Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Endless Sky, and Mindustry (especially that last one, which I haven't seen anybody else mention yet).
I get all my games from F-Droid, not any commercial app store.
... RetroArch.
Do you use any sort of controller, or just use the on screen buttons?
Here's my games folder:
Finding mobile games that aren't live service garbage is tough but at least a lot of good PC games just port to android.
Orna RPG! It's a GPS game like Pokemon Go with a classic RPG style, no pay to win options, a great community, and Devs who listen to feedback with regular updates.
Genuinely the best GPS game I've played by a long shot.
The only commercial Android game I regularly play is Wordscapes. It's an almost embarrassing level of enduring basic bitch addiction, I don't engage with any microtransaction bait, I have a systemwide ad blocker... and I love it.
Otherwise it's all Emulators and Open Source (covered well elsewhere in this thread).
Stardew valley. Such a good game that plays great, especially on tablet.
Dead cells, out there omega edition, 20 minutes till dawm, vampire survivors, titan quest, hollow knight, 9th dawm rpg 3, starrows, scourgebringer, undead horde
Hollow Knight is on Android? Wow! I never knew.
I meant the unofficial port. It's not officially available on android
Still surprised there's an unofficial port. What an undertaking! Props to them.
Lichess and Worldbox
Open Sudoku and Endless Sky. ES saves the game as a text file. If you play it on PC and save a file the last line of the text file is the only difference. You can play the game on both and save back and forth. I only have FOSS apps. I don't have any google stuff at all. Both of these are from F-Droid.
John gba lite with pokemon unbound rom.
Does it have to be Android exclusive? I still play Duet infrequently. Simple but beautiful, pay once, and engaging gameplay. Besides that, I don't game much nowadays.
Slay the spire and Downwell (PC ports I guess), it's amazing how much the quality of mobile games is for games that are more than one dollar.
Baba is You
What's this one about?
Puzzle game where you push blocks around. Blocks with words can be pushed together to change game behavior. For example on a level with Baba, Is, and You blocks together let you control your character (your character is named Baba). But if you push a block that says Door in front of the Is and You blocks you will suddenly control the doors instead of Baba. It's a really cool concept and the levels get extremely imaginative. And also difficult
sling kong and smashy city r pretty cool games
Mine are bloons td 6, league of legends, and rocket league.
For me, it's using emulation. I'm currently playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door from the GameCube, and there are very few android games that can match the quality of older AAA titles.
Plus, no microtransactions!
I like to play Lichess puzzles and chess.com puzzles.
Li-chess? Is that a new form of chess?
Chess 2 just dropped
Holy Hell etc.
Nah it's just a chess app
In addition to being good games, neither has any microtransactions, ads, or any of that BS, was happy to give the devs some money.
I really like Logic Wiz sudoku variants Basically sudoku variant puzzles, it's a lot of fun, and has really good puzzles.
Been really enjoying Night of the Full Moon. Slay the Spire like but the opponents have decks and play like players. It's free to play with expansions and an ad free experience you can pay for. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ztgame.yyzy
Been playing Golf Blitz for a couple of years and still absolutely love it. Also recently enjoyed revisiting World of Goo (although it now only seems to work if you have Netflix - I do, but it's a shame it's not available for everyone)
Marvel Snap is cool. You can have a fun time paying 0
Came here to say this. Not only can you have fun F2P, the games are quick, so you can play one in a few minutes.
I do really like that so far paying is completely optional. I found so many of the android F2P are good for a couple weeks (or only days) before you realize you need to spend money to really play the game.
Among us and started valley
Vampire Survivors. It makes my phone catch fire but it is fire
My favorite Android game has always been, and still is, OSMOS. It used to be in the play store. You can still get it on Android from Hemisphere. There's also iOS, Ipad, Steam (for Linux), OS X and Windows versions. I love this game so much I keep an ancient 7" pad with Marshmallow 6 offline just for it (Because I had the original on it - You don't need an ancient device).
It's a good while I don't hear about Osmos, it's a fun game.
Mighty Doom is a fun auto shooter, made by Bethesda and has minimal ads (opt to watch for rewards) and micro transactions are not required to win.
Lichess
Stardew Valley, Xenowerk and Don't Starve Pocket Edition.
I keep coming back to Stardew. Such a fun game.
It has quickly become one of my favourite games when I started playing a few months back. I mainly play on PC with a few QoL mods, but I think it works great on a smart phone as well! Great game to have in your pocket! The only bad thing I've encountered on Android, is that the cursor in the menu does not become visible when you've a controller connected. It's there, but you can´t see it. Kinda annoying, but I could fix this by forcing it with a mod (I forgot which one, but I can look it up if you want). It's one of my favourite games to play when I just want to chill without thinking too much.
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