Death road to Canada

Swordigo https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchfoo.swordigo

If you have a rooted phone, an older android version, or the ability to access the android/data folder to move files around, I hear some pvz2 mods are pretty good. Only ones I can personally say are good are Refloureshed and Eclise, though it's been a long time since I've played Eclise. Both are harder versions of vanilla.

good ol' tetris

Sky Force and Kittens Game are the only two mobile games I ever played and still have installed on every phone

Alto - very calming and engaging game where you go down a mountain on your snowboard trying to catch llamas and do aerial tricks. Excellent vibes, no bothersome ads or micro transactions i think.

Auralux 2

• Coffee Golf
• mineswifter.com
• Tomb of the Mask
• Downwell
• High Rise by smpl
• Vampire Survivor

Night of the Full Moon is incredible.

Slay the Spire. Join us.

I've rather enjoyed 20 Minutes Till Dawn

Board game adaptations tend to be good. Everdell and bottom of the ninth for preference.

Monument Valley 1 and 2.

Haven't found anything that isn't microtransaction and ad-riddled trash or a port of an older game since.

If you like puzzles, horror and all things weird, definitely try some of the games by Rusty Lake.

The entire Cube Escape series is available for free (a sort of excape the room puzzle).

Le Parker is my favorite side scrolling platformer on mobile that no one knows about.

Minesweeper on fdroid

Reigns is quite fun

There's an app I really like called Minireview, focused on finding and reviewing mobile games.

I Love Hue and I Love Hue Too. Also, My Friend Pedro. That one's pretty short though.

Atomas is pretty fun, it's super simple and looks really good

You could get some minigame type games from fdroid. I have a tetris game and a 2048 game from fdroid. There's also Super Tux Kart if you want something 3D

Try 'A dark room'. It's a bit different, but it had depth and your can get into it. I also still love 'Plague inc.'.

Super auto pets is incredibly based

Retro Bowl - 1980s style american football game

Cultist Simulator

Sky Wings is pretty fun. It's super arcadey, has different ships with different abilities and shooting styles, different modes and difficulties. I've put in quite a few hours over the years.

The Flow Free puzzle games are pretty fun imo. I have most of the different ones installed on my phone, and some years back I actually bought a bunch of the expansions for the base version so I have a ton of puzzles to go through.

Dunno if anyone mentioned Badland yet.

Looks difficult to play but is so well designed that it isn't

Puzzler / slight programming vibe: BaBa is you

I Love Hue, both 1 and 2

Just passing by to say that with a little fiddling, you can get Morrowind running on your phone, touch screen controls and all if you don't have a gamepad.

• Monument Valley is an amazing mobile game although not arcade style
• Alto's Adventure/Odyssey are pretty solid
• Duet is a great arcade style game
• HyperRogue is a neat non-Euclidean roguelike https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/

I've been playing half life using xash3D for this very reason. People are on multiplayer all the time, counter strike has players too. I'm really hoping to find people playing team fortress sometime.