Guide to FOSS Android Games

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a collection of roughly 40 single-player logic games written by the titular Simon Tatham. The game was originally made to be a cross-compatible small puzzle collection that was available across platforms, as the author was annoyed that many small games were only available on one platform such as Unix. The game was made as a personal collection of Simon's, though he would release the game to the public. The author stated that the games in the collection were not his invention; they are mostly re-implementations of existing game, and some of the code were even written by other authors. Originally, the game is made for computers, though an Android version would be made by Chris Boyle. This Android version is the primary subject for this review.                                                           ...

Lexica is an open-source word-puzzle game initially developed by Peter Serwylo as a fork of Lexic. The game is primarily centered around finding words in a jumble of letters; you have a grid of letters, and you must find words using the jumbled mess. To form words, you'll choose a letter and then drag your finger to the neighboring letters until the combination of all highlighted letters form a word.                                                                                                                                                                          ...

Code Word is an open-source word-puzzle game for android developed by Jake Rosin of Peace Ray LLC. The game is primarily centered around guessing a word similar to Wordle. The game appeared to originate as an over-engineered Wordle solver though it would evolve into said game as development continued. The developer also mentioned being inspired by various other games including Jotto, Mastermind, Bulls and Cows, and Absurdle.                                                                                                                                                                   ...