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SimonSays1337

Complete list of 'good' android games and ports for desktop/console length play sessions. (Feel free to suggest more! Lets get this sidebar-ed)

I, as well as many of you are probably tired of the non-stop posts "Are there any ACTUALLY GOOD games on Android?" posts, but there's a reason since nearly everyone on the planet has a smartphone now mobile games are really targeted at the lowest common denominator, and that sucks for people who identify as 'gamers' and/or want something more.

I don't blame all the people posting that question, over and over, mobile gaming is tough, the Play Store is near impossible to sift through and we don't have a good sticky post or sidebar wiki for lists of solid games, here's where I come in.

I've made a list of, so far ~50 games and apps that I have curated as, good. Now you may disagree and that's fine, but let me explain how these games were chosen. I have not played all these games. Not even close.

Three main rules I followed:

  1. These games have been VERY well received by users and or critics when possible.
  2. These games were suggested by a top games 'listicle' on a popular gaming website or blog or repeatedly a part of a post or reply on this subreddit about seeking good games.
  3. These games are more than mobile time wasters, play sessions could go for hours without becoming stale or boring, the experience is closer to a console or PC game than that of Candy Crush or Angry Birds.

I didn't include any of the big, dare I say, AAA mobile titles like asphalt 8, dead trigger 2, or whatever those are. I've played none of them, and to me they seem to be trying really hard to pretend to be next-gen PS4/XB1 quality games but I doubt if they really are even close, correct me if I'm wrong, again I've played none of them.

I also didn't include, again, bare with me, "classic" mobile games, no doodle jump, no cut the rope, no angry birds, none of those. While most of this style of game would break rule 3, maybe not all of them would, I'm not sure so I left them out.

And here's my list so far:

##Android Originals:

##Ports:

##Emulators:

Note: It might be a good idea to check out "Noodlecake Studios Inc." as many of their games have been suggested but I can't go through and verify all of them for this list.

Note: For Final Fantsy, Chrono Trigger and related ports I suggest emulation instead as they weren't great ports, YMMV.

Note: There are a lot more full games ported for the Nvidia Shield devices, portable, shield and TV. (As well as the HTC Nexus 9 I believe, since it has the X1) so look into those if you have one of those devices. Portal, Half Life 2 and more. These can be ran on other high end rooted devices using an app called GLTools, again YMMV.

PLEASE feel free to suggest any you think I've missed, I'm sure there's a handful. Also feel free to request I remove any of them if you don't think they fit with the rules, if a couple/few people ask to kill one. I'll remove it.

I want to make this the go to list for all people in search of a fulfilling gaming experience on their android phone or tablet.

I'll hotlink all the games if you're interested. Or someone can use the bot in the comments, you're call.

If you're curious about emulation, there's a subreddit for Emulation on Android, and they have a nice wiki you can check out. I'm also happy to talk about it here, but that's not really the point of this post. (I will not post links to ROMs, please don't message me asking either.) You can check my post history for a list of games I emulate on Android though.

Thanks guys, let's make this post great together.

EDIT: Added more games 10:19 PM 03/15/16

EDIT 2: Thanks to one of the mods, u/IupvotestupidCRAP, who PMed me with new formatting all the games now link to the download page. Enjoy!

Posted Mar 15, 2016, 3:34 PM UTC · edited

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