• Monument Valley 2 [paid] - amazing for relaxing
• Standoff 2 - just a shooter game that doesn't force all of the cases and levels and upgrading. It has those features, but I just open the game and start the match.
• Falling Lightblocks - best Tetris clone.
• Antimine - Minesweeper with ton of themes and settings. It's FOSS but the Google Play version has ads, download from F-Droid.
• Flowit (F-Droid ,GPlay) - simple FOSS game that melts my brain after first few levels.
• Despotism 3k [paid] - great game. It's pretty hard. Very funny too.
• Mindustry (F-Droid, GPlay) - My brain is too small to understand this game. But it's fun.

brotato and vampire survivors

Sonic runners revival!
It's the full original Sonic Runners game that was discontinued by SEGA, but dedicated fans have revived it via reverse engineering the backend server responses and patching the app to point to their servers to keep the app running.

Even though it's "just" a mobile game, it's surprisingly high quality, has a full blown story mode and even the multiplayer features still work!

Egg, Inc. - simple game, feels like the olden days but it's also entirely modernised. Just recieved a tonne of qol enhancements.

If you are a regular player and got far enough to need a co-op, and play well. Hit me up!

I saw Slay the Spire mentioned exactly once, so I'm going to put the highlight on my current favorite mobile game:

Slay the Spire is a deck-builder roguelike that gives you a different experience every single game. It encourages broken mechanics and rewards inventiveness while having enough rng to feel like a fresh experience. It's challenging enough to make winning feel like you earned it, but not so challenging that you can't win if you really try.

The android version is a pay-once full port of the pc version, achievements and all. The touch controls are very well done. I've been hooked since 2020 when I discovered the game on steam.

My go-tos at the moment are:

• Oldschool Runescape - wooooooooo
• Danmaku Death - old, free, no in-app purchases or ads bullet hell game from 2014, but it's delisted from the play store...

Other games I've enjoyed

• Super Auto Pets. Base game is free with no ads, but there are cosmetics and expansion packs.
• Pixel Dungeon and its variants. Free roguelike with no ads and no in app purchases.
• Magikarp Jump. Fun little incremental game where you make magikarp jump. Has in-app purchases.

I find mobile games to be a crapshoot, and I've only ever found a select few hidden gems that are exceptions:

• Armory & Machine, an incremental game. Avoid the sequel.
• Underhand, a card game good enough for people who don't like card games.

Papers, Please is a great port that works on my S22 just fine. I also enjoy Game Dev Tycoon (not Game Dev Story), Into the Breach (if you're a Netflix customer it's free), and Chess.com (if you're into chess, just set it to a 24 hour game so you can play once a day)

Vampire Survivors!

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Vampire Survivors (don't worry i'm not addicted... I can stop at any time if I want)

These are the games I have installed

Out of all of these if I weren't always at home and had a controller with me it's vampire survivor and dead cells. No controller, reigns.

I like playing Monument Valley. The twists are fun!

Not a "game" technically, but I love Conway's Game of Life. Robust features and just plain cool.

Genshin Impact, Punishing: Gray Raven and Streets of Rage 4 (non-gacha)

Thankfully that's as far as I'll go into gacha nation (until the release of Wuthering Waves, at least). I'm good at controlling my wallet and not thirsting over every character.

I've gotten reeeeeally into pocket city 2 recently, i can't put it down.

Star Wars KOTOR and just started Elder Scrolls Morrowind via OpenMW. And if I don’t have much time I play PokeMMO

I use eboox to read, don't really have any games on my phone besides lichess

I use fo2.exe to play original Fallouts

• Bloons TD 6
• Plato (this one is actually a collection of classic multiplayer games)
• Dicey Dungeons
• Levelhead
• Endless Quiz

• Slay the Spire

• Really Bad Chess

• Ticket to Ride

• Nonograms Katana

• Atomas

• One More Brick

I love hue and I love hue too, Tsuki adventure 2 and Tsuki odyssey, MonopolyGo, Wild Rift and I'm switching between some idle tycoon games.

Chess.com and Lichess

Slay the Spire and Marvel Snap. Killed 100s of hours on both

Brotato completely eclipsed Vampire Survivors for me.

Vampire Survivors

Genshin impact, when not killing time here or reading articles elsewhere.

The android version of Dicey Dungeons plays very well. I can definitely recommend that one.

shattered pixel dungeon for a quick waiting room, mindustry for that conveyor crack cocaine of a game

2048

Space cadet pinball is the only game

Super Auto Pets is really fun and laid back. Its very strategic and pretty mechanically deep, but you battle against teams that have been pre-recorded from other players, so you can close the game at any time and rejoin whenever you have downtime. Imo it's the best parts of PVP and single player combined.

Any Kairosoft game. They are so addictive! No Ads, you pay and play forever. Perfect.

You can start with one of this:

Tropical Resort Story

Game Dev Story

kingdom Adventures

Grand Prix Story (1)

BonBon Cakery

Vampire Survivors for sure

Pickle Pete and Mini Militia

MM for the multiplayer with friends.

PP coz it's a fun game.

Flow https://play.google.com/...

Unciv and Gravity Defied

Legends of runeterra

I still spend a couple of hours a week playing plague inc.

I've got Morrowind on my fold3, it's amazing

My daughter got me addicted to Cookie Run Kingdom

Sudoku. Quick and easy to drop in and out of.

'Dots' and 'Two Dots'

I've been playing a lot of peglin, super auto pets, slice & dice, and Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links.

Phigros, Hill Climb Racing, Patapon on PPSSPP, Piano Tiles 2 (hmu for the original apk), Cytoid Other than that I just doomscroll

Wordscapes

Shadow Knight RPG and a bunch of offline card games.

Sand:box

Mighty Doom. Some of the Netflix games.

I've kinda been trying to get back to basic/classic games. Sudoku, kakuro (which is kinda like sudoku, but I like it more), and chess.

But I do also play some Super Auto Pets and Polytopia sometimes

Bus Simulator Indonesia, Endless ATC (paid), Pocket City

The Bart Bonte color puzzle games are fun and challenging. Orange is the newest, but I think I have all the others (Red, Green, Blue, Black, Pink, and Yellow): https://play.google.com/...

Oddly enough, two player game. It has some good one player player games built in

Marvel Snap, marvel's card game.

currently Dragonvale, because I like collecting things

same with Pokemon Go 💀

Marvel Snap

Vampire Survivors

Stardew valley

Mr. Autofire. Idk how but I got hooked in 2022.

Brotato

I play Lichess, Chess.com & Monogolf. Monogolf's an old game and doesn't get updates or on the play store anymore but it's so fun to play - it's like minigolf

I used to play TwoDots and some of the others from the same developer, but I recently accidentally wiped my phone's data and found out that I could not restore my progress; the game, instead of using the native ways of Android to sync data, relies on you logging into Facebook. Needless to say I stopped playing.

Currently World of Goo which I just found out is included in Netflix subscription. Just install from play store and login with your account. There are some other great games too and the games in the more typical mobile game genres are balanced on playing without microtransactions, because there are none.

Polytopia

I love Hue Too

Honestly, KotoR has been really nice. It never occurred to me that the game would port to mobile so well.

Also two friends of mine made a game called Senpei. They're a disgusting married couple that both work from home out of the same office. One does art; the other is a game dev. The bastards.

Mostly Frozen Bubble

Can try Paradise Hotel, if you just want to pass some time. FREE

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paradise.hotel&hl=en

Bullet Echo

Pixel Dungeon Rymdkapsel Dawncaster Enyo Siralim

Also card games like Magic Arena and Mythguard

As a huge star wars nerd, I've played Galaxy of Heroes for years. Super pay to win though.

I really like One More Line as a quick game for just a couple minutes. Golf odyssey has taken up this space recently too.

Rocket League Sideswipe is a fantastic 2D adaptation of rocket league. One of the best mobile adaptations I've ever played. Absolutely fantastic.

I have retro bowl installed, but tbh I had a similar app on my last phone and changed with this one and have been playing other things. Like a good

Recently I've mainly been getting into emulators. Honestly it's fucking awesome the things you can play on a phone. Especially when you pick up even a cheap controller setup for better input.

Being born in the late 90s, I've been really focusing on PS2 emulation. Lemuroid (an Android app fork of RetroArch?) seems to be able to emulate PS1 but not PS2 games. PS Emu (app on play store) is a fork of Lemuroid, adding AetherSX2 to do PS2 emulation. However, I found the the app version on AetherSX2 alone gives more settings options than the PS Emu version, helpful with more taxing titles. Some things still won't work great, it's very game dependant, but my wife played through Shrek 2 on my phone over the past couple of days, so I can confidently say some things work well.

Post Knight and Post Knight 2 are so cute

Godus

Mobile Legends Bang-Bang. Literally the only one game on my (low-end) phone. :D

Wild Rift, PokeMMO

Lichess and minesweeper

• Sudoku
• Goddess of Victory: Nikke
• Azur Lane
• Pokemon Go (if I'm out and about)

Into the breach, is excellent

Tons of emulator games along with dysmantle, arena of valor, oceanhorn, dragon quest games, pascal's wager etc. But I only play when I'm away from my pc which is not that often but these games help me kill time a lot.

I used to really like Hades Star, but I've kinda shelved it while waiting for a big overhaul update.

Vampire Survivors, Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Eternium, Stardew Valley, and I Love Hue or Minesweeper for something more chill.

NYT crossword

Merge mansion lol

10000000

It's a match three game, where you have to escape a dungeon by running 10000000 miles. Go in, get gold, exp and resources, upgrade and repeat. I've played though at least once everything I upgrade my phone. Just a well made game.

The two big ones:

-Magic Arena -Civilization Revolution 2

1. Azur Lane
2. Clash of Clans
3. Brawl Stars
4. Pokemon Go
5. Genshin Impact

I've recently downloaded Azur Lane and have been grinding it quite a bit. If I'm at a short wait, then I play Clash of Clans or Brawl Stars and hop in a quick match or attack.

Okay? https://play.google.com/...

Emulators from Lemuroid🫡

If I were to tell you, you might perish out of boredom

Pixel Dungeon Rymdkapsel Dawncaster Enyo Siralim

Also card games like Magic Arena and Mythguard

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Contains 40 puzzles of the Sudoku and Minesweeper sort.

It's free and open source, and available on a ton of platforms. On Android, I get it from the F-droid app store.

GTA 4, Mass Effect, Skyrim, Fallout 3...

All via Steam Link.