Recommend any OFFLINE Android Games with no ads?
Recommend any OFFLINE Android Games with no ads?
Evening, all.
Looking for recommendations for any Android games that you enjoy which can be played completely offline without a data connection of any sort.
These used to be super common once upon a time, but these days it seems every single game I try just doesn't function if you are totally out of service area.
Would appreciate any tips! Thanks in advance.
Terraria
- Any Playdigious games is good.
- Any Kairosoft games.
- ICEY is such an underrated game. The narration and it's wit is so good.
- Levelhead if you want platformer and want Super Mario Maker on your phone.
- Limbo
Stardew Valley, 10/10
Shattered pixel dungeon if you like roguelikes; it's on the play store and fdroid
Puzzles - no internet, no cost, no pay-to-win, no ads, no fancy UI, just classic logic puzzles!
I quite enjoy Hoplite.
Simon Tatham's puzzle collection is my fallback game for whenever I don't have internet or am bored with whatever other game I'm playing
Mindustry and Unciv are my main recommendations. If you like strategy stuff, you'll have a blast.
antimine is a fun and well made minesweeper clone, also its foss
Found an old archive so I'm going to ad to the thread myself:
Alto's Adventure and Alto's Odyssey both definitely work offline, but I'm not sure about them trying to serve you advertisements.
I also used to have a considerable library of emulated games on my phone and would use a bluetooth gamepad. I should probably go back down this road I think! I'd imagine emulation has come a long way since I was mucking around with it.
On this topic I wish there was a definitive place to find Android games that have controller support. No microtransactions.. I will have to download and try again first and then 90% of the time it doesn't meet my criteria for playable.
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hamsteroncoke.oxxo
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esuli.it.CrisSpider
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.q42.ohhi
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MagnusOlsson.LittleWhiteRocket
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley2
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hamsteroncoke.zenge
I've been really enjoying Pocket City !pocket_city@lemmy.world
Yioto is a great indie dev with lots of gems, but if particularly recommend Antiyoy.
I'd also recommend Battle for Polytopia.
I'm fairly certain both these turn based strategy games will work fine offline.
Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync I'm pretty sure it works offline...
Troll Patrol. The base game is with ads but can be upgraded cheaply to a pro version with no ads. It's an excellent match-3 rogue-lite RPG. I was playing it for the last two months. Similar to You must build a boat, for example. The developer also closed his subreddit because of recent API changes. He's a good guy, You can show him some love and buy his game.
I believe Kotor 1 doesn't require a connection to play, and it's more of a tactical game, so it's not as annoying to play on a touch screen.
Hocus. It's a MC Escher puzzle solving game! Google play link
Pixel Dungeon or Shattered Pixel. They're roguelike dungeon explorers. The latter is a continuation of the former, which hasn't been developed for some years now.
Unciv and Shattered Pixel Dungeon have been on my Phone forever. Both available on FDroid.
Can recommend Oxenfree and Kentucky Route Zero. They are tied to a Netflix subscription on mobile though (on the other hand, if you already have Netflix, they’re free).
Besides that, Monument Valley 1 and 2 are amazing games. And The Room series is also very entertaining.
I also would recommend Broken age and Life is Strange but they seem to not be on the Google Play Store anymore…
Unciv and Mindustry, both which are also free, on fdroid, and open-source.
Patience balls
Endless Sky is a space fleet building, trading, battling, exploration game. Free and open source.
There is a Cultist Simulator there. I don't know about Android port much, but it's a good game on PC
Peglin! It's an amazing peggle style rouge-lite
Star Traders: Frontiers. Be a space trucker/pirate/merc. Singleplayer offline space turn-based RPG Pay once only but frequent free updates. No bullshit P2W, gacha, timers etc etc.
Bonus: kill xenos scum, customize your ship load out, satisfying crew combat.
Cons: annoying RNG card minigame for spying, blockading, salvaging. Enemies esp. xenos can get very unforgiving on high difficulty setting.
The Layton games - the DS games have been ported to Android and totally slap. As someone who never had a DS, I'm enjoying this era of the games coming to Android and being playable here.
Have you tried looking on itch.io? I recently got a few games from there (some are hosted on the play store but not all)
Only bad thing about browsing is that 80% of the games seem to be dating sims or visual novels (which is fine if you're looking for that, but annoying if you're not)
Edit: infidhells seems really fun, but haven't had time to play much, to use all the gameplay features it's worth playing with the sound on (though it has accessibility options for playing without audio).
I've been playing Card Quest a bit, it's a card-based roguelike.
Magic Research It's an paid offline idle game without ads and a nice progression. Also has a demo. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcolotto.magicresearchfull
Rusted Warfare is a great RTS. It has offline and online server hosting (never seen that on mobile before). It feels like I'm playing an RTS on GameRanger.
Sand:box, plague inc (i recommend buying premium for both) and all games on f-droid.
SuperTuxKart I guess? It lets you to play offline, although online mode and add-ons are required internet connection.
My go-to for like 5 years has been StudyGE. It's just a Geography game, but for the rare ocassions where I have nothing else to do and I don't have Internet in my phone I go to it.
There's also the trivia game Dilemo, though that is in Spanish and I think it might have some ads, it's just that it serves them so infrequently that I'm not even sure if I hallucinated them. Like I think it only serves ads when you have been playing it for long-ass sessions, and I usually only play for a few minutes, so.
Witcheye is a good version of flappy bird, as its controlled with only one finger, with extremely difficult platforming.
Supermeat boy forever, great game all around but very difficult.
The Room is a fantastic series of lovely 3D puzzle box and room games! I really enjoy them :3
The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xigmagames.thebonfireFL&hl=en&gl=US
This is one of the few (not including humble bundles from may moons ago) non-free to play games I have. Great game.
If you like managing games, like manage a fantasy town, or manage a gaming development software house, or an airport, or a restaurant, or a SPA, then I'd suggest Kairosoft. Their games are the last bastion of old school pixel graphics offline games with no DLC whatsoever.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=7710637777904825280&hl=it&gl=US
Vampire Survivors, 20 minutes till dawn, geometry dash. Space cadet for android - available on github, super meat boy forever.
Templar Battleforce.
The phoenix wright and danganronpa series are both on android ad free.
OpenTTD! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openttd.sdl&hl=en&gl=US
It's a FOSS version of Transport Tycoon.Papers Please is what I mostly play on my phone on aeroplanes (if I haven't packed the steam deck). A classic that works well on mobile
Also, Mini Metro (and the rest of the series) is great.
coffeegolf
Shadowmatic is a great little puzzle game. It's paid but the graphics and attention to detail are incredible.
PewPew live and PewPew 2
PewPew live and PewPew 2
Soul Knight is my go to
my go to is frequently Puzzles. it is a bunch of classic puzzles rolled into one, and i'll just go through my favorites on a loop. on a second hand, if you like rogue-likes, Hyperrogue and Shattered Pixel Dungeon are both fun free and offline.
Angry Birds. I bought a ad free version for like 2 bucks and it's the original angry birds with no MTX.
Battle for Wesnoth is cool once you get used to the weird controls
slice and dice
Every game is a no ads game with blockada :)
Just saw your other comment about traveling, my go to game is Pirates Outlaws, cost a bit money but is offline ad free and very fun. I put a lot of flight hours with it
Sand:box, plague inc (i recommend buying premium for both) and all games on f-droid.
Sand:box, plague inc (i recommend buying premium for both) and all games on f-droid.
Sand:box, plague inc (i recommend buying premium for both) and all games on f-droid