I think like 98% of mobile games are pretty much trash, but there are some diamonds in the rough.
In the past I’ve enjoyed:
- Monument Valley
- 2048
- Fruit Merge
- Hashi
- Papers Please
- Baba is You
- Balatro
I’m getting bored of my usual picks lately. I’m looking for something that’s quick to jump in and out to pass the time, not something heavy. But hard puzzles or strategy totally fit!
Is the FF Tactics port good? Better alternatives?
Shattered Pixel Dungeon may be the best android game available at the moment.
Definitely this. I didn’t think it would be so great. I can’t stop playing lol, I suck at it too, but its so fun to die and try again.
It’s had more constant tweaks than 99% of games.
Very refined and balanced.
The biggest tip I didn’t know when starting, was to draw an enemy through a door and surprise attack them as they come through the door.
Yassss shattered yasssss
Yep, this
I’ve probably sunk several hundreds of hours into it at this point
The fact it’s still being actively developed for like over a decade is just icing on the cake
Over 300 items.
menopausal brain shuts down
mindustry is good
Also I’m playing Morrowind on OpenMW these days
Edit: And STK!
What?! That’s hilarious that Morrowind can now be a phone game - I may have to try this soon!
Try the latest release of OMW on GitHub. F-droid one didn’t work for me
https://github.com/xyzz/openmw-android
The source’s archived but it’s still playable
Stardew valley is fairly solid
Slay the Spire
Polytopia
Bloons 6
LoLdle
How is the slay the spire Port on Android?
I have a couple hundred hours in the steam version, is the Android version as good.
Its the same game. The biggest issue I have is that my fingers move too fast and i play the wrong card sometimes.
Mini metro has to be my top. Simple costs money so no ads (mandatory for me). You are basically just creating subway lines to move shares around and manage flow.
I would love if it had some kind of sync between Steam and Android.
It runs great in LDPlayer…
Unciv - Open source Civ game based on Civ V
Terraria. It’s $5.
If you’re open minded to emulation there are tons of options for consoles on android. The ones I use are AetherSX2 for PS2 games, myBoy for GBA, PPSSPP for PSP, and then if you want to get real crazy OpenMW for Morrowind and Winulator for 2000s era PC games (I have TESIV Oblivion running on a dog water Android phone at 30 FPS with Winulator).
- All the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_Escape games (Rusty Lake)
- SPACEPLAN (idle game with great scenario and great music)
- the Conceptis puzzles (free stuff for free)
- Desert Golfing, and Golf on Mars
- Sorcery 1, 2, 3… (choose your own adventure)
Limbo is pretty great.
Slay the Spire is excellent on mobile.
I’m not playing much on Android, but I have enjoyed Open Sudoku, and I was surprised Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is free on Android, which I enjoyed on PC.
I can second Open Sudoku. Not only is it FOSS and it lets you download more puzzles from wherever, but it’s actually the best implementation of mobile Sudoku I’ve played imo.
Been playing Open Sudoku, it’s great
endless sky, hyperrogue
I suspect that there are no former Endless Sky players, there are only people who have played Endless Sky before and havent relapsed into near-addiction to it lately.
The classic star wars rpg Knights of The Old Republic is on android. I keep it on my phone so it’s always an option for me.
