Ohh right, you never put the loot on your ship. That makes sense

I’m missing the part where you got your loot back.

Also, if you’re a 2 man galleon, that’s on you lol.

It is indeed

I liked egg inc for a while, if you’re looking for clicker type games.

Other than that I can recommend

• Stardew Valley
• Peglin
• Sudoku
• Nanograms
• Dungeon Village 1 & 2

Multiple of these are paid, but I’m 100% on board with paying a small amount for an app rather than paying a multiple of that for in-game Battlepasses and whatevers.

It annoys me a lot to say this, but Netflix has some excellent games in their roster. So if you have a Netflix subscription, check those out. I personally very much enjoyed

• Storyteller
• Into the Breach

But they also have ports of some very good PC games like Spiritfarer, Terra Nil or World of Goo.

Whelp - I feel like you’re overestimating how much money people donate.
I’ve got a website service that I offer for free with a Kofi tip jar - I got less than 20€ over the past 3 years that is was online. Which doesn’t even cover domain costs.

Sure it’s very much not in your face and it isn’t meant to be, plus being only one anecdotal point of reference, but that’s just my experience with that.

Understandably - as a developer you need to pay money to keep your apps listed on the Apple store - even if they’re free apps. So just to recoup those losses you almost have to put in ads or subscriptions.