Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't on the Play Store

Never heard of Breakout 71 before; gonna check it out, thanks.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is SO good. It's horrendously difficult early on because you don't know what you're doing, but once you got a grasp it's so fun.

Ahh nice, could do with some decent games. CDDA is a fun one, small screen isn't ideal but its playable on mobile. A keyboard helps.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon looks like a fun one.

I've never been interested in playing games on my phone but over the last 2 months I've actually been playing more and more. Mostly PSP emulation but also some Balatro and Don't Starve.

Hoped to find some cool new suggestions, instead I learned about three games I've already got installed. Breakout 71 is absolutely incredible, and at 492 kB(!!) you should install it to your phone, tablet, and floppy disk right now. It's also on the Play store, so you can recommend it to people less concerned with privacy.

I think I've played another variant on the open source Pixel Dungeon but after not playing it for many years I uninstalled it because Shattered Pixel Dungeon was actively being developed and it wasn't. I continued to not play it. And I've never opened AAAXY so no opinions there.

it's both awesome and quite addictive

Not sure if exclusive, but Andor's Trail is on F-Droid and really good.

The reply value is exceptional.

I wish there was more, honestly. Not exclusive to FDroid, but Mindustry is probably the best open source game I've played. I enjoyed Breakout71, but once you are just trying to unlock jew apps it gets repetitive and too luck based with getting the upgrades you need

Sorry to be that guy, but the 3 games you listed are all on the Play Store.

What a wonderful, original and well written post, a truly great read, thanks a lot for writing and sharing it.


I use Lemuroid, it's freaking great. I'll try Mindustry, which seems to be also available for Linux on Flathub (very convenient).

Which begs the question... would you consider writing a post about FOSS games on PC?

Flathub is chock-full of great games that would greatly benefit from a little exposure, and it's so vast and diverse that there's a guaranteed varied selection for any genre.

It could even span 2 posts: the most popular ones & hidden gems. If they do well, there's also game tools & launchers for games that nobody knows that are playable on the Steam Deck / Steam Machine / Linux.

With the imminent release of the Machine, I think these kind of posts would do well. After all, we're talking about free games, 1 click away.

Shattered, for one. Thought that was a bit odd.

Breakout 71 and Shattered Pixel Dungeon are super addictive

I just looked up each of these games... On google play store. They are all on there.