What type of game are you looking for? I’ll always recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon for turn based roguelike.
I think the only genre I don’t enjoy is platformers
I’ll give shattered pixel dungeon a try
Recently became aware of Minedustry. Looks interesting.
Also some games I tend to install on every device I own are:
Crossword Puzzles by Redstone Games… good puzzles, simple Ui, minimal ads
Simon Tatham’s Puzzles by Chris Boyle… excellent port of many classic logic puzzles, no ads
250+ Solitaires by Alexei Anoshenko… many great solitaire games, minimal ads
PySolFC has over 1000 solitaire games, no ads, and is open source.
And it looks like it’s on F-Droid, excellent!
FWIW my favorite game in it is Imperial Trump Yukon. I can win about 1 in 3 games, but have to work for it.
I use Forkyz for crossword puzzles. It downloads from lots of sources and has a pretty clean interface. No ads.
For a chill puzzle game, I’ve been enjoying the water sort puzzle from Martin Kunze. I like that version specifically because there’s no ads, no monetization, no data collection, no login, no nothing. You just sort colored water until it stops being fun.
Sword of Convallaria, it’s a gacha game, but the gacha is probably least intrusive i ever seen in similar games, and it actually have entire story mode that you can play for free with barely even engaging in main mode since it have separate character pools. It’s also heavily modelled after Final Fantasy Tactics and imo managed to keep the vibes and feeling better than any other similar game.
Simon Tathams puzzles. Its available on f-droid.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles/
Hoplite
Pixel Dungeon
Xeonjia, It’s on fdroid.
I’ve been playing the crap out of Block Blast! Hit 406,492 for a high score so far!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.block.juggle
Im surprised no one had mentioned Fallout Shelter. Its the only mobile I’ve played other then angry birds.
Unciv. Basically civ V on mobile.
It’s very questionable in terms of copyright, though
Underhand is a nice little resource management game.
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon. So perfectly balanced and updated regularly, and COMPLETELY free. Also massively addictive for a long time.
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Occidental Heroes. Tricky but fun once you have the knack for it. Equal difficulty to SPD.
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Choice of Games/Hosted Games. These are platforms for publishing text based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure stories. Not all of them are free, but they’re cheap and have huge replayability. Some of their leading CYOA games are the Infinity Saga (not marvel, lol, it’s like a Napoleonic war fantasy theme) and Creme De La Creme.
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I liked Merchant too but it’s a time hog and an idle game so its arguably built just to waste your time.
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I don’t know if I’m a good person to ask this but I still play Subway Surfers to this day
