There's a free mobile game called sky that I'd highly recommend, it's extremely calming but also very well made.
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NYT Games app. Realistically its just advertising to get you to buy an NYT subscription. The Mini and Wordle are good for killing a few minutes each day.
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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.
Into the Breach
You'll just need to find a patched .APK to play without a Netflix account.
Old school RuneScape
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.
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
I didn’t realize there was a Gone Home port on mobile! I’m gonna check that out, thanks!
I just want to add that there are a bunch of great PC ports:
Alien: Isolation
(Alien: Blackout might not be available anymore)
What Remains of Edith Finch
Life is Strange
Night in the Woods
GTA III Trilogy
Journey
Edit: formatting and added Journey
I found Gorogoa pretty interesting.
On Android Nonograms katana for picross
Lichess.org for chess
Scummvm for retro adventure games, tons of other retro console and handheld emulators on the Google store and f droid.
I used to use alphacross for crosswords but last time I installed it I couldn't get the puzzle feeds I used anymore. I tried forkyz but it's hard to find active, compatible feeds.
And for general free as in gratis entertainment Libby depending where you are, archive.org, and librivox for books and audiobooks
For paid games agent a, baldur's gate 1-2
I Love Hue
It's a casual color puzzle game. Relaxing and minimally intrusive
Lichtspeer is a nice time waster, Roundguard is a Peggle-Roguelike. For on the go I can recommend Krumit's Tale, Meteorfall, You must build a Boat, Hoplite, Shattered Pixel Dungeon , Reigns, Slay the Spire. I can also recommend Cryings Suns, Stardew Valley (of course) and Yes, your Grace.
Most are paid, but if you want to try a lot, get yourself a month of Play pass where most are included.
Stardew Valley, which is an amazing harvest moon like game, and subnautica if your device is compatible.
Another good option is to download winlator from the internet and use it to play older Windows games. I play FTL on it. You could also play stuff like Civ probably. I think civ 5 has a touchscreen mode.
Puzzle Heros rpg - this is a turn based match 3 game with diagonals and a time limit to match as many tiles as you can, this powers up your colour coded heros and you use them to defeat/harvest food based enemies to stock your food stalls. Stalls make money, money levels up heros, etc.
It's a 'reskin', albeit a very minorly changed one, of Match Quest, and the art/design is all really well done in an old school 8bit pixel style, with some really beautifully done layered scenery.
It gets a bit grindy and will take forever if you want to win every hero and level them all up to max, but as a casual game to dip into a few times a day to collect profits and loot old levels, and then spend twenty minutes or so playing levels, it's very fun.
I also recommend Flappy Dragon. It's a resin of the bird game, I think, idk I never played that one. The physics is fun and well thought out for each dragon and the dragons all have really nice designs.
Oh and it's probably been mentioned a ton on this thread already but Simon Tatham's Puzzles is a fantastic app full of puzzles that can be played offline.
There were, back in the day.
Tap tap revenge and Paper toss were great.
Now everything is just shit for morons.
Antimatter Dimensions
I must have spent days playing Smash Hit
Backpack Battles
Very fun strategic game, there are MTX in the game, but they're not necessary to play in the slightest.
I have bought a few things to support the Devs though.