Hi everyone!

I'm moving my two lists of games from Reddit to Lemmy, as I'm planning to jump platform and totally abandon Reddit in the future. The reason is well, Lemmy is better, and Reddit's admin have suspended or shadowbanned my account without reason, deleting all my contributions to the community (Android Gaming) there.

Most notably my two lists of games which I've curated for 4 years: "100% free games" and "Favorite PAID games".

Lemmy's still young and, unfortunately, there isn't a relevant or active Android gaming community yet, so I'm uploading here hoping I'm not doing anything wrong!

I'll probably cross-post the two lists on android(at)lemmy.world too.

I'm very new to Lemmy so ANY feedback is appreciated. Thank you!

Guaguin is a sudoku-like puzzle game that I enjoy a ton. Instead of the usual 9-block square, this has random shapes with a number and a math operator on them. The goal is to have no repeating digits on rows/columns, and each block needs its mathematical problem to be solved. For example a block labeled 20x needs to filled so that all the numbers inside of it multiply to 20.

Play Store

F-Droid

Anything on F-Droid should fit your criteria, but here is what I have installed:

• Flowit
  • Fill all boxes with the color of their border
  • https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.bytehamster.flowitgame/
• Lato
  • A downhill snowboard game with beautiful graphics
  • https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ardash.lato/
• 2048 (Privacy Friendly)
  • Try to reach 2048 in this puzzle game
  • https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.secuso.privacyfriendly2048/
• Zoysii - Logic game
  • A simple logic game: find the best path to delete every number in a square space
  • https://f-droid.org/en/packages/xyz.deepdaikon.zoysii/
• Minesweeper - Antimine
  • A puzzle game where you search for all hidden mines.
  • https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.lucanlm.antimine/
• Anuto TD
  • Another Ugly Tower Defense
  • https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.logixisland.anuto/

Every time this topic appears, I always make sure Simon Tatham's Puzzles is mentioned.

A no frill collection of puzzles that just works.

AAAAXY is quite fun, if a bit confusing at times.

AAAAXY is a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces

• Website
• F-Droid
• Google Play

TIL CDDA is on the play store

Welcome to Lemmy! Love the post and I look forward to more, just one small suggestion. The title reads a little bit spamlike, I almost dismissed the post as some sort of ad.

This only kinda meets the criteria since emulators are available on the play store, though roms will have to be sourced elsewhere, but... 100% roms and emulators. The N64 content and earlier emulate really well on a smartphone, especially when paired with a bluetooth controller.

IIRC ever version (different language releases, etc) of every game for Nintendo consoles from when they first became a company through all of the N64 content is a grand total of like 20bg: each individual game is tiny, so you can easily fit all your favorites on your phone.

I'm not sure what the latest and greatest emulators are today, but when I dabbled into this stuff last time, there were free, no bullshit options.

Quick search reveals a couple communities for it here on Lemmy:

!emulation@lemmy.ml

!emulationonandroid@lemmy.ml

I'd hit the side bars of those communities and go from there.

Note: downloading roms you don't own the license to is piracy; and even if you do own the license, your ISP won't know that, so I'd recommend practicing some basic internet safety like using a VPN. Also, ad blockers are an ABSOLUTE MUST on any website that provides or directs you to roms, otherwise you'll have like 20 links on your page that all say "Download!" that will lead you to some flavor of shitware.

But yeah, if you want games without all the modern bullshit in them like ads and lootcrate gambling, etc, then what better option than games that were made before all that cancer existed?!

Saving this for later. Great list!