My goto for offline gaming is usually emulation, typically pokemon. But I can also recommend the Bart Bonte puzzle games, Vampire Survivor and Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
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+1 for emulation, especially games you never got a chance to play before when they were new
Shattered pixel dungeon if you like roguelikes; it's on the play store and fdroid
- Any Playdigious games is good.
- Any Kairosoft games.
- ICEY is such an underrated game. The narration and it's wit is so good.
- Levelhead if you want platformer and want Super Mario Maker on your phone.
- Limbo
Supertuxkart
Templar Battleforce.
Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync I'm pretty sure it works offline...
Can recommend Oxenfree and Kentucky Route Zero. They are tied to a Netflix subscription on mobile though (on the other hand, if you already have Netflix, they’re free).
Besides that, Monument Valley 1 and 2 are amazing games. And The Room series is also very entertaining.
I also would recommend Broken age and Life is Strange but they seem to not be on the Google Play Store anymore…
Yioto is a great indie dev with lots of gems, but I particularly recommend Antiyoy.
I'd also recommend Battle for Polytopia.
I'm fairly certain both these turn based strategy games will work fine offline.
Found an old archive so I'm going to ad to the thread myself:
Alto's Adventure and Alto's Odyssey both definitely work offline, but I'm not sure about them trying to serve you advertisements.
I also used to have a considerable library of emulated games on my phone and would use a bluetooth gamepad. I should probably go back down this road I think! I'd imagine emulation has come a long way since I was mucking around with it.
Angry Birds. I bought a ad free version for like 2 bucks and it's the original angry birds with no MTX.
Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync it works nicely offline.
The Layton games - the DS games have been ported to Android and totally slap. As someone who never had a DS, I'm enjoying this era of the games coming to Android and being playable here.
slice and dice
Shattered pixel dungeon
All games on fdroid
Unciv is a decent Civilization clone. And it's open source.
every game is ad free is you use pi-hole
Yeah but I'm all over the adblocking front at home. This is specifically for when we travel waaay out of civilisation but my kids still want to play some games. Pretty annoying that most of them don't work at all.
Not interested in packing the starlink dish for this purpose, I go out there to disconnect, that's kind of the goal.
Shadowmatic is a great little puzzle game. It's paid but the graphics and attention to detail are incredible.
Hm, says it's incompatible with my Pixel 5. Do you know if there's a way to run it on modern Android devices?
Strange, I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just a bug? If you open the reviews section on the Play Store page for the game, and check the "Show reviews for: This device model" checkbox, do you see any reviews from other Pixel 5 users there?
Hm, it does say it hasn't been updated in 3 years, I'm guessing it's just old.
Similaritron (seems abandoned, but still works)
Doesn't work on my phone (made for an older version of android) but it looks like the game "set", and googling that I found this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nelis.set (haven't tried it yet but it has the tag "offline" so looks good)
That's weired. Runs flawlessly on my Android 13.
DATA WING, is a great game! Really well made, easy to pick up for a few miniuits and really well scripted!
I played that like a billion years ago. I don't remember much about it now, story wise, but it was fun.