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.
When i have 5 minutes to burn on a commute, I play chess puzzles on lichess.
That’s a really wide question. I’ll give you my list of answers.
Here are my top three:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chip Defense, a tower defense game themed around computers. It’s really fun if you like computers and/or tower defense.
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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:
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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.
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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!
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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.
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OpenTTD, an open-source version of the classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but so much more.
I second shattered pixel dungeon (there’s even a lemmy sub in here somewhere) and endless skyes (runs quite well on a phone)
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Unciv. Basically civ V on mobile.
It’s very questionable in terms of copyright, though
Recently became aware of Minedustry. Looks interesting.
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.
Polytopia
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.
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.
What type of game are you looking for? I’ll always recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon for turn based roguelike.
I think the only genre I don’t enjoy is platformers
I’ll give shattered pixel dungeon a try
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
I use Forkyz for crossword puzzles. It downloads from lots of sources and has a pretty clean interface. No ads.
PySolFC has over 1000 solitaire games, no ads, and is open source.
And it looks like it’s on F-Droid, excellent!
I’ve been playing the crap out of Block Blast! Hit 406,492 for a high score so far!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.block.juggle
I don’t know if I’m a good person to ask this but I still play Subway Surfers to this day
Melvor Idle gives a good taste with its demo. It’s based on Runescape, but an idle version.
