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Endless sky is a spaceship sim that I started playing recently. It's well done, and there are a bunch of mods available for more story, ships, etc.
Anuto TD
Shattered dungeon
I think FOSS is uniquely awful for game development. I applaud anyone willing to donate their time but when it comes to games I much prefer pay-once as an attribute to focus on.
Game devs need to eat and donations are unreliable (I used to help run a community funded MUD - we admins often ended up paying server costs out of pocket) so I focus more on finding good games that avoid ad or microtransaction based revenue models so the most reliably good games I find are either shareware/demo before you buy or just a straight up cost.
I definitely appreciate OSS games though and there are good non-free OSS games out there, most people aren't dicks that reshare the source after purchase.
I like the approach of old id games. Sell the game and after a few years open source the engine. That way the developers keep getting paid for assets and the community can keep the game alive on every platform imaginable.
Edit: On that note, Freedoom is great!
I miss shareware.
It has had a rebirth with app stores - a fair number of decent premium apps offer a reduced functionality version for free.
So what type of games (or blatantly which games) have you found that you like?
I'm always on the hunt for a new type of Knights of pen and paper (2), or Hoplite.
My tippy top recommendations are:
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexuvarov.puzzler
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.templegatesgames.RaceAndroid
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playdekgames.android.Ascension
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.torporgames.suzerain
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.griffgriffgames.minesweeper
I usually like puzzle style games so it may not be to your taste. But, I'd highly recommend all of these - the first one in particular is quite a hidden gem.
Hey thank you! I just installed them all, will try out!
Unciv is a great demake of Civilization 5
I don't play it that much, but Mindustry is probably worth looking at, a factory-building game in the Factorio mold.
https://mindustrygame.github.io/
Unciv is a reimplementation of Civilization V (with simpler graphics).
https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv
Not in F-Droid, but open-source: I very much like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead as a game, but it's really better-suited to a PC, which is the platform it was originally designed for. It's compute-heavy, and while the Android adaptation is usable on a touchscreen, it benefits from having a Bluetooth keyboard or something. Open-world roguelike. You can just download the apks directly. This has a steep learning curve; think Dwarf Fortress. Lots of depth, though!
I'm not actually all that rabid about the touchscreen UI. Probably better solitaire UIs out there, but PysolFC is a fork of Pysol, a long-running Linux solitaire implementation. It has a ton of different games; my favorite is Eight-Off, a game that's somewhat similar to Freecell, but less-widely played. I think that solitaire games are a good match for a phone platform, so worth having it or another solitaire game around.
https://pysolfc.sourceforge.io/
My own favorite is one that you mentioned, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which I think is a good adaptation of roguelike gameplay to the touchscreen. Its creator posts on a Threadiverse community here, !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world.
This isn't a specific game, but Twine-based games will generally work reasonably well on an Android web browser. These tend to be sort of multiple-choice choose your own adventure games, but span a wide range of genres. I don't know of a single database cataloguing all of them, but there are a fair number out there on the Web.
For an example (not one I'd specifically recommend, haven't even played through it, just hit Kagi for an example game that people were recommending):
I lost an entire day to Unciv recently.
I really enjoyed Mindustry, even though I've never tried another factory-type game. The polish and depth was 100% there although I got lost at one point and didn't know how to progress. That game really changed my perspective on what is possible for FOSS. Godspeed, devs
Space Trader
Open Flood (puzzle game)
AAAAXY is interesting for a weird mindfuck puzzle platformer.
I think Anuto TD (a tower defense game) is the best I've come across.
I also really like Gauguin (Sudoku-esque) and Lexica (word game) on the more casual side.
Don't know that it's on F-Droid, but Lichess is also high quality and open source.
Thanks, tried the tower defence, it's a bit boring right? I got to level 27 first try without even doing anything special and it took like forever. Free though so I'm not complaining.
Let me know when you get past level 80 😅
I didn't really think so, but to each their own! I like the progression from not being able to afford much, up to maxing out upgrades on each tower.
There's a speed multiplier to cut back on the waiting around. I mostly leave it around 8x speed so it's a little faster paced.
the ones i play most often are Forkyz and Simon Tatham's Puzzles.
Agreed on the Simon puzzles. Slants is king, all others fall
Mindustry.
Vector pinball is quite fun, if a bit simple
Endless Sky
Stone Soup Dungeon
If you like Shattered Pixel Dungeon, there's also Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup on F-droid.
Freeblocks Pixel wheels
And retroarch