Have any of you been on the PlayStore recently? It's a fucking dumpster fire. I recently had to get a new phone, and when I try to search for and install an app I had installed before the results are, "try tiktok, or Whatsapp" which are listed at the top of the search results even though they're completely unrelated to what I searched for.

Mindustry is amazing. Really fun to start over with the community mods.

Let me guess... Mindustry, breakout, pixel dungeon, unciv?

EDIT: Close! 4/5. Never even heard of aaaaxy

You know what I've noticed? I have a pixel pro 9, like a quarter of the apps I look for on the app store say "this app is not available for your device"

I love your posts/articles/reports 🤗

thank you for letting me discover f-droid and some of it possibilities.

I very much enjoy IdleFantasy lately.

It is available on F-Droid.

Great picks, love Breakout 71. My extra pick is ChipDefense, a short tower defense game with some cool science/tech history

And simon tatham's puzzles is excellent.

Fuck yeah, Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

Most of the mentioned games actually ARE on play store.

I just got into Andor's Trail recently. Pretty neat so far!

hyperrogue is quite interesting one

I have the following:

• Anuto TD

• Ricochlime

• Unblock Jam

Great to pass time

Ah, the wonders of FOSS gaming :)

Ricochlime and Tensy are also pretty fun.

I tried Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and AAAAXY, but they had file permissions problems. But Lona is great

Weird, Aaaaxy crashes on my GP9 GrapheneOS with Memory Tagging enabled

Definitely some good games out on the F-Droid store. The article goes into details of each of these, but here's a TL/DR:

Top 3:

• Breakout 71
• Shattered Pixel Dungeon
• AAAAXY

Honorable Mentions:

• SuperTuxKart
• Unciv
• Mindustry

Emulator for others:

• Lemuroid

Mention of uncertainty for future of F-Droid due to Google's upcoming developer verification requirements

Simon Tanthem's Puzzles is also really good, there are so many good puzzles.

My top 3 for those puzzles would probably be Bridges (connect islands with bridges, each island requires a certain number of bridges), Signpost (find a path following all the arrows), and Inertia (move a ball to collect gems and avoid mines, it moves a bit like an air hockey puck with little friction).

Note that some of the instructions that involve white / black symbols need to be reversed if you use dark mode, it made it a little confusing for me in certain puzzles. If you are a light mode creature, this issue does not apply to you.

I love CrossWords. It's an open source and cross-platform Scrabble like game developed since 1998 by just one guy and still maintained to this day. I am surprised not many people seem to know it.

Dolphin Emulator runs decently on most android phones these days, and that opens up all SORTS of fun options!