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 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.

Simon Tatham! I've been trying to remember that name for a long time, I remember his Minesweeper for having no 50/50

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)

**FOSS (no ads, available on FDroid):** Puzzle games: - Simon Tatham's Puzzle Collection - Gurgle (Offline, infinite Wordle Dupe) Strategy games: - Mindustry, - Tanks of Freedom - Unciv (It's Civilisation V, but free) Mindless games: - Ricochlime Emulator: - RetroArch (just need the ROMs) **Free (no ads):** Seedship (by John Ayliff) **Paid (no ads):** Beyond the Chiron Gate (also by John Ayliff)

Nice seeing seedship here

If you love seed ship, you have to try beyond the Chiron gate. It's genuinely the culmination of what seed ship started. Its amazing.

I tried it butit didn't have the same hook for me. Maybe the complexity wasn't my thing.

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.

Slice and Dice. A rouge-like dungeon crawler where each party member has a unique dice that you roll to decide which ability is used each turn. You can get it on itch.io. a cross platform license is $18 but an android only license is $9. The game has an incredible amount of depth so I highly recommend looking it up.

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.

Great suggestions but pen and paper directed ä switched to a disgusting microtransactional monetisation scheme and os unplayable now.