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Latest entries - 3 May 2025:

• Kids Memory Game ✅️ (GitHub or Play Store) - Educational

Other recent entries

• The WereCleaner - Stealth

• Fractal Space ☕️ - Puzzle

• Orzmic (itch.io) - Rhythm

• Satryn (itch.io) - Shooter

• Octo Blast - Shooter

• To arms!! ☕️ - Deck builder

• Drill Down ✅️ ☕️ (itch.io) - Management

• Techmino (GitHub) ✅️ - Puzzle

• AAAAXY ✅️ (F-droid or Play Store) - Puzzle

• osu!(lazer) ✅️ (official website) - Rhythm

• Forge ✅️ (GitHub) - Deck builder

Introduction

I recently realized there are still, to this day, some actual "hidden gems" in the Play Store. Not the fake ones everyone talks about which, in a way or another, often have a catch or aren't very "hidden". I mean free games with no ads or IAPs of any kind that are fun to play.

So I was thinking maybe it's time to compile a list of them. Please suggest the ones you've found and enjoyed!

Edit: I'm now including free games (no piracy) from other sources beside the Play Store (which will be specified within brackets), such as GitHub or F-droid. If they're also FOSS, like all F-droid games, they'll have this green checkmark ✅️. For the games that have both F-droid and Play Store versions, the green checkmark is for the F-droid version.

I won't try them all as I did with my premium games list, because you could simply download and try them for yourself without spending a dime. I'll simply list them.

‼️Also, please do checkout MiniReview - Game Reviews for more free games that match the following criteria (use the "Browse" tab and select the correct filters). The same app for iOS - App Store - is here.‼️

I've saved this post so to keep it updated over time, for my own reference and for your benefit. So feel free to save it and check out new entries every so often.

Entry Criteria

1. FREE
2. NO ADS
3. STRICTLY NO IAPs (except donation buttons, but I'll have to check first)
4. NO PIRACY
5. it has to be a legit, full game you've played and liked. No demos, no emulators (everyone knows RetroArch anyways)
6. no entire repositories. You can recommend them in the comments if you really want, but this list is for games you'd like to recommend
7. if it's a Play Store game, it should be compatible with the latest Android version at the time of entry
8. must include a link to the game, especially if from sources outside the Play Store. Not direct-download links, just links to the page
9. sketchy sources won't be considered. Play Store, GitHub, and F-droid are welcome

[If you want to recommend paid games, without ads or predatory microtransactions, here is the list for you.]

THE LIST

 

Legend

✅️ - FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software). Listed on top in their respective categories

☕️ - includes option to donate, with or without minimal cosmetics only

~~[Game title]~~ - delisted

 

Shooter

• Satryn (itch.io)

• Octo Blast

• Zombotron Re-Boot

• Pico Hero

• PewPew Live (from MiniReview top chart)

• Touhou ThousandNightAnamnesis

 

Stealth

• The WereCleaner

• Mr Rumble - Stealth Action

 

Platformer

• Safari Forever w/ Level Editor

• Fast like a Fox

• Dock The Rocket

 

Rhythm

• osu!(lazer) ✅️ (official website or GitHub)

• Orzmic (itch.io)

 

Arcade

• Smash Sector

• Flex Armstrong

 

RPG

• Adventure Seeker

• Andor's Trail

• Pathos: Nethack Codex

• Emoji Quest [RPG]

 

Roguelike dungeon crawler

• Shuttered Pixel Dungeon ✅️ (F-droid)

• Dungeon Squire

• Bounty Hunter Space Lizard

• Angband (plus variants)

• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

• GnollHack

• Monk Tower

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon ☕️

• Skillful Pixel Dungeon ☕️

• Catacomb Chess

 

Deck builder

• Forge ✅️ (GitHub)

• To arms!! ☕️

• Underhand

• Beecarbonize

 

Adventure

• Kitty Q

• Turdbots

• Father and Son

• Please, Touch The Artwork 2

 

Puzzle

• Techmino (GitHub) ✅️ (tetris clone)

• AAAAXY ✅️ (F-droid or Play Store)

• Minesweeper - Antimine ✅️ (F-droid)

• Zoysii - Logic game ✅️ (F-droid)

• 2048 (Privacy Friendly) ✅️ (F-droid)

• Flowit ✅️ (F-droid)

• Gauguin ✅️ (F-droid or Play Store)

• Simon Tatham's Puzzles ✅️ (F-droid or Play Store)

• Fractal Space ☕️ (first-person puzzle, great story)

• Sudoku

• Tetrix

• Frozen Bubble

• Water Sorting Puzzle

• Freeze! 2 - Brothers

• Freeze!

• Empty.

• Skyward Joyrney

• Pixics - Pixel art puzzle game ☕️

 

Tower defense

• Anuto TD ✅️ (F-droid)

 

Strategy

• Unciv ✅️ (F-droid or Play Store)

• Master of War - Forces of Eo

• Opacha-mda

• Antiyoy Classic

• Seedship

• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

• Starrows

• Lichess

 

Management

• Drill Down ✅️ ☕️ (itch.io)

• Mindustry ✅️ (F-droid or Play Store)

• OpenTTD

 

Racing

• SuperTuxKart

• Data Wing

• Vroomies

• Formula 2D - Steer to Persevere

• Night Riders Remastered ☕️

 

Simulation

• Parking Master

• The Powder Toy

 

Casual

• Lato ✅️ (F-droid)

• Snake Game

• Rabbit Run

 

Visual novel

• EDDA Cafe

• one night, hot springs ☕️

• Magical Witch Bell ☕️

• Tomato Clinic ☕️

• tong jyun ☕️

 

Educational

• Kids Memory Game ✅️ (GitHub or Play Store)

 

Delisted or outdated

• ~~SuperTux (platformer)~~

• ~~SuperTux Classic (platformer)~~

• ~~Bad Trip (platformer)~~

• Dribble (outdated platformer)

• ~~Phigros (rhythm)~~

• ~~Lofi Ping Pong (rhythm)~~

• ~~Code challenges and puzzles (puzzle)~~

• ~~Rocket League Sideswipe (sport/competition)~~

• ~~Butterfly Soup ☕️ (visual novel)~~

• ~~Butterfly Soup 2 (visual novel)~~

 

Happy gaming ;)

ps: please let me know if there's any wrong information about the games included in this list (especially regarding the ones with free donations) so that I'll fix the post, if necessary.

Tutti gli impatti anche finanziari di Ai, nucleare e quantum computing

L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @informatica
Nonostante l'incertezza globale, l'innovazione sta prosperando. L'intelligenza artificiale, la fusione nucleare e il quantum computing stanno avanzando rapidamente, stimolando investimenti significativi

Artist: Mozukuzu | fediverse | bluesky | pixiv | twitter | danbooru

I bought a Lenovo laptop, one from the the bargain bin, 11th gen Intel and 8gb soldered RAM

Even if I reinstalled Windows to make sure all the bloatware was removed, it was almost unusable. At boot I was left with only 800mb free memory, and "Lenovo vantage" kept reappearing automatically like malware. (It's a useless electron app that wastes half a gig of ram to show you on screen when you press caps lock, check driver updates and try to upsell you on extended warranty)

At idle the machine was as loud as a jet, with crystal disk mark always complaining "the nvme drive is over 65°C!!" (I'm guessing from the constant swapping)

Battery life was a disaster, 2 hours at idle with no foreground apps open

I thought that it was the CPU too slow for my use and the RAM not enough, so I was planning to spend some hundreds of euro to buy a new laptop with at least 16gb of RAM.

Then I installed cachyos and because I'm masochist I chose hyprland at the "easy" install screen that asks you which of the 19 available DE you prefer.

After a week of suffering trying to understand all the text configuration files for everything (it was a shock, everything needs the terminal) I'm now getting used to it and... It's like I got a brand new laptop??!?

Memory: clean boot now obviously is reversed situation. I don't have only 800mb of free RAM, the whole system uses only 800mb

Temperatures: by default cachyos is set to show the CPU temperature on waybar, and it's always around 40-45° C. The fan is way quieter. At idle they can even stop, before they were like a hair dryer even after a clean boot

Battery life: astounding. I can't believe that I can use it for a whole afternoon. Accidentally fell asleep and when I came back after two hours it lost only 10% (on idle, screen turn off automatically)

Gaming performance: tried only with casual games but with something like tinytopia I get 60fps on ultra when on windows it was choppy on high

Walkabout Mini Golf Creator Lucas Martell and Technical Lead John Pistella as they play a round with Concerned Ape LLC's Cole Medeiros of Stardew Valley fame, where they discuss what makes an addictive, ongoing game!

Ein Team der Deutschen Welle (DW) ist nach Angaben des Senders im Westjordanland von israelischen Siedlern angegriffen worden. Eine Korrespondentin und ein Kameramann der DW seien von israelischen Siedlern bei einem Angriff auf das palästinensische Dorf Sindschil nördlich von Ramallah mit Steinen beworfen und verfolgt worden, teilte das Medienunternehmen am Samstag mit. Beide hätten sich unverletzt in Sicherheit gebracht. Das Auto des Kameramanns sei stark beschädigt worden. Die DW-Mitarbeiter seien durch Pressewesten als Medienschaffende zu erkennen gewesen. Auch weitere Journalisten hätten fliehen müssen.

...

Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 06/07/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:
Leaders of the growing BRICS group are gathering in Brazil for a two-day summit that begins in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The acronym is derived from the initial letters of the founding member countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. For the first time since taking power in 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping will not be attending in person, instead sending Prime Minister Li Qiang. Some member states are calling for a firmer stance on Israel’s war in Gaza. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will be attending the Rio summit. Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman said the group’s aim remains clear.

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La Cina lancia la carta d’identità digitale per aumentare la sorveglianza (e avanzare nell’IA)

L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @informatica
La Cina sta per lanciare carte d’identità digitali da usare online, trasferendo il controllo dell’identificazione degli utenti dalle aziende private

Author: Unknown
Published on: 06/07/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:
The coastal region of Latakia is among the worst hit. Emergency workers expressed concerns that unexploded ordnance from the war might contribute to the rapid spread of the flames.

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