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Android games that are actually good? (looking for recommendations) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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I don't care much about mobile gaming, and when I play something to kill time on it, it's often Minesweeper, Sudoku, Dominoes... back when I first got an smartphone (2019) I tried out several games, mindnumbing idlers, big-IP gacha-crap, they all look pretty much the same and looking at the store today I can't find anything that looks remotely interesting... I mean, I just saw this one Tomb of the Mask but then at the reviews you see people saying this game used to be good but now it has aggressive monetization on everything.

I remember having some good time with Autochess, an Elder Scrolls card game and some Warhammer 40k games, another fun game I played for a bit was Magic Rampage, and I also really liked Stranger Things: The Game (I just saw it was renamed to Stranger Things 1984), but it has been some years since I last played so I don't know if they became an Ad hell as well.
Back then, I bought two games: Solitairica - which I recently reinstalled and it's still great. And Rebel Inc. - which I also recently reinstalled but they released several packs of premium content so everywhere you tap they are trying to sell you something... and since I last played they also added a new difficulty setting that is looking very p2w and it's quite sad. Night of the Full Moon is another game I liked a lot, I tried to buy the full game back then but I was getting an error in the store and gave up, I might buy it now.

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

There's a small strategy game called ‘Antiyoy’, with simplistic mechanics, which works for short-ish games: you can do a stint while waiting in queue or such. Iirc ‘Antiyoy Classic’ is entirely offline, while the regular one has an online mode. Both have no ads and near zero permissions, unless something changed since I last played.

You can try ‘Diplicity’ for an online strategy a-la ‘Risk’ where you bargain and do alliances with other players, until one of you wins the whole thing. There's no randomness. It's an implementation of the board game ‘Diplomacy’.

‘Hocus’ is a nice spatial puzzle with impossible geometry. Iirc it requires payment for additional levels, but has no ads.

The app ‘Fabularium’ runs text adventures, i.e. games where you type your actions and read the description of what happens. There are a myriad of such adventure games, many with novel mechanics. You'll need to download the games themselves separately, mainly from IFDb.org. ‘Fabularium’ isn't the only app that runs text adventures, but I like it and it supports more formats than some other apps do.