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.
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)
I have a Pixel 4a and it heats up a little playing Balatro, but all of the below it has no issues with:
Flipflop - a fun take on solitaire
Downwell - a vertical platformer
Holedown - an inverse breakout, minus the paddle
Desert Golf - a true indie classic!
Radiant - a Galaga/Space Invaders-ish shmup that’s old enough to probably be lightweight these days.
anything by Kairosoft - a developer of sim management games I’ve been playing games from since I had a flip phone. Just find a theme you like and go crazy.
NYT games - They have more than Wordle! Connections, a word grouping game, in particular is fun, and so is Strands a themed word search. They’re all updated daily for free on one app. They just lock off previous days’ puzzles and the crossword. (Though they have a small quick crossword that’s also fun.) It’s actually discounted right now for an actual subscription
Reigns - I found this very fun. It’s not for everyone. It uses Tinder’s swiping to let you make decisions and try to run your kingdom. Good luck.
Prune - a puzzle that that relies on pruning your growing plant to reach the goal
80 Days - a narrative game with a decent amount of reading, as you attempt to buy, sell, and barter your way through your adventure.
Crossy Road - Frogger-inspired game with more maps and more fun.
Plague Inc - also a classic. Control a disease as you attempt to infect and destroy humanity. (This was popular before COVID.)
Burrito Bison - time your taps to launch your lucha libre across the map.
Super Mario Run - just simple enough to make you mess up sometimes. But it’s not bad. I liked it.
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.
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.
I like Sudoku
These were listed yesterday
https://lemmy.world/post/23416167
Also, Andor’s Trail is a huge RPG. Plenty of grind.
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
Vector Pinball (also available on f-droid) is a pretty decent pinball game. Very lightweight, free, no ads.
Also Vodobanko (not free) for a hostage rescue type game. There’s a free version too if you want to try before you buy.
thanks for the rec, been playing vodobanko half the afternoon. Solid game.
ANUTO TD, SUPER METRO MEGA WARS (fdroid)
Anuto has so much character.
Suika Game The same great game for Switch, now available on mobile. Combine like fruit to evolve them into larger ones- keep going until you get watermelons. There are physics-based elements and if you overflow the play area, you lose.
2048, 10000000000
Flappy Bird
Project Muse, and I’m the best in the world at it!
I like Farmrpg a lot, it’s free with no ads. The community is very friendly and supportive, so it’s a nice little nook of the internet.
