Here's my games folder:
Finding mobile games that aren't live service garbage is tough but at least a lot of good PC games just port to android.
Here's mine. Ignore the background.
Yep, there's a grass touching simulator. I mostly play Bus Simulator: Ultimate, though it gets my battery temperature to 55°C. Enough to hurt on fingers.
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Orna RPG! It's a GPS game like Pokemon Go with a classic RPG style, no pay to win options, a great community, and Devs who listen to feedback with regular updates.
Genuinely the best GPS game I've played by a long shot.
Stardew valley. Such a good game that plays great, especially on tablet.
I usually play on and off. My wife saw me playing and got it, now she's addicted. Our son saw that I had it on the switch too and started to play it this weekend. Now they are Stardew crackheads.
We've started it with my girlfriend, both on Android, and we're hooked. We're even considering buying the PC version for the multiplayer features.
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon: Fun, compact, traditional NetHack-esque roguelike
- Slice & Dice: Really cool dice-based risk-reward turn-based combat game
In addition to being good games, neither has any microtransactions, ads, or any of that BS, was happy to give the devs some money.
Probably shattered pixel dungeon
Rhythm games, especially Phigros and COXETA. I also like the mobile port of Portal Knights, even if it is inferior compared to the other versions, and the developers have dropped this port.
Baba is You
What's this one about?
Puzzle game where you push blocks around. Blocks with words can be pushed together to change game behavior. For example on a level with Baba, Is, and You blocks together let you control your character (your character is named Baba). But if you push a block that says Door in front of the Is and You blocks you will suddenly control the doors instead of Baba. It's a really cool concept and the levels get extremely imaginative. And also difficult
The only commercial Android game I regularly play is Wordscapes. It's an almost embarrassing level of enduring basic bitch addiction, I don't engage with any microtransaction bait, I have a systemwide ad blocker... and I love it.
Otherwise it's all Emulators and Open Source (covered well elsewhere in this thread).
Mine are bloons td 6, league of legends, and rocket league.
Lichess and Worldbox
Vampire Survivors. It makes my phone catch fire but it is fire
Open Sudoku and Endless Sky. ES saves the game as a text file. If you play it on PC and save a file the last line of the text file is the only difference. You can play the game on both and save back and forth. I only have FOSS apps. I don't have any google stuff at all. Both of these are from F-Droid.
Among us and started valley
I love starred valley
Stardew Valley, Xenowerk and Don't Starve Pocket Edition.
I keep coming back to Stardew. Such a fun game.
It has quickly become one of my favourite games when I started playing a few months back. I mainly play on PC with a few QoL mods, but I think it works great on a smart phone as well! Great game to have in your pocket! The only bad thing I've encountered on Android, is that the cursor in the menu does not become visible when you've a controller connected. It's there, but you can´t see it. Kinda annoying, but I could fix this by forcing it with a mod (I forgot which one, but I can look it up if you want). It's one of my favourite games to play when I just want to chill without thinking too much.
Lichess
Vampire Survivor. I love games that i can play offline.
Bloons TD 6
oh! is there a BTD6 community on lemmy yet?
the discussions, memes, and strats were interesting on the r/.
John gba lite with pokemon unbound rom.
My favourite Android game is Genshin Impact even though I only play it on PC... but hey it exists on Android 😬
Isle of Arrows. It's a tower defense game but there are also elements from board games and puzzles. And the visuals are really nice.
sling kong and smashy city r pretty cool games
Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Endless Sky, and Mindustry (especially that last one, which I haven't seen anybody else mention yet).
I get all my games from F-Droid, not any commercial app store.
Hero of Aethric
Slay the spire and Downwell (PC ports I guess), it's amazing how much the quality of mobile games is for games that are more than one dollar.
My favorite Android game has always been, and still is, OSMOS. It used to be in the play store. You can still get it on Android from Hemisphere. There's also iOS, Ipad, Steam (for Linux), OS X and Windows versions. I love this game so much I keep an ancient 7" pad with Marshmallow 6 offline just for it (Because I had the original on it - You don't need an ancient device).
It's a good while I don't hear about Osmos, it's a fun game.
Lots of good memories of Android humble bundles, playing Osmos and Eufloria. Too bad that program petered out
Hill Climb Racing 2. I don't really play much on my smartphone.
- Lichess - Parce que les échecs c'est trop bien
- Mindustry - Parce que le jeux est ultra bien fait et que la gestion de ressources c'est cool et reposant
- Slice & Dice - J'aime bien le fait que le jeux utilise les dés pour les attaques et la façon dont les personnages s'améliore
Translated: Lichess - Because chess is so good Mindustry - Because the game is very well done and resource management is cool and relaxing Slice & Dice - I like how the game uses dice for attacks and how the characters improve
... RetroArch.
Hah Not a android game directly but opens up multiple worlds of games for you... so truely a not bad contender
Age of History is a turn-based strategy war game. It's an addictive way to kill a few hours, and you can customize your game modes quite a lot.
Tap Ninja is pretty good as far as idle games go.
Melvor! Favorite idle game that has kept my attention for months (I usually lose interest in games in a few weeks).
For me, it's using emulation. I'm currently playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door from the GameCube, and there are very few android games that can match the quality of older AAA titles.
Plus, no microtransactions!
I like to play Lichess puzzles and chess.com puzzles.
Bit Life is pretty good.
I DO NOT SUPPORT CANDYWRITER. Play the original Instlife, the game the company Candywriter bought and deleted to destroy the competition. You being on Android you can grab an .apk file of it.
Instlife was developed by InstCoffee, a group of two indie game developers. Candywriter was at the time a 10 people company.
Instlife began development in 2016, and started gaining raising traction in 2017. BitLife was released for iOS only during the Instlife massive boom in popularity in 2018, while Instlife still had no iOS version. Bitlife gained steam thanks to a few dirty tactics (Instlife ran no ad campaigns and completely free, while Bitlife constantly spent on video ads on other games and websites and had a in-game barrier forcing people to share the game on Twitter if they wanted to have all features) and being the only game on iOS of its type it during the boom of course started doing numbers.
For every Instlife update, Bitlife would come 1 week later with the exact same feature as a carbon copy. (With Instlife gone, Bitlife actually diverged heavily from the original concept).
When Instlife began making and distributing its iOS version, Bitlife started losing players moving to the original and at the time much more complete and polished game. Not too long after the iOS release, Candywriter bought full rights to Instlife (the amount of money was never disclosured, but the acquisition was confirmed by both parties). It lasted a week under the new ownership, where it then got silently removed from both Play Store and Apple App Store and followed tweet from Candywriter announcing the acquisition and the imminent release of the Android port of Bitlife.
