Currently running universal paperclips.

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    Balatro. Into the Breach. Dead Cells. Slay the Spire.

    All have Play Store versions and all kick ass.

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      Adding to this: Ascension, Luck Be a Landlord, Slice & Dice, Peglin? (Peglin is great on the computer, but I see it’s free with in-app purchases on my phones so I’m a little sus about that)

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          That’s cool! I am no longer sus.

          Ascension has in app purchases but they’re to unlock whole expansions of the card game, and they’re “buy once keep forever” even across the game switching owners and interfaces (unfortunately to its detriment, but it’s still fun). The expansions are like 30+USD for the physical card game and like 5-7 for the computer/phone version, so decently priced. I got some on sale for like three money.

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    Polytopia: small simplified 4x type game Shattered Pixel Dungeon: rougelike Dungeon crawler

    Don’t know if you have to pay for these, they were free when I got em years ago

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      Whole hours flew by when I installed that. The AI seems weaker than the desktop version, but it’s still fun

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    Dolphin, then download some ROMs. Legally, of course.

    Or Moonlight/Sunshine to your home desktop

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        Any preference for type of game? Willing to use a controller?

        Balatro

        Slay the Spire

        Dicey Dungeons

        Slice and Dice

        Star few Valley

        Dead Cells

        Don’t Stave

        Crashlands

        Brotato

        Sudoku

        Super stickman golf 3

        Tetris

        Space Cadet Pinball

        Hearthstone

        Pokemon TCG

        Wildrift

        Fruit merge

        Streets of Rage

        TMNT Shredders Revenge

        Skul

        Terraria

        Hyper light Drifter

        Sparklite

        20 minutes till dawn

        Shadow of the Depth

        Kingdom Rush

        My recommendation would be to get emulation set up and take a small controller with you. Then a world of full quality games are open to you. Even if you don’t have a controller, many games work well with a touch screen.

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    • Wordscapes - super casual crossword+sudoku mix with infinite levels. No idea how unpaid version is though, I got the game a long time ago when going ad-free was like $1.99.

    • Archmage - goofy card game with busted mechanics and terrible art. 10/10 would recommend if you like janky M:tG knockoffs.

    • Magic: the Gathering: Arena - this can be difficult to climb as a free to play, but if you’re good at Limited you can go close to infinite. Your options for Constructed will be choked, though. Still, its Magic on mobile you can play on your phone and has cross-platform play.

    • Quadropoly - free Monopoly clone that let’s you play the game normally or change rules to your own tastes.

    • Any Kairosoft game - a lot of fun pixel RPGs from this company that are a blast to play. They have free demo versions and paid versions. I like Dungeon Village and Beastie Bay.

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    Anything by Yiotro. . They’re all free, with no ads or microtransactions and no data transfer anywhere. It is surprising how little battery they eat up due to this. Most of them are some form of “popular game devolved a bit to make it play easy on a phone, including the ability to just bail at any moment”, i.e. Vodobanka is basically Doorkickers without the bells and whistles. Antiyoy is distilled Civ and has the same addiction loop of one more round.