What type of game are you looking for? I’ll always recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon for turn based roguelike.
I think the only genre I don’t enjoy is platformers
I’ll give shattered pixel dungeon a try
Recently became aware of Minedustry. Looks interesting.
Polytopia
Also some games I tend to install on every device I own are:
Crossword Puzzles by Redstone Games… good puzzles, simple Ui, minimal ads
Simon Tatham’s Puzzles by Chris Boyle… excellent port of many classic logic puzzles, no ads
250+ Solitaires by Alexei Anoshenko… many great solitaire games, minimal ads
PySolFC has over 1000 solitaire games, no ads, and is open source.
And it looks like it’s on F-Droid, excellent!
FWIW my favorite game in it is Imperial Trump Yukon. I can win about 1 in 3 games, but have to work for it.
I use Forkyz for crossword puzzles. It downloads from lots of sources and has a pretty clean interface. No ads.
Simon Tathams puzzles. Its available on f-droid.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles/
For a chill puzzle game, I’ve been enjoying the water sort puzzle from Martin Kunze. I like that version specifically because there’s no ads, no monetization, no data collection, no login, no nothing. You just sort colored water until it stops being fun.
Sword of Convallaria, it’s a gacha game, but the gacha is probably least intrusive i ever seen in similar games, and it actually have entire story mode that you can play for free with barely even engaging in main mode since it have separate character pools. It’s also heavily modelled after Final Fantasy Tactics and imo managed to keep the vibes and feeling better than any other similar game.
Unciv. Basically civ V on mobile.
It’s very questionable in terms of copyright, though
Im surprised no one had mentioned Fallout Shelter. Its the only mobile I’ve played other then angry birds.
I’ve been playing the crap out of Block Blast! Hit 406,492 for a high score so far!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.block.juggle
Xeonjia, It’s on fdroid.
Underhand is a nice little resource management game.
Mindustry, great open source game. Although it was so addictive I ended up deleting it. Now I don’t have any games on my phone.
Melvor Idle gives a good taste with its demo. It’s based on Runescape, but an idle version.
I don’t know if I’m a good person to ask this but I still play Subway Surfers to this day
