Evening, all.
Looking for recommendations for any Android games that you enjoy which can be played completely offline without a data connection of any sort.
These used to be super common once upon a time, but these days it seems every single game I try just doesn’t function if you are totally out of service area.
Would appreciate any tips! Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Some great suggestions in here! That will keep them busy a while. Thanks so much everyone.
My goto for offline gaming is usually emulation, typically pokemon. But I can also recommend the Bart Bonte puzzle games, Vampire Survivor and Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
- Any Playdigious games is good.
- Any Kairosoft games.
- ICEY is such an underrated game. The narration and it’s wit is so good.
- Levelhead if you want platformer and want Super Mario Maker on your phone.
- Limbo
Templar Battleforce.
Found an old archive so I’m going to ad to the thread myself:
Alto’s Adventure and Alto’s Odyssey both definitely work offline, but I’m not sure about them trying to serve you advertisements.
I also used to have a considerable library of emulated games on my phone and would use a bluetooth gamepad. I should probably go back down this road I think! I’d imagine emulation has come a long way since I was mucking around with it.
Angry Birds. I bought a ad free version for like 2 bucks and it’s the original angry birds with no MTX.
Unciv is a decent Civilization clone. And it’s open source.
Yioto is a great indie dev with lots of gems, but I particularly recommend Antiyoy.
I’d also recommend Battle for Polytopia.
I’m fairly certain both these turn based strategy games will work fine offline.
All games on fdroid
slice and dice
Shattered pixel dungeon
Shattered pixel dungeon if you like roguelikes; it’s on the play store and fdroid
I quite enjoy Hoplite.
Puzzles - no internet, no cost, no pay-to-win, no ads, no fancy UI, just classic logic puzzles!
Shadowmatic is a great little puzzle game. It’s paid but the graphics and attention to detail are incredible.
Hm, says it’s incompatible with my Pixel 5. Do you know if there’s a way to run it on modern Android devices?
Strange, I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s just a bug? If you open the reviews section on the Play Store page for the game, and check the “Show reviews for: This device model” checkbox, do you see any reviews from other Pixel 5 users there?
Hm, it does say it hasn’t been updated in 3 years, I’m guessing it’s just old.
Similaritron (seems abandoned, but still works)
Doesn’t work on my phone (made for an older version of android) but it looks like the game “set”, and googling that I found this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nelis.set (haven’t tried it yet but it has the tag “offline” so looks good)
That’s weired. Runs flawlessly on my Android 13.
