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[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

In addition to being good games, neither has any microtransactions, ads, or any of that BS, was happy to give the devs some money.

[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stardew valley. Such a good game that plays great, especially on tablet.

[–] helmet91@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We've started it with my girlfriend, both on Android, and we're hooked. We're even considering buying the PC version for the multiplayer features.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Endless Sky, and Mindustry (especially that last one, which I haven't seen anybody else mention yet).

I get all my games from F-Droid, not any commercial app store.

[–] boopdepop@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mindustry is such a gem. It's cross platform too, You can find it here

[–] HashinHenry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Merely a gateway drug to Factorio

[–] iSharted@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I love factorio!

[–] donnnnnb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lolreconlol@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you use any sort of controller, or just use the on screen buttons?

[–] donnnnnb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Can't stand the on screen buttons. I use this thing with the clip.

[–] Evono@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mine are bloons td 6, league of legends, and rocket league.

[–] PAPPP@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

The only commercial Android game I regularly play is Wordscapes. It's an almost embarrassing level of enduring basic bitch addiction, I don't engage with any microtransaction bait, I have a systemwide ad blocker... and I love it.

Otherwise it's all Emulators and Open Source (covered well elsewhere in this thread).

[–] Arigion@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago
[–] patfussy69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

sling kong and smashy city r pretty cool games

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

John gba lite with pokemon unbound rom.

[–] Waitwuhtt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rave_demon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Squibbles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Puzzle game where you push blocks around. Blocks with words can be pushed together to change game behavior. For example on a level with Baba, Is, and You blocks together let you control your character (your character is named Baba). But if you push a block that says Door in front of the Is and You blocks you will suddenly control the doors instead of Baba. It's a really cool concept and the levels get extremely imaginative. And also difficult

[–] spasm01@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lichess and Worldbox

[–] croobat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Slay the spire and Downwell (PC ports I guess), it's amazing how much the quality of mobile games is for games that are more than one dollar.

[–] barret907k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Been really enjoying Night of the Full Moon. Slay the Spire like but the opponents have decks and play like players. It's free to play with expansions and an ad free experience you can pay for. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ztgame.yyzy

[–] Sebastrion@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Vampire Survivor. I love games that i can play offline.

[–] keanu0396@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, it's using emulation. I'm currently playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door from the GameCube, and there are very few android games that can match the quality of older AAA titles.

Plus, no microtransactions!

[–] DolceTriade@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to play Lichess puzzles and chess.com puzzles.

[–] thesylveranti@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Li-chess? Is that a new form of chess?

[–] ayyndrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Wodge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Holy Hell etc.

[–] DolceTriade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nah it's just a chess app

[–] MusketeerX@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I DO NOT SUPPORT CANDYWRITER. Play the original Instlife, the game the company Candywriter bought and deleted to destroy the competition. You being on Android you can grab an .apk file of it.

Instlife was developed by InstCoffee, a group of two indie game developers. Candywriter was at the time a 10 people company.

Instlife began development in 2016, and started gaining raising traction in 2017. BitLife was released for iOS only during the Instlife massive boom in popularity in 2018, while Instlife still had no iOS version. Bitlife gained steam thanks to a few dirty tactics (Instlife ran no ad campaigns and completely free, while Bitlife constantly spent on video ads on other games and websites and had a in-game barrier forcing people to share the game on Twitter if they wanted to have all features) and being the only game on iOS of its type it during the boom of course started doing numbers.

For every Instlife update, Bitlife would come 1 week later with the exact same feature as a carbon copy. (With Instlife gone, Bitlife actually diverged heavily from the original concept).

When Instlife began making and distributing its iOS version, Bitlife started losing players moving to the original and at the time much more complete and polished game. Not too long after the iOS release, Candywriter bought full rights to Instlife (the amount of money was never disclosured, but the acquisition was confirmed by both parties). It lasted a week under the new ownership, where it then got silently removed from both Play Store and Apple App Store and followed tweet from Candywriter announcing the acquisition and the imminent release of the Android port of Bitlife.

[–] MusketeerX@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ha, interesting I'd never heard of any of this, I was quite late to the game. This sort of crap p*sses me off.

Will check out the original.

[–] Tywele@dataterm.digital 1 points 1 year ago

My favourite Android game is Genshin Impact even though I only play it on PC... but hey it exists on Android 😬

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sand:box premium

[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's my games folder:

Finding mobile games that aren't live service garbage is tough but at least a lot of good PC games just port to android.

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[–] M4775@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My favorite Android game has always been, and still is, OSMOS. It used to be in the play store. You can still get it on Android from Hemisphere. There's also iOS, Ipad, Steam (for Linux), OS X and Windows versions. I love this game so much I keep an ancient 7" pad with Marshmallow 6 offline just for it (Because I had the original on it - You don't need an ancient device).

[–] rave_demon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Among us and started valley

[–] interloper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I love starred valley

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Vampire Survivors. It makes my phone catch fire but it is fire

[–] limerod@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dead cells, out there omega edition, 20 minutes till dawm, vampire survivors, titan quest, hollow knight, 9th dawm rpg 3, starrows, scourgebringer, undead horde

[–] FrostKing@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hollow Knight is on Android? Wow! I never knew.

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[–] oesezetao@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] PancitCantot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hill Climb Racing 2. I don't really play much on my smartphone.

[–] Pretzelise@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Orna RPG! It's a GPS game like Pokemon Go with a classic RPG style, no pay to win options, a great community, and Devs who listen to feedback with regular updates.

Genuinely the best GPS game I've played by a long shot.

[–] Schlomocucumber@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Marvel Contest of Champions or emulators when I actually want to play something

Royal Match or Woody when I just want to kill a couple minutes

[–] Mell@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Lichess - Parce que les échecs c'est trop bien
  • Mindustry - Parce que le jeux est ultra bien fait et que la gestion de ressources c'est cool et reposant
  • Slice & Dice - J'aime bien le fait que le jeux utilise les dés pour les attaques et la façon dont les personnages s'améliore
[–] CoffeeDart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Translated: Lichess - Because chess is so good Mindustry - Because the game is very well done and resource management is cool and relaxing Slice & Dice - I like how the game uses dice for attacks and how the characters improve

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