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.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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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.
Mindustry is such a gem. It's cross platform too, You can find it here
Merely a gateway drug to Factorio
I love factorio!
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).
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Probably shattered pixel dungeon
This and slay the spire are basically the only two games I play on my phone these days
- 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.
Stardew valley. Such a good game that plays great, especially on tablet.
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Among us and started valley
I love starred valley
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.
Li-chess? Is that a new form of chess?
Chess 2 just dropped
Holy Hell etc.
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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.
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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).
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.
Mine are bloons td 6, league of legends, and rocket league.
Vampire Survivor. I love games that i can play offline.
Dead cells, out there omega edition, 20 minutes till dawm, vampire survivors, titan quest, hollow knight, 9th dawm rpg 3, starrows, scourgebringer, undead horde
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.
Lichess
Mighty Doom is a fun auto shooter, made by Bethesda and has minimal ads (opt to watch for rewards) and micro transactions are not required to win.
Does it have to be Android exclusive? I still play Duet infrequently. Simple but beautiful, pay once, and engaging gameplay. Besides that, I don't game much nowadays.
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.
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.
I loved Defense Grid on PC, and the coop TD game Sanctum. But I haven't found a TD on android that I have played past a few levels on yet on Android.
Favorite game is Gwent, though I usually play it on desktop. The game I play most often on Android is either Cytus 2 or Dead Cells.
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.
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I like time waster games for when I need to actually burn time or I'm waiting for something to go through, so an old but gold choice for me is Flow Free. I actually play it on an iPhone 4s but it is available for Android so I think it counts
I love hue, Tsuki Odyssey, Monopoly GO, Wild Rift.
I also like idle tycoon games but I switch between those after playing for some time.
Lichess and Kairosoft Games (BonBon Cakery, High Sea Saga)
My favourite Android game is Genshin Impact even though I only play it on PC... but hey it exists on Android 😬
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