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:
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The King of Fighters '97
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Lara Croft: Relic Run
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Asphalt Nitro
Is there any solution for this?
You can try loading the Aurora Store, setting it to spoof a different device. I’m not sure if it’ll work, but its a no cost test.
There are also some G8 LineageOS ports which (if applicable) would upgrade you to Android 11. That’s a lot of effort for a few games though.
Yes, update android.
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.
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.
I can confirm that upgrading to a newer Android version or device made some apps become unsupported and required using Aurora store to spoof an older device to retrieve. Some apps just won’t show up anymore on the play store if seen through the newer device.
