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Evening, all.

Looking for recommendations for any Android games that you enjoy which can be played completely offline without a data connection of any sort.

These used to be super common once upon a time, but these days it seems every single game I try just doesn't function if you are totally out of service area.

Would appreciate any tips! Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Some great suggestions in here! That will keep them busy a while. Thanks so much everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is so good that I bought it in iOS

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know why I never realized that.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've enjoyed ports from PC games and emulation. Emulation is pretty good on android now, and that opens up a LOT of options for offline & no ads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You are absolutely correct! Only downside is it kind of sucks trying to control with onscreen controller. I suppose I'd better learn to share my bluetooth gamepad ;p

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is when Nintendo ds games and searching out games that had only stylus controls comes in handy. Stuff like Kirby Mass Attack or Warioware feel like native games. If you got a Samsung with a Spen then that's a dream combo.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unciv is a decent Civilization clone. And it's open source.

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints 5 points 1 year ago

Seconded! The top mods are worth checking out, too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Mindustry

[–] antonim 6 points 1 year ago

Seconding SPD. Of all Android games, I think I've wasted the biggest part of my life on that one. An extremely well balanced and fair roguelike, even if that sounds contradictory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

+1 for Mindustry

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
[–] capybara_enjoyer 15 points 1 year ago
[–] fne8w2ah 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Almost every paid Kairosoft games?

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[–] jeeva 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync it works nicely offline.

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[–] Kima09 12 points 1 year ago
  1. Any Playdigious games is good.
  2. Any Kairosoft games.
  3. ICEY is such an underrated game. The narration and it's wit is so good.
  4. Levelhead if you want platformer and want Super Mario Maker on your phone.
  5. Limbo
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] xaon_rider92 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My goto for offline gaming is usually emulation, typically pokemon. But I can also recommend the Bart Bonte puzzle games, Vampire Survivor and Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Simon Tatham's puzzle collection is my fallback game for whenever I don't have internet or am bored with whatever other game I'm playing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Mindustry and Unciv are my main recommendations. If you like strategy stuff, you'll have a blast.

[–] MurrayL 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you like American football, big recommend for Retro Bowl - as the name suggests, it's an old-school arcade/NES style game heavily inspired by Tecmo Bowl. Plays really well on mobile, and has a small premium charge to permanently unlock some nice extra features (e.g. roster customisation).

[–] gravydog 5 points 1 year ago

+1 for RB

I'm completely addicted (I'm in season 90 or so); it's my go-to when I've just got a few minutes for a game. I think it's one of the best games on mobile.

[–] Zerfallen 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dead Cells & Titan Quest. Both are amazing games, work totally offline, no ads.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Puzzles - no internet, no cost, no pay-to-win, no ads, no fancy UI, just classic logic puzzles!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Similaritron (seems abandoned, but still works)

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[–] thetwaddler 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Found an old archive so I'm going to ad to the thread myself:

Alto's Adventure and Alto's Odyssey both definitely work offline, but I'm not sure about them trying to serve you advertisements.

I also used to have a considerable library of emulated games on my phone and would use a bluetooth gamepad. I should probably go back down this road I think! I'd imagine emulation has come a long way since I was mucking around with it.

[–] seacocker 6 points 1 year ago

Endless Sky is a space fleet building, trading, battling, exploration game. Free and open source.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

antimine is a fun and well made minesweeper clone, also its foss

[–] Archerofyail 6 points 1 year ago

I believe Kotor 1 doesn't require a connection to play, and it's more of a tactical game, so it's not as annoying to play on a touch screen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been really enjoying Pocket City [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On this topic I wish there was a definitive place to find Android games that have controller support. No microtransactions.. I will have to download and try again first and then 90% of the time it doesn't meet my criteria for playable.

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[–] jeeva 5 points 1 year ago

Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync I'm pretty sure it works offline...

[–] LunchEnjoyer 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DATA WING, is a great game! Really well made, easy to pick up for a few miniuits and really well scripted!

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[–] nbdy 5 points 1 year ago

Unciv and Shattered Pixel Dungeon have been on my Phone forever. Both available on FDroid.

[–] AlmightySnoo 5 points 1 year ago

Battle for Wesnoth is cool once you get used to the weird controls

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yioto is a great indie dev with lots of gems, but if particularly recommend Antiyoy.

I'd also recommend Battle for Polytopia.

I'm fairly certain both these turn based strategy games will work fine offline.

[–] ggnoredo 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

every game is ad free is you use pi-hole

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but I'm all over the adblocking front at home. This is specifically for when we travel waaay out of civilisation but my kids still want to play some games. Pretty annoying that most of them don't work at all.

Not interested in packing the starlink dish for this purpose, I go out there to disconnect, that's kind of the goal.

[–] ggnoredo 5 points 1 year ago

I don't play on mobile but I can recommend;

  • Baldur's Gate
  • Sudoku
  • Devilution X
  • RVGL
  • Moonshades
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pixel Dungeon or Shattered Pixel. They're roguelike dungeon explorers. The latter is a continuation of the former, which hasn't been developed for some years now.

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