• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 days ago

    • Shattered Pixel Dungeon. So perfectly balanced and updated regularly, and COMPLETELY free. Also massively addictive for a long time.

    • Occidental Heroes. Tricky but fun once you have the knack for it. Equal difficulty to SPD.

    • 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.

    • I liked Merchant too but it’s a time hog and an idle game so its arguably built just to waste your time.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Im surprised no one had mentioned Fallout Shelter. Its the only mobile I’ve played other then angry birds.

  • Valarie@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    6 days ago

    Firstly I need to agree with the posts saying shattered pixel dungeon

    Second if you haven’t seen anything on it look into https://www.luanti.org/en/

    It is technically just a game engine but there are a bunch of games on it including one called minetest that is very similar to Minecraft

    Other bonus is that the engine and thus all the games run on windows, android, Linux and I think Mac

    Other fun options but they are technically ports and are technically maybe paid

    1 there is software to add Mobile controls to old wolfenstein and doom games

    2 you can get a gba emulator like lemudroid from f-droid and play any gba game you can get a ROM for

    (Some of the ROMs can be found on archive.org for free if you look)

  • anticonnor@lemmy.world
    9·
    8 days ago

    What type of game are you looking for? I’ll always recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon for turn based roguelike.

  • anticonnor@lemmy.world
    7·
    8 days ago

    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

  • alianne@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 days ago

    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.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
    5·
    8 days ago

    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.