Ask Lemmy

Twenty and Balatro Sometimes Rummy or Blokus

Pinball Deluxe Reloaded

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

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!

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

The screen is also way too small

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.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon roguelike GPL v3.0

Pixel dungeon, oceanhorn, emulators...

My son and I just started playing COD Mobile again. It’s fun to grind. It’s absolutely a cash grab, but we don’t get involved with that part of it. It’s really the only game that I play these days, as I’m not really a gamer.

He plays a few other games on his phone and Xbox.

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.

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

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)

Breakout 71

I play pornhub

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

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

Solitaire. That's it.

I play sudoku and chess puzzles.

Foss sodoku apps from F-Droid

Simon Tatham's puzzle game collection.

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

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.

Threes

Lyne

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

Chess, mostly

Nonogram

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

Honkai Star Rail. Typical gacha hero collector. The gameplay is fun, the story is engaging, and you don't have to spend any money if you don't want to. I like the option of a phone game during my commute or at night in bed.

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

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 haven't had games on my phone for closer to a decade.

Mini Metro

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

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

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

Umamusume Pretty Derby

I've been playing for about 3.5 years.

I uninstalled the only one I had because it skirted my ad skirting.

I was playing Jedi Knight up to some time ago, now Eternal Darkness on the emulator (both with a cheap BT controller)

And sometimes Chess.

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

I'll admit it, I play a lot of Gardenscapes and those Diner Dash games before that. But if you're looking for more of an action game feel, try Vampire Survivors. It's free and pretty well done for what it is. You just survive as long as you can as hordes of monsters come at you. You upgrade weapons as it gets harder and harder.

I've got mini metro, something called shapez that I've not played, functional ear trainer which I'm classifying as a game cause it kinda is, and NYT games which is the only one I play regularly.