Best Android games for commute

If you like baseball at all, Baseball 9 is a pretty fantastic baseball game for mobile. There's no play limit unless you want to skip the games altogether and just level up your players. If you actually play the games though there's no gating.

If you're not playing Solitarica, you really should be.

Pocket City

Rerave Plus.

Music rhythm games in general are ideal for quick commutes; no story to follow or complicated mechanics to remember, and you get to see how you progressively become better each day and week as you keep topping your old scores. Note that some of the games are shitty about requiring an Internet connection though, so check first (Rerave doesn't need one).

Cytus is another good one that doesn't need a connection.

Look into OSRS mobile, seems like a nice game to get things done on a commute and isn't your average bogged-down mobile experience I've played many times before.

Desert Golfing

A simple but great game.

MiniMetro is one of my favorite mobile games. It's gorgeous, addictive and works well in short bursts.

Can also recommend Reigns & Downwell

The dragon quest games if you can use earphones.

Hoplite, it's a small rogue-like tactical puzzle, there is free demo.

Maybe the Dragon Quest games if you don't have them on DS

Solitarica is great and although there are IAPs for deck unlocks you really don't need them.

Lara Croft Go is still really good.

Out There is a nice space sim resource management game that's a one time purchase. Out There Chronicles is an interesting interactive novel that spun off from it.

Bridge Constructor Portal is fun.

Both Monument Valley games are brilliant.

I have Hitman Go and Deus Ex Go, which are great. There's also Lara Croft Go which seems to be similar but I haven't bought that one.

Don't use any microtransaction items, you don't need them in regular story play anyway. They were added in a patch and didn't originally exist so the games play well without using them.

Threes.

Always Threes.

I'll second the Dragon Quest mentions.
If you like jrpgs, 1, 2 and 3 are fun time-wasters, and I mean that in a good way. They're perfect for a commute. Plenty of dungeons to explore with random battles that won't require your full attention.
I wouldn't play the later games on a commute though, since they are more story-focused.

Rayman Jungle Run and Rayman Fiesta Run. Both $2.99 regular price, afaik no MTX except solution guides which are completely unnecessary. The games look and play just like Rayman Legends, except with controls and levels customized for mobile. Rayman runs constantly, and you have two buttons to jump or attack. Tons of levels, incredible value.

Kingdom Rush used to be a paid app, now it's free :-D

80 Days is a neat choose your own adventure game.

I don't play a lot of mobile games, but imo Aka to Blue is The Best One:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tanoshimasu.akatoblue&hl=en_US


It's a Cave-tier STG. I think the arcade version is bound to be better, but it was mobile-first.

Surprised nobody's mentioned Part Time UFO:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.halegg.nazcaf

Krejlooc said:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=namco.pacman.ce&hl=en_US

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Didn't know this existed, cool

Fortnite

1010! highly addictive and also relaxing

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gramgames.tenten

Pheonix wright games

80 days: Very cool cyber-punk adaptation of Jules Verne's classic. Choose your own path around the world, as Fogg's valet, Passepartout. Meet new strange people every time and experience strange stories, Manage inventory and finances by buying and selling items in different cities. Every playthrough is different, depending on what path you take and what decision you make. Inkle's rendtion of the late 19th century world is a lot less Eurocentric than the original book, showing the political tensions of a world that is quickly changing from those days' imperialism. Witness political coups! Play poker on a river boat! Kiss Death in New Orleans! Go on an ill-fated expedition to the North! Participate in a mutiny! The writing and the imagination that went into describing your misadventures is simply lovely. Ridiculous replay value as you try out different paths

Inkle's Sorcery! series: A great adaptation of a classic series of choose-your-own adventure books. You play as a sorceror going out to stop an evil ruler. But things are a lot more complex than they at first seem. Once the second and third games start inserting time travel (which wasn't in the original books) things get really wild. True to form, Inkle's version is updated to be more inclusive than the original, with a lot more strong female characters.


VVVVVV: Classic 2D platformer. Flip gravity to rescue the crew of your spaceship. The touch controls work much better than they have any right to

The Reigns series: Manage a kingdom. Through a series of binary decisions, balance the power of your military, church and people's happiness and your coffers of course. If any of these get too strong or too weak, you will quickly lose the throne and your life. As more and more of your monarchs are replaced by new ones, a meta-narrative starts to unfold. The sequel, Reigns: Her Majesty, have you playing as a queen instead, while the latest entry (released last week) has a really well-done Game of Thrones skin

Professor Layton and the Curious Village: Cute little puzzle game if you didn't play it on the DS

King of Dragon Pass: Classic PC game adapted for Mobile. You control a small clan in the Dragon Pass. Further your clan's interests, follow your clan's traditions to honour your ancestors, or make a new way. Manage a, sometimes unruly, circle of advisors representing different interests in the clan. Make alliances or wars with other clans. Explore Dragon's Pass. Make difficult decisions about life and death. Placate the gods of your people. Participate in drug-fuelled religious ceremonies trying to recreate the legends of your gods. Raise heroes. Lead your clan to glory or ruin.

WhateverItTakes said:

Cytus is great, but honestly I can't play it in my hand, so to speak. I have to lay it down on a surface and let my fingers do the magic, which isn't ideal for the tube...

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Ah, good point, never thought of that. I got so used to commuting by trains with fold-out tables that for me it was never an issue.

These days I play rhythm games on my 18" Samsung Galaxy View tablet, which is big enough to rest comfortably on my lap, no table required. :)

honest_ry said:

Threes.

Always Threes.

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this. played it for years daily.

Arkanoid vs Space Invaders

Tain said:

Surprised nobody's mentioned Part Time UFO:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.halegg.nazcaf

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I second this. Part Time UFO from Hal Laboratory (Kirby, Boxboy) is great and is my favorite mobile game.

Alto's Odyssey

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noodlecake.altosodyssey&hl=en

Great puzzle game originally on DS just came to mobile.

Pokemon Go!

And then you shout 'FUUUUCK!' when you're absolutely sure you're getting that Pokéstop but you're greeted with a 'Try again' because the bus is going too fast. :lol

Hoppenhelm is pretty fun. And I normally hate mobile games.

Game Boy Emulator + Tetris.

Lara Croft and Hitman Go are both pretty fun, and I enjoyed the Monument Valley games as well as both Altos.

Seik said:

Pokemon Go!

And then you shout 'FUUUUCK!' when you're absolutely sure you're getting that Pokéstop but you're greeted with a 'Try again' because the bus is going too fast. :lol

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I know this feeling. The bus is the only place I play Pokemon Go and it's still a crapshoot whether you can spin a pokestop - sometimes tapping it before the bus gets there works, other times you have to wait until the chime, and other times it'll just give you try again repeatedly.

Same with gym battles. If the bus leaves before you finish your current battle it usually just boots you after the second pokemon loads.

I've been testing the waters with Night of the Full Moon recently and it's okay. I've yet to buy any of the additional classes but I hear they're well done.

Nintendo said:

Pocket City

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Yeah, I've been really hooked on Pocket City of late.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codebrewgames.pocketcitygame&hl=en_US

$4 (no MTA/IAP)

Charming SimCity clone with a great presentation.

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=namco.pacman.ce&hl=en_US

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DX > CE

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bandainamcoent.pacmancedx&hl=en_US

I'm currently playing Reigns: Game of Thrones but its other two predecessors are fun too if you're not interested in GoT

Pako Forever: a fun escape-the-cops infinitely driving game

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treemengames.pakoforever

DrFunk said:

Pako Forever: a fun escape-the-cops infinitely driving game

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treemengames.pakoforever

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Infinity?
I can barely get passed a minute

PixelPuzzle is my jam right now. If you like Picross then it's right down your alley.