# What are some good cell phone games to get

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 21, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-cell-phone-games-to-get/769208 "2016-10-21T00:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-cell-phone-games-to-get/769208/1 "2016-10-21T00:29:00Z")

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If this thread has been done to death, point me to the conclusions others came to.

I have been trying several games on my phone. Sniper games, tower defense, etc.

Any good ones to download? Free ones. I don’t want to buy apps.

What is the computing power of a cell phone? I read the Samsung galaxy s6 has five times more computing power than the Playstation 2.

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**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-cell-phone-games-to-get/769208/2 "2016-10-21T17:45:47Z")

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[Alto’s Adventure](http://altosadventure.com/) is the last one I got into. The soundtrack is super relaxing.

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**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-cell-phone-games-to-get/769208/3 "2016-10-21T18:32:38Z")

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I’m currently enjoying Day R, which is a hard-core post-nuclear survival game set in Russia. (And originally in Russian - even the help files use Russian-language screenshots and many of the translation are… let’s just call them less than fluent.)

I say hard core because even on the easiest setting, I’m having trouble just getting around without dying. It’s becoming clear to me that achieving game quests has to take a serious backseat to finding water and building fires. Head to the next town only after you’re discarding food and water because you can’t carry it all. 🙂