If you ever played (and enjoyed) the flash game Hex Empire, you'll probably like Feudal Tactics, available on Fdroid, Play store, and itch.io
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All in Hole.
It really is a stupid game, but sometimes you just need occupied for a few minutes.
You slide a hole around and things fall in it. The hole gets bigger, and bigger things fall in. It's strangely satisfying.
ANUTO TD, SUPER METRO MEGA WARS (fdroid)
Get Lemuroid and go crazy on 16-bit era and GBA RPGs.
I like Sudoku
Suika Game The same great game for Switch, now available on mobile. Combine like fruit to evolve them into larger ones- keep going until you get watermelons. There are physics-based elements and if you overflow the play area, you lose.
If you can handle frustration or know that a rogue-like is for you: Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Shattered pixel dungeon is awesome. Definitely frustrating, and has a bit of a learning curve but it's rad. Infinite replay value
Definitely a hard but fun game. I think I've made it to the 3rd zone/layer/whatever only once and died like a floor later. Absolute hype moment.
Balatro, tbh I can’t confirm it’s lightweight but it’s pixel art so I imagine your phone can handle it
Balatro does have a lot going on graphically and even my pixel 8 pro starts to heat up when playing it. The game's art style may be pixel art, but there are a lot of shaders on all the cards and the cards themselves are either 3d or have some perspective stuff going on to make them able to rotate away from the camera
also, there's the giant shifting background which is another complex shader that can't be turned off.
I think the game has been optimized since release a bit, but still, it's not just simple card images.
Yeah hard to tell if it will work well, pixel art or not, and its a bit too expensive just to test it (there should be a way to cancel the order in google pay if I'm not mistaken though). On the other hand, such a fun game it is definitely worth it and the perfect phone game.
Stardew Valley should be lightweight enough, it runs fine on my old-ish Kindle Fire.
Gubbins is a fun word game and a one time payment to unlock the ability to play more than once a day but it kinda chugs on the tablet. It's free to try it at least.
OK, I'll recommend you a few that are all open source, simple, free, with no ads, and should be handled by just any phone. You can find the games in f-droid between other places.
For those that are into crosswords: Forkyz
A slightly different take on sudoku style game: Gauguin
A game to place pieces removing full lines both vertically and horizontally, kinda like Tetris but pieces are not falling and you just put them wherever you want: 1010! Klooni
A tower defense game using hand drawn graphics: Anuto TD
And one I have from the play store, not open source, that is a clone of minesweeper, called... Well you can guess it: Minesweeper for android
All of those I have used on my own device and have worked great, definitely good time killers if you are into any of those kind of games.
I enjoy playing Okay? .
The goal of the game is to craft the perfect trajectory, so that your ball hits all shapes on the screen.
The game is free, while allowing you to pay what you think it's worth. There are no ads, unless you want a hint.
The difficulty curve is well-shaped, however at the end some levels will leave you stuck for weeks
That also don’t harvest all your data…
I have 0h h1 and flow free. Pretty small and graphically simple but good fun
If you enjoy chess, I recommend Lichess
It's free, open source, no ads, you can play with or without an account, you play against bots or against people of all levels, you can use the app or you can play from the website or you can install the web app
Oh and it loads fast
Enjoy!
And for those who enjoy chess but love chaos and seeing the world burn, you have Really Bad Chess
Which in my personal opinion, can be as fun as it can be irritating x)
Super hexagon
I've had it for years through many phones,.so a modern cheap phone should run it fine. It's colourful, trippy and addictive in small doses.
Dungeons of Dreadrock was a nice puzzle game. I spent a good amount of time on that.
Simon tathams puzzle pack
Any of the "colors" series from 'bart bonte' (search yellow, or orange, or blue and he should be the first to pop up, his other games are good too)
Balatro (the only one I'm not sure how light weight it is, I think it should be pretty light weight)
(As others have said, lichess)
Pythagorea
Magic research 2
Rebuild 3
Any of the "pathpix" series
Slice and dice
Unciv
A hundred more recommendations that are "okay" level of fun
I'd say try out Super Auto Pets! It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you grasp the system it's very fun to come in 1-2x a week and do the weekly pack. They're also one of the most ethical mobile games I've ever seen when it comes to payments. Most of them are one-time only and actually get you a good amount of extra content. There is a monthly subscription thing, but last I checked it's basically just for cosmetics.
Three of my personal goto free options:
Nonograms are pretty simple logic puzzles in the same vein as Sudoku, but I enjoy them a lot. The app I personally use is Nonograms Katana.
Super Auto Pets is a really good, streamlined auto-battler. If you've ever played Autochess or Teamfight Tactics, its the same idea, but stripped to the down to the core principles and with a cute animal theme. Each turn you buy animals with abilities, then enter combat with another player and the animals automatically fight. Win 10 battles without running out of lives to win.
And not technically free without sailing the seas, but you should also be able to emulate gba games easily. Even if you don't like playing more precise games with the touch controls (like me) there are a few great turn based games like Advance Wars and Fire Emblem.
Seconding Simon Tatham's Puzzle Collection. Quite a number of different puzzles, very lightweight.
80 Days is a neat game with a cool setting. Not free though.
Play Othello in your browser against people around the globe, no app install required. The website is really nicely built, very clean.
Mindustry is available in F-Droid.
Honestly I recommend looking through the entire Games section of F-Droid. There's good stuff in there like Freebloks and Chip Defense and Frozen Bubble.
Flappy Bird
Mini metro, slay the spire
- Polytopia
- Simon Tatham’s Puzzles
- Tiny Town
- Downright