I would really love to kill some time on my phone. The games I have tried include: Slay the spire, shattered pixel dungeon, unciv, dead cells. Other than that, are there any solid phone games or otherwise ports, paid or not?
I like MinuteKnights, or really any of the games from the dev.
The Balatro port is also good.
Thanks but I already waste too much time on my PS version.
There’s a mobile port? I could’ve been stacking Xmult while on the john this whole time???
This is no longer necessary - there’s a native version released by the developer available on iOS and Android.
Digital crack
Backgammon, chess.
- Sky: Children of the Light
- Balatro
- Vampire Survivors
- Cookie Run: Tower of Adventures
- Pokemon TCG Pocket
- Minecraft
I’ve enjoyed TES: Blades and Fallout Shelter, though I think they both got too micro transactional.
RetroArch even with onscreen keys is surprisingly good, if that’s your thing.
Osmos and Super Hexagon are oldies but goodies, and not pay to play.
I came in here to specifically recommend Fallout Shelter, and actually its TES counterpart: Castles.
I only played a little bit (cause I knew it would suck me in) but it’s pretty much exactly Shelter but with Elder Scrolls stuff. You can have different people join your town and fulfill different jobs like tailoring, blacksmith, crafting and such. You can decorate individual rooms with themes, and I think even furniture pieces. You can create lineages and rivalries between characters. I think the tutorial usually has you make a decision that will lead to something like that (like the first king has an affair with a khajiit woman even though he has a wife and child, who’s next in line for the throne) but you can make someone else king if you want.
League of Legends Wild Rift is the only competitive mobile game I’m aware of that isn’t pay to win, it also happens to be well polished and v fun
Cat Bird is a very simple indie platformer that’s for free on the play store that ai kinda love alot. If you don’t mind doing some set up, emulation makes you phone a pretty solid portable console. On the ports side of things, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night are pretty good games
I second catbird, and raise you heart star and the dangerous dungeon series.
Slice and Dice is great
I’m a little partial to FOSS, but:
- Mindustry
- Endless Sky
- Luanti
- Lemuroid (an emulator suite)
- I’ve heard you can get OpenMW running on mobile, but I haven’t tried it personally
I like casual stuff like sudoku, Balatro, flappy golf. I think I have KotOR too. Classic port.
Breakout 71. It’s a roguelike brick breaker. Quite addictive and well made.
That sounds fun. Im gonna check that out.
Edit; THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS INTO MY LIFE
Haha, awesome! Enjoy!
Thanks for this, super enjoyable to play. Link for the lazy: https://renanlecaro.itch.io/breakout71
Awesome! Good call with the link!
Roguelikes really do fit the mobile format, don’t they?
Peglin has a decent port, too, and it’s also a good fit. Solitairica is a fun mobile-first take that may scratch the Balatro itch when you’re done with Balatro.
For people who are into more linear stuff, Capcom and Square have ported a lot of their portfolio. The Phoenix Wright games are there, a bunch Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, too. The Layton games as well, which are a good match for smaller sessions. They went ahead and put the painfully underrated Dragon Quest Builders in phones, but you’d better have a beefy phone and/or a power bank for that one.
Oh, if you were able to play Dead Cells on a phone effectively you may also be interested to know that Bloodstained and Castlevania SotN both have competent mobile ports. I wouldn’t choose those versions over a handheld, but hey, they exist.
Speaking of unexpected but decent ports. The old Baldur’s Gate games, for some reason.
Oh, Mini Metro is in there. Human Resource Machine is in there, if you want to brush up on your assembly coding skills while you poop. Hearthsotne and Marvel Snap are good to play on phones if you are into competitive CCGs…
I think this is no longer making sense. It’s like asking if there are any decent games on Steam.
These are really great games, thanks! Though I completely disagree with the steam part. There’s a big difference between steam and Google play with google play containing the most shittiest, ad-riddled, pay-to-win games. I just wanted to find the diamonds among the rough.
Discoverability is crappier on mobile stores, but there’s no shortage of good games. I mean, it depends on good for what and what types of experiences you’re looking for, but the content absolutely is there.
I absolutely agree with you on that part. Discoverability is definitely worse on android of course.
ScummVM with a ton of classic adventures like Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle or Broken Sword.
Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen are free.
If you want to play an RPG via ScummVM, World of Xeen is awesome.
I’ve been enjoying Pocket Rogues lately. The full version. I’m not a huge fan of roguelights and I hate roguelikes, but since I currently can’t afford a replacement for my old busted laptop because I’m disabled and poor in America, it’s really not easy to get games that are worth a damn. I do have one of those controller adapters for my phone so that it’s actually playable. I tried to using it for Minecraft but Minecraft was never meant to be played on a console and shoehorning it onto one was a bad idea from day one.
Boardgame ports are nice, but sometime difficult on a small screen. I am also enjoying Star Traders: Frontiers. There are even the Old Total Wars games. All this are not free though. Netflix has several good games if you are subscribed.
