Top 10 Best Offline Games For Android Under 200MB

Welcome, fellow mobile gamer, to this weekly series documenting my week of mobile gaming :) And trust me, this was a really good week!
So today, I'll be covering a completely free and offline-playable pirate-themed adventure game, a super fun Worms-like 2D turn-based PvP shooter, and a unique arcade platformer with an awesome level editor and an active community of creative people creating some of the most challenging levels I’ve ever played in a mobile game.
Disagree with my opinion? Let’s have a friendly discussion below.
New to these posts? Check out the first one from 154 weeks ago here.
The games are "ranked" somewhat subjectively from best to worst, so take the ranking for what it is.

Let's get to the games:

Astrogon [Game Size: 122 MB] (free)

Genre: Arcade / Platformer / Level-editor / Indie / Neon-style - Offline Playable
Orientation: Portrait
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
Astrogon is a fun and unique neon-style vertical arcade platformer with a solid level-editor and an active creative community that provides endless challenging levels.
The objective is to collect 3 stars and finish each level as quickly as possible by tapping the left and right sides of the screen to swiftly jump from platform to platform. Our character and the platforms can be either red or blue, and touching platforms of the opposite color means instant death. Fortunately, red and blue orbs allow us to switch color, and along with other gameplay-altering objects scattered throughout each level, they’re what makes the game truly challenging.
The elaborate community features allow us to comment on each user-created level and attempt to beat its world record. Combined with the simple controls, upbeat soundtracks, and levels that are relatively easy to finish but incredibly difficult to complete fast with all 3 stars, Astrogon provides one of the best arcade platforming experiences on mobile.
Creating and unlocking individual community-built levels requires tokens we acquire by spending the stars we earn from playing levels. Astrogon monetizes by selling additional stars and occasional forced and incentivized ads between levels that can be removed through a $2.99 iAP.
Google Play: Here
MiniReview link: Here

Boom Slingers [Game Size: 169 MB] (free)

Genre: Action / PvP / Worms-like / Indie - Requires Online Access
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
Boom Slingers is a hilarious 2D turn-based PvP shooter with sling mechanics reminiscent of those found in popular PC-title “Worms” and wacky weapons ranging from ninja stars to fireballs and lasers.
In the 1v1 real-time ranked or friendly fights, both players start with 2-3 characters scattered around the map and a pre-defined deck of 8 weapon cards, of which 4 are constantly in hand. On each turn, we select a weapon that we drag, aim, and release to destroy our opponents or blast them off the map. Every card has a mana cost, and for every turn, our mana pool increases by one, which means we can use multiple weapons per turn towards the end of each match.
There are 50 unique character designs and 40 weapon cards to unlock and level up by collecting more of the same card. Cards are rewarded through playing matches and progressing in the free and paid battle passes.
Boom Slingers is a highly polished indie game, its well-designed arena maps rotate throughout the day to keep things fresh, and the developer works closely with the community on Discord. It is the best and most frenetic PvP slingeartillery game I’ve played on mobile to date.
Monetization happens through a few incentivized ads, a $4.99 season pass, and iAPs up to $12.99 that allow us to progress faster. Because we’re matched based on a rank system and all weapons cards can be grinded through normal gameplay, I have not yet met unfairly strong paying players, although they do have a pay-to-progress-faster advantage.
Google Play: Here
MiniReview link: Here

Elly and the Ruby Atlas [Total Game Size: 394 MB] (free)

Genre: Adventure / RPG / Pirate-themed / Indie - Offline
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Some
tl;dr review:
Elly and the Ruby Atlas is an offline-playable adventure RPG where we travel the seas to trade valuable goods as a captain, fighting pirates, crafting gear, and customizing our ship along the way.
As we travel from harbor to harbor, we buy and sell cargo to earn gold. Each harbor produces one or more goods, and since all prices are based on demand and supply, the prices are lower the greater the supply is. Harbors also feature main-story quests and multiple side-scrolling action-based combat missions where we must defeat pirates and colonists to earn blueprints used to craft new gear or ship upgrades that let us handle more crew members and cargo.
The game’s unique combat system allows us to target the head, chest, or legs of our opponents, but we must also block and move back before the enemies attack as they deal a lot of damage. Trading and exploring are definitely the main reasons to play, but the uniqueness of the combat system makes it decently interesting too.
Elly and the Ruby Atlas is completely free with no ads or iAPs. If you’ve been looking for a pirate-themed adventure trading game, this is some of the best mobile gaming has to offer, and a true hidden gem.
Google Play: Here
MiniReview link: Here
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TL;DR Video Summary (with gameplay) of last week's 3 games: https://youtu.be/DLWDy7iwaMk
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I don't know if this will be useful to anyone. So I write a line or two about every game I play, and decided to find all the incremental in my game journal and post them here. It starts with the latest games I've played and I think goes back to several years back. One thing I've realized is I have such a love-hate-hate relationship with this genre since I think I've hated 90% of the games and 100% of myself after each incremental phase. I usually angrily stop playing them for a while and restart them again, so this is more or less a journal of addiction, I suppose.
THE BEST GAMES I'VE PLAYED ARE THESE (no order):

1. Kittens Game
2. Antimatter Dimensions
3. Oil Tycoon

Honorable Mention: Eggs, Inc
The rest: more or less hated it
Additional comment if you decide to scan through it, I complain a lot, so it is perfectly reasonable and normal to think, "why the fuck are you even playing these games, idiot??".
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Time Idle RPG
This game was confusing. It tells me the game's resources is time, where you get 1 of it every second, but that's not really something as unique as I assumed. It would have been cool if time as resources meant you used it to deal with something related to time. Maybe time travel? Maybe slowing and speeding time?
Instead time as resource buys you stuff like a library. And then you buy a camp or something. Honestly, I wasn't really feeling it.
2
Path of Idling
The biggest cardinal sin for me when it comes to incremental is when a game has a lot of features and it just completely throws them all at you instantly. The joy of a great incremental is how things slowly open up and each new achievement feels progress.
The game is a RPG game and these are the things that opened up for me in the first few hours.
Combat which includes normal fighting, dungeon, raid, boss, PVP (locked, but it just needs an ascend, which I haven't done)
Skills
Hero upgrades which include Passive (strength, defence, stamina, intelligence), Train, and a huge Tree
Town which you can buy workers who get you various things like gold, orbs, knowledge, etc. You can upgrade stuff here.
Quest that also includes Perks and Skill quests.
Gear which 5 equipment slots, plus craft plus trade plus smelt
Also gear for your Pet, which is also another tab!
Now, here is the thing. Because I have all of this pretty much instantly, I don't really know which ones are helping me go past a well. How is adding 10 points in strength helping me? Should I have added five in strength instead and five in defence? I have already bought 20 or so upgrades in the Tree, but I have no idea if I am made the optimal choice. There is no real excitement with getting new gear. And so on.
The dev has added a lot of features, now it's time to rework the game, and have the features take their time.
2
Idle Slayer
The game is like a super simple platformer. Your character is running and any enemy it hits, it automatically slays it. There is no HP, and all enemies die in one shot. Your only active play is jumping occasionally to grab coins or hit the flying enemies. Also, you have a run skill that has a cool down.
With the coins, we get new weapons that give us more coins. Enemies give us souls which is used for the prestige system that provides us with an interesting skill tree which provides a lot of choices on the path you want to do in terms of upgrades.
So far excellent, however, the game has an extremely serious issue of pacing. The game initially progresses so fast that in the first hour or so, you get almost all the weapons aside from the last two, which then grinds down to a snail pace. You can upgrade your past weapons, but they never really get into play again. Reaching high levels of past weapons sometimes gave me upgrades of that weapon of 10,000% but they still did nothing to my overall coin per second. I think the pacing needs to be fully reworked. It would have been nice to get new weapons after certain prestige cycles, so that every new weapon feels like we have passed a significant wall. The best part of an incremental game for me is to face a wall, and when I finally break it, I feel powerful again for a while. This game feels like this though, powerful powerful powerful powerful WALL........break it....WALL. And so on. I'm still playing it as I want to get some of the skills, but I feel like it could have been so much better.
4
Exponential Idle
A very back to the foundation kind of incremental. The premise is that you are a student and working on a formula. There is a neat story where as you progress in the game, your character progresses through university. Each upgrade gives you more and more automation until I reached a stage where I would check back once every 2 or 3 days, click a 2nd layer prestige reset, and close it. Meaning the game was something like 5 seconds of game player every 2 days. I just opened it for this review and realized I had reached the end game. The story wraps up and it tells me "You can take a rest. Travel a bit. Go outside!" NO, DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO GAME.
3
Factoid
Factoid & Spark should have the same review as they are almost the same game with only small differences. The games are the most basic kind of incremental, where you buy something with resources, until you get the next thing which gives you more of the resources. Both give you upgrades to speed things up, and finally prestige and it's own prestige upgrades. That's it. It's nice little change of pace from all the recent incremental that sometimes do too much, but obviously due to the very simple nature of it, it does eventually feel pointless, specially after you more or less open up everything and the prestige upgrades just keep repeating.
3
Spark
Factoid & Spark should have the same review as they are almost the same game with only small differences. The games are the most basic kind of incremental, where you buy something with resources, until you get the next thing which gives you more of the resources. Both give you upgrades to speed things up, and finally prestige and it's own prestige upgrades. That's it. It's nice little change of pace from all the recent incremental that sometimes do too much, but obviously due to the very simple nature of it, it does eventually feel pointless, specially after you more or less open up everything and the prestige upgrades just keep repeating. 3
Antimatter Dimensions
Easily top 5 incremental on mobile. Does everything perfectly. You progress nicely, and when new features open it, not only is it rewarding but more importantly, it keeps adding new dimensions (lol) to the game. I'd at the end game as I write this, and I realize that there was no point in the game where it felt stale. Each new prestige layer made the game feel fresh and almost like a new incremental game.
5
Melvor Idle
It seems this game was mainly aimed at Runescape players, which is probably why it didn't click for me. It also run extremely slow on my phone which also played a part in me not really getting into.
2
A Girl Adrift
The animation is really pretty and is a nice change of pace for incrementals, but I didn't really like the too much active play. Really had to keep going back and forth to different areas to do the fishing which got too repetitive for me.
You travel to different areas of the map to catch fish, which you get points and then you upgrade stuff, but I didn't really find any real excitement about the upgrades because I kept having to go back to previous areas to fish similar creatures.
3
Archer: Danger Phone
I'm really annoyed how terrible of a game this was. Two things I like, the TV show "Archer" and incremental games, and it's done in the most lazy manner. The game is the worst aspect of idle games where it's just a straight path of clicking the next upgrade with absolutely zero decision making. Every once in a while there is a mini game where Archer gets to shoot others but it's done in the most basic form of early 2000s flash games, where the animation budget is probably 3 dollars. Same static background and both enemies and Archer have just two animation frames. The absolute laziness of it is almost insulting to the player, because it feels like we aren't even worth the effort.
There is an Archer story in the game which develops really fast, which is the only positive part, but no voice acting is again another evidence that the creators of the game weren't given any budget for this.
1
Home Quest
This game is way too slow. You have to collect materials to build your settlement but everything takes time, so you click for a few seconds, and then you have to leave the game. Which I'm fine with, but the problem isn't the idle part of it, it's how the idle part of it combines with constant checking of the game which annoys me. I like an idle game where you forget to start the game for a day, you come up to a lot of resources, but this is a game which needs you to check back in every 30 minutes or an hour to really get anywhere. I felt that the micromanagement was getting worse as I progressed (without any actual thing to do when I am active in the game) that made me give up.
2
Idle Industry
This is probably an interesting game, but I gave up because the one thing I really disliked was the amount of resources and manufacturing that very quickly opens to you. You can buy raw materials, and you can either sell these raw materials or turn them into finished goods and sell them either. And each of these has several upgrade options (increase selling price, increase production, etc). Without even really getting too deep into the game, I have around 20 raw materials and around 30 finished products. A satisfying part of this genre is to have things slow open up for you, which gives me a decent feeling of satisfaction. But the money I got would quickly open up new products, so I would just jump ahead and purchase more expensive ones, and after a while I had a lot of materials and products at zero, and was instead focusing on latter ones.
2
Masters of Madness
Somewhat neat atmosphere and visuals, but too much active clicking. Click, upgrade to get more per clicks, get minions to get you some points without clicking, typical clicker, but with the added benefit of almost no idling. I like idling incrementals but clickers is a hard no from me.
1
Soda Dungeon 2
Basically similar to the first one, as far as I could tell. I did "finish" it but maybe I shouldn't have, since it really is the same thing from early on, specially once you get all the heroes and you kind of sort out which characters work best, then it's just the same. But because it was somewhat short and no real wall, it was at least easy to stick to it to the end.
2
Bacterial Takeover
Played for a decent amount and was actually more interesting that I thought, given the buttload of ad incentives. You create and upgrade bacteria, attack planets, and eventually go into a blackhole to prestige. Most of the game was good, but the part that killed it for me was the prestige system. Once you prestige, planets get super easy to attack, which becomes a lot of active play. I realized that each prestige was taking me at least 30 minutes to get to where I was, and it was just meaningless clicking. It got to a point where I was putting off prestige because it seemed like it would be a hassle so I stopped.
2
LogRogue
Cute graphics. The hero sort of hopping to hit the tiny monsters is cute to look at, but how long can you look at it and do nothing before you realize that it's boring? I suppose this is a game where it's just not for me. I don't like to have my phone open on a game and just watch it like a crazy person and do nothing. My rule is simple for incrementals. While the app is open, be active, if there isn't any choices to make, close the app while resources build up or whatever. I don't like it being open while I do nothing.
3
A Kittens Game
Incremental games are so strange. I get in and out of the phases. I loved this for so long and so obsessively that I wanted to only play incremental games. And then, just like that, I was wondering why the fuck I was wasting my time with this. Has happened countless times before.
But still probably the best incremental ever.
5
A Dark Room
An incremental cult classic of sorts but I don't find it really matches the genre. There is a bit of incremental at the beginning with people huts and stuff but then its just a ascii exploring game, which wasn't interesting to me.
2
Little Healer
Saw it mentioned in the Reddit incremental forum in one of the posts and thought it was a healer themed incremental which sounded neat. But it's like being a healer in a raid in World of Warcraft without any if the extras. Just a couple of bars representing your team mates and you healing them while they fight the boss. I didn't even like playing the healer in WoW so no way would I play this game.
1
Clickie Zoo
Started playing for a few days until I realized there a beta released with the dev reworking the game completely from scratch and releasing it as "Idle Zoo Tycoon". So, played that instead but this seemed like a game I would enjoy anyway.
4
Idling to Rule the Gods
The UI and one drawing if your character is really ugly enough to be distracting to me. The game, seemed interesting and I eventually was into it, but seems like a game that has been constantly being updated, which is not always a good thing, because features are obviously updated regularly to it, making the whole thing a bit bloaty.
I guess, this is the problem with this game for me, it's too fat. Also, one main part of the game is that your character creates Shadow Clones up to a maximum limit. Which is fine except the clones can't be made in offline mode. This might not be a big deal in its original web browser game but that doesn't work as well in a mobile format.
2
Realm Grinder
This is one of the really popular incremental and it's fanbase seems to love it for it's depth, but to be honest, I don't play these games for the depth, I play it for the simple dopamine rush of doing the same thing over and over again. It relaxes.
Although, I didn't even get to the depth part because I dislike games where it rushes in the beginning. I constantly bought buildings, got spells, and got upgrades without even looking at the description. Apparently, later on, we can get complicated race upgades, which seems not what I'm looking for in such a genre.
2
Spaceplan
A short (!!) incremental with an actual story (!!!). That's two cool points for it but unfortunately, the game mechanics of increment genre isn't so good. It's a space game with nice visuals and a great ending (cool music set to cool graphics) but the game itself wasn't really that fun. This same exact game would have been better in a different genre (maybe something like "Out There"?)
3
Zombidle
Felt like idle games again and this is the kind of examples that kept me away. Too much clicking and seems like advancement will start to get irritating since it relies on IAPs
2
Eggs, Inc
While I was playing it, Eggs, Inc was probably my favorite Android game I had ever played. But like most incremental games, there comes a moment when I suddenly stop and think, what am I doing?
Because there is something fascinating about Incrementals. Their addictiveness is in a way the whole point. An incremental is less of a game and more an act of electronic addictiveness. What's the point?
Eggs, Inc is a very well made and fun incremental but even the best in its genre is still pointless.
4
Castle Clicker
Supposedly a mix of incremental and city building but didn't really find out since the clickings were way to much. I know this is supposed to be the genre but I like the incremental part more than the tapping part. This seemed to be a good way to hurt your fingers.
2
Endless Era
This RPG clicker game is like other such games but with horrible GUI and animations. Tap tap tap. It's my fault for downloading such games. Why would I ever think this would be fun???
1
Idle Quote
An incremental game with a unique twist. This time we get to make up quotes! The first negative about the game and this irritates me a lot is most of the quotes are fake. A quick search on Google and this proves it. Quotes are generally attributed to Buddha or Ghandi or shit like that and it's usually fake like most quotes on the internet. This kills the major possible advantage of the game because I thought coming up with arbitrary words would at least give me some quotes to learn. Aside from the this, the game isn't fun either because it slows down very quickly meaning you combine words very slowly at a certain stage of the game and then it becomes a boring grind.
2
Monster Miser
An incremental game with almost no graphics. We just see character portraits of monsters which we buy and then upgrade until we buy the next monster. Eventually we prestige which gives us multipliers. The only game choice is choosing between two monsters with each new monster with unique benefits. Annoyingly there is a max limit which I wish didn't exist because I wanted to prestige so much that I would be over powerful in upgrading like that "Idle Oil Tycoon". Still, pointless but reasonably fun.
3
Pocket Politics
An incremental take on politics sounds fun but it's so generic that it could have been about anything. A Capitalist idle game or a cooking idle game, it wouldn't matter. IAP was also the usual shitty kind.
1
Time Clickers
A shooter incremental sounds like a cool twist but it's not a FPS like I imagined it would be. I'm just stuck in a room and I was shooting blocks. Upgrades didn't give me any enjoyment since I was shooting fucking blocks.
1
Tap Tap Fish - Abyssrium
I thought this was going to be relaxing incremental but the ridiculous and generic IAPs and all the social integeration spoil it. Too much time is spent in them asking you to buy or share or tweet or post or give them a blowjob. And there is nothing relaxing about that.
2
Cartoon 999
Incremental game about comic book writers, but not the marvel DC kind, it seemed to be the webcomic one and I think it's a Korean developer so all the characters and injokes made no sense to me. The whole thing was just targeted to a very specific audience.
2
Dungeon Manager
Incremental games need to be simple but this is beyond simple, it's just upgrade a fighter to level 5, go to next dungeon character, do the same, and just continue without any of the delicious balancing of upgrades like other idle games.
2
Final Fortress
Incremental games are already pointless but when it's super heavy on IAP than its also annoying, but when it always has bugs that doesn't register my offline earnings, then it just needs a uninstall in its face.
The zombie skin was also crappy.
1
Mana Maker
Here is how I know this clicker isn't very good. It doesn't make me hate all clickers and my life and mobile gaming in general for being so addictive and pointless.
So fail, sorry.
2
Infinity Dungeon
The usual incremental RPG that I should probably never play again. Starts simple enough and then gets more or a chore as you play.
1
Another incremental game which I had promised myself not to play anymore because they are so pointless and repetitive and endless. Well, this wasn't infinite and had a goal at 999 level so I thought it was good but while the humor was cute, the game did become very repetitive. Every 10 levels the slimes changed but after every 100 levels the whole thing restarted and while the monsters got stronger, I seemed to get even stronger. So the game became easier as I progressed and there was no more challenge. By level 800, I gave up.
2
Tap Dungeon RPG
Okay, I'm running out of ways to complain about those incremental RPG games that all have similar problems. It starts off reasonably fast and fun but soon it seems like I am in a data entry job. Doing the same thing over and over again with little changes.
1
Dungeon 999 F: Secret of Slime Dungeon
Another incremental game which I had promised myself not to play anymore because they are so pointless and repetitive and endless. Well, this wasn't infinite and had a goal at 999 level so I thought it was good but while the humor was cute, the game did become very repetitive. Every 10 levels the slimes changed but after every 100 levels the whole thing restarted and while the monsters got stronger, I seemed to get even stronger. So the game became easier as I progressed and there was no more challenge. By level 800, I gave up.
2
Tap Dungeon RPG
Okay, I'm running out of ways to complain about those incremental RPG games that all have similar problems. It starts off reasonably fast and fun but soon it seems like I am in a data entry job. Doing the same thing over and over again with little changes.
1
Tower of Hero
You start on the first floor of the tower and keep fighting your way up by summoning your heroes (by clicking) and recruiting other fighters, get upgrades, level up, and then, ugh, here is the typical incremental RPG part, restart, get items, and do it ALL over again.
There is something fun about restarting and getting slowly stronger each time but it also feels so pointless after a while. Such a pointless genre now that I have played a billion of such titles, heh.
3
Pageboy
Yet another incremental RPG which I have no idea why I downloaded because I'm sick of the genre. I played a pageboy to a knight who does the fighting while I collect the lot. I collect the loot, buy stuff for the knight, and eventually I restart to do the same thing again and get better items but this game I didn't even RESTART! Because fuck it! Fuck it!
2
Idle Warriors
The story is cute. Human population is regressing while monster population is on the rise. So the humans start enslaving monsters to mine for them! The brave warriors beat the crap out of monsters, kidnap the bosses, and enslave them. The animation of monsters slaving away while speech balloons above them talk about their wife and children is funny.
But the game itself is another RPG incremental which I should start staying away from. These games are like a chore for me nowadays because I'm doing the same crap again and again. The blame is probably on me because it seems like a reasonably solid game. But hey, fuck it, I PERSONALLY didn't enjoy it.
2
Tap! Tap! Faraway!
Any game that is remotely like Tap Titan scares me. They are addictive at first and very fast moving but after every restart gets more and more annoying. It soon turns into a time eating activity with the player having to redo the initial levels to get relics to get better items to progress further to restart to get relics to and so on until the player realizes how much time he is putting in the game for a repetitive activity.
2
Auto RPG
Now that is a title the game developers didn't spend too much time on. RPG battles are automatic but I can help out by clicking like a mad man. I started with one hero but would get additional members in my party as the story progressed. Party members receive skills as as they level up and while all the skill usage is automatic, it did give me a sense of progression which is extremely important in a RPG and which I think is usually lacking in incremental games. It usually starts feeling useless but in this game at least there are new maps, new members, and an actual end sight!
There is an infinity stage once the last boss is defeated but I am glad the infinity stage happens AFTER the end and it's not the game itself.
4
Merchant
Hire a hero and send on to battle. The battles is done automatically and takes time, starts with something short like 10 seconds with each battle taking longer. The loot is raw materials which can be used to craft equipment which also takes real life time with better items taking longer. The crafted items can either be sold or equipped to the hero to make him be able to fight stronger monsters.
I was worried I would hate the longer crafting and fighting times because I hate games which I have to watch for a task to finish but even though the durations for longer, I had more to do. However, I don't know what would have happened in the end game because I gave up on it. New maps were exactly like the first map just with different heroes but the progression was similar in each level which felt that I was doing the exact same thing all over again but with longer task times.
2
Idle Oil Tycoon
This is the best idle game I played. It's graphics aren't just minor, they are none existent. It's just numbers, so basic that my sister thought I was on a stock market app.
It's such a simple concept. Invest, get oil, upgrade then like other idlers restart to get a bonus and do the full thing all over again. When I finished the game, I played the unlimited mode which I played until the unlimited mode couldn't handle the numbers anymore.
5
Soda Dungeon
This kind-of Idle Dungeon was great. I started with weak ass fighters who would fight on my behalf while I collected the loot. I then got to use the lot to upgrade the sofa bar to recruit more adventurers. Not sure why it was a sofa bar. Maybe they wanted to make it a family game and not have alcohol? Sounds weird but the sofa element in a RPG game sounds weirder.
The game only hit a brick for me when, like most other incremental games, there is no real closure. Once I thought I bet the big bad guy, it just goes on, harder but similar enough with no end in sight. Eventually, we have to stop playing right, but it always feels a bit like a let down when I don't feel like I have finished the game.
4
10 Billion Wives Kept Man Life
The two games from this company, 10 Billion Wives and Kept Man Life, have similar strengths and weaknesses.
I liked the silly premises from both. In 10BM, I had to get married as much as I could, using the loves I collect to marry more expensive wives! In KML, I'm a boyfriend who doesn't work and I have to please my career gf so she would take care of me.
Both start reasonably fast and I was willing to grind through difficult parts but the end game is like a brick wall. Passing through it to get all the achievements is pretty much impossible unless one puts in way too many hours. And it's a shame because I really wanted to get all the achievements to see all the tiny little extra stuff.
3
Adventure Capitalist
One of the better incremental games, but now that I am out of the short lived incremental fan phase, I realized how dumb the genre is. Tap, tap, tap, upgrade, do this a million times, reset, and do it all over again like a moron. The game does deserve credits for me acting like a moron and playing it for so long but I also cheated and got free cash and then if occupying became even more pointless.
3
The Monolith
A combination of an incremental and a civilization building game seemed like an excellent idea and in some ways, it was, specially how we get to upgrade through the ages from cavemen to futuristic. But no offline feature means that the resets aren't enticing.
2
USSR Simulator
An incremental game that has a great theme (USSR!) but absolutely horrible to enjoy, even though I did stick to it. After a certain upgrades, the game just turned into me popping in the game, clicking an upgrade and then forgetting about the game for a few days.
2
RPG Clicker
They should call these games tappers not clickers. We are not clicking anything on a touchscreen device. Anyway, tap tap tap level up buy weapons tap tap and uninstall.
1
Logging Quest Logging Quest 2
[Review is for the original and its sequel]
There is not much of a difference between the game. I actually played them both at the same time because the actual game is offline. You choose your hero, send them to a dungeon, and then come back to the game after a while to see how well they did. I thought an offline RPG like this might be interesting but then, if you don't really play a game, how much fun can it be?
1
Another pointless incremental. I was in an incremental phase and got so many incremental games that I know realize were absolutely pointless.
Hit a tree, buy upgrades, get a new hero, and continue hitting a tree. Not much offline it seems which is what I like about incrementals.
1
Galaxy Clicker
A space incremental that should have been a lot of fun. You get to upgrade your spaceship and buy new ones and explorer new planets. But first of all, the interface is so ugly that it makes playing the game less enjoyable. And a lot of things I didn't really get no matter how much I would play like the full exploring planets. The spaceships were nice, so it could have been fun.
2
Megatramp
A pretty pointless incremental kind of game. You are a tramp and then you can collect money to buy upgrades to make more money, with no strategy needed, nor any effort needs to be made to hurt your brain cells.
1
Inflation RPG
It supposed to be some kind of incremental RPG, I think, which has you resetting and getting more powerful and then fighting monsters to get insane levels. It is very unique but I couldn't get into it.
2
Widget RPG
Are you fucking with me? This is button bashing rpg in the most extreme manner. You get a widget, so you don't even have to open the game and distract yourself from the button bushing. Just click the button and the game plays behind the scenes and gets you experience, loot, and kills.
It's a ridiculous idea that is fun for a few minutes to see what they come up with but there is only so much button bashing you can do.
2
Capitalist Tycoon
I downloaded this game because I was in an incremental/idle game phase and really enjoyed AdVenture Capitalist. But this game is nothing like that. On the surface, it seems similar, buy small investments, make money, buy bigger investments, and so on.
But with this game, there is no offline mode, and you keep having to wake up managers, AND the goal is to see how much you make in one year. Bah. I prefer the incremental approach which makes you build and build and build, not try to rush it in just a year.
2
Clicking Bad
An incremental clicking game that is themed after Breaking Bad. It is a fun idea it's a very simple game with little to do aside from the obvious of upgrading and upgrading. The only twist might be to balance out making lots of money selling drugs and not attracting the law but even that is only a small challenge at the start. Eventually, you will get enough upgrades to bring the law risk so down that it makes no impact on the game play.
2
Zombie Tapper
A super basic incremental clicker game with a zombie team. Click click click to eat brains, use brains (?) to buy zombies to do the brain eating for you and then buy upgrades for your zombies, and buy new zombies and it all feels very pointless.
1
Bitcoin Billionaire
I started to enjoy incremental games, but it needs to have a good offline mode, because I don’t want to just play a game where I keep tapping. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t play. I played it, and I played a lot of it, because I could reset the game (like most incremental games) and it gives you a small benefit where you could finish the full game a bit faster (it gives you bonus income). So, I kept finishing and resetting, and each time the start to finish would shorten, so I thought I would reach a stage where I could finish each start-to-finish in an instant! It didn’t happen. I got bored first.
3
Tap Titan
An addictive tapping game. Just tap on the creatures, level up, get new skills, hire heroes, and then reset and to it all over again to progress further. It’s an incremental game where it depends on resets to progress, but no real offline bonus, so you have to be playing online. Which got boring, so I installed an app that does the tapping for me, which is actually a stupid way to play the game, but this isn’t an attempt to prove to anyone my intelligence. Anyway, thankfully something went wrong and my progress got deleted, WHICH WAS A GOOD THING, because the game was extremely addictive.
4
God Squad
I’ve realized most incremental games are stupid. Tap on monsters to kill, collect gold, buy Roman Gods, level them up, fight other monsters, and then get bored.
1

Welcome back, my fellow Android gamers! I'm so excited about this week's episode, as it includes some really awesome games that I've been wanting to share with you all for a while now! :)
This includes a Runescape-inspired idle RPG developed by a solo indiedev, a sci-fi themed action dungeon-crawler sequel to "Ailment", and a super fun retro arcade game that is almost impossible to complete!
Disagree with my opinion? Let’s have a friendly discussion below.
New to these posts? Check out the first one from 150 weeks ago here.
The games are "ranked" somewhat subjectively from best to worst, so take the ranking for what it is.

Let's get to the games:

Melvor Idle [Game Size: 21 MB] (free)

Genre: RPG / Idle / Indie / Runescape-like - Requires Online Access
Orientation: Portrait
Required Attention: Little (mostly idle)
tl;dr review:
Melvor Idle is a fun indie cross-platform browser, PC, and mobile idle RPG heavily inspired by the progression system of popular MMORPG, Runescape.
Just like in Runescape, we level up a range of resource gathering, refinement, crafting, and combat skills from 1 to 99, which allows us to gradually defeat stronger and stronger enemies and bosses. All resources and skills are exact copies of those found in Runescape, which makes the gameplay experience a true nostalgia trip for any Runescape fan.
While crafting and resource gathering is idle, combat requires the game to be open, so that we can collect loot and eat food to avoid dying – something that is especially important during the strong boss fight dungeons. Melvor Idle is gradually differentiating itself from Runescape by adding new content, such as minigames and milestones, and since the game is in open alpha, it receives frequent updates.
Melvor Idle provides one of the best idle gameplay experiences I’ve had on mobile, and since it monetizes only through ads at the top or bottom of the screen and a one-time $4.99 purchase to remove these, the monetization is perfect too.
Google Play: Here
MiniReview link: Here

Endurance: space shooting RPG game [Game Size: 338 MB] (free)

Genre: Action / Top-down / Shooter / Indie - Offline Playable
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
Endurance is a challenging action dungeon-crawler RPG prequel to the popular indie game “Ailment”. Set in the same top-down pixel-art sci-fi universe, our goal is to escape a spacecraft where most crew members have been infected by a disease that causes them to become aggressive and attack us.
Exploring the huge spacecraft is a true adventure experience, with hidden objects to discover, countless enemies and bosses to defeat, allies to team up with, and lots of back-tracking once terminals that unlock previously locked doors have been found and activated. There’s a multitude of weapons to find or buy, and we progress by upgrading our health, speed, shield recharge, and trap detection using a single currency we earn as we play.
The comical plot and numerous NPC interactions create a humorous yet sinister atmosphere. Combined with the unpredictable nature of exploring the spaceship, this makes for a unique and challenging space shooter experience.
Endurance monetizes by showing forced ads between levels, incentivized ads to revive or for small upgrades, iAPs for more in-game currency, and a $2.99 iAP to remove all ads. The monetization isn’t pushed aggressively, and the iAP to remove ads is absolutely worth it for the many hours of entertainment the game offers.
Google Play: Here
MiniReview link: Here

METBOY! [Total Game Size: 413 MB] (free)

Genre: Arcade / Retro / Action - Requires Online Access
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
METBOY! Is a fun retro-inspired arcade action game where we attempt to fight through 5 worlds of enemies and challenging bosses while competing for the highest score on online leaderboards.
The simple controls have us tap either side of the screen to jump-and-spin in that direction, which also triggers a boomerang blade being thrown in the same direction. Our objective is to jump from side to side, clearing waves of enemies that die when we spin-jump into them, or when our bullets hit them. Since we can jump as often as we want, we can essentially fly across the entire screen.
The almost impossibly difficult gameplay forces us to complete all levels in one go without dying – and there are no ads for a free revive or any similar system. It’s as brutal as it is fun.
Gold earned by killing monsters can be spent on temporary upgrades that last till we die, while overall progression happens by spending another currency earned through gameplay on buying new chips that enhance our character by adding extra attack, HP, or gold gain.
METBOY! Monetizes through banner ads in menus and forced ads that appear when pausing the game, both of which can be removed by buying any of the iAPs that also provide more of the currency needed to progress. The monetization is very relaxed, and the game can easily be enjoyed as a free player.
Google Play: Here
MiniReview link: Here
NEW REVIEW APP: You can search and filter reviews and games I've played (and more) in my app MiniReview: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=minireview.best.android.games.reviews
Outdated (replaced by MiniReview): Google Sheet of all games I've played so far (searchable and filter-able): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bf0OxtVxrboZqyEh01AxJYUUqHm8tEfh-Lx-SugcrzY/edit?usp=sharing
TL;DR Video Summary (with gameplay) of last week's 3 games: https://youtu.be/VGnacN7ULLY
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Google Play: Link
Mod Info: Money
Changelog: UI-freeze fix
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Happy Easter Sunday, fellow mobile gamers! :) And welcome back to the latest summary of the best mobile games I played this week.
In this episode, I'll be covering a beautiful multiplayer adventure game, a new dungeon crawler that really takes the RPG genre to its very core with its minimalistic art-style, a game that takes a new spin on the AFK Arena-like RPG gameplay by mixing it with Auto Chess-inspired combat, and lastly, a ragdoll physics simulation game with both single- and multiplayer!
Disagree with my opinion? Let’s have a friendly discussion below.
New to these posts? Check out the first one from 145 weeks ago here.
The games are "ranked" somewhat subjectively from best to worst, so take the ranking for what it is.

Let's get to the games:

Sky: Children of the Light [Game Size: 504 MB] (free)

Genre: Adventure / MMO / Multiplayer - Requires Online Access
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
With a 4.9 average score on the App Store, Sky: Children of the Light is one of the highest-rated games of all time - and for good reason!
This visually stunning multiplayer adventure game about collecting fallen stars and reliving old memories is fun to explore, features plenty of platformer puzzles, allows us to fly around the world, and is free to play! And maybe best of all, the UI is so simple and clean that you get really immersed in the universe.
The monetization is non-obtrusive, focusing on a $10 seasonal subscription (or $5 if you buy it with 2 friends) that unlocks some additional in-game activities.
This game is truly a work of art!
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here

Minimal Dungeon [Game Size: 64 MB] (free)

Genre: RPG / Dungeon Crawler / Minimalistic - Offline Playable
Orientation: Portrait
Required Attention: Some
tl;dr review:
Minimal Dungeon is a loot-heavy dungeon crawler RPG with an incredibly clean and minimalistic art-style, but deep RPG layers, including resource collection, boss monsters, a stats point system, and lots more.
The game has us play through floors in a dungeon or enter randomly generated special dungeons that we can use to grind more gold or loot whenever we feel stuck in the normal dungeons.
To collect resources or attack any creature, we simply tap the square that represents that creature or resources until we're done. It's essentially RPG gameplay cut to the very core.
The iAPs allow us to get better items faster, but there's no need to ever buy the premium currency as we get some through normal gameplay, and the game isn't so difficult that we're forced to buy anything.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here

Idle Legend [Total Game Size: 717 MB] (free)

Genre: RPG / AFK Arena-like / Auto Chess Combat / Strategy - Require Online Access
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Little
tl;dr review:
Idle Legend is an AFK Arena-like RPG mixed with auto chess-like combat, which means we strategically place a team of heroes on our chessboard before sending them off into campaign battles or special dungeons and other game modes.
The idle part of the gameplay means that our heroes constantly fight enemies equal to the strength of the latest campaign mission we've completed. When we return to the game, we therefore have lots of gear and currencies that we spend on upgrading the strength of our team of heroes.
New heroes are unlocked through a gacha unlocking mechanism, but the game is very generous with the premium currency - just like AFK Arena. The monetization system definitely allows us to pay to progress faster, but with a focus on singleplayer content and no paywalls as of yet, the game is easily enjoyed as a free player.
I enjoyed the extra tactical element that the auto chess-inspired combat system added, so this has now replaced AFK Arena for me.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here

Totally Reliable Delivery Service [Total Game Size: 371 MB] (free)

Genre: Ragdoll / Physics / Simulation / Indie / Co-op - Offline Playable
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
Totally Reliable Delivery Service is a ragdoll physics simulation game about picking up and delivering packages in either singleplayer or multiplayer game-modes.
From flying airplanes to jumping on trampolines and viciously driving forklifts around town, the game is as much about exploration as it is about actually delivering packages. And because of that, the game is best enjoyed as a multiplayer experience with friends, where the wacky nature and weird control scheme creates a fun indie atmosphere.
This is one of the few "party games" on mobile.
In the free version, you can explore the first city in singleplayer and friends-only multiplayer. A $5 iAP unlocks all areas and the full multiplayer mode, and a $10 deluxe iAP unlocks that + all DLC, which includes cosmetics and new areas and mechanics.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here
Google Sheet of all games I've played so far (searchable and filter-able): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bf0OxtVxrboZqyEh01AxJYUUqHm8tEfh-Lx-SugcrzY/edit?usp=sharing
TL;DR Video Summary (with gameplay) of last week's 4 games: https://youtu.be/BQiAoZ5Ruiw
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Welcome back mah dudes/dudettes, hope you're having a great weekend :) Time for another weekly recommendation based on the mobile games I played last week.
This time, including an awesome new Tower Defense game that really takes a new unique twist on the genre, a good old "Toss" game not too unlike Burrito Bison, an open-world twin-stick RPG with a perfect monetization, and a horrible Game of Thrones game - who would've thought, eh? :p
Disagree with my opinion? Let’s have a friendly discussion below.
New to these posts? Check out the first one from 145 weeks ago here.
The games are "ranked" somewhat subjectively from best to worst, so take the ranking for what it is.

Let's get to the games:

Divine Legends [Game Size: 237 MB] (free)

Genre: Tower Defense / Strategy - Requires Online Access
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
Divine Legends offers a unique new twist on the Tower Defense genre through multiple game-modes that have us take control of a main hero in addition to the usual arsenal of towers that we select before a level starts.
During combat, we can place towers on the map as usual, but the main hero is used to carve the path on which the creatures are going to walk - essentially allowing us to build the level itself. This goes for every game-mode, and adds a nice additional strategic layer to the game.
The game has a ton of singleplayer content, and progression happens through unlocking new towers and upgrading existing ones by getting enough tower cards from chests that we earn for free and can buy more of for premium currency. This does add a pay-to-progress-faster element to the game, but doesn't ruin the gameplay experience since the game isn't PvP-oriented.
There's a lot more to this game and I had a lot of fun playing it, so if you're looking for a game with a new take on the TD genre, this is definitely one to check out.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here

Rocky Rampage [Game Size: 267 MB] (free)

Genre: Adventure / "Toss"-game / Casual - Offline Playable
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
Rocky Rampage is a fun and polished new side-scrolling "toss" game in the vein of Burrito Bison, Learn to Fly and similar old Flash browser games.
The goal is to get as far into the world as possible by first perfectly timing our launch for maximum forward momentum, and then strategically jumping as often as we can so we can hit boosters and avoid enemy traps slowing us down.
The graphics look great, progression is nicely paced, and monetizing through incentivized ads and unnecessary iAPs for coin-doublers, cosmetics, and consumables, the game is easily enjoyable as a free player.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here

Throne Quest [Total Game Size: 71 MB] (free / $3)

Genre: RPG / Open-world / Action / Twin-stick - Offline Playable
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
Throne Quest is an indie RPG with a huge open world, over 150 items and 90 monsters, retro 8-bit graphics, and twin-stick shooter-inspired action combat.
The game has us explore not only dungeons and the world, but also the game mechanics and items themselves, as there's almost no text in the game whatsoever. For some, this might be appealing, but I found it a bit confusing for the first hour of gameplay.
The core gameplay loop has us leave town to fight monsters and explore dungeons, collect loot, equip gear, sell the loot we don't want, and then repeat. The gameplay is fun, but I personally would have liked more skills and a stat progression system.
The game isn't bad though, and it offers a unique experience that is worth checking out if you're a fan of retro-looking RPGs with simple monetization systems. On Android, there's a free trial version, with the full version unlocking for $3, which is also the price of the game on iOS.
Unfortunately no controller support.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here

Game of Thrones Beyond the Wall [Total Game Size: 1.34 GB] (free)

Genre: RPG / Hero-collector / Gacha / Strategy - Requires Online Access
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Little
tl;dr review:
Game of Thrones Beyond the Wall is a strategy team-based hero RPG with turn-based combat and many different game-modes.
Unfortunately, the monetization is horrible, with low pull-rates in the gacha mechanic, an energy system limiting our time with the game, and there's nothing exciting about the combat itself either.
The graphics aren't spectacular, there are no voice-overs for quests and cut-scenes despite being a Game of Thrones game, the animations are mediocre at best, and the game feels a bit like a rushed cash-grab. Yes, I really didn't like this game.
You've been warned - I don't think this game is worth playing.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here
Google Sheet of all games I've played so far (searchable and filter-able): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bf0OxtVxrboZqyEh01AxJYUUqHm8tEfh-Lx-SugcrzY/edit?usp=sharing
TL;DR Video Summary (with gameplay) of last week's 4 games: https://youtu.be/jxCLliP_YKc
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2020 is upon us, and I'll continue the tradition of the past few years with these weekly summaries of the best games I've played last week. Hope you'll enjoy 'em - here's to a kickass 2020 for mobile gaming! ;)
This week, I covered a RPG-meets-Tetris merge game with a gameplay so hectic that I was sitting at the edge of my seat, a fun retro roguelike indie RPG, a real-time strategy game that plays like Crash Arena Turbo Stars and Art of War: Legion, and lastly, new casual Playgendary racing game with a ton of over-the-top abilities that we use to obliterate our opponents.
Disagree with my opinion? Let’s have a friendly discussion below.
New to these posts? Check out the first one from 132 weeks ago here.
The games are "ranked" somewhat subjectively from best to worst, so take the ranking for what it is.

Let's get to the games:

Overloot [Game Size: 735 MB] (free)

Genre: RPG / Merge - Offline Playable
Orientation: Portrait
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
Overloot is a new RPG-meets-Tetris-meets-Merge game where we manage the inventory of an epic hero slaying loot-dropping creatures.
Loot can either be equipped on our hero to make him stronger until the item breaks from all the battling, or be merged with another identical item to create a stronger version of the item. If our inventory fills up, a thief spawns to snack a few random items from us, which is where the Tetris-element comes in.
At the end of each level, leftover loot is sold for gold, which is then used to permanently increase the strength of our hero back in town.
The gameplay is fun, hectic, and I'm loving it. It'll have you sitting at the edge of your seat.
The game monetizes through incentivized ads and pay-to-progress-faster iAPs that are not necessary as the game is singleplayer and allows us to replay older levels if we ever feel stuck.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here

OneBit Adventure [Game Size: 69 MB] (free)

Genre: Roguelike / RPG / Adventure / Indie - Offline Playable
Orientation: Portrait
Required Attention: Little
tl;dr review:
OneBit Adventure is a retro top-down roguelike dungeon crawler with simple swipe-controls, 5 characters with unique stats, lots of loot, crafting, and more.
Whenever we level up, we can upgrade the core stats of our character, and when we die, we can create a new character or wait for our character to revive again after a few hours.
There are no ads and the iAPs only allow us to spend premium currency on reviving our characters instantly instead of having to wait. My only minor frustration with OneBit is the repetitiveness of the gameplay, but the developer is actively working on the game, and I still find it a joy to play as-is.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here

Battle Legion [Total Game Size: 276 MB] (free)

Genre: Strategy / Simulation / C.A.T.S.-like - Requires Online Access
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Some
tl;dr review: [Early access]
Battle Legion is a real-time strategy game that plays a bit like the popular Crash Arena Turbo Stars (C.A.T.S.), which means we strategically setup a team of units and send them to war against another player's team, with the fight itself unfolding automatically.
The fun comes from strategically positioning your units and combining them in various ways prior to each fight. Fortunately, there are lots of unique units, which means hundreds of potential strategies to explore.
The game monetizes through a cash shop that sells cosmetics and items that allow us to grow stronger faster. This does make the game slightly pay-to-win, but I didn't mind it much during actual play as I wasn't prevented from progressing as a free player, and there's no energy system.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here

Racemasters [Total Game Size: 327 MB] (free)

Genre: Racing / Casual - Offline Playable
Orientation: Landscape
Required Attention: Full
tl;dr review:
Racemasters is a new simple racing game by Playgendary where we equip a vehicle and fill it up with weapons and power-ups, which we use during what's "supposedly" 4-player multiplayer matches (hint: it's not actual online, you're racing against bots!).
During a race we don't control the car itself, but we have to trigger power-ups at just the right time to destroy enemies or block incoming attacks. These power-ups cost mana to use, which slowly recharges automatically. It's the amount of different power-ups that makes Racemasters interesting, as there are near-endless possible combinations, which means lots of different strategies.
The singleplayer campaign mode unfortunately uses an energy system, but at least the "online" mode lets us play as much as we want. My main frustration is the crazy amount of advertisements, which can fortunately be removed through a $4 iAP.
There are other iAPs to progress faster, so yes, the game isn't fair. But it's still fun as a very casual experience in-between larger, more serious, games.
Google Play: Here
YouTube First Impressions / Review: Here
Google Sheet of all games I've played so far (searchable and filter-able): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bf0OxtVxrboZqyEh01AxJYUUqHm8tEfh-Lx-SugcrzY/edit?usp=sharing
TL;DR Video Summary (with gameplay) of last week's 4 games: https://youtu.be/HVqAZ6sPMC0
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