... RetroArch.

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon: Fun, compact, traditional NetHack-esque roguelike
• Slice & Dice: Really cool dice-based risk-reward turn-based combat game

In addition to being good games, neither has any microtransactions, ads, or any of that BS, was happy to give the devs some money.

Here's my games folder:

Finding mobile games that aren't live service garbage is tough but at least a lot of good PC games just port to android.

The only commercial Android game I regularly play is Wordscapes. It's an almost embarrassing level of enduring basic bitch addiction, I don't engage with any microtransaction bait, I have a systemwide ad blocker... and I love it.

Otherwise it's all Emulators and Open Source (covered well elsewhere in this thread).

https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon

Stardew valley. Such a good game that plays great, especially on tablet.

Rhythm games, especially Phigros and COXETA. I also like the mobile port of Portal Knights, even if it is inferior compared to the other versions, and the developers have dropped this port.

Probably shattered pixel dungeon

Baba is You

For me, it's using emulation. I'm currently playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door from the GameCube, and there are very few android games that can match the quality of older AAA titles.

Plus, no microtransactions!

Dead cells, out there omega edition, 20 minutes till dawm, vampire survivors, titan quest, hollow knight, 9th dawm rpg 3, starrows, scourgebringer, undead horde

Orna RPG! It's a GPS game like Pokemon Go with a classic RPG style, no pay to win options, a great community, and Devs who listen to feedback with regular updates.

Genuinely the best GPS game I've played by a long shot.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Endless Sky, and Mindustry (especially that last one, which I haven't seen anybody else mention yet).

I get all my games from F-Droid, not any commercial app store.

Mine are bloons td 6, league of legends, and rocket league.

My favourite Android game is Genshin Impact even though I only play it on PC... but hey it exists on Android 😬

Favorite game is Gwent, though I usually play it on desktop. The game I play most often on Android is either Cytus 2 or Dead Cells.

I love hue, Tsuki Odyssey, Monopoly GO, Wild Rift.

I also like idle tycoon games but I switch between those after playing for some time.

Lichess and Kairosoft Games (BonBon Cakery, High Sea Saga)

Bloons TD 6. Only game I've had installed for years, the pop pop pop makes my brain happy in a way I can't explain.

sling kong and smashy city r pretty cool games

Been playing Golf Blitz for a couple of years and still absolutely love it. Also recently enjoyed revisiting World of Goo (although it now only seems to work if you have Netflix - I do, but it's a shame it's not available for everyone)

Open Sudoku and Endless Sky. ES saves the game as a text file. If you play it on PC and save a file the last line of the text file is the only difference. You can play the game on both and save back and forth. I only have FOSS apps. I don't have any google stuff at all. Both of these are from F-Droid.

John gba lite with pokemon unbound rom.

Lichess and Worldbox

Among us and started valley

My favorite Android game has always been, and still is, OSMOS. It used to be in the play store. You can still get it on Android from Hemisphere. There's also iOS, Ipad, Steam (for Linux), OS X and Windows versions. I love this game so much I keep an ancient 7" pad with Marshmallow 6 offline just for it (Because I had the original on it - You don't need an ancient device).

Mighty Doom is a fun auto shooter, made by Bethesda and has minimal ads (opt to watch for rewards) and micro transactions are not required to win.

Been really enjoying Night of the Full Moon. Slay the Spire like but the opponents have decks and play like players. It's free to play with expansions and an ad free experience you can pay for. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ztgame.yyzy

Marvel Contest of Champions or emulators when I actually want to play something

Royal Match or Woody when I just want to kill a couple minutes