• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

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

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    21·
    2 days ago

    That’s a really wide question. I’ll give you my list of answers.

    Here are my top three:

    • Shattered Pixel Dungeon, a roguelike descended from Pixel Dungeon. It’s strayed quite far afield from the original PD, but I think most of the changes are good.

    • Mindustry, a hybrid tower defense and systems-building game. I’ve heard it compared to a game called Factorio, but I’ve never played that, so you’ll have to take it with a grain of salt. Sorry.

    • Forkyz, a crossword app, which is a fork (appropriately) of a game called Shortyz. It allows you to download daily crosswords from bunches of sources for free and play them at your leisure.

    • Chip Defense, a tower defense game themed around computers. It’s really fun if you like computers and/or tower defense.

    • Space Trader, a text-based game heavily inspired by Elite. Travel a galaxy, trade goods, blow people up, complete quests, buy a moon.

    Here are some games on F-Droid that I’m not going to link, because i don’t know how they do on Android, but I love them on PC:

    • Luanti, which used to be called Minetest. It’s an open-source voxel building game engine (like Minecraft). It’s very scriptable, and you can build a lot of stuff with a little knowledge and looking at examples.

    • Battle for Wesnoth, a turn-based hex-grid strategy game with day/night mechanics and multiple campaigns, both included and downloadable. And it’s got multiplayer too!

    • Endless Sky, a spaceflight game which borrows heavily from the Escape Velocity series. If you like the concept of Elite, you should check it out.

    • OpenTTD, an open-source version of the classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but so much more.

  • Captain Baka@feddit.org
    18·
    2 days ago

    Depends on what your definition of “good” and “free” is. If “free” means no money down and also no ads then I’d recommend Unciv. I think it’s quite good.

  • anticonnor@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 days ago

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

    • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
      5·
      2 days ago

      I don’t play on mobile, but I (and a bunch of my family) have sunk a ton of time into this game. It’s great. Very deep and engaging. It is still being updated by the dev, and is on multiple platforms.

    • Elextra@literature.cafe
      3·
      2 days ago

      Seconded. Polytopia is free and was extremely addicting when I first began. Kept me busy whole flight to Japan because you can play it offline too.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 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.

  • anticonnor@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 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
    6·
    2 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.