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An average person would be amazed by the fact most of apps he is using actually work perfectly without Play Services, despite the fact almost all of them declare Play Services in their manifests as absolutely required.

This stay true even for the games, although some functions like in-game purchases and 'social' things may not work.

> "although some functions like in-game purchases and 'social' things may not work."

Some may even consider that a feature.

No in-game purchases is a dealbreaker but if they are available from the Amazon store that would solve that issue. In-app purchases are way cheaper on Amazon since you can just buy $500 of coins at once and get a significant discount.

I used LineageOS with microg on my Nexus 5x for a long time, and it mostly worked. With Magisk Hide I could use my bank apps. But I never got Lyft, Uber, or Bird to work properly.

Have you tried the Uber PWA? It should work with Mozilla's location API (which microg uses).

For that you want microG: https://microg.org/

Works fine for me.