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Logic puzzles, simple as! This is my go-to recommendation when someone wants simple, free mobile games that are fun and don't have microtransactions, ads, tracking, and all the other shit which you think of when you hear the phrase "mobile game". Minesweeper and sudoku are the big names, but there are plenty of better ones in there too.

These will run on most devices you can think of, and the source code is available if you want to port it somewhere else.

• There are versions (newfangled web assembly or classic java applet) versions you can play in browser from the main page
• Android version on Google Play or GitHub
• iOS version on the Apple App Store
• Windows exe files for each individual game, or a zip file of them all
• Windows msi installer if you fancy
• Windows version if you prefer the Microsoft Store
• Mac dmg which might not get any more updates unless someone with a newer Mac wants to maintain it
• Source archive to compile for Linux
• Symbian version for old (but not that old) Nokias (I think!)
• PalmOS version if you're still rocking one of them
• Rockbox version if you want to play on a classic iPod

I'm going to break my own rule and post some games which are always free under the [Always-Free Friday] tag - if the reception is entirely negative then I'll stop and never do it again! I saw this post in [email protected] compiling a few always-free/pay-what-you-want roguelikes. Some are on Steam, some Google Play, some itch.io, but at a glance they all look to be indies that you can play for free rather than microtransaction-filled "F2P" gatcha-style stuff. The only one I've played before is Vampire Survivors which was quite fun (though I didn't know that the mobile version is free), anyone else played anything on the list?