I need some new games in my phone. I checked out the recommendations in the google play store just to realise, that they all suck. So I’m asking you, what are some lightweight(my phone is really slow so anything not lightweight will either take 40 years to load or outright crash every few minutes) fun mobile games you can recommend.

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    Three of my personal goto free options:

    Nonograms are pretty simple logic puzzles in the same vein as Sudoku, but I enjoy them a lot. The app I personally use is Nonograms Katana.

    Super Auto Pets is a really good, streamlined auto-battler. If you’ve ever played Autochess or Teamfight Tactics, its the same idea, but stripped to the down to the core principles and with a cute animal theme. Each turn you buy animals with abilities, then enter combat with another player and the animals automatically fight. Win 10 battles without running out of lives to win.

    And not technically free without sailing the seas, but you should also be able to emulate gba games easily. Even if you don’t like playing more precise games with the touch controls (like me) there are a few great turn based games like Advance Wars and Fire Emblem.

  • Yprum@lemmy.world
    14·
    5 days ago

    OK, I’ll recommend you a few that are all open source, simple, free, with no ads, and should be handled by just any phone. You can find the games in f-droid between other places.

    For those that are into crosswords: Forkyz

    A slightly different take on sudoku style game: Gauguin

    A game to place pieces removing full lines both vertically and horizontally, kinda like Tetris but pieces are not falling and you just put them wherever you want: 1010! Klooni

    A tower defense game using hand drawn graphics: Anuto TD

    And one I have from the play store, not open source, that is a clone of minesweeper, called… Well you can guess it: Minesweeper for android

    All of those I have used on my own device and have worked great, definitely good time killers if you are into any of those kind of games.

  • jacksilver@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 days ago
    • Kakuro
      • sudoku like puzzle game about adding up rows/columns
    • Slice and dice
      • dice based rpg, may be a bit much on a slow phone, but timing doesn’t matter so it could work
    • Melvor Idle
      • Runescape idle, basically an rpg idle game
  • Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
    21·
    5 days ago

    There’s an idle game called “smashing simulator idol” and in it, all you do is break pots and pans that fall from the sky by tapping/clicking on them. It’s simple and extremely addictive.

  • Nemo Wuming@lemmy.world
    17·
    5 days ago

    If you enjoy chess, I recommend Lichess

    It’s free, open source, no ads, you can play with or without an account, you play against bots or against people of all levels, you can use the app or you can play from the website or you can install the web app

    Oh and it loads fast

    Enjoy!

    • Yprum@lemmy.world
      61·
      5 days ago

      And for those who enjoy chess but love chaos and seeing the world burn, you have Really Bad Chess

      Which in my personal opinion, can be as fun as it can be irritating x)

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 days ago

    All in Hole.

    It really is a stupid game, but sometimes you just need occupied for a few minutes.

    You slide a hole around and things fall in it. The hole gets bigger, and bigger things fall in. It’s strangely satisfying.

  • freebread@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    Suika Game The same great game for Switch, now available on mobile. Combine like fruit to evolve them into larger ones- keep going until you get watermelons. There are physics-based elements and if you overflow the play area, you lose.

    • Yprum@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 days ago

      Yeah hard to tell if it will work well, pixel art or not, and its a bit too expensive just to test it (there should be a way to cancel the order in google pay if I’m not mistaken though). On the other hand, such a fun game it is definitely worth it and the perfect phone game.

    • ramirezmike@programming.dev
      6·
      5 days ago

      Balatro does have a lot going on graphically and even my pixel 8 pro starts to heat up when playing it. The game’s art style may be pixel art, but there are a lot of shaders on all the cards and the cards themselves are either 3d or have some perspective stuff going on to make them able to rotate away from the camera

      also, there’s the giant shifting background which is another complex shader that can’t be turned off.

      I think the game has been optimized since release a bit, but still, it’s not just simple card images.

  • FiggyPudPud@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    I like Farmrpg a lot, it’s free with no ads. The community is very friendly and supportive, so it’s a nice little nook of the internet.