Asklemmy

dungeon cards, shattered pixel dungeon, or just read manga

Jetski.

I've been playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which is an actual roguelike game.

Egg Inc is angrowth game that's silly and fun. Squad Alpha is a great casual shooter, and all ads are voluntary. (Note, this is NOT Alpha Squad.)

Other's have suggested emulating Pokémon. However, if you want a native RPG, the first six Final Fantasy games were remastered for mobile. That's five whole good games! They all have very frequent auto saving, so they're pretty easy to just pick up and put down.

These aren't arcade-y, though. Others have already suggested the best. I like Super Hexagon the most of the suggestions due to its simplicity. Geometry Dash is also great, but sometimes, it just isn't sightreadable.

Lichess :P

Everyone in here sleeping on pocket city 1 and 2. 1 is free w/ads or 2.99 and 2 is 4.99

Card crawl

Slay the Spire. Join us.

Atomas is pretty fun, it's super simple and looks really good

Spirit Island and Star Traders

Bloons:td6

Sky Children of Light

Rusted Warfare

Endless Sky

I Love Hue and I Love Hue Too. Also, My Friend Pedro. That one's pretty short though.

Bomb Club on iOS (was on Android at one point)

Honor of Kings is pretty good. Just ignore all the contests. You always start at the same ability as everyone else.

Balatro, when it finally gets ported to mobile. It's probably right up your alley.

• Monument Valley is an amazing mobile game although not arcade style
• Alto's Adventure/Odyssey are pretty solid
• Duet is a great arcade style game
• HyperRogue is a neat non-Euclidean roguelike https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/

supertuxkart SuperTuxKart (A 3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play.

If you like twitchy reflex killers, two oldies-but-goodies from Terry Cavanaugh: Super Hexagon and VVVVVV.

Fun chiptune soundtracks, minimal graphics, and so much "I died already? Okay just ONE MORE try and then I really need to get some work done. ARGH - okay maybe ONE MORE try...." And when you finally succeed the dopamine is second to none.

There's an app I really like called Minireview, focused on finding and reviewing mobile games.

Sky Wings is pretty fun. It's super arcadey, has different ships with different abilities and shooting styles, different modes and difficulties. I've put in quite a few hours over the years.

The Flow Free puzzle games are pretty fun imo. I have most of the different ones installed on my phone, and some years back I actually bought a bunch of the expansions for the base version so I have a ton of puzzles to go through.

Decidedly not arcade, but I absolutely love Shattered Pixel Dungeon as a phone timekiller.

Clash of clans (if you can be patient) games from f-droid

Machinarium

You could get some minigame type games from fdroid. I have a tetris game and a 2048 game from fdroid. There's also Super Tux Kart if you want something 3D

If you're in to a bit of a challenge then "Flow". There's many copies but I always played "Flow Free" for killing time.

• Starts shootin corrupting wand * Shatter Pixel Dungeon gang rise up!

Rodent Rush, highly recommend. Similar to chips challenge. It’s iOS only though.

Slay the Spire.

Geoguessr.

Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic.

Dead Cells and Peglin