Android

• Monument Valley 2 [paid] - amazing for relaxing
• Standoff 2 - just a shooter game that doesn't force all of the cases and levels and upgrading. It has those features, but I just open the game and start the match.
• Falling Lightblocks - best Tetris clone.
• Antimine - Minesweeper with ton of themes and settings. It's FOSS but the Google Play version has ads, download from F-Droid.
• Flowit (F-Droid ,GPlay) - simple FOSS game that melts my brain after first few levels.
• Despotism 3k [paid] - great game. It's pretty hard. Very funny too.
• Mindustry (F-Droid, GPlay) - My brain is too small to understand this game. But it's fun.

Sonic runners revival!
It's the full original Sonic Runners game that was discontinued by SEGA, but dedicated fans have revived it via reverse engineering the backend server responses and patching the app to point to their servers to keep the app running.

Even though it's "just" a mobile game, it's surprisingly high quality, has a full blown story mode and even the multiplayer features still work!

brotato and vampire survivors

My go-tos at the moment are:

• Oldschool Runescape - wooooooooo
• Danmaku Death - old, free, no in-app purchases or ads bullet hell game from 2014, but it's delisted from the play store...

Other games I've enjoyed

• Super Auto Pets. Base game is free with no ads, but there are cosmetics and expansion packs.
• Pixel Dungeon and its variants. Free roguelike with no ads and no in app purchases.
• Magikarp Jump. Fun little incremental game where you make magikarp jump. Has in-app purchases.

I saw Slay the Spire mentioned exactly once, so I'm going to put the highlight on my current favorite mobile game:

Slay the Spire is a deck-builder roguelike that gives you a different experience every single game. It encourages broken mechanics and rewards inventiveness while having enough rng to feel like a fresh experience. It's challenging enough to make winning feel like you earned it, but not so challenging that you can't win if you really try.

The android version is a pay-once full port of the pc version, achievements and all. The touch controls are very well done. I've been hooked since 2020 when I discovered the game on steam.

I find mobile games to be a crapshoot, and I've only ever found a select few hidden gems that are exceptions:

• Armory & Machine, an incremental game. Avoid the sequel.
• Underhand, a card game good enough for people who don't like card games.

Egg, Inc. - simple game, feels like the olden days but it's also entirely modernised. Just recieved a tonne of qol enhancements.

If you are a regular player and got far enough to need a co-op, and play well. Hit me up!

Vampire Survivors!

Papers, Please is a great port that works on my S22 just fine. I also enjoy Game Dev Tycoon (not Game Dev Story), Into the Breach (if you're a Netflix customer it's free), and Chess.com (if you're into chess, just set it to a 24 hour game so you can play once a day)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

These are the games I have installed

Out of all of these if I weren't always at home and had a controller with me it's vampire survivor and dead cells. No controller, reigns.

Vampire Survivors (don't worry i'm not addicted... I can stop at any time if I want)

I use eboox to read, don't really have any games on my phone besides lichess

I like playing Monument Valley. The twists are fun!

Genshin Impact, Punishing: Gray Raven and Streets of Rage 4 (non-gacha)

Thankfully that's as far as I'll go into gacha nation (until the release of Wuthering Waves, at least). I'm good at controlling my wallet and not thirsting over every character.

Star Wars KOTOR and just started Elder Scrolls Morrowind via OpenMW. And if I don’t have much time I play PokeMMO

Not a "game" technically, but I love Conway's Game of Life. Robust features and just plain cool.

I've gotten reeeeeally into pocket city 2 recently, i can't put it down.

Slay the Spire and Marvel Snap. Killed 100s of hours on both

I use fo2.exe to play original Fallouts

I love hue and I love hue too, Tsuki adventure 2 and Tsuki odyssey, MonopolyGo, Wild Rift and I'm switching between some idle tycoon games.

• Slay the Spire

• Really Bad Chess

• Ticket to Ride

• Nonograms Katana

• Atomas

• One More Brick

• Bloons TD 6
• Plato (this one is actually a collection of classic multiplayer games)
• Dicey Dungeons
• Levelhead
• Endless Quiz

Chess.com and Lichess

Brotato completely eclipsed Vampire Survivors for me.

The android version of Dicey Dungeons plays very well. I can definitely recommend that one.

Super Auto Pets is really fun and laid back. Its very strategic and pretty mechanically deep, but you battle against teams that have been pre-recorded from other players, so you can close the game at any time and rejoin whenever you have downtime. Imo it's the best parts of PVP and single player combined.

Space cadet pinball is the only game

Genshin impact, when not killing time here or reading articles elsewhere.

Vampire Survivors

shattered pixel dungeon for a quick waiting room, mindustry for that conveyor crack cocaine of a game

2048

'Dots' and 'Two Dots'

Any Kairosoft game. They are so addictive! No Ads, you pay and play forever. Perfect.

You can start with one of this:

Tropical Resort Story

Game Dev Story

kingdom Adventures

Grand Prix Story (1)

BonBon Cakery

My daughter got me addicted to Cookie Run Kingdom

Phigros, Hill Climb Racing, Patapon on PPSSPP, Piano Tiles 2 (hmu for the original apk), Cytoid Other than that I just doomscroll

Flow https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigduckgames.flow

Legends of runeterra

I've got Morrowind on my fold3, it's amazing

I still spend a couple of hours a week playing plague inc.

Unciv and Gravity Defied

I've been playing a lot of peglin, super auto pets, slice & dice, and Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links.

Sudoku. Quick and easy to drop in and out of.