Evening, all.
Looking for recommendations for any Android games that you enjoy which can be played completely offline without a data connection of any sort.
These used to be super common once upon a time, but these days it seems every single game I try just doesn't function if you are totally out of service area.
Would appreciate any tips! Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Some great suggestions in here! That will keep them busy a while. Thanks so much everyone.
118 Comments
Arigion@feddit.de · 34 pts · 3y
Shattered pixel dungeon
impossible_silver@programming.dev · 6 pts · 3y
This is so good that I bought it in iOS
fgjbvdrgbbb@lemmynsfw.com · 28 pts · 3y
All games on fdroid
Soullioness@atosoul.asuscomm.com · 4 pts · 3y
I don't know why I never realized that.
EddieTee77@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Yeah this just hit me too. It seems so obvious now
ghostermonster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
otter@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 3y
I've enjoyed ports from PC games and emulation. Emulation is pretty good on android now, and that opens up a LOT of options for offline & no ads
bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 3y
You are absolutely correct! Only downside is it kind of sucks trying to control with onscreen controller. I suppose I'd better learn to share my bluetooth gamepad ;p
NightOwl@lemmy.one · 5 pts · 3y
This is when Nintendo ds games and searching out games that had only stylus controls comes in handy. Stuff like Kirby Mass Attack or Warioware feel like native games. If you got a Samsung with a Spen then that's a dream combo.
PolarisFx@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Got an 8BitDo controller off Amazon, you can get a little clip for it that holds your phone. Best $20 ever. Kinda heavy to be gaming on the go but in bed it's great
LeylaaLovee@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Pokemon is really good to emulate on phones. Very slow games!
laenurd@lemmy.lemist.de · 24 pts · 3y
Unciv is a decent Civilization clone. And it's open source.
Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Seconded! The top mods are worth checking out, too.
TheYang@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 3y
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Mindustry
antonim@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Seconding SPD. Of all Android games, I think I've wasted the biggest part of my life on that one. An extremely well balanced and fair roguelike, even if that sounds contradictory.
boopdepop@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
+1 for Mindustry
confetti_8tVST5@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com · 8 pts · 3y
Holy shit is this addictive
confetti_8tVST5@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
COLT45@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
No clue this was on Android. Thanks friend
CasualPenguin@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 3y
Terraria
capybara_enjoyer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y
Bloons TD 6
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
Almost every paid Kairosoft games?
AverageGoob@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Cannot agree with this enough. Kairosoft games SLAP yo.
AverageGoob@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 3y
Cannot agree with this enough. Kairosoft games SLAP yo.
jeeva@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync it works nicely offline.
Artranjunk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I just bought it. The only problem is, that the font is relatively small.
MR_GABARISE@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
It's definitely cozier on a tablet for sure.
Kima09@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
stranger@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
DioTheSuperiorWaifu@kerala.party · 10 pts · 3y
Supertuxkart
bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 3y
Nice! The OG.
Scoutbravo@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 3y
NightFantom@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 3y
Simon Tatham's puzzle collection is my fallback game for whenever I don't have internet or am bored with whatever other game I'm playing
M_Reimer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
TarquinNimrod@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
Or add 'dns.adguard-dns.com' into Private DNS in your phones settings.
xaon_rider92@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
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.
MisterB@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 3y
+1 for emulation, especially games you never got a chance to play before when they were new
Stelus42@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
Fire emblem and advance wars are also great picks!
trk@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 3y
I quite enjoy Hoplite.
bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 3y
Man there's been suggestions from every corner of the gaming galaxy! Thanks. Rock on everyone.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 8 pts · 3y
Mindustry and Unciv are my main recommendations. If you like strategy stuff, you'll have a blast.
Zerfallen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Dead Cells & Titan Quest. Both are amazing games, work totally offline, no ads.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Playing Dead Cells on mobile sounds rough. How are the controls?
Zerfallen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I used a wireless Xbox controller always, it was great!
There are onscreen controls available, but I wasn't interested in getting used to playing that way. But people play CoD (etc) with touch controls so, it must work fine probably? For them.
NightOwl@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 3y
I got it and it was okay, but not something I ended up staying with. When it comes to ports stuff like Starview Valley or turn based stuff is things I've felt more comfortable to play.
Or Nintendo DS games that could be played entirely with a Stylus and using an emulator like MelonDS.
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
If you like American football, big recommend for Retro Bowl - as the name suggests, it's an old-school arcade/NES style game heavily inspired by Tecmo Bowl. Plays really well on mobile, and has a small premium charge to permanently unlock some nice extra features (e.g. roster customisation).
gravydog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
+1 for RB
I'm completely addicted (I'm in season 90 or so); it's my go-to when I've just got a few minutes for a game. I think it's one of the best games on mobile.
bug@lemmy.one · 8 pts · 3y
Puzzles - no internet, no cost, no pay-to-win, no ads, no fancy UI, just classic logic puzzles!
thetwaddler@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Slice & Dice: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.com.tann.dice
bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 3y
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.
Arigion@feddit.de · 7 pts · 3y
Similaritron (seems abandoned, but still works)
NightFantom@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 3y
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)
Arigion@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
That's weired. Runs flawlessly on my Android 13.
TimeMuncher@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
toototabon@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Is it just me, or are these links not linking?
Archerofyail@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
I believe Kotor 1 doesn't require a connection to play, and it's more of a tactical game, so it's not as annoying to play on a touch screen.
Soullioness@atosoul.asuscomm.com · 6 pts · 3y
I've been really enjoying Pocket City !pocket_city@lemmy.world
stardustsystem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Been playing off and on for a while, it's just SimCity. No ads, no watered down mechanics, no timers, just build cities, manage budgets and traffic and exports and... It's SimCity
seacocker@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Endless Sky is a space fleet building, trading, battling, exploration game. Free and open source.
KilgoreTheTrout@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 3y
On this topic I wish there was a definitive place to find Android games that have controller support. No microtransactions.. I will have to download and try again first and then 90% of the time it doesn't meet my criteria for playable.
daddyjones@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Not sure if it filters for all those, but you can definitely filter for some things in the Google Games app. Certainly at least free and no ads.
Snippet0136@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
antimine is a fun and well made minesweeper clone, also its foss
rahmad@vlemmy.net · 5 pts · 3y
Yioto is a great indie dev with lots of gems, but if particularly recommend Antiyoy.
I'd also recommend Battle for Polytopia.
I'm fairly certain both these turn based strategy games will work fine offline.
nbdy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Unciv and Shattered Pixel Dungeon have been on my Phone forever. Both available on FDroid.
LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
DATA WING, is a great game! Really well made, easy to pick up for a few miniuits and really well scripted!
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
I played that like a billion years ago. I don't remember much about it now, story wise, but it was fun.
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Battle for Wesnoth is cool once you get used to the weird controls
jeeva@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync I'm pretty sure it works offline...
ggnoredo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
every game is ad free is you use pi-hole
bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 3y
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.
ggnoredo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
I don't play on mobile but I can recommend;
Artranjunk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Troll Patrol. The base game is with ads but can be upgraded cheaply to a pro version with no ads. It's an excellent match-3 rogue-lite RPG. I was playing it for the last two months. Similar to You must build a boat, for example. The developer also closed his subreddit because of recent API changes. He's a good guy, You can show him some love and buy his game.
OrkneyKomodo@latte.isnot.coffee · 4 pts · 3y
Pixel Dungeon or Shattered Pixel. They're roguelike dungeon explorers. The latter is a continuation of the former, which hasn't been developed for some years now.
dishpanman@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y
Hocus. It's a MC Escher puzzle solving game! Google play link
PriceIsWrong@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y
Patience balls
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 3y
https://f-droid.org/en/categories/games/
mojo@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
Unciv and Mindustry, both which are also free, on fdroid, and open-source.
accideath@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
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…
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 3y
There is a Cultist Simulator there. I don't know about Android port much, but it's a good game on PC
LazerFX@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
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.
dan_the_accountant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Peglin! It's an amazing peggle style rouge-lite
Sabakodgo@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
OpenTTD! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openttd.sdl&hl=en&gl=US
It's a FOSS version of Transport Tycoon.
Chickenstalker@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Star Traders: Frontiers. Be a space trucker/pirate/merc. Singleplayer offline space turn-based RPG Pay once only but frequent free updates. No bullshit P2W, gacha, timers etc etc.
Bonus: kill xenos scum, customize your ship load out, satisfying crew combat.
Cons: annoying RNG card minigame for spying, blockading, salvaging. Enemies esp. xenos can get very unforgiving on high difficulty setting.
Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Sand:box, plague inc (i recommend buying premium for both) and all games on f-droid.
Mr_nutter_butter@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eightyeightgames.tenmillion
CthulhuDreamer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Witcheye is a good version of flappy bird, as its controlled with only one finger, with extremely difficult platforming.
Supermeat boy forever, great game all around but very difficult.
pascal@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
If you like managing games, like manage a fantasy town, or manage a gaming development software house, or an airport, or a restaurant, or a SPA, then I'd suggest Kairosoft. Their games are the last bastion of old school pixel graphics offline games with no DLC whatsoever.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=7710637777904825280&hl=it&gl=US
obinice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
The Room is a fantastic series of lovely 3D puzzle box and room games! I really enjoy them :3
countstex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xigmagames.thebonfireFL&hl=en&gl=US
This is one of the few (not including humble bundles from may moons ago) non-free to play games I have. Great game.
FierroGamer@vlemmy.net · 2 pts · 3y
Have you tried looking on itch.io? I recently got a few games from there (some are hosted on the play store but not all)
Only bad thing about browsing is that 80% of the games seem to be dating sims or visual novels (which is fine if you're looking for that, but annoying if you're not)
Edit: infidhells seems really fun, but haven't had time to play much, to use all the gameplay features it's worth playing with the sound on (though it has accessibility options for playing without audio).
Mythril@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
I've been playing Card Quest a bit, it's a card-based roguelike.
drifty@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
Soul Knight is my go to
Teodomo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
My go-to for like 5 years has been StudyGE. It's just a Geography game, but for the rare ocassions where I have nothing else to do and I don't have Internet in my phone I go to it.
There's also the trivia game Dilemo, though that is in Spanish and I think it might have some ads, it's just that it serves them so infrequently that I'm not even sure if I hallucinated them. Like I think it only serves ads when you have been playing it for long-ass sessions, and I usually only play for a few minutes, so.
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Rusted Warfare is a great RTS. It has offline and online server hosting (never seen that on mobile before). It feels like I'm playing an RTS on GameRanger.
lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3y
Papers Please is what I mostly play on my phone on aeroplanes (if I haven't packed the steam deck). A classic that works well on mobile
Also, Mini Metro (and the rest of the series) is great.
Drift@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
Vampire Survivors, 20 minutes till dawn, geometry dash. Space cadet for android - available on github, super meat boy forever.
martinbasic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
SuperTuxKart I guess? It lets you to play offline, although online mode and add-ons are required internet connection.
Yikal@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y
Magic Research
It's an paid offline idle game without ads and a nice progression. Also has a demo.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcolotto.magicresearchfull
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 3y
Templar Battleforce.
dekatron@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Shadowmatic is a great little puzzle game. It's paid but the graphics and attention to detail are incredible.
FiduciaryOne@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Hm, says it's incompatible with my Pixel 5. Do you know if there's a way to run it on modern Android devices?
dekatron@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
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?
FiduciaryOne@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Hm, it does say it hasn't been updated in 3 years, I'm guessing it's just old.
DeriHunter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Every game is a no ads game with blockada :)
Just saw your other comment about traveling, my go to game is Pirates Outlaws, cost a bit money but is offline ad free and very fun. I put a lot of flight hours with it
pythonxy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
slice and dice
laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 3y
Angry Birds. I bought a ad free version for like 2 bucks and it's the original angry birds with no MTX.
RobotToaster@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 3y
The phoenix wright and danganronpa series are both on android ad free.
Moghul@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Magic survival is a great little vampire survivor clone
Drift@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
It's the other way actually
Moghul@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Really? I had no idea, thanks for that!
xbhaktapur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Chiki's Chase is a great game.
juliebean@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
my go to is frequently Puzzles. it is a bunch of classic puzzles rolled into one, and i'll just go through my favorites on a loop. on a second hand, if you like rogue-likes, Hyperrogue and Shattered Pixel Dungeon are both fun free and offline.
notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
coffeegolf
accideath@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
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…
WillyWonksters@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
WillyWonksters@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
PewPew live and PewPew 2
Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y