I just found a small game called "Synthetic Cube" in the app store. It's only 5.0 trillion! Yes, you read that right, it's 5 megabytes, not 5 gigabytes! At that time, I downloaded an update package for "Honor of Kings" and it was enough to install ten games. But guess what? With such an inconspicuous gadget, I held my phone in my hand all afternoon and almost forgot to pick up my child from school.
Seriously, brothers, when you open the app store now, the screen is full of "4K high-definition", "open world" and "starting at 100G". Downloading a game is like moving a new house. I remember when I got my first Famicom, the cassette was only a few tens of KB, and I could play Contra three times in one life without repeating it. Later, computer games only cost a few hundred MB. For the DOS version of Legend of Sword and Fairy, I saved eight slots just to watch Ling'er take a bath. Now, it's okay. A game installed on your phone can easily cost more than a dozen gigabytes. When you open it up and take a look - my dear, the face-shaping system is longer than the plot, and the map is big enough to run a marathon, but why do you feel sleepy while playing it?
This "Synthetic Cube" is much simpler. Drag a cube and touch it, and 9 will become 18, and 18 will become 36, just like magic. There are no stamina points, no card draws, no daily check-ins, and even advertisements are rare. My daughter came over and asked me what I was playing. I said it was the joy of your father's youth - minimalist, but addictive. She blinked and didn't understand. After all, her classmates were playing the kind of mobile game where "you start with a sword and all the equipment depends on krypton."
Sometimes I really feel that the gaming industry has gone astray. In the past, what we pursued was "fun", but now manufacturers pursue "how big". It seems that if the map does not span three continents, it is lazy, and if the image quality is not so high that every hair is visible, it is perfunctory. But if you look back, which one of Tetris, Snake and 2048 is pitifully small? Which one makes people unable to stop playing it?
The best thing about this game is the exhilarating feeling of "clicking". When two cubes hit each other, the number is doubled, and the sound effect is crisp, just like when you were a kid and won a prize by eating crispy noodles. There are no complicated tutorials, no master-apprentice system, no marriage system, and even the entrance to recharging money is well hidden. The developer, Nanjing Moxie Network Technology Co., Ltd., has a martial arts name and a Buddhist game.
I have nothing against masterpieces. Really, I also love watching the horse's balls shrink in “Red Dead Redemption”. But we have to admit that sometimes happiness has nothing to do with size. Just like eating hot pot, the one with a per capita of 500 and the one on the street with 30, as long as you have the right friends, it will be just as lively. This game is like that bowl of spicy hotpot on the street, which costs five yuan and comes with soy milk.
Finally, I would like to say something from my heart: Don't think that 5MB games are shabby. Back then, when we played Snake with a black and white screen, weren't we as happy as idiots? 😂 As for games, the smaller they are, the purer they are, and the bigger they are, the emptier they are. If you don't believe me, try it. Delete the "open world" that takes up 20GB on your phone and install this 5GB cube. On the subway during the morning rush hour tomorrow, you will come back and thank me.