I own a Moto G8 Play (with Android 10 installed), and i noticed that over the last months i haven’t been able to play or install various games that i purchased on this very phone (and also games on which i had made in-app purchases).

Some of the games in question are:

  • The King of Fighters '97

  • Lara Croft: Relic Run

  • Asphalt Nitro

Is there any solution for this?

  • Saik0A
    20·
    1 year ago

    It’s updating Android that caused this issue… this is not the solution.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      Do you use a custom ROM of some kind or stock Android?

      It’s rather unlikely, that an update caused these games to be unsupported, rather your device/os are simply deemed “too old” by these games.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
        17·
        1 year ago

        No, he’s right. Updating the OS sometimes makes software that hasn’t updated show up as being “unsupported on your device” specifically due to the APP being too old, not the OS being too old. It’s bullshit.

        The apps work most of the time, but the Play Store won’t let you download/install it. You need to go find the .APK and manually install it.

        • Saik0AEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          Yup this is it…

          Starting from 1 Nov 2022, apps that don’t target an API level within two years of the latest Android release (API 29 and below) won’t be available to new users with devices running Android versions newer than your app’s target API level. This means that new users won’t be able to discover or install your app on Google Play

          So if the app is older than 2 years… and hasn’t been updated to say it supports the API level your phone is on, it will not appear available for you in the play store. Most of the time, the APK still works fine… The app developer just doesn’t support the app anymore and thus hasn’t updated the arbitrary checkbox for the playstore. On one hand, if it still shows up in the play store you know the app dev is at least “around”… On the other hand… it doesn’t make sense to keep updating an app that doesn’t need updates.

      • Granixo@feddit.clOP
        6·
        1 year ago

        I think it’s the other way around, the games i play are “old” while my OS and system apps are “up to date”.

      • gk99@beehaw.org
        5·
        1 year ago

        My phone literally won’t let me download Doom (1993) of all games because “this app was built for an older version of Android.”

        I have a Galaxy S22 Ultra, no custom OS changes.

      • immortaly007@feddit.nl
        2·
        1 year ago

        I do see the other way around as well. So the games don’t get updated and then don’t support newer versions of Android. I see the same with RCT Classic.