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https://archive.org/details/internetarcade?&sort=-downloads&page=3 

Dunno if this has been mentioned? I was watching the burd play it recently and it looks absolutely lovely as a mobile game, great use of simple graphics and engaging (if easy?) puzzle gameplay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me4ymG_vnOE 

Yeah that's an awesome game, good for non-gamers as well, my mom loved it. 

My wife and I both loved it. Non stressful gameplay, fun graphical style, not too annoying puzzles... 

Agar.io is now available for iPhone, wooooooo 

Bought it, played it. Not enough exploration of mechanics for me. My daughter liked it for a while. 

And it's sucked me back in now. Even my grim Quaker soul can find the charm in this. 

Nothing to contribute :( but I'm burning out on all my current mobile stuff and hoping someone has a recommendation 

Angry Birds 2. Seriously, it's a solid time filler! 

It feels like they sacrificed the gameplay somewhat. Like I dumped on it in the other thread - the debris disintegrates too fast when you knock stuff over so you can't cause much knock on collapse effects.

Ultimately it left the game a bit too shallow to hold my attention - which is a shame because I enjoyed the earlier ones a lot. Especially Star Wars and Space with the addition of the gravity mechanics.

The immediacy and feedback is very well done in this version though, the picture in picture of the birds and pigs is great and the stuff flying out of the screen is a nice touch.

Maybe I'll give it another go, but the change seems to be one of ideology - you hit the thing or you don't, without any of the 'you hit the thing in just the right spot so collapses onto the other thing.

That's still there, but much less. 

Fallout Shelter - decent builder (disclaimer, we did it)
Lumosity - Interesting non-game about mind training
Out There - Frustrating interactive fiction with a bad interface... but worth a look
Tap Titans - generic clicker, but better production values than most and some neat ideas thrown in 

Candy Box 2.

http://candybox2.net/

Not sure how I missed this one back in the day (but still played A Dark Room). But I can confirm that it is the pinnacle of games design and all other games are mere vague shadows of its greatness.

Quake is off to one side a bit. 

but Hoplite is very very good for a million reasons. Simple and streamlined but fun and continues to be fun for quite a while, for me anyway.

Just got Legend of Grimrock for my phone too, that is quite enjoyabe.

I also got Operation Dracula which is a bullet hell style shoot em up. It's pretty rad but was overpriced - was the same $ as LOG!

I've been thinking about getting Fallout Shelter for a while now! Will definitely check it out now. 

Yes, it's awesome. Really hope he continues making games. I ended up unlocking most of the achievements but eventually gave up on the most complex ones.

LoG... I played it on PC and finished it... not sure I'd play it again. Does the mobile version bring new content or is it a port?

Fallout Shelter is free, which is a good price. It's a nice enough time sink for a while but may b overly casual mobile depending on your tastes. 

This is probably a foolish question, but I guess the fallout game has a lot of that waiting mechanic? 

It's essentially a builder game where you harvest resources and set your dwellers to do tasks like harvest, train or explore the wilderness.

Building is instant as long as you have the Caps and the monetization is limited to buying lunch boxes - no 'pay to rush' crap :D 

candybox2 is crack

Although somehow autosave turned itself off, which is a bit disheartening. 

Just have to progress enough to bring back the load game menu. It's odd that even that is disabled at the start. 

Thanks for the recommendation Drew, this game is fantastic. Feels so familiar, but I don't think I've played anything just like it. Excellent strategy game, the tactics around the movement are really satisfying, it's almost chess-like at times, but with spears and demons so obviously better. 

Since I didn't contribute last time...

Alphabear by Spryfox is a pretty cool "make some words" game in the vein of Scrabble, Boggle, etc.

http://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear/

ijed: Thanks for the suggestions. Lumosity is cool -- I wish it was like 5$ and everything was unlocked right away

Tap Titans was way too monotonous. 

Not so much a recommendation as 'I was forced to play this'...

I think I deleted it after the above post. 

Happy Wheels!

The game is fun enough, watching yourself get mashed into pulp, impaled, shot, blown up etc. but I'm now stuck on building levels in its fully functional level editor!

Doing inventive things with giant fans, spikes and bounce pads.

Traps should ideally humiliate as well as dismember. 

I'm playing it on iOS, the original flash game is from 2010: http://happywheelsaz.com/happy-wheels.happywheels

Doesn't look like there's an Android version yet.