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I do like having games on my phone, but it's always a struggle looking for games with 0 microtransactions. So would like a game I can out right pay for, or one with ads. The ability to disable ads for $5 is chill though.

I've played a lot of games that you can "have fun being f2p" but some days I just get really sick and tired of games I play trying to sell me things every 30 seconds.

So do you guys have any?

If not I may go back to playing GBA games on my phone XD

EDIT: Oh selling like expansions is probably fine if it's legit like a full other game. I'm on android

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Soul knight is good, but does have micro transaction

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Old school RuneScape

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • Slice & Dice
  • Balatro
  • Stardew Valley
  • Terraria
  • BloonsTD6
  • Arcadium
  • Shattered Pixel Dungeon
  • Geometry Dash
  • Mini Metro
  • Brotato
  • Slay the Spire
  • Peglin
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I Love Hue is really peaceful

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

If you enjoy puzzle games then Baba is You, Snake Bird and Railbound will keep you busy for quite a while.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Balatro and Slay the Spire both have a lot of reply value. Very different games.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a really good roguelike for mobile. Ton of variety, no ads, only thing you can buy is a supporter pack that gives the ui a different fringe color, and that doesn't get pushed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Seconding SPD, it's great

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

Luck be a Landlord is fantastic! I just got it and spent way too much time playing it.

Ascension if you like deck builders. It has full expansion packs like getting the physical card game, but it’s fun without them and the expansions are cheap as hell. There’s a pack where you get tons of them that goes on sale sometimes. It doesn’t have dark patterns, but the packs could be classified as DLC I think. They’re just a couple dollars USD instead of 20-30 like the physical cards.

Full disclosure: I own the physical cards and fucking love this game.

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

I adore deck games, so will have to look at ascension!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh I love it sooooo much! I really appreciate the asynchronous multiplayer, where I can play a turn, send it to my partner, and they can take their turn whenever they want later on. I don’t love having to be attached to my phone while playing phone games and not able to quit whenever I want.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Papers Please

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Some good ones from the fdroid app-repo.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon - already mentioned roguelike

SGT-Puzzles - already mentioned microgame puzzlers

Frozen Bubble - already mentioned bubble-shooter

Vector Pinball - already mentioned pinball

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.artificialworlds.boxstacker/index.html - Physics puzzler

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simondalvai.ball2box/ - flick ball to the box for 3-stars

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.gpl.rpg.AndorsTrail/ - Massive story quest driven RPG

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.chadenas.cpudefense/ - Tower defense on a PCB

https://f-droid.org/packages/ch.logixisland.anuto/ - trad tower-defense

https://f-droid.org/packages/it.alessandropira.wesnoth114/ - hex turn-based fantasy RPG

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.lettucepie.flickybee/index.html - flick the bee through the course

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Stardew Valley! It was worth the $5 already in vanilla, then it got updated with more content at no extra charge and then again. And now 1.6 is around the corner with even more. It is the love child of one dev that keeps on giving and giving and giving. And there are tons of mods of all kinds including entire world overhauls that adds even more replayability. Very much recommended.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yellow and the subsequent games are pretty interesting puzzle games

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slay the Spire is one of my favorite games of all time, and has a nice android port I play before bed all the time. No ads, just caw caaaw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh no! It looks like you don’t have enough block! Would you like to buy enough block to survive this round with 1 HP for $0.99?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Threes

Fun puzzle game that got ripped off by 2048 and it's endless clones. They wrote a blog post on how shitty mobile game development can be.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Whatever emulator you can run and the ROMs of your choice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Endless Sky is a solid space trader and combat game, free on f-droid

Frozen Bubble is a pretty fun ~~bubble bobble~~ Puzzle Bobble clone, also on f-droid

Arx Libertatis allows you to play the full version of Arx Fatalis, a super in depth underground RPG inspired by Ultima Underworld. You need the PC game files to transfer to your phone though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~Freeciv~~ Unciv on Android is an almost feature complete re-creation of Civilization 5 with minimal graphics. You can also download the JAR and run it on a desktop if you have a Java SDK installed. As a Civ player that started with 4, I found it easier to pick up than freeciv which is trying to replicate something more like Civ2.

Edit: provide correct name

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Halls of Torment released recently and seems to be a direct port of the PC version. I've been enjoying it quite a bit

I used a 3 month trial for Play Pass and have found quite a few games through it. It strips out ads and microtransactions and gives you all the content for free, at least in my experience so far. Some of the games in this thread are included. I'm debating keeping it after the trial

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic, if you feel like playing rollercoaster tycoon 1/2 on your phone. They slightly altered the UI to make it more touch friendly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sweet! Imma make Mr Bones Wild Ride

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mini Metro. Its a transportation strategy game where you build and manage a city´s metro system through the style of the London tube map. You pay once and get the whole game. No ads or micro transactions.

Open Tyrian is an old shoot em up thats open source and has been ported to dozens of platforms, including android. It plays very well with touch controls.

If you want a Minecraft like game thats free and has no microtransactions I recommend Minetest (Now called Luanti). Its open source and has tons of mods.

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

Thank you so much for the Mini Metro suggestion! Loving it!

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

It’s been a while. Have you thrown your phone yet?

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

Still loving it! After fucking up a bunch of times I started reading up on some strategies. Still stuck on London, but I'm enjoying it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Very similar, but in my opinion slightly more fun, is Mini Motorways

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Minetest is a good suggestion, but it's worth noting that the base application won't have anything playable on install. A few of the games made with it attempt to recreate Minecraft, but it's not limited to that.

Also, while the core team has announced the name change, it's still listed as Minetest on both the play store and F-Droid.

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

Balatro, works really well with touch, numbers go brrrrrrrrr

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

The Lifeline series from 3 minute games is excellent if you like a twist on choose your own adventure games.

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

Kairosoft titles are typically $5 to $7 dollars. Tons of Dev and Tycoon style business builder titles. Most are fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cookie clicker paid, stardew valley, Terraria, freedoom (gzdoom + open source IWAD packaged on fdroid store), mindustry, original peggle you can find apk on internet archive, opensurge, minetest engine with voxelibre game for open source minecraft.

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