I do like having games on my phone, but it’s always a struggle looking for games with 0 microtransactions. So would like a game I can out right pay for, or one with ads. The ability to disable ads for $5 is chill though.

I’ve played a lot of games that you can “have fun being f2p” but some days I just get really sick and tired of games I play trying to sell me things every 30 seconds.

So do you guys have any?

If not I may go back to playing GBA games on my phone XD

EDIT: Oh selling like expansions is probably fine if it’s legit like a full other game. I’m on android

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
    60·
    2 months ago

    Shattered Pixel Dungeon is great, it’s an open-source dungeon crawler. Neither adds, nor transactions, micro or otherwise. If you want to pay tho, there’s a donation link for the dev team.

    And if you still want too play GBA games, check check out the Lemuroid emulator, it’s also open source and has no adds. Works for nintendoDS too.

    You can find both of these on F-Droid. They’re also be on Google Play, but since I’ve only tried the F-Droid version idk if the other has adds.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      2 months ago

      the dev team

      The team is one guy. His name’s Evan.

      I also highly recommend Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I’ve been playing it for years.

    • MrMobius @sh.itjust.works
      8·
      2 months ago

      There’s also a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup on mobile. Although the UI is quite clunky with the control and shift commands imported from PC. But the gameplay is more elaborate than Shattered Pixel Dungeon, I’d say.

    • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Great game. Been playing it for years.

      However, the mobile UI has some serious issues since it was more of a secondary thought. It’s really easy to accidentally tap to move somewhere and ruin an entire run that you were really enjoying. There’s no undo or any way of editing the save to help recover the run. I’ve stopped playing for months because I was just so discouraged after shit like that constantly happening. In fact, I’ve hit that point just now.

      • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 months ago

        Some stuff like that’s definitely happened to me. My dumbest defeat was after drinking a potion of levitation to get past some disintegration traps, accidentally tapped he wrong part of the screen, thought I might still have enough fuel to make it to the chest and I’d use my spirit chain on the way back… But nope, I fell right on a trap and died. I had an ankh, but not a blessed one, so even tho I could make it back to that room’s entrance I had no way to recover my bag.

  • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
    36·
    2 months ago

    Surprised Slice & Dice hasn’t been mentioned, it’s amazing. That and Dawncaster.

    A useful tool is DarkPattern.games, which lists dark patterns in mobile games (such as micro transactions).

    • ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
      20·
      2 months ago

      I am ready to dedicate my life to adding reviews to that site and getting more people to contribute. I want an app store that automatically filters out things below like a 2.

      I am in love.

  • sag@lemm.ee
    22·
    2 months ago
    • Slice & Dice
    • Balatro
    • Stardew Valley
    • Terraria
    • BloonsTD6
    • Arcadium
    • Shattered Pixel Dungeon
    • Geometry Dash
    • Mini Metro
    • Brotato
    • Slay the Spire
    • Peglin
      • zdanger@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        It’s exactly the same game

        The only quirks I’ve noticed are minor. You sometimes go back to your home screen if you try dragging a card too close to the edge of the screen. Sometimes the the lower background elements don’t stay in the background and cover pertinent information

  • bombleydee@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months ago

    Mini Metro. Its a transportation strategy game where you build and manage a city´s metro system through the style of the London tube map. You pay once and get the whole game. No ads or micro transactions.

    Open Tyrian is an old shoot em up thats open source and has been ported to dozens of platforms, including android. It plays very well with touch controls.

    If you want a Minecraft like game thats free and has no microtransactions I recommend Minetest (Now called Luanti). Its open source and has tons of mods.

    • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      Minetest is a good suggestion, but it’s worth noting that the base application won’t have anything playable on install. A few of the games made with it attempt to recreate Minecraft, but it’s not limited to that.

      Also, while the core team has announced the name change, it’s still listed as Minetest on both the play store and F-Droid.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months ago

    Some good ones from the fdroid app-repo.

    Shattered Pixel Dungeon - already mentioned roguelike

    SGT-Puzzles - already mentioned microgame puzzlers

    Frozen Bubble - already mentioned bubble-shooter

    Vector Pinball - already mentioned pinball

    https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.artificialworlds.boxstacker/index.html - Physics puzzler

    https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simondalvai.ball2box/ - flick ball to the box for 3-stars

    https://f-droid.org/packages/com.gpl.rpg.AndorsTrail/ - Massive story quest driven RPG

    https://f-droid.org/packages/de.chadenas.cpudefense/ - Tower defense on a PCB

    https://f-droid.org/packages/ch.logixisland.anuto/ - trad tower-defense

    https://f-droid.org/packages/it.alessandropira.wesnoth114/ - hex turn-based fantasy RPG

    https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.lettucepie.flickybee/index.html - flick the bee through the course

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    2 months ago

    I didn’t see Unciv recommended yet, it’s a decent mobile open source version of Civilization.

    Pocket City 2 also gets a shout-out, it’s not very deep but a nice casual city builder with a one time purchase.

  • EndlessApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    Slay the Spire is one of my favorite games of all time, and has a nice android port I play before bed all the time. No ads, just caw caaaw

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Oh no! It looks like you don’t have enough block! Would you like to buy enough block to survive this round with 1 HP for $0.99?

  • Magicalus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a really good roguelike for mobile. Ton of variety, no ads, only thing you can buy is a supporter pack that gives the ui a different fringe color, and that doesn’t get pushed.