Pixel Dungeon

Unfortunately, I don't know that too many players experience similar issues. I could see it being a problem if you play when you're on public transit, or if kids or others are around bumping into you, but it seems not common enough to warrant much attention. So I doubt this would become a baked-in feature.

That being said, the game is open source, so if you or someone you know is tech-savvy, it likely wouldn't be too hard to implement. If it's done well, Evan might even accept a PR.

For whatever it’s worth, I’ve been playing a lot for ~8 years on various iPhones and I very rarely have this problem. It only happens in pretty extreme circumstances: in the shower if water splashes on the screen and I don’t dry it off, if I’ve been dremeling metal that day (even invisible amounts of metal dust on the screen totally screw up the sensitivity), or I’m very drunk and too lazy to zoom in for important stuff.

Maybe you know why these things are happening to you (bumpy car rides? playing in the pool?, shaky hands?), if so disregard me. If not, it’s odd that this is happening to you so often.

Edit: now that I think about it, the attack button disappearing after the enemy is dead does piss me off. I’ll got tap-tap-tap-tap to kill them and then it runs me somewhere weird in the bottom right corner. I tend to avoid the button entirely or zoom out so the attack button is above an unexplored area if I’m farming.

Have you tried increasing the interface scale? Looks pretty small on your device, it's not going to fix the problem if you really can't play with a bigger scale tho.

I agree 100%. I have died a lot from misapplying... Recently nearly died several times from eyes and scorpions from mistapping. Once mistapped on grim trap. My phone isn't the best but I don't think it should exclude people with old phones. And agree about this excluding people you have motor control issues that will struggle with this more. The suggestion for a 'confirm movement' UI option is a good idea.

Since the game is rounds-based, there's no time pressure. So why do you click at times when not in control? Or is this about a motor disability?

Also, do you know you can zoom with two fingers?

Like, I die a lot too and quite often I want an Undo button. But it's not because I am somehow forced to click.

This game pairs perfectly with a galaxy note or one of the last few s2x ultra phones. The s pen works flawlessly with the game and you can even hover the s pen over an item to make its name pop up.

The quick slot bar needs a rework. I want like 8 or 9 slots. The 6 limit just isn't enough. But then it needs to be reworked to make that number usable.

My phone is so damn tall that I think having two rows of slots would be fine. And the gap should be eliminated. I understand how people who play in landscape orientation wouldn't want that, though.

I wonder if a horizontal scrolling quick slot bar would work.

(Yes, I know you can long press the backpack for a huge quick menu, but that's too huge, and everything runs together. Maybe if the items were grouped by type with space in between it would be better. Plus the long press honestly takes too long.)

I have rarely mistapped, but it hasn't really been enough to be an issue (with me, it's usually mistargeting a wand by a square). I don't think I've ever had a zoom turn into a tap. That might be just the touchscreen in question.

So, couple things you can maybe do.

You could use a device less-prone to it. I assume that you don't want to get a new device just to play SPD (though I can imagine that if you get mistaps in SPD, there might be other apps where it's also frustrating).

You can try cleaning the device screen. Probably won't help, but won't hurt much either. It'd be the first thing I'd try.

You can tap to interrupt movement. That's not gonna help if even one step is enough to do you in, though.

You can use a USB or Bluetooth pointing device, like a mouse or trackball, if you are willing to carry them.

You can use an attached USB touchscreen, if you are willing to carry one. That will have different touch detection hardware and can be larger, easier to avoid mistaps in gaps.

You can use a USB or Bluetooth keyboard, if you're willing to carry one. There are some small, folding keyboards the size of a smartphone, and they provide some perks, like the ability to do reasonable text entry. That has a physical key for search, and quickslot hotkeys. I don't know whether there is (currently) a keyboard binding for zooming and panning other than default zoom, going off the wiki keybindings page:

https://pixeldungeon.fandom.com/wiki/User_interface

If you also have a laptop and are willing to carry one, you can play there (and it has some nice perks, like physical keys). SPD is not a terribly resource-intensive game, and a used laptop can be had on eBay fairly inexpensively -- it doesn't need latest-and-greatest hardware.

It might be possible for developers to change the SPD interface to deal better with touchscreens that are a little twitchy (maybe have an alternate zoom method?), but I don't know if there's going to be a fantastic solution...confirming each move is gonna be agonizing. Right now, the only option is to adjust interface scale (which might help with mistaps hitting the gap). You can also reposition the toolbar -- I don't know if that helps with mistaps in the gap for you at all.

EDIT: Touchscreens work via capacitance, so how moist your fingers are is a factor. My phone has impressed me with how well it works even when my fingers are outright wet (though not as well as if I dry them), like with condensation from a drink, but according to this, for people with dry hands, this can be an issue:

https://www.macintoshhowto.com/iphone/ipod-or-iphone-difficulties-with-dry-fingers.html?amp=1

Some people have difficulty controlling the touchscreen on an iPad or iPhone with their fingers, especially older people.  The iPhone touch sensitive screen works on capacitance and it does not respond well to dry fingers.

Older people tend to have dryer fingers. Often they have to press the touchscreen on the iPhone very hard and I have met one or two people where their iPhone or iPad will not respond to their fingers at all. Thankfully there is a very simple solution.  Simply Moisturise your hands with a water-based moisturiser!  I find “MooGoo” to be particularly good.

I've never done that, but I suppose it might be worth a shot -- or, if you're in a very damp environment, getting condensation on the screen or something, could try wiping the screen or fingers dry with a shirt.