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As the title suggests, this thread is for pointing out free mobile games for Android and iOS that are permanently or only temporarily available for free, and are good enough to be at least worth a look.

My reason for creating this thread is simple, I want to keep order in other, similar threads on the forum, which I think are currently littered with mentions of mobile games available for free (permanently or temporarily). That's why I'm very much asking you to use this thread to point out mobile games on Android and iOS that are permanently or only temporarily available for free, and of course good enough to actually be worth at least a little attention.
Here is one: Kaori After Story, a visual novel, currently (I assume temporarily) free on the iOS app store. (The game is also available on Google Play, and on Steam where it has very positive reviews, but it is only free on iOS.)
Post edited December 13, 2022 by DiffuseReflection
As you are the first person to contribute to this thread, as a thank you, your post dutifully received a plus rating from me.

So thank you for the best possible start for this thread.
Creating an entirely separate thread is a great idea. I'll bookmark this thread and chip in if/when I find something of value.
CD Projekt Red
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
Thronebreaker

SEGA
Various Sonic games

Bethesda
Fallout Shelter
The Elder Scrolls: Blades
The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Forgotton Anne
Huntdown: Cyberpunk Adventure
Life is Strange
Oddmar
Prince of Persia: Escape
A permanently free (but be wary of in-app purchases) game worth mentioning:

Williams Pinball by Zen Studios recreates 22 real-life pinball tables such as Medieval Madness, Attack from Mars, Tales of the Arabian Nights, and others. It is availablable for iOS and for Android.

The base game is free, and all but one of the tables can be fully unlocked for free through gameplay, however, a lot of grinding of various challenges is needed to fully unlock the available tables so that you can play them normally. You can choose one unlocked table to begin with, and need to grind to unlock the rest. If you are willing to grind to unlock them, the tables are quite nice recreations.

More about the grinding: there are various challenges e.g. "score X points in 5 minutes in this table" which you will need to repeat many times. You need to earn "table parts" and "tickets" and "zen coins", to unlock a table and then to upgrade its "star rating". Higher star rating upgrades need increasingly more parts and/or coins. (Tables can be unlocked by real-money in-app purchases too but that can get expensive fast.)
Bullet Hell Monday Finale by Masayuki Ito. a pretty solid danmaku with upgrades. at the very least I like it.
Guys, but if you list free games with MTX, they end up not being free..
And the absurd grinding to avoid them makes the gameplay frustrating by design.
Post edited December 19, 2022 by phaolo
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phaolo: Guys, but if you list free games with MTX, they end up not being free..
And the absurd grinding to avoid them makes the gameplay frustrating by design.
Yes, I agree it's dangerous to consider microtransaction based games free. I only listed Williams Pinball because a) it has a finite amount of unlocks, so there is no need for repeated purchases, and b) the unlocks are gameplay features, there is no "become stronger/make the game easier by paying" type microtransactions. But I fully understand if that is still too much for some.
if you're talking about BHM Finale, it doesn't need any purrchases. all unlocks are tied to the progression. and if one plays skillfully and accomplishes special "missions" on each level (pretty doable. like, "finish without destroying anything" or "don't use bombs"), there's almost no need in grinding.
Hmm, What about Emulators? ScummVM, DosBox, GBA (has a free version), even Dolphin has a mobile port.
These offer a bunch of free titles (meaning their owners have released their rights to the public).
Should be listed here as well