this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
49 points (94.5% liked)

Ask Lemmy

33706 readers
1689 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

We are coming from here.

I'm not gonna lie, guys, neither say the opposite: there are people who play in their phones, I bet you do, so do I. I'm curious to know what do you play in your phones, what kind of "phone gamer" are you. Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others. All those are games that perfectly use the touch capabilities of its device, but now, we have more process capacity, and we still have one touch screen (I know, you can touch many points of the screen at the same time). I've always seen the screen of my phone as a one big button, so, I can't play any game that needs more than one touch to be played. I do limit my catalogue of games to those mentioned above, and I really like them. I love sudoku.

What do you play in your phone?

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Prancingpotato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Seconded, can be quite hard to pick up at first, but developing strategies and learning is soooo rewarding

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Same, it's a nice little game to pickup!

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Simon Tatham's puzzle game collection.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Chess, mostly

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Vampire Survivors and the SMT gacha game.

I have a few emulators but the touch screen controls are torture.

[–] euAppleHater@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm like, "Hold up, how did, that's not even me
Like, I don't jerk off mobily"

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Solitaire. That's it.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Tons of stuff:

I have ~135 game apps plus some that are not exactly games but not exactly for productivity.

I have lemuroid and a pile of old console games.

I have a few sites for doing other little games, like daily Akari.

highlights:

Collapsus

Endless Sky

Pixel Dungeon

Luanti

Gladiabots

Mindustry

PartyHardGO

OpenTTD

Oxenfree

Revoltaire

The full set of games by Yiotro (a dev who puts it all out there for free, no ads, and lets you buy in if you like it)

Terraria

Underhand

Space Chem

A collection of puzzle games off of Fdroid just called puzzles. It has akari, sudoku, minesweeper, signpost, galaxies, towers, etc. All the games you might find buried in the back of a newspaper.

Stardew Valley

Tic-80

A pile of games from itch.io

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 6 points 1 month ago

Foss sodoku apps from F-Droid

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I never really have more than one game at a time. Right now it's Pokemon TCG Pocket.

[–] reef@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

!pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online

There are weekly trading threads

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 points 4 weeks ago

I'm an old bastard and mostly play patience, sudoku, and cryptic crosswords on my phone. And maybe Bloons TD 6 to get the dailies if I'm away from home without my laptop.

On console I play mostly single-player RPGs but I also play PUBG. Tried that on mobile (how my kids play it) but fuck that shit!

Also, what the hell is going on with that cloud? Isn't it cold? What's for pudding? Why do policemen look so young these days? Everything was better when I was a youngster!

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago
[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Pixel dungeon, oceanhorn, emulators...

[–] Almonds@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I play Stardew Valley sometimes, but it's not as fun as the pc version.

I've had Backpack Brawl for a while, and Balatro too. Most other games I don't play for longer than a month or so. I did play Super Snail for a long time because I liked my clubmates, but the bird update killed it for me lol

[–] OnfireNFS@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Pinball Deluxe Reloaded

It's a fun little time waster, I like that I don't have any ads on it either

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Mostly Lemmy, but I reinstalled Hoplite for a flight a while ago.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I play sudoku and chess puzzles.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Up until recently, I played Hearthstone every day for ten years. Some seasons were more fun than others, but ever since around November, I really haven't played it at all.

So, I downloaded Balatro around November. I really did not expect to get addicted to that game.

Right now, I'm kind of in between games, so I'm checking this list for ideas.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

ISEPS and Balatro.

[–] karasu_sue@pf.korako.me 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went to the page, I watched a few videos, and I still have no idea what this game is. (Besides a boob physics engine)

[–] karasu_sue@pf.korako.me 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here's the global site, sorry I posted the Japanese one earlier
https://umamusume.com/

By the way, all of the characters in Umamusume are anthropomorphized versions of real racehorses.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Basically just 2048. I have actually had a single 7x7 game going for literally months.

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Solitaire and chess. Istg, I'm not a boomer. 24 here

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago
  • Blendoku (Color Puzzle)
  • Nonograms Katana (Pictograms puzzle)

I can also recommend the Cube Escape series (point and click escape)

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Stuff made by Yiotro is pretty good
Also got some jigsaw game but for a high privacy rating there are no premade images so i end up puzzling memes out of my library (for checking app security ratings i suggest using exodus)

[–] Lorax@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Once human. By far the best phone game by such a long way

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Nothing, mobile games are either boring or littered with ads or pay to win

The screen is also way too small

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Twenty and Balatro Sometimes Rummy or Blokus

[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Nothing, and it's not because I don't play mobile games. I have a GrapheneOS phone that is so insulated from modern technology that it can barely run Uber/Lyft... so I keep games on my computers and tablets. Me having a bunch of gadgets (I have a Steam Deck and a dedicated tablet for mobile games) helps too

And... speaking of this topic. I am slightly competitive on a mobile gacha game at the moment; almost no serious players for these "mobile game" play on phone because screen too small, so they end up using the PC clients anyway...

[–] coredev@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago

Polytopia. Like a very light Civ. No dark patterns or commercials.

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

Eternal Card Game

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago
  • Pinball Deluxe Reloaded: so good
  • lichess: so addicted
[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I waste my time on a website I found years ago on r/beermoney that pays pennies for installing and playing shitty games. Most of them are the garbage match 3 or dominoes or whatever. I figured out most of them still pay out even with my ad blocker on so I just dissociate with that instead of doom scrolling sometimes.

It's not the greatest thing ever and I know it's bad for privacy and capitalism and for many other reasons, but I've made like $600 on it in the last 3 years so that's been cool.

[–] proti@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I was playing Jedi Knight up to some time ago, now Eternal Darkness on the emulator (both with a cheap BT controller)

[–] Zier@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Global Thermonuclear War. And sometimes Chess.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 4 weeks ago

I used to love those Kairosoft simulator games. They get a little samey after a while but you get the whole game which is cool

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

I used to have a PDA, even back in the late '90s I got as a hand-me-down. I used to play games on that and my first several phones. These days, though, if I'm using my phone it's never for gaming. If I have free time, I'm using a flashcard app to study or watching previously-downloaded youtube vids for downtime. I guess the one exception was when I was doing the prep for a colonoscopy, I fired up ALTTPR on a SNES emulator on tablet to kill time. That's the only time I can think of in the last probably 2 years I've played any games on anything mobile at all.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Mostly Pikmin Bloom right now. I like how it keeps me active, gets me out of the house, highlights public art in my city... and the pikmin are cute, of course. I appreciate that, while there are microtransactions, you can earn the coins easily through gameplay.

But previous favorites included:

  • Hoplite

  • Pixel Dungeon

  • Chrono Trigger mobile port

  • Battle for Polytopia

  • Merchant RPG

  • micRogue

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 4 weeks ago

Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others.

Space Trader and Dope Wars, all the way. Still worth playing today! You can emulate it on Archive.org or there's Android ports for Space Trader. Still a fun game. :D

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Breakout 71

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

A few years ago I played a game called Spelltower, but it stopped working. I also played about 15 minutes of Carmageddon before losing interest one time.

Haven't played a game on my phone since, though. I think it's a frustrating experience trying to play anything on a device like a phone.

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Mtg Arena mostly. Recently started Cells and it's pretty neat, but pretty boring tbh. No lose-state = no stakes = only fun in small doses.

Vampire Survivor real fun too

load more comments
view more: next ›