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    In addition to being good games, neither has any microtransactions, ads, or any of that BS, was happy to give the devs some money.

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    Here’s my games folder:

    Finding mobile games that aren’t live service garbage is tough but at least a lot of good PC games just port to android.

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      Here’s mine. Ignore the background.

      Yep, there’s a grass touching simulator. I mostly play Bus Simulator: Ultimate, though it gets my battery temperature to 55°C. Enough to hurt on fingers.

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        Puzzle game where you push blocks around. Blocks with words can be pushed together to change game behavior. For example on a level with Baba, Is, and You blocks together let you control your character (your character is named Baba). But if you push a block that says Door in front of the Is and You blocks you will suddenly control the doors instead of Baba. It’s a really cool concept and the levels get extremely imaginative. And also difficult

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    Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Endless Sky, and Mindustry (especially that last one, which I haven’t seen anybody else mention yet).

    I get all my games from F-Droid, not any commercial app store.

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      How is Endless Sky on Android?
      I’ve been playing Escape Velocity/Override/Nova for as long as they’ve been a thing, and have done like 3 laps on Endless Sky on Linux as they’ve added content, the most recent one firmly placing it as the best execution of the genre for me, but I’m not sure how it would translate to a little touchscreen device.

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    My favorite Android game has always been, and still is, OSMOS. It used to be in the play store. You can still get it on Android from Hemisphere. There’s also iOS, Ipad, Steam (for Linux), OS X and Windows versions. I love this game so much I keep an ancient 7" pad with Marshmallow 6 offline just for it (Because I had the original on it - You don’t need an ancient device).

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    The only commercial Android game I regularly play is Wordscapes. It’s an almost embarrassing level of enduring basic bitch addiction, I don’t engage with any microtransaction bait, I have a systemwide ad blocker… and I love it.

    Otherwise it’s all Emulators and Open Source (covered well elsewhere in this thread).

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    Rhythm games, especially Phigros and COXETA. I also like the mobile port of Portal Knights, even if it is inferior compared to the other versions, and the developers have dropped this port.

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    Open Sudoku and Endless Sky. ES saves the game as a text file. If you play it on PC and save a file the last line of the text file is the only difference. You can play the game on both and save back and forth. I only have FOSS apps. I don’t have any google stuff at all. Both of these are from F-Droid.

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      I love this game but the ui is frustratingly small. Do you know of anyway to make it bigger? Or at least increasing the font size or something?

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        I just play it differently on Andy vs PC. On PC I’m aggressive with a smaller force and take a lot more risks. On mobile, I “talk softly and bring a big stick.” I usually use a large force around me and use the grouping feature to control my own security and fire power. I don’t worry about firing at stuff myself and all of my weapons are turrets on my own ship. This is how I deal with the resolution difference in practice.

        There is a resizing setting for the screen resolution. The main thing to be aware of when swapping between mobile and PC is that last line I mentioned. Save a new game on both platforms and you’ll see the last line is the over all layout setting for mobile versus PC. They use a completely different interface. If you use the PC version on mobile bc you didn’t change the last line on the save file, it can be impossible to play.

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      I usually play on and off. My wife saw me playing and got it, now she’s addicted. Our son saw that I had it on the switch too and started to play it this weekend. Now they are Stardew crackheads.