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[–] donnnnnb@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Evono@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Hah Not a android game directly but opens up multiple worlds of games for you... so truely a not bad contender

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[–] rave_demon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Among us and started valley

[–] interloper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I love starred valley

[–] M4775@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My favorite Android game has always been, and still is, OSMOS. It used to be in the play store. You can still get it on Android from Hemisphere. There's also iOS, Ipad, Steam (for Linux), OS X and Windows versions. I love this game so much I keep an ancient 7" pad with Marshmallow 6 offline just for it (Because I had the original on it - You don't need an ancient device).

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[–] PAPPP 3 points 2 years ago

The only commercial Android game I regularly play is Wordscapes. It's an almost embarrassing level of enduring basic bitch addiction, I don't engage with any microtransaction bait, I have a systemwide ad blocker... and I love it.

Otherwise it's all Emulators and Open Source (covered well elsewhere in this thread).

[–] pory@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's my games folder:

Finding mobile games that aren't live service garbage is tough but at least a lot of good PC games just port to android.

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[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Stardew valley. Such a good game that plays great, especially on tablet.

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

In addition to being good games, neither has any microtransactions, ads, or any of that BS, was happy to give the devs some money.

[–] keanu0396@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me, it's using emulation. I'm currently playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door from the GameCube, and there are very few android games that can match the quality of older AAA titles.

Plus, no microtransactions!

[–] DolceTriade@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like to play Lichess puzzles and chess.com puzzles.

[–] thesylveranti@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Li-chess? Is that a new form of chess?

[–] ayyndrew@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Wodge@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] cs127 1 points 2 years ago

new response just dropped

[–] throwsbooks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bloons TD 6. Only game I've had installed for years, the pop pop pop makes my brain happy in a way I can't explain.

[–] Evono@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly its a mix of everything its a great TD , with nice graphics and the sounds are simple yet so worth it.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Endless Sky, and Mindustry (especially that last one, which I haven't seen anybody else mention yet).

I get all my games from F-Droid, not any commercial app store.

[–] boopdepop@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Mindustry is such a gem. It's cross platform too, You can find it here

[–] PAPPP 1 points 2 years ago

How is Endless Sky on Android?
I've been playing Escape Velocity/Override/Nova for as long as they've been a thing, and have done like 3 laps on Endless Sky on Linux as they've added content, the most recent one firmly placing it as the best execution of the genre for me, but I'm not sure how it would translate to a little touchscreen device.

[–] MrPear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stardew Valley, Xenowerk and Don't Starve Pocket Edition.

[–] Mikey_donuts@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I keep coming back to Stardew. Such a fun game.

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[–] Pretzelise@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Orna RPG! It's a GPS game like Pokemon Go with a classic RPG style, no pay to win options, a great community, and Devs who listen to feedback with regular updates.

Genuinely the best GPS game I've played by a long shot.

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dead cells, out there omega edition, 20 minutes till dawm, vampire survivors, titan quest, hollow knight, 9th dawm rpg 3, starrows, scourgebringer, undead horde

[–] FrostKing@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hollow Knight is on Android? Wow! I never knew.

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[–] nonprofitparrot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

super auto pets is so cute and very fun

[–] PancitCantot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Hill Climb Racing 2. I don't really play much on my smartphone.

[–] oesezetao@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Mighty Doom is a fun auto shooter, made by Bethesda and has minimal ads (opt to watch for rewards) and micro transactions are not required to win.

[–] kentucky444@eslemmy.es 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Marvel Snap is cool. You can have a fun time paying 0

[–] lynchiandream@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Came here to say this. Not only can you have fun F2P, the games are quick, so you can play one in a few minutes.

[–] ErrorCode@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I do really like that so far paying is completely optional. I found so many of the android F2P are good for a couple weeks (or only days) before you realize you need to spend money to really play the game.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Vampire Survivors. It makes my phone catch fire but it is fire

[–] patfussy69@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

sling kong and smashy city r pretty cool games

[–] Sebastrion@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Vampire Survivor. I love games that i can play offline.

[–] MusketeerX@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I DO NOT SUPPORT CANDYWRITER. Play the original Instlife, the game the company Candywriter bought and deleted to destroy the competition. You being on Android you can grab an .apk file of it.

Instlife was developed by InstCoffee, a group of two indie game developers. Candywriter was at the time a 10 people company.

Instlife began development in 2016, and started gaining raising traction in 2017. BitLife was released for iOS only during the Instlife massive boom in popularity in 2018, while Instlife still had no iOS version. Bitlife gained steam thanks to a few dirty tactics (Instlife ran no ad campaigns and completely free, while Bitlife constantly spent on video ads on other games and websites and had a in-game barrier forcing people to share the game on Twitter if they wanted to have all features) and being the only game on iOS of its type it during the boom of course started doing numbers.

For every Instlife update, Bitlife would come 1 week later with the exact same feature as a carbon copy. (With Instlife gone, Bitlife actually diverged heavily from the original concept).

When Instlife began making and distributing its iOS version, Bitlife started losing players moving to the original and at the time much more complete and polished game. Not too long after the iOS release, Candywriter bought full rights to Instlife (the amount of money was never disclosured, but the acquisition was confirmed by both parties). It lasted a week under the new ownership, where it then got silently removed from both Play Store and Apple App Store and followed tweet from Candywriter announcing the acquisition and the imminent release of the Android port of Bitlife.

[–] sotolf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I really like Logic Wiz sudoku variants Basically sudoku variant puzzles, it's a lot of fun, and has really good puzzles.

[–] Evono@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Mine are bloons td 6, league of legends, and rocket league.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Been playing Golf Blitz for a couple of years and still absolutely love it. Also recently enjoyed revisiting World of Goo (although it now only seems to work if you have Netflix - I do, but it's a shame it's not available for everyone)

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

John gba lite with pokemon unbound rom.

[–] tag27@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Rhythm games, especially Phigros and COXETA. I also like the mobile port of Portal Knights, even if it is inferior compared to the other versions, and the developers have dropped this port.

[–] spasm01@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Lichess and Worldbox

[–] Waitwuhtt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] rave_demon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Squibbles@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Puzzle game where you push blocks around. Blocks with words can be pushed together to change game behavior. For example on a level with Baba, Is, and You blocks together let you control your character (your character is named Baba). But if you push a block that says Door in front of the Is and You blocks you will suddenly control the doors instead of Baba. It's a really cool concept and the levels get extremely imaginative. And also difficult

[–] croobat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Slay the spire and Downwell (PC ports I guess), it's amazing how much the quality of mobile games is for games that are more than one dollar.

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