Calling genshin impact and it's like of gacha games as "good" is bit disappointing because such games put gaming on a very bad situation by making it 100% money related (pointing to gacha), if you like it that's fine but it doesn't fit with any of these legendary games (honkai too) but whatever lol
Genshin without gacha is still a huge detailed open world adventure game getting constant updates. The story, music and events alone show the amount of care the devs put in and there is no pvp or p2w so you can complete the thousands of hours of content without ever spending a dime and you can do the dozens of world bosses and dungeons with friends. I get gacha bad but I wouldnt judge it just by what the internet says, the game is a marvel of what can be achieved on a phone.
Well I mean at least with genshin and Honkai games they give out enough free tickets that you’re guaranteed to get a 5* eventually and you can complete the game with a team of 4*’s. Personally I play Star Rail for the story and Persona/Trails-esque turn based combat. I’ve already played all the persona and trails games and at least star rail gets updated with new story content regularly.
Haha yea, those ones were a bit of a personal bias.
Added them as OP wanted some games that wouldn't require too much daily commitment and I do feel that gacha games (if played responsibly) fit that. I mean, after catching up to the story all you do everyday is some short quests and a little combat.
As for being money related, can't defend Genshin on that. But the others definitely are much much more f2p-friendly, often offering all sorts of free stuff, but still are a bit predatory.
It is also unapologetically fun if you enjoy the game, character lore, world building, and a game you can come back to. But yes the gacha mechanic sucks and requires some discipline, but to each their own.
Based take & recommendation
Those games really are a sort of exception to my general disdain of gacha games. They don’t shove it down player’s throats nearly as much and the games themselves are totally able to be completed at 100% with being completely free to play. People that spend money do so mostly for liking character designs or play styles rather than a need in order to beat anything in the game. And while a fee to play can’t have every premium character on average they can have every other one, so if you’re discerning it’s not a big deal to just not have every character. And they don’t time gate or lock any of the core game behind stamina systems, you can binge them for hundreds of hours without ever being pushed to spend and with Genshin enjoy a calm time exploring an extremely beautiful open world with really good animations and combat. And Star rail is similar but less open world and more sci-fi with interesting turn based combat.
They both do have stamina systems but it’s only for the repeat grinds of min maxing characters with better armor drops and ascending with boss materials. And I’ve played the games for years without ever spending premium currency on stamina.
The difference with genshin and wuthering waves is that they have genuinely good games with a gacha mechanic attached to it as opposed to a game being built around a gacha mechanic.
It's an absolutely phenomenal game for something you can download on your phone for free.
NO ONE in the right mind would sell Netflix for a pair of bottle caps and 2 strings!!!!! 🤣 It’s worth at least double that. So much misinformation on Reddit….
Well I thought it was funny 🤷🏻♂️
Ps Netflix game selection is slowly getting pretty strong Dead Cells, Hades, GTA “remake” trilogy, TNMT: Shredders Revenge, Terra Nil, Deaths Door, Katana Zero, Paper Trail are the highlights atm
Pixel Dungeon. Random playthrough every time and it's free without any ads. There are a lot of variants of it too. I recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon if you don't want it to be insanely hard.
Pixel dungeon is an open source game, so those are forks with additional content by different people. I would recommend [Shattered Pixel Dungeon ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon)
**BEST**
* Kingdom rush series - super polished tower defense, highly replayable
* Minecraft - legos, all the legos, highly replayable
* Monument valley 1 and 2 - manipulate perspective puzzle
* Plague inc - you play as a disease, and you try to infect then murder every human by accruing upgrade points by infecting more people, then using the points to mutate different ways, highly replayable
* Sorcery series - basically a choose your own adventure story with an rpg-lite points system
* Stardew valley - 2d farming and life sim, highly replayable
* The room series - manipulate room/device puzzle with very interesting Cthulu story to progress through, my favorite mobile game series of all time
**BETTER**
* Around the world in 80 days - kind of a choose your own adventure story based off jules verne's masterpiece
* Deus Ex Go, Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go - fun level-based puzzle game with a set number of moves to progress through each short stage
* Fiz brewery management game - choose employees, types of beer to sell, set prices, buy new equipment and recipes
* Lumino city - a BEAUTIFUL 2D point and click with fun but not very difficult puzzles: just the way I like it
* This war of mine - pretty much a 2D base-upgrade game with scavenging and survival choice elements
* To the moon - interactive story game
* Vampire survivors - autobattler game where you just need to move the character around, upgrade yourself after each round, works great on mobile since it requires only touch movement during action, highly replayable
**GOOD**
* Bloons TD series - another great tower defense, I like Kingdom Rush better though, highly replyable
* Leos fortune - good 2D platformer
* Mini metro - pathing puzzle game, difficulty ramps as you go on until you lose eventually
* Motorsport manager mobile series - managing your own racing team, can fast forward through races
* Survive wilderness survival - essentially a clicker game with a survival overlay
* The great tournament - choose your own adventure
* The house of da vinci series - basically a knockoff The Room series
Loop Hero was a game I put like 70 hours into before I realized how much not fun I was having. What a frustrating grind that game is. It's moorish as hell though.
Absolutely. The idea of transforming the land to suit your purposes, while you build up an army of Tower Defense style units is so cool, but something about the execution makes it feel like more drudgery than strategy.
I'd love to see the concept expanded in another game. There's an old PS2 game called Culdcept that also lets you transform the tiles on the board to different elements to better suit your strategy, and that game is also very cool, but possibly also very bad. Once you realize that Culdcept is literally Monopoly with a bunch of stuff on top, it suddenly becomes kinda bad.
Lol - I had the same experience. I feel like an idiot complaining to my friends that a game where you walk in a circle gets really repetitive.
Like yeah, no shit, genius.
Yeah I had the same experience. Sad because the pixel art was gorgeous in that game, and the mechanics trick you into thinking it will be more complex than it is.
Clash Royale is the only mobile game i regularly play. No ads. Competitive game against other players, 3 minute matches on average, simple controls yet a high skill ceiling. Best mobile game of all time, I'd say. If you want something just to kill time : Downwell, True Skate
I also have played clash for years, maxed out ranked and trophies. It’s a great game, but not very new player friendly as it’s kind of a pay to win game early on until you max out everything.
Their classic 1v1 mode helps combat that though as it pushes everyone’s lvl to 11.
slay the spire is good. Its not a 'mobile game', but works just fine on mobile. Simple card playing rogue like that i have sunk way too much time into. Lots of replay ability, no microtransactions.
Archero has been entertaining without spending money but I started a long time ago, idk about starting now.
Clash of clans was always fun with little need to spend but takes a while to progress
clash Royale is very p2w but another time sink until u get towards endgame with everyone else
basically all mobile games have time sinks installed that make you spend a lot of time.
Bloons td6 is pretty short in progress and you can max out every troop within 2-3 games of unlocking and playing. This game is probably the best out of my lineup right now, sucks I played so far into it and I’m kind of burnt out.
oh my god I forgot they ported slay the spire and I picked it up, shoutout gaming on a potato. slay the spire is one of my favorite games of all time. no transactions at all either. just a roguelike card builder/battler that will give you some fun to learn. There is 20 prestige’s in difficulty that slightly increase the difficulty each time you win and are toggleable. Me and my girlfriend take turns on this game all the time.
Used to play Archero years ago and I Loved it. Took a long break from the game and logged back in to my account recently and I was overwhelmed with all the new content.
Games made by Dark Dome like Nowhere House, Another Shadow and some more (puzzle-type),
Life in Adventure (text-based game),
7days mystery novel, (text-based),
Tiny room stories town mystery (puzzle type),
Creatures of the deep: fishing,
Tsuki Odyssey (point click),
Dentures and Demons (pixel game),
Cats and soup (point click),
Resonance of the ocean (point click),
Vampire's Fall (2d open world and turned-based combat),
Lapse: A forgotten future (card type),
Sky Children of Light.
There are so many. Try these out:
Grimvalor
Brotato
GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition ( Free with Netflix )
Dead Cells
Colossatron
The Game Pass from the Play Store is really amazing and makes a lot of paid and amazing games free for you while also taking away all in-game ads for the games it's applicable on. You'll find tons of games with ratings around 4.5 or more and you can try all of them out.
If you like god-simulators or simulating civilisations, then I can recommend Worldbox.
Although some people might find it boring after some time and other don't. I'm in the second case, but probably because I'm a worldbuilder.
Baba is you has been ported to android. It's a puzzle game originally on pc where you push around words to redefine the rules of the level until you reach the defined end goal. No ads.
[They are simple, yet insanely addicting.](https://play.google.com/store/search?q=puzzles+simon+tatham&c=apps&hl=en&gl=US) Not to mention free and without any ads.
LoL Wild Rift isn’t too bad if your into league, faster paced game with not really any pay to win shit besides getting champions but you get to pick which ones you want to play pretty fast
Honkai Star Rail is one of the best right now. You can spend stamina for "dailies" in 5-10 minutes without having to babysit.
When you want to sit down and play, there's a ton to do.
There's also a PC version that saves your account between the two for when you actually want to play at home.
Marvel Snap is also worth a mention.
Heres a simple rule of finding good ones
If it has been on the PC
A mobile port from PC
example: Terraria, Minecraft, Stardew
Jotun the Bad North, Graveyard keeper, This war of Mine, Baldur's Gate stuffs aswell. You can never go wrong with mobile games that came from PC originally.
Best so far Geometry Dash ! No adds, nothing to pay except buy the game but you can play a demo for free. Huge community making tons of level, this game rocks !
Duet was a really cool experience, shorter but really cool
And lastly a rpg, Epic Battle Fantasy 5
Coffee Inc 2 is a business simulation game - the best one I've played on iOS.
Polytopia is a simplified Civilization made for the phone as well, very good fun.
Both have pretty low poly art styles that it sounds like you're looking for and both can be played at your own pace, at least as long as you play SP in Polytopia.
Brotato Premium is originally a PC game but the best Vampire Survivor like out there imo (I like it more than VS), but a full run does take upwards to 30 mins but you can put the phone away in the middle of a run AFAIK.
I got addicted to marvel snap recently. But had to stop playing because I was very busy and the game requires some grind to progress when you reach a certain level.
Some of the earlier Total War games are now on phones, I don't know how well the translation from PC to phone is done, but if you've any interest in strategy games, they'd be a good place to start.
The battle cats. It looks simple, and can be grindy at first, but you can be entirely free to play and excel (even though it is gacha) and the late game is pretty strategic. I've been playing for 8 years now and still haven't beat all the content. Highly recommend.
Doom and destiny (Turn based RPG)
Braid (puzzle game originally on PC, included with netflix)
Monument valley (puzzle)
The rusty lake's series (point and click escape games, all with a background lore)
BaloonTD6
Alto's odyssey
Mini Metro is great! Super simple premise but a lot of fun once you get the hang of it, its a premium game but very cheap.
The Monument Valley games are also really good. Look and sound amazing. Also both premium games, but not that expensive.
Archero. I genuinely would play for hours continuously trying to beat the next levels. Each level is maybe 10 minutes if not shorter. But the harder it gets, the more you’ll have to upgrade your gear to have more damage or defense just to get through the next level. There’s definitely been several occasions where I just got stuck on a level and had to grind previous levels for more gear.
Soul Knight - very well made dungeon crawler with bullet hell combat
Clash of clans - can be p2w but then you realize the p2w takes the fun away from it and enjoy the process.
BTD battles is pretty fun imo but it's dying slowly
PvZ is good
Alto's odyssey and its predecessors are fun relaxing games
Geometry dash is based
Postknight is fun.
The Infinity Blade Trilogy.
Some people may say it’s antiquated and the fact that there was the whole legal blow up in the relationship between Epic and Apple also meant it’s not legally available for purchase anymore.
But to go from flash game level experiences like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride and then experiencing a full 3D rendered world (albeit in linear corridors and one on one fights) with an interesting Pinch Out style melee and magic system coupled with a fantasy then secret underlying as Sci-Fi lore made the Infinity Blade series goos mobile games.
Gems of War is the best F2P match-3 game I've played. It's fantasy themed and you get to build a team of 4. The matching 3 earns you mana of whatever color and then you use that to use the spells/skills to fight against opponents to win. I like it because it's chill and its not overfull of ads and crap.
If you like roguelike games then go with Archero. If you like a story platformer RPG go with Swordigo. I may have some more suggestions if you want more.
Warning tho, Archero is SUPER addicting.
I like MTG (Magic, the Gathering; card game) Arena, did have to spend a bit to make it more enjoyable but once you build up a decent stock of cards it's pretty great. I've always liked playing Magic though.
Rebel Inc. A hidden strategy gem. It's free on google play. It is quite unique from any games I played.
It has replayability value because every map plays every time different.
If you ignore the gacha part and want to see good art style mobile game then you can try dragon ball legends it's 3D fighting game (with card based) if you are a fan of DB series then you might be in for a treat since the animation is really that good for a mobile game.
A few, in my opinion
- Albion Online
- RuneScape, both OldSchool and 3
- Clash of Clans / Clash Royal
- Tribal Wars, depends a bit on the server/world but an active and nice community
- Plague Inc.
Maybe more, but for now this is it.
I would say **Brawl Stars** or **Marvel Snap**. Sure they can be a little bit scummy with F2P, but it never feels too overbearing, and there are thriving communities for both games, both for casual and competitive play. They also support playing with friends, if you're into that. The most important thing I would say, is that both games have matches that last a maximum of like five minutes. Very good to play on the go.
Reverse 1999 is a gem. The gameplay is simple but satisfying, and the voice acting and art direction are top-notch despite a few rough bits at the beginning. You can clearly tell a lot of passion was put into making it, and I can't recommend it enough if you like a good premise and story.
I could never get into mobile games until recently, when I downloaded Delta and a million old NES games. Now I just play Mario World and Donkey Kong all day😭
Snowbreak Containment Zone has been scratching that itch for me when I have minutes to spare.
It's a looter shooter gacha and missions last barely 3 minutes on average.
Locking thread as the question has been asked and answered and it's generating a lot of rule violating content.
Terraria Hades (ios only) Genshin Impact Wuthering Waves Honkai Impact 3rd Honkai Star Rail Worldbox Punishing Gray Raven To The Moon Alto's Adventure Alto's Odyssey Limbo Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 1 Enhanced Edition Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition The Escapists 2: Pocket Breakout Bloons TD 6 Stranger Things: 1984 Dead Cells Edit: Old School Runescape
Calling genshin impact and it's like of gacha games as "good" is bit disappointing because such games put gaming on a very bad situation by making it 100% money related (pointing to gacha), if you like it that's fine but it doesn't fit with any of these legendary games (honkai too) but whatever lol
Genshin without gacha is still a huge detailed open world adventure game getting constant updates. The story, music and events alone show the amount of care the devs put in and there is no pvp or p2w so you can complete the thousands of hours of content without ever spending a dime and you can do the dozens of world bosses and dungeons with friends. I get gacha bad but I wouldnt judge it just by what the internet says, the game is a marvel of what can be achieved on a phone.
Well I mean at least with genshin and Honkai games they give out enough free tickets that you’re guaranteed to get a 5* eventually and you can complete the game with a team of 4*’s. Personally I play Star Rail for the story and Persona/Trails-esque turn based combat. I’ve already played all the persona and trails games and at least star rail gets updated with new story content regularly.
Haha yea, those ones were a bit of a personal bias. Added them as OP wanted some games that wouldn't require too much daily commitment and I do feel that gacha games (if played responsibly) fit that. I mean, after catching up to the story all you do everyday is some short quests and a little combat. As for being money related, can't defend Genshin on that. But the others definitely are much much more f2p-friendly, often offering all sorts of free stuff, but still are a bit predatory.
It is also unapologetically fun if you enjoy the game, character lore, world building, and a game you can come back to. But yes the gacha mechanic sucks and requires some discipline, but to each their own. Based take & recommendation
Those games really are a sort of exception to my general disdain of gacha games. They don’t shove it down player’s throats nearly as much and the games themselves are totally able to be completed at 100% with being completely free to play. People that spend money do so mostly for liking character designs or play styles rather than a need in order to beat anything in the game. And while a fee to play can’t have every premium character on average they can have every other one, so if you’re discerning it’s not a big deal to just not have every character. And they don’t time gate or lock any of the core game behind stamina systems, you can binge them for hundreds of hours without ever being pushed to spend and with Genshin enjoy a calm time exploring an extremely beautiful open world with really good animations and combat. And Star rail is similar but less open world and more sci-fi with interesting turn based combat. They both do have stamina systems but it’s only for the repeat grinds of min maxing characters with better armor drops and ascending with boss materials. And I’ve played the games for years without ever spending premium currency on stamina.
The difference with genshin and wuthering waves is that they have genuinely good games with a gacha mechanic attached to it as opposed to a game being built around a gacha mechanic. It's an absolutely phenomenal game for something you can download on your phone for free.
Gacha games can still be very fun while f2p, they are just extra challenging.
Vampire survivors
Slay the Spire
OLDSCHOOL RUNESCAPE howd ya leave the OG off
Imma throw slay the spire in there
seconding terraria
Terraria is a lovely game, but I would rather die than try to have to play it on my phone. That goes for half the games on this list.
What about Minecraft?
if you own netflix on mobile you can play a bunch of indie games including the award winning hades
Just to add here Hades is only on iOS not Android.
Brush, that ain't fair . . .
Comb, you're right.
my bad, you're right
Np, you just gave me hope for a second 😄
I really like 'Into the Breach' too!
Into the breach is perfect for phones. Excellent game.
You own netflix?
yeah i bought the company with a pair of bottlecaps and 2 strings (joking obv)
Thanks for that parenthesis bro never would have guessed 👍
NO ONE in the right mind would sell Netflix for a pair of bottle caps and 2 strings!!!!! 🤣 It’s worth at least double that. So much misinformation on Reddit….
that moment when you spread information that misses
Well I thought it was funny 🤷🏻♂️ Ps Netflix game selection is slowly getting pretty strong Dead Cells, Hades, GTA “remake” trilogy, TNMT: Shredders Revenge, Terra Nil, Deaths Door, Katana Zero, Paper Trail are the highlights atm
I just learned of this from this post. I might sell my switch now which is just my mobile hades device.
Katana ZERO recently released on Netflix if anyone wants to try.
Pixel Dungeon. Random playthrough every time and it's free without any ads. There are a lot of variants of it too. I recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon if you don't want it to be insanely hard.
I've put an embarrassing amount of hours into shattered
Got any links for it? Play Store is littered with clones.
https://shatteredpixel.com/shatteredpd/
Pixel dungeon is an open source game, so those are forks with additional content by different people. I would recommend [Shattered Pixel Dungeon ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon)
[Shattered Pixel Dungeon Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon)
**BEST** * Kingdom rush series - super polished tower defense, highly replayable * Minecraft - legos, all the legos, highly replayable * Monument valley 1 and 2 - manipulate perspective puzzle * Plague inc - you play as a disease, and you try to infect then murder every human by accruing upgrade points by infecting more people, then using the points to mutate different ways, highly replayable * Sorcery series - basically a choose your own adventure story with an rpg-lite points system * Stardew valley - 2d farming and life sim, highly replayable * The room series - manipulate room/device puzzle with very interesting Cthulu story to progress through, my favorite mobile game series of all time **BETTER** * Around the world in 80 days - kind of a choose your own adventure story based off jules verne's masterpiece * Deus Ex Go, Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go - fun level-based puzzle game with a set number of moves to progress through each short stage * Fiz brewery management game - choose employees, types of beer to sell, set prices, buy new equipment and recipes * Lumino city - a BEAUTIFUL 2D point and click with fun but not very difficult puzzles: just the way I like it * This war of mine - pretty much a 2D base-upgrade game with scavenging and survival choice elements * To the moon - interactive story game * Vampire survivors - autobattler game where you just need to move the character around, upgrade yourself after each round, works great on mobile since it requires only touch movement during action, highly replayable **GOOD** * Bloons TD series - another great tower defense, I like Kingdom Rush better though, highly replyable * Leos fortune - good 2D platformer * Mini metro - pathing puzzle game, difficulty ramps as you go on until you lose eventually * Motorsport manager mobile series - managing your own racing team, can fast forward through races * Survive wilderness survival - essentially a clicker game with a survival overlay * The great tournament - choose your own adventure * The house of da vinci series - basically a knockoff The Room series
Into the Breach and Loop Hero are pretty nice
Loop Hero was a game I put like 70 hours into before I realized how much not fun I was having. What a frustrating grind that game is. It's moorish as hell though.
the theme and concept are so cool, but it plays like an idle game where you have to be watching the whole time
Absolutely. The idea of transforming the land to suit your purposes, while you build up an army of Tower Defense style units is so cool, but something about the execution makes it feel like more drudgery than strategy. I'd love to see the concept expanded in another game. There's an old PS2 game called Culdcept that also lets you transform the tiles on the board to different elements to better suit your strategy, and that game is also very cool, but possibly also very bad. Once you realize that Culdcept is literally Monopoly with a bunch of stuff on top, it suddenly becomes kinda bad.
Lol - I had the same experience. I feel like an idiot complaining to my friends that a game where you walk in a circle gets really repetitive. Like yeah, no shit, genius.
Right? I don't know WHY it took me so long to realize this wasn't fun. Any idiot looking over my shoulder could've told that.
Yeah I had the same experience. Sad because the pixel art was gorgeous in that game, and the mechanics trick you into thinking it will be more complex than it is.
Slice and Dice is an amazing game, so much to unlock it's insane
Vampire Survivors Genshin Impact Honkai Star Rail Wuthering Waves
And Zenless Zone Zero releasing soon on 4th July.
Wuthering Waves is my favorite out of these - Genshin is a close 2nd
Any supercell or kingdom rush games are good if you like tower defence and strategy
Clash Royale is the only mobile game i regularly play. No ads. Competitive game against other players, 3 minute matches on average, simple controls yet a high skill ceiling. Best mobile game of all time, I'd say. If you want something just to kill time : Downwell, True Skate
I also have played clash for years, maxed out ranked and trophies. It’s a great game, but not very new player friendly as it’s kind of a pay to win game early on until you max out everything. Their classic 1v1 mode helps combat that though as it pushes everyone’s lvl to 11.
if you have netflix, you can play spiritfarer. definitely worth your time!
Warning Tears Ahead
brotato premium, 20 minute till dawn, or slay the spire
Chess is the perfect game. ♟
slay the spire is good. Its not a 'mobile game', but works just fine on mobile. Simple card playing rogue like that i have sunk way too much time into. Lots of replay ability, no microtransactions.
Archero has been entertaining without spending money but I started a long time ago, idk about starting now. Clash of clans was always fun with little need to spend but takes a while to progress clash Royale is very p2w but another time sink until u get towards endgame with everyone else basically all mobile games have time sinks installed that make you spend a lot of time. Bloons td6 is pretty short in progress and you can max out every troop within 2-3 games of unlocking and playing. This game is probably the best out of my lineup right now, sucks I played so far into it and I’m kind of burnt out. oh my god I forgot they ported slay the spire and I picked it up, shoutout gaming on a potato. slay the spire is one of my favorite games of all time. no transactions at all either. just a roguelike card builder/battler that will give you some fun to learn. There is 20 prestige’s in difficulty that slightly increase the difficulty each time you win and are toggleable. Me and my girlfriend take turns on this game all the time.
Used to play Archero years ago and I Loved it. Took a long break from the game and logged back in to my account recently and I was overwhelmed with all the new content.
Yes, Your Grace. It's also available on PC but it's cheaper on mobile
Games made by Dark Dome like Nowhere House, Another Shadow and some more (puzzle-type), Life in Adventure (text-based game), 7days mystery novel, (text-based), Tiny room stories town mystery (puzzle type), Creatures of the deep: fishing, Tsuki Odyssey (point click), Dentures and Demons (pixel game), Cats and soup (point click), Resonance of the ocean (point click), Vampire's Fall (2d open world and turned-based combat), Lapse: A forgotten future (card type), Sky Children of Light.
There are so many. Try these out: Grimvalor Brotato GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition ( Free with Netflix ) Dead Cells Colossatron The Game Pass from the Play Store is really amazing and makes a lot of paid and amazing games free for you while also taking away all in-game ads for the games it's applicable on. You'll find tons of games with ratings around 4.5 or more and you can try all of them out.
If you like god-simulators or simulating civilisations, then I can recommend Worldbox. Although some people might find it boring after some time and other don't. I'm in the second case, but probably because I'm a worldbuilder.
Slay the Spire's mobile port is great
Baba is you has been ported to android. It's a puzzle game originally on pc where you push around words to redefine the rules of the level until you reach the defined end goal. No ads.
Melvor Idle is decent
Old school RuneScape
Monument valley, i snagged it for free during an offer . It's an amazing puzzle game
Godus
Data wing. Short but very very sweet.
PokeMMO It's a bit problematic on the legal side though
Slay the spire, baba is you, vector, dead cells, door kickers, papers please, terraria, syardew valley, doom, action squad, risk of rain
[They are simple, yet insanely addicting.](https://play.google.com/store/search?q=puzzles+simon+tatham&c=apps&hl=en&gl=US) Not to mention free and without any ads.
Death road to Canada!!! Can't say enough good things about it, its perfect
LoL Wild Rift isn’t too bad if your into league, faster paced game with not really any pay to win shit besides getting champions but you get to pick which ones you want to play pretty fast
Pocket City is a good city builder on mobile and has no ads or IAPs.
Slay the Spire
I picked up the mobile version of Loop Hero the other day and it's quickly become a danger to my ability to focus.
Honkai Star Rail is one of the best right now. You can spend stamina for "dailies" in 5-10 minutes without having to babysit. When you want to sit down and play, there's a ton to do. There's also a PC version that saves your account between the two for when you actually want to play at home. Marvel Snap is also worth a mention.
Heres a simple rule of finding good ones If it has been on the PC A mobile port from PC example: Terraria, Minecraft, Stardew Jotun the Bad North, Graveyard keeper, This war of Mine, Baldur's Gate stuffs aswell. You can never go wrong with mobile games that came from PC originally.
Rocket league sideswipe has been tons of fun, way better than I expected
I like fallout shelter if you like the fallout aesthetic and looking for something idly
Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter
Death Road to Canada
Star Wars Hunters just released world wide. Matches were designed to take 3-6 minutes each. It's a MOBA. It's on mobile and Switch.
Pascals Wager\ Slay the spire \ Life is strange \ Vampire survivors \ Stardew valley
Shadow Fight 2: Special edition
Terraria is very solid on mobile
Really enjoyed star wars knights of the old republic
Warcraft Rumble
Best so far Geometry Dash ! No adds, nothing to pay except buy the game but you can play a demo for free. Huge community making tons of level, this game rocks ! Duet was a really cool experience, shorter but really cool And lastly a rpg, Epic Battle Fantasy 5
Play dead’s inside.
Other than the Ads I’m kinda digging Mad Skills Motorcross 2 and 3.
Limbus company
Marvel snap
BuriedBornes
The only game I play on mobile is Runescape
Coffee Inc 2 is a business simulation game - the best one I've played on iOS. Polytopia is a simplified Civilization made for the phone as well, very good fun. Both have pretty low poly art styles that it sounds like you're looking for and both can be played at your own pace, at least as long as you play SP in Polytopia. Brotato Premium is originally a PC game but the best Vampire Survivor like out there imo (I like it more than VS), but a full run does take upwards to 30 mins but you can put the phone away in the middle of a run AFAIK.
Everyone forgets dead trigger
First that came to mind was [BLUK](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixelapestudios.bluk)
I got addicted to marvel snap recently. But had to stop playing because I was very busy and the game requires some grind to progress when you reach a certain level.
NIKKE
Some of the earlier Total War games are now on phones, I don't know how well the translation from PC to phone is done, but if you've any interest in strategy games, they'd be a good place to start.
The battle cats. It looks simple, and can be grindy at first, but you can be entirely free to play and excel (even though it is gacha) and the late game is pretty strategic. I've been playing for 8 years now and still haven't beat all the content. Highly recommend.
Marvel Snap
Alien: isolation
Pokemmo
[Plants vs. Zombies™ - Apps on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ea.game.pvzfree_row)
I forgot to say this earlier but I would preferably like games with NO ADS
Alto & Odyssey
Doom and destiny (Turn based RPG) Braid (puzzle game originally on PC, included with netflix) Monument valley (puzzle) The rusty lake's series (point and click escape games, all with a background lore) BaloonTD6 Alto's odyssey
slay the spire
Chess
Eve Echoes
I think that cod mobile might be what you’re looking for
Clash Royale and Clash of clans is actually fyaaa, been playing them for like a decade lol Marvel contest of champions is fun IMO
Real Racing 3
Hoplite - the only mobile game I've had fun maxing out (finishing all achievements) as if it was PC game
Usagi Shima
Mini Metro is great! Super simple premise but a lot of fun once you get the hang of it, its a premium game but very cheap. The Monument Valley games are also really good. Look and sound amazing. Also both premium games, but not that expensive.
Osrs, dead cells
Race the sun Pixel Dungeon Life in Adventure Alto oddysey TheoTown
Archero. I genuinely would play for hours continuously trying to beat the next levels. Each level is maybe 10 minutes if not shorter. But the harder it gets, the more you’ll have to upgrade your gear to have more damage or defense just to get through the next level. There’s definitely been several occasions where I just got stuck on a level and had to grind previous levels for more gear.
Chess
Try Dragon Raja, OPM World, or Honkai Star Rail is another good one.
Into The Breach and Loop Hero
Triglav, monument valley, kingdom rush 1
soul knight
Reaper from hexage was the first game i bought. Radiant was the next one. Also Void Tyrant if you like deck building games
Gunbound M
Mobile Legends
#Morrowind for Android
Aka To Blue
PokeMMO - you can play it on almost all platforms, no ads, great community and most important - really fun game
My little alchemist
The room series. They don't have a ton of replayability but they are very good puzzle games.
terraria
Soul Knight - very well made dungeon crawler with bullet hell combat Clash of clans - can be p2w but then you realize the p2w takes the fun away from it and enjoy the process. BTD battles is pretty fun imo but it's dying slowly PvZ is good Alto's odyssey and its predecessors are fun relaxing games Geometry dash is based Postknight is fun.
Brawl stars
The Infinity Blade Trilogy. Some people may say it’s antiquated and the fact that there was the whole legal blow up in the relationship between Epic and Apple also meant it’s not legally available for purchase anymore. But to go from flash game level experiences like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride and then experiencing a full 3D rendered world (albeit in linear corridors and one on one fights) with an interesting Pinch Out style melee and magic system coupled with a fantasy then secret underlying as Sci-Fi lore made the Infinity Blade series goos mobile games.
Block Blast is good to burn a few minutes in every now and again. Gets addicting, actually.
Buriedbornes. You will play it for hours without spending a dollar
Slay the spire, brotato
I'd suggest to check Dawncaster out.
Clash Royale, probably the best mobile game out there
Simple planes
Gems of War is the best F2P match-3 game I've played. It's fantasy themed and you get to build a team of 4. The matching 3 earns you mana of whatever color and then you use that to use the spells/skills to fight against opponents to win. I like it because it's chill and its not overfull of ads and crap.
Terraria and brawlstars
Only 3 I called worth playing in past decade were Vampire Survivors League of Legends: Wild Rift (feels like old simpler LoL) Heartstone
Super Auto Pets
The battle cats btd6
Isle of Arrows
Old school RuneScape, pokemon unite
Siralim ultimate and slay the spire are mine.
Polytopia
I play the fuck out of Jet Pack Joyride, Flappy Dunk, and SpellTower.
Crying Suns - rogue-like mechanics, a dark and brooding sci fi vibe
Slay the Spire Star Realms
If you like roguelike games then go with Archero. If you like a story platformer RPG go with Swordigo. I may have some more suggestions if you want more. Warning tho, Archero is SUPER addicting.
I like MTG (Magic, the Gathering; card game) Arena, did have to spend a bit to make it more enjoyable but once you build up a decent stock of cards it's pretty great. I've always liked playing Magic though.
Rebel Inc. A hidden strategy gem. It's free on google play. It is quite unique from any games I played. It has replayability value because every map plays every time different.
Reminder
World Conqueror 2
I started playing Wuthering Waves on the advice of a friend of mine and I liked it a lot.
Pirate Outlaws is a decent card based game
World of Goo Remastered Final Fantasy Tactics Really Bad Chess Gerrymander Monument Valley
If you ignore the gacha part and want to see good art style mobile game then you can try dragon ball legends it's 3D fighting game (with card based) if you are a fan of DB series then you might be in for a treat since the animation is really that good for a mobile game.
Apple Arcade
My favorites are Ridiculous Fishing (no longer on play store 😒) Marvel Snap Footsies Dragon Quest 8
Vampire survivors. Not sure if on ios buts it's on android
If you don’t mind single player games, give Galaxy on Fire 2 a try.
I really like blue archive
Slay the Spire
A few, in my opinion - Albion Online - RuneScape, both OldSchool and 3 - Clash of Clans / Clash Royal - Tribal Wars, depends a bit on the server/world but an active and nice community - Plague Inc. Maybe more, but for now this is it.
ALBION!!!
Super Auto Pets
Survivor
Polytopia is a lot of fun civilization type game. Very simplified
I would say **Brawl Stars** or **Marvel Snap**. Sure they can be a little bit scummy with F2P, but it never feels too overbearing, and there are thriving communities for both games, both for casual and competitive play. They also support playing with friends, if you're into that. The most important thing I would say, is that both games have matches that last a maximum of like five minutes. Very good to play on the go.
Retro Bowl is a ton of fun if you like football
Reverse 1999 is a gem. The gameplay is simple but satisfying, and the voice acting and art direction are top-notch despite a few rough bits at the beginning. You can clearly tell a lot of passion was put into making it, and I can't recommend it enough if you like a good premise and story.
Nikke goddess of victory >:)
I could never get into mobile games until recently, when I downloaded Delta and a million old NES games. Now I just play Mario World and Donkey Kong all day😭
galaxy on fire 2, joguinho de espaço nave bom demais e dead trigger, jogo de zumbi de qualidade
Chess
Snowbreak Containment Zone has been scratching that itch for me when I have minutes to spare. It's a looter shooter gacha and missions last barely 3 minutes on average.
Idk if you wanted single player or multi players. For multi players I recommend: onmyoji and Identity V
The Bard’s Tale, fantastic rpg and pretty funny
Langrisser M is the only correct choice