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I've been playing old electron engine game like icewind Dale & Baldur's gate. Even Neverwinter nights runs & plays great.

Antimatter Dimensions

I really like the polybridge series of games. Bridge puzzle game worh great mechanics.

Lots of good PC ports. The Kotor series and Baldurs gate 1 and 2 and icewind dale ports are good.

Autochess is fun. Lots of opportunities to spend money but none are important, just cosmetic.

Balatro is good (if you like that game as i do)

And also a series of games called "doors" are fun to pass the time. Like a puzzle box where solving one element opens another until the door is opened.

It is 99% crap on the stores though. I tend to get ports and emulators for most of my mobile gaming.

I must have spent days playing Smash Hit

Slice and dice, infinitnode

I mean... not sure if it counts as mobile but the entire history of console gaming up to few years ago works on emulators, so that's a VAST choice. Sure you might dislike 99.99% but if there is even 0.01% you enjoy, that's hundreds of games if not more!

Check https://search.f-droid.org/?q=emulator and consider a BT controller.

Besides the waiting, Clash of Clans is actually decent.

(And besides a few youth sins) I am 100% free to play)

If you're into deck building give "Dominion" a go. The base game is free (which is absolutely playable) and a good way to get into the swing of the game. The AI is a cheating bastard through, so either play it on "easy" or play with some friends. It's SERIOUSLY addictive.

Yeah game-enjoyment is subjective. Mobile games dob't require a 2-hour tutorial before full game starts so people play them. I seen people play the "ad-spam" games on bus without being bothered by the ads.

Anyway go play sakura blade story mode on mobile the soundtrack is awesome.

There's a free mobile game called sky that I'd highly recommend, it's extremely calming but also very well made.

baba is you is pretty good.

For games currently out and available:

• Slay The Spire ( a bit more than just something to pass the time with IMO, but again, it's a direct port from PC )

• SuperTuxKart ( I personally don't like the mobile version over control issues I have, but it's still real fun IMO, if you like good kart racers )

• Feudal Tactics ( definitely a time passer on smaller maps )

• HyperRogue ( trippy non-Euclidean game )

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon ( I suck at it, but it's a fun enough dungeon crawler )

• Mindustry ( PC port is more my style, but fun base defense resource extraction game overall )

For games to come out hopefully soon:

• Maze Mice ( I'm addicted to that game and am half tempted to buy it on mobile when it drops if the dev provides a way to buy an APK for the game instead of going through g••gle play. Think Superhot meets Pac-Man meets roguelite ( rougelike? ) )

Unciv

Scrolled the entire page. Just to not see hill climb racing, and slither.io

Unnamed space idle: free idle game without any ads kr necessary purchases

Breakout 71. I could play for 30 seconds or 15 minutes. No ads, lots to unlock. Really like this one.

https://f-droid.org/packages/me.lecaro.breakout

Others have Mentioned Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Love that one too.

Here are some that I've played:

Shattered Pixel Dungeon - Roguelike

Endless Sky - SpaceSim

Simon Tatham's Puzzle Collection - Puzzles

Katawa Shoujo - Visual Novel

Snoot Game - Ditto

Gurgle - Worldle clone

TuxKart - Mario Kart clone

yes, if you like emulation. Just put a gamecube in there, maybe a playstation. I had fun with hoyo stuff too, but fuck the gacha mechanics.

Tetris.

Maybe it's not what you're looking for, but classics are classics for a reason. If you're on anything remotely standard you can find a port.

Balatro, all the other rougelites, monster train, slay the spire, etc.

Only ports of premium games, mobile games ironically were at their best before smartphones, java and keitai games are all complete experiences and demakes of other popular games.

Was replaying Deep 3D in an emulador and was surprised how well it sill holds up, also Galaxy on fire 1 and 2, Asphalt 3

Also if you have Netflix their games there are good and complete, like Into the Breach.

Yes, several:

Ports of PC games:

80 Days
Gris
Myst (2021 release)
Gone Home
Papers, Please

Then you have pure phone games

Mini Metro
Reigns
Freeways

Then you have old web browser games ported to the phone:

Plauge Inc.
Infectenator

There are plenty more, these are just a few that I have on my phone

You could check out https://www.darkpattern.games/

It's a website that ranks games based on how awful or not awful they are.

There are many great Indie Games. My far favourite are the ones by 'yiotro' which seems to be a single (Russian?Ukrainian?) developer. Each is some kind of strategy/simulation mix and very cheap with simple graphics but a lot of depth. I discovered his work from seeing Antiyoy which either is so old that I got a demo of it in a ~2002 gaming magazine, or a copy of that old game. Just amazing fun all around and the only reason I don't have any of them on my phone right now is that I can't stop playing if I install them (similar to Unciv and Shattered Pixel Dungeon, both FOSS and excellent choices that were mentioned already).

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is quite a timekiller on the phone

Flow free is pretty cool