- Monument Valley 2 [paid] - amazing for relaxing
- Standoff 2 - just a shooter game that doesn't force all of the cases and levels and upgrading. It has those features, but I just open the game and start the match.
- Falling Lightblocks - best Tetris clone.
- Antimine - Minesweeper with ton of themes and settings. It's FOSS but the Google Play version has ads, download from F-Droid.
- Flowit (F-Droid ,GPlay) - simple FOSS game that melts my brain after first few levels.
- Despotism 3k [paid] - great game. It's pretty hard. Very funny too.
- Mindustry (F-Droid, GPlay) - My brain is too small to understand this game. But it's fun.
Mindustry is a completely different (and much less frustrating) game on steam, for what it's worth. Mostly due to the fact mouse+keyboard is MUCH more intuitive than touch controls. Also fun fact, as long as you're running the same version, you can port your save game between your phone and your pc.
Sonic runners revival!
It's the full original Sonic Runners game that was discontinued by SEGA, but dedicated fans have revived it via reverse engineering the backend server responses and patching the app to point to their servers to keep the app running.Even though it's "just" a mobile game, it's surprisingly high quality, has a full blown story mode and even the multiplayer features still work!
Downloaded!
brotato and vampire survivors
My go-tos at the moment are:
- Oldschool Runescape - wooooooooo
- Danmaku Death - old, free, no in-app purchases or ads bullet hell game from 2014, but it's delisted from the play store...
Other games I've enjoyed
- Super Auto Pets. Base game is free with no ads, but there are cosmetics and expansion packs.
- Pixel Dungeon and its variants. Free roguelike with no ads and no in app purchases.
- Magikarp Jump. Fun little incremental game where you make magikarp jump. Has in-app purchases.
I remember the magic I experienced the first time I played RS back in 2007. The game was mind opening. Although I only had a free account, but nevertheless had a blast getting my first Adam and Rune full gear.
How is OSRS for you now? What are you enjoying the most. I wonder if I will get the spark back if I try it or if I'll be overwhelmed of the options of things to do
It's as good as it used to be. I've enjoyed doing quests and fighting bosses. Grinding is slow but tolerable if you have a video or podcast you wanted to watch or listen to. Coming back as an adult is a different experience. You'll find yourself being a bit more directed in how you play and it's easy to optimise the fun out of the game. It's decent on mobile and I have heard of people fighting endgame bosses on their phones.
It is easy to get overwhelmed on p2p. My advice is you set a goal and go for that, or you pick a thing you really want to do and just do that and let the game slowly open up from there.
I saw Slay the Spire mentioned exactly once, so I'm going to put the highlight on my current favorite mobile game:
Slay the Spire is a deck-builder roguelike that gives you a different experience every single game. It encourages broken mechanics and rewards inventiveness while having enough rng to feel like a fresh experience. It's challenging enough to make winning feel like you earned it, but not so challenging that you can't win if you really try.
The android version is a pay-once full port of the pc version, achievements and all. The touch controls are very well done. I've been hooked since 2020 when I discovered the game on steam.
It's my favorite too! I never get bored because there's always been strategies to explore. Also love that it's offline so I can play anywhere, like a plane
Egg, Inc. - simple game, feels like the olden days but it's also entirely modernised. Just recieved a tonne of qol enhancements.
If you are a regular player and got far enough to need a co-op, and play well. Hit me up!
Good recommendation. I've been hatching imaginary chickens for 2 hours now. 😆
Dude I just checked this out, it seems super fun. Downloaded.
I find mobile games to be a crapshoot, and I've only ever found a select few hidden gems that are exceptions:
- Armory & Machine, an incremental game. Avoid the sequel.
- Underhand, a card game good enough for people who don't like card games.
Vampire Survivors!
Papers, Please is a great port that works on my S22 just fine. I also enjoy Game Dev Tycoon (not Game Dev Story), Into the Breach (if you're a Netflix customer it's free), and Chess.com (if you're into chess, just set it to a 24 hour game so you can play once a day)
These are the games I have installed
Out of all of these if I weren't always at home and had a controller with me it's vampire survivor and dead cells. No controller, reigns.
how is baldur's gate on a touch screen?
Vampire Survivors (don't worry i'm not addicted... I can stop at any time if I want)
Genshin Impact, Punishing: Gray Raven and Streets of Rage 4 (non-gacha)
Thankfully that's as far as I'll go into gacha nation (until the release of Wuthering Waves, at least). I'm good at controlling my wallet and not thirsting over every character.
Genshin Impact is slowly taking over my life. I'm still F2P but I've come close to pulling out my credit card.
It's good to take your time to evaluate the characters. I follow leaks and some content makers (mainly theory crafters) for this reason. Sometimes the character is super strong but plays like crap for your tastes, sometimes they seem fun but are garbage for harder content, so it's good to have people give you some information that you can then evaluate.
I was about to pull everything (and saved A LOT) for Dehya before I knew about her kit, for example. Thankfully I knew about it before wasting the chance of getting Hu Tao + Staff of Homa + Aqua Simulacra. Best decision ever for my account, as I like playing both Hu Tao and Yelan.
I've gotten reeeeeally into pocket city 2 recently, i can't put it down.
Yoooo when did that come out? I remember playing the firs one a lot, really enjoyed it
Not a "game" technically, but I love Conway's Game of Life. Robust features and just plain cool.
I like playing Monument Valley. The twists are fun!
Star Wars KOTOR and just started Elder Scrolls Morrowind via OpenMW. And if I don’t have much time I play PokeMMO
What are the controls like for Morrowind? I've never played a first person game on a phone, but I imagine they've settled on some conventions for 3D movement by now.
Personally I am playing this one my Retroid Pocket 3+, so I am not using the touch-controls. But there are touch controls and they looked pretty heavy customizable (I just deactivated them). The standard Layout are two circles controlling movement and camera. The rest are just on screen buttons for interaction, menu, inventory and so on. So it should be absolutely playable.
I use eboox to read, don't really have any games on my phone besides lichess
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Slay the Spire
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Really Bad Chess
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Ticket to Ride
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Nonograms Katana
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Atomas
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One More Brick
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Slay the Spire and Marvel Snap. Killed 100s of hours on both
I use fo2.exe to play original Fallouts
I love hue and I love hue too, Tsuki adventure 2 and Tsuki odyssey, MonopolyGo, Wild Rift and I'm switching between some idle tycoon games.
- Bloons TD 6
- Plato (this one is actually a collection of classic multiplayer games)
- Dicey Dungeons
- Levelhead
- Endless Quiz
Chess.com and Lichess
Genshin impact, when not killing time here or reading articles elsewhere.
2048
Brotato completely eclipsed Vampire Survivors for me.
Space cadet pinball is the only game
Super Auto Pets is really fun and laid back. Its very strategic and pretty mechanically deep, but you battle against teams that have been pre-recorded from other players, so you can close the game at any time and rejoin whenever you have downtime. Imo it's the best parts of PVP and single player combined.
I think half of my Lemmy posts are talking about SAP. It's such a good autobattler. Just boiled the genre down to the key components
Downloaded! I've never heard of it.
shattered pixel dungeon for a quick waiting room, mindustry for that conveyor crack cocaine of a game
Vampire Survivors
The android version of Dicey Dungeons plays very well. I can definitely recommend that one.
Any Kairosoft game. They are so addictive! No Ads, you pay and play forever. Perfect.
You can start with one of this:
Tropical Resort Story
Game Dev Story
kingdom Adventures
Grand Prix Story (1)
BonBon Cakery
Phigros, Hill Climb Racing, Patapon on PPSSPP, Piano Tiles 2 (hmu for the original apk), Cytoid Other than that I just doomscroll
My daughter got me addicted to Cookie Run Kingdom
I still spend a couple of hours a week playing plague inc.
Legends of runeterra
Unciv and Gravity Defied
u n c i v
I've got Morrowind on my fold3, it's amazing
I've been playing a lot of peglin, super auto pets, slice & dice, and Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links.
The Northernlion starter pack but you went with yugioh instead of Slay the Spire. I see you (and I approve)
Sudoku. Quick and easy to drop in and out of.
Since Sudoku was so popular few years back, I've play on a regular basis. Is not trending anymore but continues to be my go-to game to spare some time and keep my mind sharpen (I'm in the 60s group)
Vampire Survivors for sure
'Dots' and 'Two Dots'
Pickle Pete and Mini Militia
MM for the multiplayer with friends.
PP coz it's a fun game.
The Bart Bonte color puzzle games are fun and challenging. Orange is the newest, but I think I have all the others (Red, Green, Blue, Black, Pink, and Yellow): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.bartbonte.orange
I second the bart bonte games. I've been following him for many years, and his games are always fun.
Oddly enough, two player game. It has some good one player player games built in
Do you have a link? Searching for "Two Player Game" results in what looks like lots of shovelware.
2 player games is the one I like to play with my nephews. Simple games.
Sand:box
I used to play TwoDots and some of the others from the same developer, but I recently accidentally wiped my phone's data and found out that I could not restore my progress; the game, instead of using the native ways of Android to sync data, relies on you logging into Facebook. Needless to say I stopped playing.
Shadow Knight RPG and a bunch of offline card games.
Marvel Snap, marvel's card game.
Mostly
Frozen BubbleWordscapes
I love Hue Too
Bus Simulator Indonesia, Endless ATC (paid), Pocket City
Mr. Autofire. Idk how but I got hooked in 2022.
I play Lichess, Chess.com & Monogolf. Monogolf's an old game and doesn't get updates or on the play store anymore but it's so fun to play - it's like minigolf
I've kinda been trying to get back to basic/classic games. Sudoku, kakuro (which is kinda like sudoku, but I like it more), and chess.
But I do also play some Super Auto Pets and Polytopia sometimes
Polytopia
Mighty Doom. Some of the Netflix games.
Can try Paradise Hotel, if you just want to pass some time. FREE
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paradise.hotel&hl=en
Currently World of Goo which I just found out is included in Netflix subscription. Just install from play store and login with your account. There are some other great games too and the games in the more typical mobile game genres are balanced on playing without microtransactions, because there are none.
Brotato
Whaaat? Since when is brotato on Android? Or was it originally a mobile game? That's neat!
I think since... May or something like that? Not for a very long time, but now its basically the only game I play on Android after like 100h on PC lol
It runs really well on Android. Some weird stuff still, but it gets regular updates
currently Dragonvale, because I like collecting things
same with Pokemon Go 💀
Honestly, KotoR has been really nice. It never occurred to me that the game would port to mobile so well.
Also two friends of mine made a game called Senpei. They're a disgusting married couple that both work from home out of the same office. One does art; the other is a game dev. The bastards.
Marvel Snap
Vampire Survivors
Stardew valley
Tons of emulator games along with dysmantle, arena of valor, oceanhorn, dragon quest games, pascal's wager etc. But I only play when I'm away from my pc which is not that often but these games help me kill time a lot.
Into the breach, is excellent
Too bad it's a Netflix exclusive; I have it on PC and it looks so mobile friendly.
There are ways to get it without Netflix. Plus it's on the switch I think
There are ways to get it without Netflix. Plus it's on the switch I think
Wild Rift, PokeMMO
It's a match three game, where you have to escape a dungeon by running 10000000 miles. Go in, get gold, exp and resources, upgrade and repeat. I've played though at least once everything I upgrade my phone. Just a well made game.
Mobile Legends Bang-Bang. Literally the only one game on my (low-end) phone. :D
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Contains 40 puzzles of the Sudoku and Minesweeper sort.
It's free and open source, and available on a ton of platforms. On Android, I get it from the F-droid app store.
Post Knight and Post Knight 2 are so cute
Pixel Dungeon Rymdkapsel Dawncaster Enyo Siralim
Also card games like Magic Arena and Mythguard
- Sudoku
- Goddess of Victory: Nikke
- Azur Lane
- Pokemon Go (if I'm out and about)
Pixel Dungeon Rymdkapsel Dawncaster Enyo Siralim
Also card games like Magic Arena and Mythguard
Lichess and minesweeper
Vampire Survivors, Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Eternium, Stardew Valley, and I Love Hue or Minesweeper for something more chill.
Emulators from Lemuroid🫡
The two big ones:
-Magic Arena -Civilization Revolution 2
Merge mansion lol
If I were to tell you, you might perish out of boredom
I used to really like Hades Star, but I've kinda shelved it while waiting for a big overhaul update.
NYT crossword
- Azur Lane
- Clash of Clans
- Brawl Stars
- Pokemon Go
- Genshin Impact
I've recently downloaded Azur Lane and have been grinding it quite a bit. If I'm at a short wait, then I play Clash of Clans or Brawl Stars and hop in a quick match or attack.
As a huge star wars nerd, I've played Galaxy of Heroes for years. Super pay to win though.
I really like One More Line as a quick game for just a couple minutes. Golf odyssey has taken up this space recently too.
Rocket League Sideswipe is a fantastic 2D adaptation of rocket league. One of the best mobile adaptations I've ever played. Absolutely fantastic.
I have retro bowl installed, but tbh I had a similar app on my last phone and changed with this one and have been playing other things. Like a good
Recently I've mainly been getting into emulators. Honestly it's fucking awesome the things you can play on a phone. Especially when you pick up even a cheap controller setup for better input.
Being born in the late 90s, I've been really focusing on PS2 emulation. Lemuroid (an Android app fork of RetroArch?) seems to be able to emulate PS1 but not PS2 games. PS Emu (app on play store) is a fork of Lemuroid, adding AetherSX2 to do PS2 emulation. However, I found the the app version on AetherSX2 alone gives more settings options than the PS Emu version, helpful with more taxing titles. Some things still won't work great, it's very game dependant, but my wife played through Shrek 2 on my phone over the past couple of days, so I can confidently say some things work well.
Bullet Echo
GTA 4, Mass Effect, Skyrim, Fallout 3...
All via Steam Link.
