Free Android Game suggestion

Postknight 2, Asphalt 9 and CSR2 are decent if you don't mind general mobile game bullshittery, otherwise Nonograms Katana and Microsoft Solitaire Collection are great public transit time wasters.

VAMPIRE SURVIVORS!!

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The only mobile game I play.
https://lovelive-sif2.com/

It's free but gacha, though you don't have to spend anything. It's great if rhythm games are your thing.

I know people would shit on gacha game here, but "Honkai: Star Rail" is actually pretty good if you can avoid the temptation of spending money (I spent $0 and had a lot of fun with it)

Vampire's Fall Origins
Vendir Plague of Lies
Exiled Kingdoms (awesome game, there's a free trial version to try out)
Champions of Avan
Territorial.io
2048
Demise of Nations
J2ME Loader (java emulator so you can play ancient mobile games like doom and that tower-dropping-building game)

Can't go wrong with super auto pets, and great to play with family

Buriedbornes
It will be completed free of charge, as you will get the items for the billing in the game.
However, it is different from your desired game and genre and is for those who like slightly older games.
(2 of this game came out recently, but that one is still being tweaked, so I wouldn't recommend it)
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Yeah, I might recommend this one.

If you play shooter games, PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty: Mobile are your best bets.
Not sure how they would run on 4GB of RAM, though. These games get more demanding every update, so...

For your casual family member, I'd recommend the classics, Candy Crush and the likes.

Was about to recommend Ticket to Earth, then realized it's $5. (It's been a while since I got it.) I still think it's worth the cost, but it's up to you whether that's a non-starter. (I guess this is still me recommending it.)

Race The Sun Challenge Edition is fun. And even though there are in-app purchases, you don't need any of it. I just can't vouch for how good or bad it is regarding ads, because I bought the premium version of it years ago. I do see optional ad-supported revives and boosts, however.

I wish I knew of more good free games to recommend.

Mario Kart :) can have good quick fun w/o spending;) or gamified learning stuff like Duolingo and the like

Cytus. The first one. Awesome music/rhythm game.

Yeah, deleted a big chunk of my library some time ago..... Going over what I have there still, think there's some I dont remember:

• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Badlanders (Mobile Tarkov)
• Berzerk Ball 2 (Not available anymore)
• Brawlhalla
• COD Mobile
• Clash Royale
• Day R Survival
• Deep Loot (Like Dave The Diver w/o the restaurant)
• Dead Effect 2
• Dream League Soccer
• Earn To Die 2
• Golf Clash
• Golf King - World Tour
• Last Island of Survival (Mobile Rust)
• Pixel Dungeon
• Pocket Mine 3
• PUBG
• PUBG New State
• Raft Survival
• The Battle of Polytopia (Mini Civ)
• Trials Frontier
• Vampire Survivors
• MDickie games

There's a lot of newer stuff I think with new and flashy graphics but yeah, the app store pushes freemium bigtime because 30% of $2 ten times is much more than 100% of $5 once so there's some hidden free gems but its laborsome to browse for cool stuff that doesnt involve that nowadays.

I only play one game on my phone right now it's punishing gray raven has the best combat for a mobile game. Some game that I think you will like are race against the sun, the map of this game changes everyday, then 50 loops it gets boring after you can no longer clear stages but is definitely worth a try! Then you can try parasite days there is a parasite on your hand also the other games made by this developer are really good. Death palette has one of the best story and it has a lot of death endings but getting those endings is pretty fun.

If you have Netflix I suggest checking out all the Netflix games since they will be free to play for you :)
Simply search for Netflix in the Google Play store, open the app, scroll down to the Other games published by Netflix section, and click on it. None of the games will have adds or microtransactions :).

Buriedbornes
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Not free but Slay the Spire and Dicey Dungeons are really worth it to be able to play anywhere
Also not free but good is Slice and Dice

Soul Knight is a neat roguelike that runs on mobile. Would recommend.

deemo; it's a nice rhythm game. played it years ago and still liked the songs until now.
they have microtransactions but afaik you can still have a good time with the free content (at least i did).

Kards: The WWII Card Game

dragonheir, you can cross play on pc

I recently discovered the Google Play Games app itself has some simple, offline games such as Minesweeper, Snake, Flappy Bird, Solitaire and Crossy Road. I have been wasting my time with these on train. :D

My time has come to finally recommend something. Battle Cats is the best mobile game in my eyes, genuinely, it might be gacha but the fact that you can complete the game with free win characters is great, gacha really is just an extra addition that can help you but Is not needed, its a partly strategy/tower defense? And very active, collabs happen semi monthly and the rewards are great for new and older players. Great game and frankly the only mobile game i play at this point.

Diablo: Immortal.

The game itself is quite P2W heavy when you try to be really competetive. However, you can still play through this just for the story, experience the content and once you feel like you have seen it all or that you are getting clubbed to death by everyone and evreything, just uninstall it :)

Clash Royale