Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't on the Play Store
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Definitely some good games out on the F-Droid store. The article goes into details of each of these, but here's a TL/DR:
Top 3:
Honorable Mentions:
Emulator for others:
Mention of uncertainty for future of F-Droid due to Google's upcoming developer verification requirements
I love CrossWords. It's an open source and cross-platform Scrabble like game developed since 1998 by just one guy and still maintained to this day. I am surprised not many people seem to know it.
Simon Tanthem's Puzzles is also really good, there are so many good puzzles.
My top 3 for those puzzles would probably be Bridges (connect islands with bridges, each island requires a certain number of bridges), Signpost (find a path following all the arrows), and Inertia (move a ball to collect gems and avoid mines, it moves a bit like an air hockey puck with little friction).
Note that some of the instructions that involve white / black symbols need to be reversed if you use dark mode, it made it a little confusing for me in certain puzzles. If you are a light mode creature, this issue does not apply to you.
Honourable mention to Untangle (self-explanatory) and Dominosa (find all the unique "dominoes", pairs of numbers like 1 3, 5 6, etc., in a grid without any repeats). The latter is very difficult, even in the default "easy" mode.
Dolphin Emulator runs decently on most android phones these days, and that opens up all SORTS of fun options!