Thread by @SethAbramson

(🔓) NEW: The Top 100 Android Video Games

Many of us are getting through the pandemic and ongoing domestic insurgency in part by playing mobile games to escape—so as a digital culture professor and former video game reviewer, I thought I'd make a ranking. sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-recomm…

1/ I figured I'd also do a brief thread to highlight a few of the 100 mobile video games listed at PROOF—at the link above—that really stand out to me for one reason or another. If you try out only one or two of the 100 games listed, these would be some good options to check out.

2/ There are 100 games on this ranking of mobile games, and I've only played *2* all the way through *multiple* times; it's just not something I tend to do. But I did with these 2 games, whose art, tone and complexity is perfectly calibrated: a Card RPG (l) and strategy game (r).

3/ Having said that, because sports games aren't really subject to a "playing all the way through" analysis, I'll say that the game I spent the *most* time playing—including winning many Retro Bowls—is the one below, which is endlessly customizable and has a great franchise mode.

4/ Here are two games I got wonderfully lost in for quite some time, as they both create incredibly deep and believable magical worlds that are well *worth* getting lost in for some time: the former is a Strategy game and the latter a Card RPG. Can't recommend them highly enough.

5/ Games that are absolute artistic achievements that you just want to stare at:

6/ Four more games particularly noteworthy for their artistic vision:

7/ Here are four of the eight most addictive games on the list:

8/ Here are the other four most addictive games on this Top 100 Android Video Games list at PROOF (sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-recomm…):

9/ (It probably goes without saying, but Proof subscribers are warmly invited to suggest new games for me to play in the comments at the link atop this thread. I try my best to check out games recommended by members of the PROOF community—and rank them if I feel they deserve it.)

10/ Okay, so how about the *strangest* games in the PROOF Top 100 Android Video Games? Easy:

11/ Four more *strange* games in the PROOF Top 100 Android Video Games:

12/ If you like "adorable" games, I've got four games that'll have you clutching your stuffed unicorn and shouting, "He's so fluffy! I'm gonna die!"

13/ And second-to-last, here are the games I found myself most viscerally invested in—anxious, consumed, totally transported but fixated. You might even say "ensorcelled." (Besides Gris and Kingdom Two Crowns, both of which I mentioned already.) The untitled game is "Grim Quest."

14/ Finally—as I often get asked by folks who don't play video games at *all* where they should start if they do decide to just *try* playing games on their Android phone—here (besides Threes) are the best super-duper-starter games that made the PROOF Top 100 Android Video Games:

15/ (I should say that Alone is a *very* hard game—it's just also very, very simple. It can be picked up and played instantaneously.)

Anyway, I hope everyone will check out the Top 100, and if you're a PROOF subscriber, suggest more games in the comments! sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-recomm…

PS/ Lest anyone think now that I never play console games, the game below is one of the best I've ever played in my life. I'm still not over it.