I need some new games in my phone. I checked out the recommendations in the google play store just to realise, that they all suck. So I’m asking you, what are some lightweight(my phone is really slow so anything not lightweight will either take 40 years to load or outright crash every few minutes) fun mobile games you can recommend.
I’m gonna throw in for Zachtronics Solitaire Collection.
Most of Zach’s games are about engineering assorted things to meet demands like speed or efficiency, but he would always bundle a fun and thematic solitaire variant in with his games.
This is all the solitaire games collected, with all the engineering cut out. I’ve probably put a couple thousand hours into it, and since it’s just in my pocket, I can pick it up and play while waiting on food and such, playing before I sleep, and just random games of solitaire folded throughout my day.
(My favorite in the collection is Fortune’s Foundation, a Fortress variant that puts away a whole tarot deck, major arcana included.)
Balatro
I suggest downloading roblox, sure it has a lot of garbage games but it has some hidden gems
All in Hole.
It really is a stupid game, but sometimes you just need occupied for a few minutes.
You slide a hole around and things fall in it. The hole gets bigger, and bigger things fall in. It’s strangely satisfying.
If you ever played (and enjoyed) the flash game Hex Empire, you’ll probably like Feudal Tactics, available on Fdroid, Play store, and itch.io
ANUTO TD, SUPER METRO MEGA WARS (fdroid)
Anuto has so much character.
Get Lemuroid and go crazy on 16-bit era and GBA RPGs.
If you can handle frustration or know that a rogue-like is for you: Shattered Pixel Dungeon
I figured someone would already have beat me to this suggestion. The dev specifically keeps the compatible with older devices. There’s a community on Lemmy: !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
Fantastic game, but it’s got major issues with the controls on mobile. It’s extremely easy to accidentally tap a spot you did not mean to and ruin the entire run or just outright die from the single simple mistake. The dev does not seem to care much about implementing better controls for mobile, because it’s a desktop game first and foremost. Nor does the dev care to implement anything that would allow a person to undo an action or make it easy to copy/edit a save file and manually fix the mistake because something like those things could be used to cheat.
So, as long as you’re okay with those frustrations, it’s an amazing game.
Respectfully, my experience has been very different. I’ve been playing exclusively on mobile for years and have not had more control issues than any other mobile app/game. Worst case, you start a new run; that’s the beauty of roguelikes.
Disagree. This was a mobile first game and calling Evan a dev “that does not care” is a huge understatement. Playing a rogue-like and asking for a way to edit a save the game or undo an action doesn’t sound to me like you’ve played rogue-likes much.
I have been playing this since over a decade on a multitude of phones and tablets, yes, you can mistap. Not denying that, but its not so bad that this game would become in any way unplayable. You just got to be careful.
Shattered pixel dungeon is awesome. Definitely frustrating, and has a bit of a learning curve but it’s rad. Infinite replay value
Definitely a hard but fun game. I think I’ve made it to the 3rd zone/layer/whatever only once and died like a floor later. Absolute hype moment.
I like Sudoku
OK, I’ll recommend you a few that are all open source, simple, free, with no ads, and should be handled by just any phone. You can find the games in f-droid between other places.
For those that are into crosswords: Forkyz
A slightly different take on sudoku style game: Gauguin
A game to place pieces removing full lines both vertically and horizontally, kinda like Tetris but pieces are not falling and you just put them wherever you want: 1010! Klooni
A tower defense game using hand drawn graphics: Anuto TD
And one I have from the play store, not open source, that is a clone of minesweeper, called… Well you can guess it: Minesweeper for android
All of those I have used on my own device and have worked great, definitely good time killers if you are into any of those kind of games.
Antimine is a really good open source mine sweeper clone for android. There is also Mines3D, not as polished, but adds a 3d element.
I will also recommend pirate solitaire on fdroid. Web version.
Balatro, tbh I can’t confirm it’s lightweight but it’s pixel art so I imagine your phone can handle it
Balatro does have a lot going on graphically and even my pixel 8 pro starts to heat up when playing it. The game’s art style may be pixel art, but there are a lot of shaders on all the cards and the cards themselves are either 3d or have some perspective stuff going on to make them able to rotate away from the camera
also, there’s the giant shifting background which is another complex shader that can’t be turned off.
I think the game has been optimized since release a bit, but still, it’s not just simple card images.
Yeah hard to tell if it will work well, pixel art or not, and its a bit too expensive just to test it (there should be a way to cancel the order in google pay if I’m not mistaken though). On the other hand, such a fun game it is definitely worth it and the perfect phone game.
If you enjoy chess, I recommend Lichess
It’s free, open source, no ads, you can play with or without an account, you play against bots or against people of all levels, you can use the app or you can play from the website or you can install the web app
Oh and it loads fast
Enjoy!
And for those who enjoy chess but love chaos and seeing the world burn, you have Really Bad Chess
Which in my personal opinion, can be as fun as it can be irritating x)
That also don’t harvest all your data…
Stardew Valley should be lightweight enough, it runs fine on my old-ish Kindle Fire.
Gubbins is a fun word game and a one time payment to unlock the ability to play more than once a day but it kinda chugs on the tablet. It’s free to try it at least.
Simon tathams puzzle pack
Any of the “colors” series from ‘bart bonte’ (search yellow, or orange, or blue and he should be the first to pop up, his other games are good too)
Balatro (the only one I’m not sure how light weight it is, I think it should be pretty light weight)
(As others have said, lichess)
Pythagorea
Magic research 2
Rebuild 3
Any of the “pathpix” series
Slice and dice
Unciv
A hundred more recommendations that are “okay” level of fun
