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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Here we'll simply share the names of some cool Libre/OpenSource Android games that are available (Or should be made available) on Fdroid

UPDATE--> You can also talk about what Proprietary Android games Should we make a FOSS Clone of

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

Klondike Solitaire

(just kidding there are literally no good freecell or solitaire games on f-droid)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Luanti, Mindustry, vector pinball, super tux cart and Tux rider.

Honorable mention: Tailscale+Moonlight (game streaming)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago

I never play it as it gets boring after a while.

Cool app though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Apotris is probably the best version if tetris available, and it's foss.

You can get a compiled ROM for GBA and play it on android with a FOSS emulator like Lemuroid. It works!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Regex Crossword. Unfortunately it doesn't have as many puzzles as the non-FOSS alternative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Talking about Games that need to be FOSSified, I think it would be cool if we had FOSS clones of:-

  • Plants vs Zombies
  • Angry Birds
  • Lonely Hacker
  • Sim City (Any City-Building game)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

If we are talking a about apps we wish were Foss here is my list:

  • Bad piggies

  • Stumble guys

  • Age of Empires (now discontinued but I want a spiritual community continuation)

  • Clash of clans

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

These two are already FOSS,

but I would be happy if H-Craft Championship could be added to f-droid. (basically wip3out hover-racing)

Also, Gravity Defied is an excellent trials-bike mountain climber, similar to xmoto. It currently does not install for me in f-droid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

For an Angry Birds clone, check out Apple Flinger

For a SimCity-like game, check out OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Not sure if someones mentioned it yet but unciv is civ V

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon, popular roguelike (as in, actually like Rogue)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Mindustry, factory based sandbox tower defense (mobile Factorio)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 59 minutes ago

It isn't quite like Factorio.

It is better

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How are the mobile controls?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Very frustrating for people with fingers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

(☞゚ヮ゚)☞

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Playable for sure, but in bigger battles its complicated to keep an overview over big maps

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Honestly I much prefer playing on desktop, but it's playable on mobile if a bit frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Box Stacker

A physics puzzle-game.

Join the sticky 'tetrominoes' to move a ball/box/car to the scoring zone.

Includes online leaderboard to view the solutions of players around the world. A faster finish with less total pieces is better.

Challenging and fun game, with a quality physics model.

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.artificialworlds.boxstacker/

[–] MajorHavoc 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Luanti a game engine that runs an Open Source massively moddable Minecraft clone, among other games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This one deserves a nice big bold underline, this project has already come such a far way!

[–] namingthingsiseasy 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

lichess has finally published it's mobile version on f-droid.

droidfish is another great alternative chess game, though with no online component.

there's also endless sky

[–] MajorHavoc 21 points 1 day ago

Simon Tatham's Puzzles contains many classic puzzle games and many more that are destined to be future classics.

[–] MajorHavoc 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Pixel Dungeon a rogue-like that is very like Rogue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago

It looks like it is build for a older version of Android

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since this is not updated or maintained anymore, there is a spin off with very active development: https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon

[–] MajorHavoc 5 points 1 day ago

Ooh, great point!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Great minds think alike.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Feudal Tactics, conquer-the-world strategy game with randomly-generated levels

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Is it an Antiyoy clone?

Antiyoy is a nice little game, it just lacks some depth IMO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Sometimes a bit too random. The start positions heavily influence the winning probability

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Rabbit Escape, basically Lemmings with cute bunnies. Don't let them splat!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks for this one. Hadn't seen it before and I used to love Lemmings games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Xeonjia: Ice Adventures, extremely cute sliding-ice puzzle game

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Chip Defense, an interesting and challenging take on tower defense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

I got really into chip defense. The concept is a really fun twist on classic enemy hp mechanisms in tower defense. However I think the game's controls design "scales" poorly with its difficulty curve. Building a new "tower" takes too many taps for the game to continue running in the background. Same for upgrading towers. The worst is when starting a level, you kind of need to rush placing towers to not mechanically end up in a fail state.

If the game let you build and upgrade when paused (or at least queue up those actions to be executed when un-paused) I would have continued playing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does forkyz count? I got addicted into crosswords recently, and this one is nice.

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