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?
Steam emulation
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.
Favo kills a lot of time for me. As does 2048 and any nonogram game.
Literally any nonogram games
Been playing a ton of dicey dungeons recently.
I don’t know if this counts, but on my old android tablet back in the day, I use to play Titanfall Assault (?)
Really never played a mobile game as fun as that. I miss it whenever I think about it.
bloons td 6, prolly the best tower defense game, has tons of content and casual and competitive game modes
note that it has microtransactions/dlc but I never spent more than the $7 I got it for
Solomon’s Keep and Solomon’s Boneyard are fun
My favorite game on Android is currently Krumit’s Tale, followed by Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
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).
It’s completely ad-laden garbage but I looove the art style for some reason and the actual gameplay outside of the weird resource management shit they added to sell in-game currency is soooo satisfying.
Been playing Open Sudoku, it’s great
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
I would hate to know how many hours I’ve spent on this game. It’s disgustingly addictive. I love it.
