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[katwithk]

I want to get the most out of this ridiculously expensive little piece of machinery, and by that I mean I want fun games

So, given that I am a diehard DF fan, what kind D's of games might there be that my fellow bay12ers would suggest for a smartphone. I have to believe there are some truly engage smartphone style games.

[ed boy]

I like to play a lot of nethack, myself.

[Toady Two]

I found that they ported Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for Android too. It has a far better UI than Nethack.

[hemmingjay]

GameDevStory.

[LoSboccacc]

Also gran prix story; the other are nice but they become a bit stale

I play tiny wing, starbase orion and super mega worm, mostly.

Great replay value.

Other that I enjpyed once are carmageddon, draw race, and countless other but these are the one I really enjoyed.

Junk jack is nice if you are into terraria and if you have transparent fingers

[miauw62]

I liked abuction, wich is basically a doodle jump clone. Nothing too special, but a good timekiller.

[Muz]

What type of smartphone? Android? Windows? iOS? Blackberry?

GameDevStory.

This. Game Dev Story is one of the best management type games on the phone, though the combos get annoying after a while.

Angry Birds Star Wars is actually surprisingly good, if you like lasers and blowing spaceships up. Been playing Bad Piggies for a while now; it's a lot of fun if you like machines and stuff.

League of Evil is good if you like platformers.

Trainyard's an ok puzzle game.

SQUIDS is kind of like a RPG, but a bit too complex for what I expect from a phone game.

Final Fantasy III is a full blown RPG, very good if you like those classical FF games

[miauw62]

Seconded bad piggies.

It's always so much fun to make flying ships with only parts that weren't made to fly.
It's not very controllable tough.

[katwithk]

It is an android, galaxy nexus specifically

[Knave]

You should pick up the Humble Bundle for Android that's going on right now. Lots of good games!

[Tellemurius]

DFterm2!
dev has ceased but it still works, android has to have a terminal app somewhere.

[katwithk]

I don't have internet at home to run my own remotely access able server, and have had some trouble getting to display to play nice with my screen

[Tellemurius]

ah well you tried at least.

Another good idea is get some emulators, play some SNES man.

[Infuriated]

Android/Smartphone rant:

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I have to admit I was more than a little disappointed when I got my phone for the first time, I found a lot of fun bite-sized games but nothing substantial which seemed like a huge waste, especially since every RPG I could find was action-based and I had to stop and wonder many times over the course of a few months why there weren't any solid turn-based RPGs since that seemed like the perfect genre to throw on a device you play mostly on the go. (It's starting to look like Square Enix is moving in to fill this RPG gap pretty recently, though)

Aside from that, more recently I'm a bit disgusted by all of these "Card Battle" games that are all just ripoffs of (assumption) Rage of Bahamut which all you do is collect, fuse and press a button to get experience through 'adventure' or something similar, and then there's the metric shitton of money fiending games that seem decent at first until your progress is halted because you need to throw real money at the game to move on. (I thought the MMORPG scene took it far, but smart phone games stepped it up to a new level)

Also... having to browse through comments trying to find a truthful rating/review is pretty annoying since everyone just pays to inflate the rating on the market.

Anyway, I've bottled this up for awhile and just haven't seen a thread anywhere I browse relating to this so there you have it lol.

Anyway, here's a list of games I found pretty fun so far.

Minifarm (Harvest Moon in a more... open environment?)
Plants War (small scale MOBA)
Call of Mini - Zombies (co-op shooting, becomes pretty blah after awhile, especially when you realize the games actually 2D, lol)
Velocispider (tilt based arcade shooting game, pretty short unless you purchase)
Dungeon Raid (pretty cool, hard to explain how it plays)
Beastie Bay (or any Kairosoft game really)
Spectral Souls (ported from the PSP i believe, and done so very well, however the last time i looked it had a pretty hefty price tag)

Some may have slipped through the cracks here as I've scoured the market many times and tried so many games...

[ductape]

King of Dragon Pass is available, great game on a phone actually.

Starbase Orion was mentioned, I will second it because the devs keep updating it and adding good features.

Actiony games I really enjoyed jetpack joyride for a while.