Ask Lemmy

Shattered Pixel Dungeon roguelike GPL v3.0

Simon Tatham's puzzle game collection.

Vampire Survivors and the SMT gacha game.

I have a few emulators but the touch screen controls are torture.

I play pornhub

Chess, mostly

Tons of stuff:

I have ~135 game apps plus some that are not exactly games but not exactly for productivity.

I have lemuroid and a pile of old console games.

I have a few sites for doing other little games, like daily Akari.

highlights:

Collapsus

Endless Sky

Pixel Dungeon

Luanti

Gladiabots

Mindustry

PartyHardGO

OpenTTD

Oxenfree

Revoltaire

The full set of games by Yiotro (a dev who puts it all out there for free, no ads, and lets you buy in if you like it)

Terraria

Underhand

Space Chem

A collection of puzzle games off of Fdroid just called puzzles. It has akari, sudoku, minesweeper, signpost, galaxies, towers, etc. All the games you might find buried in the back of a newspaper.

Stardew Valley

Tic-80

A pile of games from itch.io

Foss sodoku apps from F-Droid

Solitaire. That's it.

Nonogram

https://www.nonograms.org/nonograms/size/xsmall

I never really have more than one game at a time. Right now it's Pokemon TCG Pocket.

Pixel dungeon, oceanhorn, emulators...

I'm an old bastard and mostly play patience, sudoku, and cryptic crosswords on my phone. And maybe Bloons TD 6 to get the dailies if I'm away from home without my laptop.

On console I play mostly single-player RPGs but I also play PUBG. Tried that on mobile (how my kids play it) but fuck that shit!

Also, what the hell is going on with that cloud? Isn't it cold? What's for pudding? Why do policemen look so young these days? Everything was better when I was a youngster!

Mini Metro

Pinball Deluxe Reloaded

It's a fun little time waster, I like that I don't have any ads on it either

Up until recently, I played Hearthstone every day for ten years. Some seasons were more fun than others, but ever since around November, I really haven't played it at all.

So, I downloaded Balatro around November. I really did not expect to get addicted to that game.

Right now, I'm kind of in between games, so I'm checking this list for ideas.

I play Stardew Valley sometimes, but it's not as fun as the pc version.

I've had Backpack Brawl for a while, and Balatro too. Most other games I don't play for longer than a month or so. I did play Super Snail for a long time because I liked my clubmates, but the bird update killed it for me lol

I play sudoku and chess puzzles.

Mostly Lemmy, but I reinstalled Hoplite for a flight a while ago.

Umamusume Pretty Derby

I've been playing for about 3.5 years.

Eternal Card Game

Solitaire and chess. Istg, I'm not a boomer. 24 here

Basically just 2048. I have actually had a single 7x7 game going for literally months.

Once human. By far the best phone game by such a long way

• Blendoku (Color Puzzle)
• Nonograms Katana (Pictograms puzzle)

I can also recommend the Cube Escape series (point and click escape)

Stuff made by Yiotro is pretty good
Also got some jigsaw game but for a high privacy rating there are no premade images so i end up puzzling memes out of my library (for checking app security ratings i suggest using exodus)

ISEPS and Balatro.

Right now, not much.

I used to play Stardew Valley on my phone until I got bored of it. I was fun while it lasted.

Into The Breach is also good (get a modded apk so you don't need a subscription)

Slay the Spire, still have no idea what strategies work.

That's pretty much it, everything else is not really fun.

Unciv is an Honorable mention, but after a few turns and it gets dragged on for over a day, it just gets boring and I have no interest in continuing.

Nothing, mobile games are either boring or littered with ads or pay to win

The screen is also way too small

Twenty and Balatro Sometimes Rummy or Blokus

Nothing, and it's not because I don't play mobile games. I have a GrapheneOS phone that is so insulated from modern technology that it can barely run Uber/Lyft... so I keep games on my computers and tablets. Me having a bunch of gadgets (I have a Steam Deck and a dedicated tablet for mobile games) helps too

And... speaking of this topic. I am slightly competitive on a mobile gacha game at the moment; almost no serious players for these "mobile game" play on phone because screen too small, so they end up using the PC clients anyway...

I waste my time on a website I found years ago on r/beermoney that pays pennies for installing and playing shitty games. Most of them are the garbage match 3 or dominoes or whatever. I figured out most of them still pay out even with my ad blocker on so I just dissociate with that instead of doom scrolling sometimes.

It's not the greatest thing ever and I know it's bad for privacy and capitalism and for many other reasons, but I've made like $600 on it in the last 3 years so that's been cool.

Polytopia. Like a very light Civ. No dark patterns or commercials.

• Pinball Deluxe Reloaded: so good
• lichess: so addicted

Nothing for about the last two years - before that? All sorts of different things. But finally realized pretty much every game was either just trying to get me to cough up more money, was a subpar experience because of interface/hardware limitations, and/or weren't actually fun beyond giving me a brief distraction when I was bored.

If I get to the point where I want a mobile gaming option, I'll just get a Steam Deck. Honestly the less time I spend attached to my phone, the better.

Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others.

Space Trader and Dope Wars, all the way. Still worth playing today! You can emulate it on Archive.org or there's Android ports for Space Trader. Still a fun game. :D

Breakout 71

I played Star Wars heroes or how it’s called for some time. Otherwise I’ve played a fair bit of fps stuff on iPods in the past. I don’t know if anyone remembers modern combat 2 and the rainbow six shooter on iOS ~early 2010s. arguably mobile games were in a better state than now. I vividly remember a tintin game which released with the animated movie or the one before, which was really really good not just for a mobile game but in general. All those games eventually got taken from the App Store either because of licensing or a successors release. And zhey got replaced with gacha games one way or another in the long run. Nowadays I merely have some -„no internet pass time“-games like a skater game and stuff don’t really game a lot in general and if I do I play on pc. I looked back into some games but after you discover the game loop it’s just the same. Grind to get you to spend money and I don’t have the patience and I don’t see the fun in it.

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I used to love those Kairosoft simulator games. They get a little samey after a while but you get the whole game which is cool

Mostly Pikmin Bloom right now. I like how it keeps me active, gets me out of the house, highlights public art in my city... and the pikmin are cute, of course. I appreciate that, while there are microtransactions, you can earn the coins easily through gameplay.

But previous favorites included:

• Hoplite

• Pixel Dungeon

• Chrono Trigger mobile port

• Battle for Polytopia

• Merchant RPG

• micRogue

Mtg Arena mostly. Recently started Cells and it's pretty neat, but pretty boring tbh. No lose-state = no stakes = only fun in small doses.

Vampire Survivor real fun too

When I ever play on my phone it's emulated stuff

Mostly emulators and a little chess

A few years ago I played a game called Spelltower, but it stopped working. I also played about 15 minutes of Carmageddon before losing interest one time.

Haven't played a game on my phone since, though. I think it's a frustrating experience trying to play anything on a device like a phone.