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.
Over 300 items.
menopausal brain shuts down
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.
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
Yassss shattered yasssss
Enjoy Sudoku, CrossMe, Universal Paperclips. The first two I casually play now and then, the last one I obsess about and play nonstop to completion once or twice a year.
Occationally one of these physics mini-games:
- Soccer physics
- Wrestle jump 2
- Basic biking
And for a short (fart-joke) laugh:
https://boern.itch.io/diarrhea-4
(but that’s Browser/Windows/Linux based - not Android directly)P.S. Still searching for a modern Android port of Spaghetti and Marshmallows
Thank you for mentioning spaghetti and marshmallows, I never would’ve remembered that game otherwise! Too bad there’s no version currently though.
My most played android game is probably the port of Simon Tatham’s puzzle games. It’s available on GitHub, F-Droid or Google Play.
My other pick would be TIC-80, there’s thousands of games on there
I got hooked on Net in Simon Tatham’s, and wanted more features (sliding the board around in Wrapping mode, especially). Ended up at https://hexapipes.vercel.app/ which plays well enough in a mobile browser. Lots of tile shapes, sizes wrapping vs. regular.
God, i remember those puzzle games from my Nokia N900. They played much better with a stylus.
Steam emulation
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).
Favo kills a lot of time for me. As does 2048 and any nonogram game.
Literally any nonogram games
For anyone interested: your have way more options for favorite game on Android than you think.
Emulation works great on modern phones. Eden emulator runs Switch games and some work very well with just touchscreen controls (e.g. Into the Breach).
If you’re ok with on screen controllers or with carrying around something like an 8bit Zero 2or Micro, then you could emulate a mind-blowing number of consoles and games.
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
Solomon’s Keep and Solomon’s Boneyard are fun
Been playing Open Sudoku, it’s great
Been playing a ton of dicey dungeons recently.
Unciv - Open source Civ game based on Civ V
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.
