1 yr. ago • 99%

Recommend any OFFLINE Android Games with no ads?

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.

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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.

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Shattered pixel dungeon if you like roguelikes; it's on the play store and fdroid

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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.

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- +1 for emulation, especially games you never got a chance to play before when they were new
  
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- Fire emblem and advance wars are also great picks!
  
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Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync it works nicely offline.

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- I just bought it. The only problem is, that the font is relatively small.
  
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  It's definitely cozier on a tablet for sure.
  
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Almost every paid Kairosoft games?

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- Cannot agree with this enough. Kairosoft games SLAP yo.
  
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- Cannot agree with this enough. Kairosoft games SLAP yo.
  
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- Holy shit is this addictive
  
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All games on fdroid

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- I don't know why I never realized that.
  
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  Yeah this just hit me too. It seems so obvious now
  
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Yioto is a great indie dev with lots of gems, but if particularly recommend Antiyoy.

I'd also recommend Battle for Polytopia.

I'm fairly certain both these turn based strategy games will work fine offline.

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DATA WING, is a great game! Really well made, easy to pick up for a few miniuits and really well scripted!

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- I played that like a billion years ago. I don't remember much about it now, story wise, but it was fun.
  
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Shattered pixel dungeon

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https://f-droid.org/en/categories/games/

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Troll Patrol. The base game is with ads but can be upgraded cheaply to a pro version with no ads. It's an excellent match-3 rogue-lite RPG. I was playing it for the last two months. Similar to You must build a boat, for example. The developer also closed his subreddit because of recent API changes. He's a good guy, You can show him some love and buy his game.

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Unciv is a decent Civilization clone. And it's open source.

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Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync I'm pretty sure it works offline...

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Supertuxkart

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Peglin! It's an amazing peggle style rouge-lite

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Terraria

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Star Traders: Frontiers. Be a space trucker/pirate/merc. Singleplayer offline space turn-based RPG Pay once only but frequent free updates. No bullshit P2W, gacha, timers etc etc.

Bonus: kill xenos scum, customize your ship load out, satisfying crew combat.

Cons: annoying RNG card minigame for spying, blockading, salvaging. Enemies esp. xenos can get very unforgiving on high difficulty setting.

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I quite enjoy Hoplite.

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- Man there's been suggestions from every corner of the gaming galaxy! Thanks. Rock on everyone.
  
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antimine is a fun and well made minesweeper clone, also its foss

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SuperTuxKart I guess? It lets you to play offline, although online mode and add-ons are required internet connection.

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My go-to for like 5 years has been StudyGE. It's just a Geography game, but for the rare ocassions where I have nothing else to do and I don't have Internet in my phone I go to it.

There's also the trivia game Dilemo, though that is in Spanish and I think it might have some ads, it's just that it serves them so infrequently that I'm not even sure if I hallucinated them. Like I think it only serves ads when you have been playing it for long-ass sessions, and I usually only play for a few minutes, so.

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Bloons TD 6

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There is a Cultist Simulator there. I don't know about Android port much, but it's a good game on PC

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Slice & Dice: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.com.tann.dice

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If you like managing games, like manage a fantasy town, or manage a gaming development software house, or an airport, or a restaurant, or a SPA, then I'd suggest Kairosoft. Their games are the last bastion of old school pixel graphics offline games with no DLC whatsoever.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=7710637777904825280&hl=it&gl=US

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Templar Battleforce.

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Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Mindustry

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- Seconding SPD. Of all Android games, I think I've wasted the biggest part of my life on that one. An extremely well balanced and fair roguelike, even if that sounds contradictory.
  
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The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xigmagames.thebonfireFL&hl=en&gl=US

This is one of the few (not including humble bundles from may moons ago) non-free to play games I have. Great game.

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The Room is a fantastic series of lovely 3D puzzle box and room games! I really enjoy them :3

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I've enjoyed ports from PC games and emulation. Emulation is pretty good on android now, and that opens up a LOT of options for offline & no ads

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- You are absolutely correct! Only downside is it kind of sucks trying to control with onscreen controller. I suppose I'd better learn to share my bluetooth gamepad ;p
  
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  This is when Nintendo ds games and searching out games that had only stylus controls comes in handy. Stuff like Kirby Mass Attack or Warioware feel like native games. If you got a Samsung with a Spen then that's a dream combo.
  
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  Pokemon is really good to emulate on phones. Very slow games!
  
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Rusted Warfare is a great RTS. It has offline and online server hosting (never seen that on mobile before). It feels like I'm playing an RTS on GameRanger.

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Puzzles - no internet, no cost, no pay-to-win, no ads, no fancy UI, just classic logic puzzles!

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If the game does not need online features, then you can make any game "ad free" with an app like "NetGuard". Just block the app from accessing the internet.

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- Or add 'dns.adguard-dns.com' into Private DNS in your phones settings.
  
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Mindustry and Unciv are my main recommendations. If you like strategy stuff, you'll have a blast.

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coffeegolf

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every game is ad free is you use pi-hole

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- Yeah but I'm all over the adblocking front at home. This is specifically for when we travel waaay out of civilisation but my kids still want to play some games. Pretty annoying that most of them don't work at all.
  
  Not interested in packing the starlink dish for this purpose, I go out there to disconnect, that's kind of the goal.
  
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Magic Research

It's an paid offline idle game without ads and a nice progression. Also has a demo.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcolotto.magicresearchfull

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my go to is frequently Puzzles. it is a bunch of classic puzzles rolled into one, and i'll just go through my favorites on a loop. on a second hand, if you like rogue-likes, Hyperrogue and Shattered Pixel Dungeon are both fun free and offline.

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On this topic I wish there was a definitive place to find Android games that have controller support. No microtransactions.. I will have to download and try again first and then 90% of the time it doesn't meet my criteria for playable.

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The phoenix wright and danganronpa series are both on android ad free.

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The Layton games - the DS games have been ported to Android and totally slap. As someone who never had a DS, I'm enjoying this era of the games coming to Android and being playable here.

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Can recommend Oxenfree and Kentucky Route Zero. They are tied to a Netflix subscription on mobile though (on the other hand, if you already have Netflix, they’re free).

Besides that, Monument Valley 1 and 2 are amazing games. And The Room series is also very entertaining.

I also would recommend Broken age and Life is Strange but they seem to not be on the Google Play Store anymore…

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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.

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Angry Birds. I bought a ad free version for like 2 bucks and it's the original angry birds with no MTX.

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slice and dice

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- Is it just me, or are these links not linking?
  
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Similaritron (seems abandoned, but still works)

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- 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)
  
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  That's weired. Runs flawlessly on my Android 13.
  
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Shadowmatic is a great little puzzle game. It's paid but the graphics and attention to detail are incredible.

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- Hm, says it's incompatible with my Pixel 5. Do you know if there's a way to run it on modern Android devices?
  
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  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?
  
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Magic survival is a great little vampire survivor clone

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- It's the other way actually
  
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  Really? I had no idea, thanks for that!
  
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