I’m moving away from proprietary apps and want to find open-source games on Android that are genuinely good, not just time-killers or kids’ titles.

My criteria:

  • Modern feel and polished experience — something that feels like a real game, not a tech demo

  • Made for adults: deep gameplay, challenge, real progression (any genre welcome — strategy, roguelike, RPG, racing, puzzle…)

I trust actual players over AI-generated lists, so: what open-source game on Android gave you the best experience, and why?

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    There’s a part of my brain that actually prefers Unciv. There’s something very satisfying about mixing complex gameplay and simpler graphics (to me)

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Yeah, same actually. The simpler graphics make it easier to understand what’s going on, I find.

      And it just uses less system resources, which is good for battery life and being able to keep it running in the background.