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.
It’s updating Android that caused this issue… this is not the solution.
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.
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.
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.
I think it’s the other way around, the games i play are “old” while my OS and system apps are “up to date”.
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.
