9mo ago

What games do you play on your phone?

Hey! I looked around a bit and the last thread like this I found was several months ago, so I thought I'd make a new one. As per the title, what game do you play on your phone? I'm both looking for new ones myself by also hope others might find some of interest to them.

For my own part of this I mostly like puzzle games, especially these:

Hook, Klocki, NABOKI etc. from Rainbow Trains games

Monument Valley games from ustwo games

The Room series from Fireproof games

I Love Hue duology from Zut!

And all the games from Legenbeary games (very addicted to Wordathlon, currently at level 3253)

(all playstore links)

Would love recommendations of any lesser-known similar ones! But post anything you like of course. :)

Hope anyone finds something they like from my list above or recommend by others in comments (if there are any, heh).

Cheers!

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Shattered pixel dungeon. So fucking addictive and good
- And completely free of ads, microtransactions, and locked content of any description.
- Yeah! Played that a lot a couple of years ago, and some of the variations. Ever tried Caves (roguelike)? Similar in a lot of ways but I like the design more.
  
  I was trying to send you down a rabbit hole and you just pulled the 'no u' card.
  Thanks

Maybe I'm weird but I don't. I miss those days of genuine well crafted smartphone games you bought once and played.
I bought the games I played but I guess a few bucks was too much for most people. It's just not worth shoveling through garbage to find a few gems when I could spend my time doing anything else. My iPod touch was my DS back in the day.

Haven't been playing much recently, but Shattered Pixel Dungeon is my favorite Android game.

Anything I can play with a controller on my PC, because I can stream Steam games to my phone from my PC over the Internet and I have a thing to hold my phone with a Bluetooth controller.
- I've wanted to get a holder to join my phone and controller, but I haven't found one that works with any of the controllers I have :/ I'm a sucker for buttons on the underside of controllers and the "official" ones available (xbox elite and dualsense edge) are way too expensive... And those are the only ones that I find phone attachment thingys for. I have a Gulikit KK3 and it's an absolutely amazing controller, only two small negatives are the lack of the above-mentioned and a headphone jack. Otherwise, it's easily the best normal style controller I've ever used (I have a deep love for the original steam controller, but mine died a while ago and it has some glaring issues that barely make up for all the greatness).
- What do you use to stream games?
  
  The SteamLink app.
  
  Thought I'd chime in and also recommend GeForce Now and Shadow for cloud streaming on your phone, both work well for specific games. Nothing that needs super quick response times and frame-perfect inputs, but more games than I would have guessed work great!

Every single color made by Barte Bonte. I'm really hyped for Purple to come out.
Start with Green
- Oooh, I've tried those games, think I finished the first two but just forgot about them. Thanks for the reminder! Definitely picking up the rest.
- I get down with some minesweeper too, every now and then
  
  Oh yeah, been deep into minesweeper a couple of times through the years. Specifically love Minesweeper - The Clean One. Very well designed both in UI and UX.

Clash Royale mostly and sometimes the Alto's series

Basically just Fire Emblem Heroes right now.
I keep trying to find a fun game that isn't a pay to win where you need to whale hundreds of dollars for a -chance- to get something usable (FE Heroes is kinda like this but not too bad) but everything on the app store seems like garbage whenever I look. It's all designed to punish you if you don't pay enough money. I don't mind paying a bit for a game I like but I can't really find anything good.
I might end up just buying Slay The Spire, even though I already own it on PC.
- All the way through your comment I was thinking, you should try Slay the Spire, but you beat me to it. Another one you might consider is Star Traders: Frontiers I don't think it has any microtransactions (it's also on Steam)
- GBA emulator + Fire Emblem ROMs ftw
  
  I'm not a fan of touchscreen buttons, so I ended up getting a few SBC Gaming devices that emulate games really well and with a native or scaled resolution to match original systems. Or just play them on original hardware (using a flash cartridge if needed).
  But to avoid carrying an extra device, android emulation is the way to go.

Lexica
Simon Tatham's Puzzles
That's pretty alarming that Legenbeary Games collects location and personal info. I would avoid such a developer.
- Damn, I was gonna write a whole thing about that and say FOSS etc. games are especially appreciated. Sorry!
  I use a couple of things to stop stuff like that, haven't found anything that works perfectly for everything but the most used ones I've had (to my knowledge) success with:
  Adguard to block any Internet connection to an app. (Adguard website link)
  Warden (gitlab link, latest release was 3 years ago but it still works for some apps)
  Permission Manager X (f-droid link)
  I'll update the post tomorrow with the part I meant to add! Just took my sleeping pills so it's goodbye working brain till then.
  Again, sorry! I had this in mind from the start, just got so focused on getting links and formatting... No excuse, my bad.
  
  It's fine. I use NetGuard myself. The bigger issue is with apps that require a connection to run.

I prefer action games. I quite enjoyed the Space Marshalls series.

I go through phases with games. I always have a jigsaw puzzle game going. Right now I'm obsessed with Killer Sudoku. I occasionally play Mahjong 3D or one of the tap-out games.

i've severely pruned my games list over the years. the ones which still survive are simon tatham's puzzles, lichess, forkyz (from f-droid), chess pro, 6 takes, pudding monsters hd, unblock me premium.
that last one, quite appropriately, is played during the morning loo session.

Marvel Snap. It’s the best strategic card game I’ve ever played, although the meta bullshit does tend to get old.

I don't really play games but I do have Antimine that I use occasionally.
- Gonna check it out! I have a LOT of hours in Minesweeper - The Clean One and they look very similar from just the screenshots. But animation and feel play a big part in minimalist stuff. Thanks for the recommendation!

Http://lishogi.org Japanese chess, it's a website, but I just have it as a shortcut. Great way to kill time and stimulate brain cells.

Typically I don't, but in the past Duet was great, except I finished the game.
Auralux and SwordandGlory are the only two I ever open these days.

Mini Metro
Mario Run
Vampire Survivors
Card Crawl
Card Thief
Final Fantasy Tactics
Professor Layton
Miracle Merchant
Game Dev Story
Game Dev Tycoon
Motorsport Manager Mobile
Landrule
Reigns
Wingspan
10000000

Super auto pets.

Dead cells, genshin impact, titan quest, vampire survivors, magic survival, delight games, wreckfest, interstellar pilot, 9th dawn 3 RPG, 20 minutes till dawn, Alien shooter 2 reloaded, Asphalt extreme Netflix edition, Bit dungeon 3, morphite, crying suns, death's door Netflix edition, doomdepths, dragonfist limitless, powder roguelike, grimvalor, hollow knight, hero siege: pocket edition, magium.
There are lots more but these are the games which I mix and play once a while.

Bloons TD6 and Peglin
- Peglin is great! Been looking for something similar for a while, but the best I've found are other pc rougelike ports like: Dicey Dungeons.
  If your into deck builders Slay the Spire is always great as well as Pirate Outlaws

Nothing particularly unique - Stardew Valley, Minecraft: Java Edition, Minetest, Hill Climb Racing, Vector Pinball, Geometry Dash, Cookie Clicker, Crash Bandicoot through Lemuroid, 2048
- Geometry dash is special, I remember playing it in its first years back in 2013-2015. It was cool then but never super popular, but man have they worked on it and made one of the coolest and most powerful level editors ever. Haven't played it myself since back then but my younger half-brother and all his friends are crazy about it, and I keep up to date with the unbelievable levels people make. And the frame perfect world records.

Currently it's Theotown, which is basically SimCity but with very fair monetization and it has plugins.
It seems like you like puzzle games, so I would suggest Pic-a-Pix, Trees and Tents, and Hashi.

A few from memory that are puzzle type:
Phoenix wright series
Danganronpa series
Professor Layton series
Rusty lake series
Ghost trick

Anyone remember Burrito Bison? Must be the last game I played on my phone and that was years ago. Many years.

Hearthstone
Mario Run
Simon Tatham's Puzzles
and - not an app - because they make you pay, but it's free in a web browser:
https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/series/cryptic

I like to play Papers Please on my phone, I put it in endless mode to just play a little here and there if I have a short amount of free time. I also have Kingdom Two Crowns which isn't necessarily a puzzle game as much as it could be considered a strategy game

Unciv is all I'll say.

Dadish

The best puzzle game in history, chess!
Lichess is (totally) free and has puzzles, trainings and online matchmaking (bullet, blitz, longer games etc).
I'm quite addicted to the Lichess "problems", it's never ending puzzles taken from real games (where one player did a mistake or didn't play the better move).

Magic research

I've been slogging through the Plants vs Zombies 2 Reflourished mod. That, and continuing with Fire Emblem Heroes. Otherwise, not much.

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