I just want to kill some time, I like simple arcade style games that aren’t using scummy corporate sales tactics to get me to play every day
Card crawl
there’s a really good port of dodonpachi daioujou on the iphone app store, idk about android. sorcery is another good one, based on an old steve jackson gamebook
Slice & Dice is the best game I’ve ever gotten on my phone, I bought it over Thanksgiving in 2021 and haven’t stopped playing it since. It’s similar to deck builders, but dice based.
It’s $7 on mobile, but has a good free to try demo. So you can see if you like it for free. It’s also available on Steam and itch.io
The game is still in active development, but the dev only releases updates every 1-1.5 years. The updates are absolutely massive though and add a ton of content.
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- Monument Valley is an amazing mobile game although not arcade style
- Alto’s Adventure/Odyssey are pretty solid
- Duet is a great arcade style game
- HyperRogue is a neat non-Euclidean roguelike https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
Retro Bowl - 1980s style american football game
I’ve been playing half life using xash3D for this very reason. People are on multiplayer all the time, counter strike has players too. I’m really hoping to find people playing team fortress sometime.
here is some variety:
Brawlhalla is legit, Shell Shockers is funny, agar.io is simple but dope
damn i miss the old mario party for N64, i been meaning to find a good alternative free version
If you like puzzles, horror and all things weird, definitely try some of the games by Rusty Lake.
The entire Cube Escape series is available for free (a sort of excape the room puzzle).
supertuxkart SuperTuxKart (A 3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play.
Knights of the old Republic has been on there for a while.
Emulators.
Slay the Spire.
I don’t think I’ve mobile gamed without emulators for like 4 or 5 gens of phones now. I was a young man back in those days…
I’ve never bothered to set up an emulator on my phone but it’s a great idea, any recommendations in particular?
GameBoy Advance games work really well IMO, they’re designed for small screens and lengthening aspect ratios leave tons of space for virtual buttons.
FF Tactics Advance is one I return to fairly often.
Advance Wars is awesome. I played it only on mobile 😅
Gameboy advance games also make great games to play on a TV for the same reasons!
Basically anything really well rated should be fine!
Balloon Fight is hilarious and a stomper
Tetris. Pac-Man 256. Brick Breaker Quest. for Tetris at least you’ll want to make sure that you’ve got an adblock DNS set up because it’s full of ads otherwise
