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Android games that are actually good? (looking for recommendations)
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.Oh man I love games that are just games. You pay a price, you get a game, you play the game. On the turn based side we have **Slay the Spire**, **Slice and Dice,** and **Lost in Fantaland**. All kind deck builders but with pretty different combat. Great games with lots of depth. Also **Kingdoms Two Crowns** by Raw Fury is an incredibly good game. But a little more real time. I can say great things about all of them. On the heavier note, fucking **Subnautica** has a mobile port now, which I hear is good. Of course you have **Stardew Valley** for a farming sim. On the annoyingly spammy with pay to win features but still good games underneath, all the Ironhide games are good, especially the tower defense ones (Kingdom Rush)
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.Puzzles. No ads, no monetisation, just puzzle games. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.Generally, the best options are ports of PC games. Things like Slay the Spire, Balatro, Mini Metro, Terraria, BaBa is You, or Stardew Valley. Not as cheap, but worth the price tag. A couple of my favorite free options: Unciv - Its an attempt at recreating Civ. It's got a lot of issues, such as lacking a lot of the more in-depth mechanics and having terrible world-gen, but its also free. Vampire Survivors - a fairly simple but content-rich arcade game, reminiscent of old flash games. Super Auto Pets - and autobattler like autochess but stripped down to its fundamentals making it easy to get in to, and easy to play in short bursts
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.Ahhhh Tomb of the mask … fond memories playin that on my iPhone 4s back in the day N E ways , (Balatro|Baba is you) pretty gꝏd mobile games - Balatro : be prepared to stay up till dead of night . ***WILL (WASTE YOUR TIME|DRAIN BATTERY ON LOWER END DEVICES)*** so ***
️ BE CAREFUL ️*** Otherwise , solid "just pick up and play" game
- Baba is you : gets pretty challenging early on but heard gꝏd things about
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.[Underhand](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.cornell.gdiac.underhand) Is a card game that I really liked, you have like a cult and you have to awake an old god. I liked the humor and the story and the cards. [Stranger Things: 1984](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.StrangerThings) As others mentioned, it is a really solid old-school adventure "RPG", kinda vibe of A Link to the Past. Really felt like a SNES game. But as others mentioned it changed name and it seems that now you need a Netflix account to play it, before it had not restriction. This is just a honorable mention because it is not available anymore on the play store, but [The Witch's Isle](https://store.steampowered.com/app/701860/The_Witchs_Isle/) was really nice, one of this point and click adventures, nice graphics and all. Not sure why it is not available, and it was free years ago, But it is on steam at least if you are curious. I wish I had other games to recommend, but I also struggled to find good games and specially ones that are in portrait which I think would be better for casual gaming on the go.
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.
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Oh man I love games that are just games. You pay a price, you get a game, you play the game. On the turn based side we have **Slay the Spire**, **Slice and Dice,** and **Lost in Fantaland**. All kind deck builders but with pretty different combat. Great games with lots of depth. Also **Kingdoms Two Crowns** by Raw Fury is an incredibly good game. But a little more real time. I can say great things about all of them. On the heavier note, fucking **Subnautica** has a mobile port now, which I hear is good. Of course you have **Stardew Valley** for a farming sim. On the annoyingly spammy with pay to win features but still good games underneath, all the Ironhide games are good, especially the tower defense ones (Kingdom Rush)
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.
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Puzzles. No ads, no monetisation, just puzzle games. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.Another thing I noticed, several games that I'm sure I have played are not listed on the apps I had (bunch of idlers and TCG) so this makes me worry about software preservation, since stuff just vanishes... is there a way to backup those games? At least the ones I bought I'd like to backup myself - and no, I don't care the least about the legality of it.
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.I've been going hard on Stardew Valley. Just had another kid and no good opportunities to play on PC now, so I bought a Backbone controller off of Amazon and turned my phone into a Switch. See also: Night of the Full Moon, Card Crawl, Tiny Rails, Inotia 3 & 4 (3 isn't available anymore, but you can get an apk), Talisman: Digital Edition, Dungeon Boss (requires Netflix sub now, but no more P2W), Survival Day R.
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.
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I've recently tried Peglin and enjoyed it a lot. Sounds like something you might like (a mix between the Peggle formula and deck builder)
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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything. I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well. Back then, I bought two games: **Solitairica** - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And **Rebel Inc.** - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. **Night of the Full Moon** is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.I played a lot of Sky Force and Sky Force Reloaded. Pretty sure you have to pay to remove ads. Another single payment doubles the "stars" you earn which cuts back on the grind for upgrades. There aren't a ton of stages so a lot of the replay value comes from trying to beat stages on higher difficulty. If you're into v-scrollers it's a visually beautiful game with fun bosses and solid gameplay. I sunk some time into Retro Bowl for a while too. Fun little football (Gridiron/American football) game with retro inspired graphics. Truth be told that's about the extent of Android games I found enjoyable. Since getting a Steam Deck and TrimUI brick, I bounce between Factorio, OpenTTD (has an Android port but I haven't tried it), Rimworld and emulating plethora of nostalgic console games.
