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.
Shattered pixel dungeon
This is so good that I bought it in iOS
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
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
Unciv is a decent Civilization clone. And it’s open source.
Similaritron (seems abandoned, but still works)
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)
That’s weired. Runs flawlessly on my Android 13.
Supertuxkart
Nice! The OG.
Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection is my fallback game for whenever I don’t have internet or am bored with whatever other game I’m playing
If you like American football, big recommend for Retro Bowl - as the name suggests, it’s an old-school arcade/NES style game heavily inspired by Tecmo Bowl. Plays really well on mobile, and has a small premium charge to permanently unlock some nice extra features (e.g. roster customisation).
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.
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.
+1 for emulation, especially games you never got a chance to play before when they were new
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hamsteroncoke.oxxo
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esuli.it.CrisSpider
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.q42.ohhi
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MagnusOlsson.LittleWhiteRocket
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley2
-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hamsteroncoke.zenge
I believe Kotor 1 doesn’t require a connection to play, and it’s more of a tactical game, so it’s not as annoying to play on a touch screen.
every game is ad free is you use pi-hole
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.
I don’t play on mobile but I can recommend;
- Baldur’s Gate
- Sudoku
- Devilution X
- RVGL
- Moonshades
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.
Pixel Dungeon or Shattered Pixel. They’re roguelike dungeon explorers. The latter is a continuation of the former, which hasn’t been developed for some years now.
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…