Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync it works nicely offline.
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every game is ad free is you use pi-hole
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.
OpenTTD! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openttd.sdl&hl=en&gl=US
It's a FOSS version of Transport Tycoon.
Papers Please is what I mostly play on my phone on aeroplanes (if I haven't packed the steam deck). A classic that works well on mobile
Also, Mini Metro (and the rest of the series) is great.
Soul Knight is my go to
Sand:box, plague inc (i recommend buying premium for both) and all games on f-droid.
Magic Research
It's an paid offline idle game without ads and a nice progression. Also has a demo.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcolotto.magicresearchfull
The Layton games - the DS games have been ported to Android and totally slap. As someone who never had a DS, I'm enjoying this era of the games coming to Android and being playable here.
Have you tried looking on itch.io? I recently got a few games from there (some are hosted on the play store but not all)
Only bad thing about browsing is that 80% of the games seem to be dating sims or visual novels (which is fine if you're looking for that, but annoying if you're not)
Edit: infidhells seems really fun, but haven't had time to play much, to use all the gameplay features it's worth playing with the sound on (though it has accessibility options for playing without audio).
Rusted Warfare is a great RTS. It has offline and online server hosting (never seen that on mobile before). It feels like I'm playing an RTS on GameRanger.
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Shadowmatic is a great little puzzle game. It's paid but the graphics and attention to detail are incredible.
Hm, says it's incompatible with my Pixel 5. Do you know if there's a way to run it on modern Android devices?
Strange, I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just a bug? If you open the reviews section on the Play Store page for the game, and check the "Show reviews for: This device model" checkbox, do you see any reviews from other Pixel 5 users there?
Hm, it does say it hasn't been updated in 3 years, I'm guessing it's just old.
Can recommend Oxenfree and Kentucky Route Zero. They are tied to a Netflix subscription on mobile though (on the other hand, if you already have Netflix, they’re free).
Besides that, Monument Valley 1 and 2 are amazing games. And The Room series is also very entertaining.
I also would recommend Broken age and Life is Strange but they seem to not be on the Google Play Store anymore…
There is a Cultist Simulator there. I don't know about Android port much, but it's a good game on PC
Chiki's Chase is a great game.
PewPew live and PewPew 2
- Any Playdigious games is good.
- Any Kairosoft games.
- ICEY is such an underrated game. The narration and it's wit is so good.
- Levelhead if you want platformer and want Super Mario Maker on your phone.
- Limbo
Every game is a no ads game with blockada :)
Just saw your other comment about traveling, my go to game is Pirates Outlaws, cost a bit money but is offline ad free and very fun. I put a lot of flight hours with it
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Angry Birds. I bought a ad free version for like 2 bucks and it's the original angry birds with no MTX.