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?
Didn’t read the description. Only the title. My answer: Detroit Become Human Alt answer: Custom Robo? Not sure it counts tho.
Been playing Open Sudoku, it’s great
iOS.
Chuzzle 2.
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).
Happy to see a fellow Hashiwokakero enjoyer. ♥️
For free games, I would like to add Gobble (by Never Ads) to the list. Unfortunately, I cannot find it in Google Play Store right now.
For paid games, After, Inc. is pretty nice.
Now that they’re out on mobile I gotta go with Subnautica and Little Nightmares
Limbo is pretty great.
Unciv - Open source Civ game based on Civ V
I was expecting some dlsite games since this has the NSFW tags.
I assume a mod tagged this as NSFW, b/c I didn’t do it (intentionally anyway).
I find it odd, b/c if browsing this thread is not suitable for your workplace, then really browsing any thread at work is NSFW.
You shouldn’t be playing mobile games at work. Therefore, NSFW
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.
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
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.
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.
For anyone interested: 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
What?! That’s hilarious that Morrowind can now be a phone game - I may have to try this soon!
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.
