What are some good mobile games that are ad free? - Do you not have phones???

[Betonhaus]

I know there's Monument Valley and Tiny Room were good games, and there were even the Professor Layton games that were ported to Android. What other games are good that aren't just interchangeable shovelware?

 

[Magnetman]

Armory & Machine

There are ads, but they are optional and there is a cooldown between watching them for gameplay reasons.

(So it was the last time I played)

 

[Pissmaster]

Shattered Pixel Dungeon, it's a traditional roguelike

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Some times I play Wordscapes with the Internet off. No ads.

 

[Polyarmory]

EDIT: Fuck freecell, I just remembered the actual GOAT of mobile games: An Eastern European guy named "Yiotro". (Play store link ) His games have optional upsells, but he specifically says that he will never put ads in his games because he finds it to be disrespectful to the players, and the games are still feature a lot of content without the upsells (and the upsells strictly give you more game to play, not making it easier, and you're never nagged about them.)

The guy is very prolific, and each of his games is usually his "take" on a game genre, so there's something there for just about everyone. He has a consistent style, and it's kind of satisfying to install multiple games of his because they feel like they "go together", if you know what I mean.

My personal favorites of his are Opacha-mda and Antiyoy.

No idea whether his games are available on iOS.

Spoiler: Pre-edit post

I found a decent app for Free Cell solitaire, but upon trying to get a link to it, I can't find it in the play store anywhere.

 

[FeedMeAmericanCheese]

the two mobile games im playing is Zombie Tsunami and Battle Cats
Battle cats is a gacha “tower defense game” where you fight snakes dogs and pigs to beating god himself. THRICE. it also have a very generous gacha system and even the units you get that aren’t from the gacha system can literally be the best cats in the game like Awakened bahamut, Eraser cat (the second cat you get in the game) Courier Cat and Dancer cat (with talents).Although the game is pretty grindy especially at the start of the game. oh yeah the ads are all optional

Zombie Tsunami is a pretty simple endless zombie game where you try to horde a lot of zombies while jumping over obstacles.

 

[Rango Dango]

i really like nonogram galaxy

technically there are ads but only if you want to drop the hint cooldown to zero or after you finish a stage (which may take a bit of time depending on how well you do)

if you dont care if the games are paid then i REALLY recommend the room series, great puzzle games
theyre available on pc too but some (especially the first one) sometimes use mobile only features like multitouch or moving the phone around

 

[The Wise Shaman]

I'm also going to recommend The Battle Cats. It's like Age of War, but you send cats (and waifus) to fight various animals, and it has a surprising amount of depth to its gameplay.

Quick summary:

• No forced ads
• Really generous with its premium currency (cat food)
• Best units are unlocked by beating certain stages
• Common gacha units are more useful than the rare ones
• You can predict your gacha rolls with 100% certainty using a simple webiste
• Has been receiving constant updates for 13 years now

The biggest flaw this game has is that you will have to use the wiki a lot.


Another recommendation I can give is modded Plants vs. Zombies 2. Plants vs. Zombies 2 is a tower defense game where you plant plants in your front yard to defend against the oncoming zombie horde. Unmodded PVZ2 has become bloated adware, but the modding community has salvaged it and made quite a few gems. These mods are free and have no ads or in-app purchases.

PVZ2: Alternate UniverZ is currently one of the best ones out there, and it's relatively easy to install: just download its APK file from Google Drive. It completely overhauls the game and has a lot of custom content.

PVZ2: Reflourished is the closest you can get to vanilla PVZ2 while actually being good. It also has a tranny virtue-signaling in the form of a cosmetic item.

There are other mods out there, but installation for some of them can be a hassle, and their gameplay can get notoriously difficult.

 

[Feathers]

I've been enjoying how Pokemon Go gets my ass outside for at least 3 miles a day. It's really money grubby but you can easily just F2P it.

 

[SpellforceFan]

You Must Build A Boat and its sort-of prequel 10000000 are really good "match 3" games, if you don't mind pixel art vomit.

 

[umseriously]

Games that you emulate. PS1 and SNES preferably.

 

[Gilgachad]

Granny, Granny: Chapter 2, Granny 3

Three good escape room games. It might be a little clunky to control on mobile so I'd preferably recommend any PC ports, either the official Steam ones or any free remakes, but if using mobile is must then they're still serviceable.

 

[SpellforceFan]

Speaking of which, OP have you tried Winlator? If it works as advertised, imagine the world of good, old games that could be emulated.

 

[Polyarmory]

Games that you emulate. PS1 and SNES preferably.

On phones, GBA games/emulators are also a good option.

 

[Nice Stick]

Winlator, run all the games https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator

 

[PeruvianPerun]

Digital Tamers 2. Fan made digimon game. Get digimon from baby to mega and beyond in battles in multiple locations and in dungeons, or get data fom defeated mons and raise them. Gets updates 4-5 times a year with 5-10 new digimons. Time killer grind. Itch link. Most info about updates in trooncord but you don't need to interact with fandom

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Fate Grand Order

 

[PetiteFeet]

I really like Meow Tower. It's a nonogram/picross game with minimal ads, as in it only makes you interact with ads when you run out of energy but energy regenerates relatively fast so you don't really need to unless you intend on speeding through every puzzle or if you screw up and want to max the rewards on a puzzle.
There are in-game pop ups telling you about the premium cats but these cats are completely optional - they only act as NPCs whose rooms you can finish, just like the regular cats. They don't give you an edge to the gameplay, they're only there to look cute. The pop ups themselves are easy to close and don't have an obnoxiously tiny X to click.
It has over 2k puzzles in two different difficulties and it continues to get more development, albeit somewhat slow, but I think I spent like 5-6 months of daily play at varying lengths before hitting a hard wall of having to wait for new updates.

 

[Based Trees]

Slay the Spire if you'd enjoy a deckbuilding rougelite. Good runs that beat the final boss take around 30-45 minutes to complete. Progress saves after every encounter. No monetization beyond the initial purchasing.

 

[ovenmath]

Armory & Machine

There are ads, but they are optional and there is a cooldown between watching them for gameplay reasons.

(So it was the last time I played)

Is armory and machine even available any more? I thought it was removed from the app stores. Id be elated if it has returned

Anyhow, can confirm, it is really good.