I found Gorogoa pretty interesting.
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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.
- Into the Breach (Netflix subscription)
- Shogun Showdown (Crunchyroll subscription)
- Balatro
- Slice & Dice
baba is you is pretty good.
Both KOTOR games have mobiles released that are pretty good
Space flight simulator is pretty fun
It is pretty fun. I should download it again
I play territorial.io and geoguessr
Most games on Apple Arcade is proper games.
Mecharashi has had me kinda hooked lately. It's a mech builder with turn based squad tactics combat. It's got gacha elements but I haven't felt the need to spend any money. Free rewards have been plenty to get the pilots and mechs I want. It's also a noticeably crash free game. I often swap between apps, changing podcasts and whatnot. This makes many games I play crash or return to the login screen, but not this one. Highly recommend.
Vampire Survivors is great!
As is halls of torment
I like the board game Risk on mobile, and Lichess.
https://sudoku.coach/ is installable as a progressive web app and is probably the best sudoku app I’ve encountered. Extremely customizable and good for learning new solving techniques
I'm a big fan of Shattered Pixel Dungeon!
Solomon's Keep and Solomon's Boneyard.
Keep is a traditional dungeon crawler and Boneyard is an endless wave survival game.
If you like incremental games, the Kittens Game by bloodrizer is awesome. Free website, or like a 3 dollars one time payment for the app.
Ace Attorney I believe had a very good mobile port.
One I’ve been addicted to, and have spent no money on, is Zenless Zone Zero. Gacha game with action-style combat using dodges, parries, and flashy effects. In some ways a cool demonstration of what phones can render now. Very much depends on what your gacha/FOMO resistance is.
Chess.com
Plenty of bots to get my buttons kicked in chess.
Any reason why you prefer bots when there's always a random human available?
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I think no one mentioned these yet: My favorite tablet games are the ports of old BioWare classics like Baldur's Gate 1+2, Icewind Dale, ... Excellent ports imo, bur I did play them on a 10" tablet, I wouldn't try to play them on a phone. https://www.beamdog.com/games/
Infinitode - a tower defense game with a lot of meta progression
Recently I really enjoyed Acecraft which is a gatcha bullet hell with cuphead art style. Its really charming and very much skill based to a point. The only negative is this constant clicking on shit to collect all of the coin garbage which eventually made me quit it but it was fun for a while.
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Swordigo
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.
I Love Hue
It's a casual color puzzle game. Relaxing and minimally intrusive
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
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
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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.