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!
@peterdrake play store top paid apps charts has some good ones.
@trench Are they legit? I mean, "Don't Starve: Pocket Edition", sure, but "Poppy Playtime Chapter 1"? "Cat Fishing Simulator"? Really?
@peterdrake no idea what cat fishing simulator is, but that title is intriguing. I don't see that anywhere on the top paid charts though, I see things like Stardew valley, papers please, terraria, slay the spire, GTA san Andreas, okay "Bloons" sounds terrible, but lots of good gems in there otherwise, in fact there's enough good games in there that it makes me second guess my initial impression of whatever this blooms game is
@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.