I usually look on Fdroid before Playstore! Apple Flinger is a fun Angry Birds rip off. I use Just Boggle mostly.
Recently, I was looking for a casual mobile #game to kill time during boring #office meetings. 2048 was my earlier go-to. This time I wanted to try something just a tiny bit harder.
Instead of Play Store, I tried f-droid this time. To my surprise, there's an entire games category and, at time time, there are 461 "games". Some of these are real gems. #Unciv is a bit complicated and has a somewhat steep learnijg curve, but perhaps the most popular of the lot. Then, there are sudoku and minesweeper games which require far more concentration than what I can allot during a meeting.
Among the word-puzzle games, there are Wordle games too. Unfortunately my smol brain never quite grasped its objective.
Finally, I tried Lexica. https://f-droid.org/app/com.serwylo.lexica It's a time-bound word finding game that has excellent integration with dictionaries and packs several different languages. It also offers various game modes that offer a little relaxing experience to the player.
Happy word-hunting!
Discussion
Thanks for the recommendation.
Yes, for last couple of years, I have switched to #foss apps as much as possible, selfhosting multiple services. Thus far, I never had a problem finding the right applications. Agreed that most foss apps do lack aesthetics but thats not changing.
Off-topic but foss apps generally look bad across the board. There some pleasant exceptions though.
Inkscape, for example, is one of the most feature-rich applications and has almost all the features Illustrator offers, if mot more. But inkscape's ux is perhaps the worst and that scares most new users.
Inkscape works great but it has a lesrning curve. However any Adobe app has a steep learning curve as well so not that different after all