I am once again asking where to find a list of top (e.g., most popular) Android games. Web searching is useless on this front: the results are either ads or multipage listicles with chatbot-quality text. Even the lists provided by Google Play are implausible -- I refuse to believe "Save the Guy: Funny Choice" is the #5 game.
@DopeGhoti Got The Room on your recommendation and am two layers in. Very nice!
@trench Are they legit? I mean, "Don't Starve: Pocket Edition", sure, but "Poppy Playtime Chapter 1"? "Cat Fishing Simulator"? Really?
@trench
Bloons is a fairly addictive tower defense game. Gained popularity initially on sites like Kongregate ('tis a flash game in essence), so it was fairly well known.
@peterdrake Considering Steam has Cat Goes Fishing ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/343780/Cat_Goes_Fishing/ ), this Cat Fishing Simulator doesn't seem so far-fetched. :D
People usually go for the 'simple' games on the phone as a quicky or as a low-brain-activity. So those games that seem the most moronic might also be the most downloaded?
@trinsec @trench Certainly casual games will be popular, but I expected more things that either (a) I'd at least heard of, (b) are associated with famous brands/franchises, or (c) don't have titles that sounds like development placeholders.
Of course, there are successful games that don't provide (c), like Untitled Goose Game.
@trench Oh, I see what's going on: the list gets a bit more obscure if you pick a specific genre.
@peterdrake
The entire The Room series is excallent. 80 Days is great. If you have friends in the same room, Spaceteam is nearly unmatched. Cultist Simulator is a time-annihilation vortex. The chess dot com mobile app is great. Solitarica is pretty fun. Rymdkapsel is a pretty cool idle game / base builder.