Honkai Star Rail. Typical gacha hero collector. The gameplay is fun, the story is engaging, and you don't have to spend any money if you don't want to. I like the option of a phone game during my commute or at night in bed.
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I uninstalled the only one I had because it skirted my ad skirting.
I was playing Jedi Knight up to some time ago, now Eternal Darkness on the emulator (both with a cheap BT controller)
And sometimes Chess.
Mostly Pikmin Bloom right now. I like how it keeps me active, gets me out of the house, highlights public art in my city... and the pikmin are cute, of course. I appreciate that, while there are microtransactions, you can earn the coins easily through gameplay.
But previous favorites included:
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Hoplite
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Pixel Dungeon
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Chrono Trigger mobile port
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Battle for Polytopia
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Merchant RPG
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micRogue
I'll admit it, I play a lot of Gardenscapes and those Diner Dash games before that. But if you're looking for more of an action game feel, try Vampire Survivors. It's free and pretty well done for what it is. You just survive as long as you can as hordes of monsters come at you. You upgrade weapons as it gets harder and harder.
I've got mini metro, something called shapez that I've not played, functional ear trainer which I'm classifying as a game cause it kinda is, and NYT games which is the only one I play regularly.
I have 378 hours on..
Calculator, Doom Scroll Edition
I used to have a PDA, even back in the late '90s I got as a hand-me-down. I used to play games on that and my first several phones. These days, though, if I'm using my phone it's never for gaming. If I have free time, I'm using a flashcard app to study or watching previously-downloaded youtube vids for downtime. I guess the one exception was when I was doing the prep for a colonoscopy, I fired up ALTTPR on a SNES emulator on tablet to kill time. That's the only time I can think of in the last probably 2 years I've played any games on anything mobile at all.