Recomend good ANDROID Role Playing RPG Games

[samuraigaiden]

Looking for some legit RPG to play on my phone.

The Sorcery games look interesting. Anyone played them?

 

[Red Hexapus]

Looking for some legit RPG to play on my phone.

The Sorcery games look interesting. Anyone played them?

If you mean the Sorcery! series (four games), I've played them (the first 3 at least) but they are not much of an RPG, but CYOA. Combat is mediocre, magic system is interesting and there is a lot of reactiviy and non-linearity so I still recommend playing them.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

2400AD is an RPG about freeing humans from android oppressors

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

SNES9X

 

[PrettyDeadman]

7 mages, The Quest, Delver.
Dragon Quest remakes, Kotor, Battle Chasers, Monster Hunter Stories and etc.

 

[Shagnak]

I got a reasonable amount of fun out of Caves.
It's a free roguelike. Lo-fi but not ascii lo-fi. Heaps of features/content and updated regularly.
I liked it enough to pay the small amount required to remove ads.


I've heard Templar Battleforce ( a Trese Brothers RPG) is pretty good.


Exiled Kingdoms is okay. Starts out a bit basic, but improves. Plenty to explore. It had enough potential that I bought the Windows version.

There are a heap of JRPGs that'll make you throw up into your mouth, but if you can swallow it back down maybe you'll find some enjoyment there.

 

[Siveon]

Exiled Kingdoms. Should be the first response to such a thread. And Hearkenworld.

 

[Jvegi]

I've played Pixel Dungeon at work and liked it.

 

[Gargaune]

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition

 

[Vicissitudes]

since got hit with covid and can't sleep at night:

Gurk series - can recommend and most fun i've had on mobile. i've finished no2 and started no 3 straight afterwards but got burned out. very simple turn based combat. some rng and some annoying random encounters in the dungeons though. 4/5
Questlord - playing it right now - seems ok will see.
Naroth - got bored after doing few quests but it's just not my cup of tea. it's open-world fpp realtime combat so that's something rare in mobile format. wouldn't recommend using touch controls for combat though. 3/5
Moonshadow - some ok puzzles with really nice presentation, interesting controls with two PCs - gives nice possilbility of unique builds for your left vs right hand pc. but couldn't play it too much with realtime combat (ugh). and micro$ seem insane but after few hours I did not feel that it's p2w.

also played around with
Andor's Trail
Pathos
Doom & Destiny
Exiled Kingdom
9th Dawn 1
but were meh

on my to do:
Ramble Planet
Void Pyramid
Dungeons of Legend Underwell

 

[Butter]

Raid Shadow Legends.

 

[samuraigaiden]

SNES9X

The first thing I did was get some emulators, but virtual controls drive me nuts.

7 mages

Got this. Seems great so far. Turn-based combat and tile-based exploration work well with the touchscreen.

I got a reasonable amount of fun out of Caves.

I got this. Not big into roguelikes but it just might be the perfect kind of game for a phone.

Exiled Kingdoms is okay.

I already uninstalled this one. Virtual buttons are big turn off and it seems to be going for a Diablo kind of thing which also ain't my cup of tea.

Naroth

This game is kind of fascinating, but the controls just suck the joy out of it.

Thanks everyone for the recommendations so far. I check back with more impressions

 

[Marat]

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/mobile-rpgs.107816/

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

The first thing I did was get some emulators, but virtual controls drive me nuts.

Buy an external gamepad and you're all set. That and virtual controls are fine for TB stuff, once you get used to them.

 

[vazha]

Exiled Kingdoms
The Quest
Tales of Illyria series

I don't think anything else comes even close to these three. All are full-fledged rpgs in their own right.

 

[Siveon]

The first thing I did was get some emulators, but virtual controls drive me nuts.

Buy an external gamepad and you're all set. That and virtual controls are fine for TB stuff, once you get used to them.

There's an inherent delay to them with awful feedback, for older JRPGs that already have a slowness problem it's really bad.

Exiled Kingdoms isn't just a diablo clone, it is a genuine CRPG with choices and concequences within quests, and fun exploration.

Sorcery! Is fun but those aren't RPGs they're gamebooks. Adapted gamebooks, anyway.

Similarly the Kai chronicles or any of the other open source implementations of the gamebook series are also interesting. They're also free.

In the same genre I thought Untold was a great implementation of that formula, with some of the best writing for an original CYOA game on mobile.

The Quest is another personal fave, I wouldn't say the dungeons or quests are groundbreaking but there's always clever moments and your character gets to advance through hundreds of hours of content if you get the DLC.

Magicus is a barely translated puzzle RPG but the presentation, music, and advancement of gameplay make it the perfect kind of short session game you want for mobile.

Gurk is great, no complaints there. Simple, but you're always thinking, and the small improvements you make go a long way.

I like Partia a good bit but if you don't care for Fire Emblem or similar Japanese SRPGs I wouldn't bother.

 

[Pocgels]

King of Dragon Pass is kind of a stretch to call an RPG but it's really unique (and expensive).
Nethack and some other rougelikes have ports of varying quality.
Xcom enemy within has a pretty good port. You can also get the beamdog Icewind Dale/Baldurs Gates but they're unplayable on a phone.
Most of the other good android-available RPGs have already been listed. There's a wizardry clone called Oubliette no one has mentioned yet, but I haven't played it.
I have probably installed and tried about 1000 android games over the years and I can say with confidence that any "RPG" with a budget of more than 15$ is going to be a RaidShadowLegends/Gacha. And it's only getting worse as time goes on. There are good made-for-mobile games but they're not in the RPG genre, sadly. Emulators are probably your best option over all.

 

[visions]

Final Fantasy Tactics is also available for Android.

EDIT: so are a bunch of other old Final Fantasies but I've read that several of those ports suck. FF: Tactics port seemed fine to me from the few hours I played and it has a pretty good reputation.

 

[Kaivokz]

Just buy an old vita and play some dungeon crawlers. Why torture yourself playing on a phone?

 

[nlfortier]

The first two Banner Saga games are excellent tactical RPGs. Titan Quest is a good action RPG similar to Diablo 2. The Fighting Fantasy series is good if you like old-school gamebooks. You can also get ScummVM for android, which can run both Lands of Lore and Eye of the Beholder.

 

[whydoibother]

Is there a way to play Into the Breach without a Netflix subscription?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Tales of Illyria series

This

 

[Martyr]

I haven't played any of these, but people seem to like them:

The Shadow Sun - made by Ossian, the guys who developed some "premium" mods for Bioware's Neverwinter Nights
Dungeons of Chaos - also available on steam. reviewers compare this game both to Ultima and Pool of Radiance...

but you can't go wrong with King of Dragon Pass, since it's one of the best games ever made.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

The Shadow Sun - made by Ossian, the guys who developed some "premium" mods for Bioware's Neverwinter Nights
Dungeons of Chaos - also available on steam. reviewers compare this game both to Ultima and Pool of Radiance.

And it's just like their modules. Well written, and the occasional good quest here and there with multiple solutions. The combat really ain't such of a much at all though.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I have yet to try a bluetooth controller with ios devices. The keyboard is mixed as far as games go. Usually functions don't work much to my annoyance.

The first thing I did was get some emulators, but virtual controls drive me nuts.

Buy an external gamepad and you're all set. That and virtual controls are fine for TB stuff, once you get used to them.