC and console hits to Android and iOS devices. Their catalog today includes games like XCOM, Total War, Tropico, Alien: Isolation, Company of Heroes, Tomb Raider, and many other.
The biggest surprise is how well the touchscreen controls actually work, especially in games like XCOM and Total War where you would expect complete chaos on a small screen.
You may not be able to get your childhood back, but at least you can lose 40 hours on Rome: Total War from the comfort of your bed.
You can check out the entire list of ported games on the Feral Interactive website.
