Jak and Daxter: The percursor legacy, Jak 2, Jak 3, (Daxter for PSP), skip the Jak the lost frontier. Awesome trilogy. Jak X (spinoff racing game).

The Suffering games
Destroy all humans! 1 & 2
Mercenaries
True crime games
The Godfather
Scarface
Manhunt 1 & 2
The Punisher
The Warriors
GTA III & Vice City
Bully/Canis Canem Edit
Midnight club II & III

downhill domination

Resident Evil 4, The Simpsons Hit and Run

How do you rate ssx tricky?

The game that must not be named.

if you’re in that early-2000s adrenaline lane (arcade racing/extreme sports), a few “must plays” you might wanna throw on the pile:

Yeah, OP plz do try Genshin, even if you end up quitting it. I have played since launch which is 3 years, I am pretty sure it broke my record for mobile game. It didn't get nominated award for no reason.

Vampire Survivors. It’s a fun addictive game that isn’t based around milking you for micro-transactions or gating progress behind timers and energy.

Yes. Usually you have to pay though.

I've been playing the card game Slay The Spire on Xbox Game pass but was curious about mobile and it exists. Can't vouch for the mobile quality though such as bugs.

If you like "deck builders" I feel it's worth the cost of $10. I put many, many hours into it.

I'm currently trying to get into it on Playstation. It is fun, although I do feel a little lost; you can definitely tell you're starting a game that's 2-3 years into live service.

The wish system and how to prioritise all the different currency makes my brain hurt a little.

Is that fun? Just sounds like an idle game, which is what OP specifically didn't want.

On the topic of gacha, there's a skill card based Monopoly clone called Game of Dice that I always enjoy hopping into a match for when I'm bored. Feels genuinely great to play a game like that with far less random chance and far more active strategy involved. Just like Genshin, you can pay for better cards and such, but you can absolutely play that game free and still win plenty of the time

Poor neglected doggo!

Well... Did you throw it???

OP can't be bothered to check is game even exists for Android... so....

Example: Builderment game from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_NK0ay6W5s.

Developer currently don't have plans to bring this game to Android at all.

I'm new to this series. Super awesome.

One suggestion I have is to repeat the name of the game at the end of the section, or to have it in view the whole time. Because right now, after watching a game and I'm interested, I have to go back to the start to find out what the name was.

I have Google Reward credit to burn... looks like I've got some YouTube to watch :P

I didn't find it hard, he put chapter breaks into the videos so you can see the games in each list dragging across. Seems he put a fair amount of effort into them.

Thanks for the list, found lots of games

You dont have to watch all genius, just pick the type of mobile games you like to play and the corresponding video. Seems you a new account or troll.

At the very least list the games in the video description or comments. I appreciate the effort you put in, but just don't have an hour to watch all of this.

Playdigious publisher is from France and has a lot of good ports:

• Evoland

• Northgard

• Dead Cells

505 Games is Italian

• Brothers: A tale of Two Sons

Killhouse Games is Romanian

• Door Kickers

11 Bit Studios is Polish

• This War of Mine

CD Project is Polish

• Thronebreaker

• Gwent

HandyGames is German

• Through the darkest of Times

• Wreckfest

• Neighbors from Hell

• ChickencPolice: Paint it Red!

Team 17 is British

• Worms

https://nordcurrent.com/games-page/ - They have Cooking Fever and a few other mobile games.

I think this one is based in berlin Germany, but honestly, I have not played any of their games.

https://www.kolibrigames.com/

Metacore (Merge Mansion) is Finnish. But Supercell (Tencent) is an investor. Not ownership, as far a I know, but the connection is there, but at least it's not straight up ownership (yet). It's kind of frustrating because Supecell used to be Finnish too. Europe just seems to like to sell its companies and own nothing.

Sea Port is from Slovakia, Handygames (germn, owned by THQ Nordic / Embracer from Sweden) do have a few titles, but don‘t expect AAA quality…

Probably Slay the Spire or Vampire Survivors.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.easybrain.sudoku.android&hl=en&gl=US

Sudoku. been playing one for months

My boy! Is my favorite, pizza boy is hugely popular

Swordigo

Game boy advance emulator and a decent collection of roms

Unlocked the secret levels

Just started enjoying Sword Art Online: Integral Factor. Currently quests that I am playing take few minutes to finish. But I've heard that quests get more complex as the game goes on. Of course it's an MMORPG, so not everyone likes it.

Another recommendation is Slay the Spire.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon (it's freeware on Android! :) )

Slice & Dice

Tiny Bubbles

Race for the Galaxy

Dominion

balatro. It's a deck building roguelike.

Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic. It's a port of RCT2 but with the scenarios from RCT1 and the expansion packs remade. 90 scenarios in the base game. Here's a video if you're interested.

Balatro Brotato Dead cells BlazBlue entropy effect

Dead cells is perfect for short bursts, then when you want to dive into it, you can do run after run for hours.

Play pass recently added dungeon clawler and it's been perfect for me for that

Tiny tower Vegas, by NimbleBit LLC. You use in-game cash and casino chips for upgrades, new floors and gamble. You can earn everything just by playing.

Too bad it got removed from the store but maybe someone at r/tinytower can provide a source for the apk file.

Katana zero maybe?

I've made a game demo of sorts, it's pretty short from start to finish but you can save and come back to it if you want, only issue with saving atm is your monsters' moves get reset if you've changed them.

It's basically a free pokemon clone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.FiredUpForge.TameTheWild

Balatro can hold my attention for hours, and I’m normally not really interested in card games. Might be worth a go!

If you like card games, I can’t recommend slay the spire enough! Both my partner and I loveee it. It’s highly replayable, tons of difficult unlocks, and a pretty quick learning curve. She also had a bunch of downtime and often will be able to play a few runs at a time. It can also be easily put down and picked up if something else calls your attention!!!

If you like point click puzzles the Rusty Lake / Cube Escape games are really good (they’re confusing but that’s part of it and the more you play the plot does get revealed). Majority are free too.

https://preview.redd.it/hzfzmqs89d4f1.jpeg?width=1111&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=008e781302dba4787c6f0f7fcaf6c06878cb10bf

Try Usagi Shima! It's very cute.

https://preview.redd.it/54le0qrk6d4f1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dfc6a2cd14178933170ed3016bc985b22e7ba6d4

Following because I am in the same predictament lol. Thanks for posting, OP!