I’m looking for Android games that are designed to be played vertically (portrait mode). Could be casual, action, puzzle, roguelike, or anything really. Best if it can be played one-handed.
Paid or not doesn’t matter.
Feel free to exclude the pay-to-win crowd. Still, name 'em if you feel you have an excellent exception.
Pilgrims. Its a puzzle game, no dialogues but great story. Not FOSS.
https://amanita-design.net/games/pilgrims.html
It’s a paid game, though. I got it for free from Epic Games.
You can play it on any device. On phones, it is played in portrait orientation.
Here are some FOSS games on Android that can be played on a portrait orientation.
Flang - it’s like chess, but not chess.
BlastOff - endless runner
Chip Defense - it is a tower defence type of game, and is one of my favourites. You should try it.
Thank you. Also for directly linking it. Installed Chip Defense straight away. Am curious. 🙂
Not exactly an Android exclusive thing, but I like to play GameBoy ROMs vertical so it feels more like a gameboy color.
I just finished Monument Valley 2 and adored it. Short little puzzle game where you kind of mix the background and foreground together to progress. There’s 3 of them.
Nethack runs good in vertical. I use the version called Pathos. Good dungeon crawler.
For casual time wasters, Feudal Tactics and Shattered Pixel Dungeon are good games.
I guess it’s my turn to say it in a thread:
Best classic roguelike on mobile IMO
I was going to also suggest Downwell but it doesn’t seem to be available any more
Bump for Shattered
Also, rat king pixel dungeon, a fun fork with added items.
A couple I enjoy:
- Tents and Trees
- OneBit Adventure
A 3DS emulator like Azahar or DS emulator like MelonDS both of which are on the Play store, and play a Pokemon game or anything turn based. Play it vertically. Different puzzle games
Try this FREE mystery horror puzzle text game where you are doing detective work… of sorts?
I got so hooked and absolutely loved it all the way.
Don’t be fooled by the cover graphic or name.
https://william-rous.itch.io/type-help
Ps. It’s playable on browser on any platform, you can save to disk, and did I say it’ FREE?
Now that’s an insider tip! 🙂
It’s an older game, but Downwell is fun. Just a little action/arcade game where you fall down a well and try to get combos by not touching the ground by bouncing off of enemies.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devolver.downwell_rerelease
Awesome.
Here is another that I found recently. Awesome little gem. Hoping it will get saving capability at one point, but it’s great as is:
If you enjoy pinball, this one is decent: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy
Also vector pinball is very good
I would highly recommend Monument Valley (1,2 and 3 is coming soon) as far as puzzle goes, for a quick arcade fix, I like Breakout 71 (with rogue-lite elements) and all games by Arnold Rauers (Card Crawl being my favorite, but by a small margin).
Here’s a quick selection from the top of my head, if you want I can go throw my app history for a few more :)
Will check it out.
