Any with good hardware as long as you can switch to stable and community-made ROMs.

If you like reading books, comics, etc, maybe Librera Reader?

Dunno how it is on Google Play, but it’s available FOSS and DRM free outside of it:
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/

On the plus side, this gives people plenty of time to tackle their ever increasing backlogs, and also to give companies more reasons to put out a functional product in order to compete with all the kilometric backlogs people already have.

Not a stats guy myself. At most, I get trophies out of something that feels a bit like OCD. Ultimately, I just want to have fun with my games, and not to boast them around. And tbh, one of the reasons I started dropping Steam was precisely the enforced social features (still use it, but now I’m finishing more games than I get instead).

Same as the past 10 or so years, from what I can tell.

You also need to find instructions specific to your device on how to unlock the bootloader, and a TWRP specific to your device. From there, you do a clean flash through TWRP (erasing certain partitions and then installing the new ROM), and then, you should be good to go.

First, I’d suggest flashing a community system ROM. OEM systems are both very bloated, and stop being supported much earlier than community ones, so they’re not ideal unless you need to use it with some banking app or the sort. And if you don’t need Google’s services (de-Google, anyone?), I strongly recommend going for a vanilla system instead of a Gapps one.

Now, as stated in MargotRobbie’s comment, one good use is as a media player. If you can sideload stuff like VLC and Librera Reader, you should be covered.

You can also use it for some lighter gaming, if that’s your thing, as there’s plenty of emulators, wrappers and engine implementations for Android.

You can also use it for running servers, if you do this sort of stuff.

And if you like to test around with softwares, a spare Android device is pretty good to have.

Xiaomi mobiles aren’t available in the US

Maybe the OP could import one? Or are there sanctions even for importing?

I use LibreOffice’s Calc for tracking stuff.

…yes, adding data is a chore. But at least I don’t have a limit on platforms to add.

Most Final Fantasy entries are either independent of each other, or very loosely connected, even more so on the mainline. Only straight up sequels, prequels and spin offs would potentially require having played earlier titles.

Wall of text incoming!
You’ve been warned…

#hasicontent
8Doors: Arum’s Afterlife Adventure
A Vampyre Story
ABZÛ
Anodyne
Augury Red Code
Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extended
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Böbl
Bunny Swordmaster Story
Celeste
Celeste Classic
Celeste Classic 2
Codemancer
Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
Downwell
Dragon’s Crown (PS3 / PS Vita) Dragon’s Crown Pro (PS4)
Dreaming Sarah
Dusk Child
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Etherborn
Ever Oasis
Gravity Rush
Grey-Box Testing
GrimGrimoire
Gunbird
GundeadliGne
Gundemonium Recollection
Hitogata Happa
ICO
Ittle Dew
Kimmy
Kitsune Zero
Knight Club
LiEat
Lost In Dungeon
LYNE
Mary Skelter 2 (includes a new version of Mary Skelter: Nightmares with expanded plot)
Mary Skelter: Nightmares (OG version; still being sold on PC and PS Vita digitally)
Micro Mages
Minoria
Momodora
Momodora II
Momodora III
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Nix: The Paradox Relic
No More Heroes
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Odin Sphere (PS2) / Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (all other releases)
One Strike
Phoenotopia (Flash version; haven’t played the remake)
Quest of Dungeon
Rabi-Ribi
Riddled Corpses
Shadow of the Colossus
Shantae (GBC)
Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
Shantae: Half- Genie Hero Ultimate Edition
Slay the Spire
Slayers (SNES game)
Slipways Classic
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter
Songs for a Hero: Definitive Edition / A Lenda do Herói - Edição Definitiva
Starbound
Super Dungeon Boy
Tales of Hearts R
Tallowmere
Tanglewood
The Corruption Within
The Deed
The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince
Unchained Blades
Unparallel
Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Wake Up
War of the Monsters
Wishing Sarah
コテ・DE・メクール
真・魔王ゴルベリアス　先取り横スクロール面
VVVVVV
Explosionade
Strangers of Power
Redeliver
Lozenge

Kotaku’s pretty clickbaity, so adding a blurb would help saving a click.

If anyone wants a suggestion on what to get from the sale, here’s one that, according to a thread in GOG’s forum, has apparently been without sales for about a year now:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/fossil_echo

edit: expanded the conclusion paragraph a little

I’m no gamedev, but as a consumer, my impression is that this itch happens because of where the person asked usually looks to.

The way I see it, games, much like all other segments of entertainment, can be divided into big productions and smaller productions.

Those productions are usually accompanied by proportionally big or small companies.

From what I can observe, bigger companies get where they are because they made something no one expected but that worked great. But then, a paradox forms, they get so big that perhaps they’re too afraid too fail. After all, the higher you get, the higher you fall. And so, in fear of failing, instead of daring, and thus being innovative, they stick to the same formula that got them where they are, over and over, trying to keep momentum. This lack of innovation, added with the tactic of selling hype instead of actual contents, feels extremely wearing.

Meanwhile, the smaller companies don’t have this leash that is being too big and needing to keep momentum, meaning they have more room to dare being different.

Surely, there are many indie projects that leave to be desired, but the impression I get is that the amount of indie games that get good reception, as well as how good this reception is, usually end up being of a much higher order than those shiny AAA games that are made to sell consoles.

And with those points in mind, I go back to the first phrase of those considerations of mine by pondering if perhaps the people you asked to aren’t biased by seeing/consuming too much of those games whose companies are trying to maintain the status quo.

Now, what was my favorite console generation, you ask? None. But I do have one console that I love far more than the others, the PlayStation Vita.

“How heinous!” / “This console has no exclusives!” / “It launched dead!”

This is no joke and I’ll explain why.

Starting with the SNES up until recently, I was always 1~2 generations behind everyone else, so I could see very well how the landscape for gaming on a given console was after the dust settled in.

The SNES was nice but I didn’t play much of it at the time. The PS2 had great and unique games a la carte (I’m still finding good games to this day tbh). The PS3 started feeling same-y, with too much glitter and too little contents in most games I could find. And the Vita’s catalogue is a salad due to Sony supporting it for some time (long enough to have some bigger IPs in it), indie developers supporting it long after Sony dropped support (even modding in the Vita is mostly just “made a wrapper to run x or y game on the console”), and it supporting by design the PSP and, by extension, the PS1, made it so games could be picked at random without any specific luring you more than the others. And upon picking many games at random, this degradation I described before became more and more palpable.

The Vita is my favorite console because it has no consistency in its catalogue. And this lack of consistency lets me find just so much stuff that is genuinely good. To me, a device blessed by its curse.

So yeah, I think the entertainment industry feels stale because the bigger projects, the ones that are usually seem first, are stale, while the smaller projects can still thrive. But as they say, the first impression is a lasting impression, so if what the person sees first are games that staling in quality, their views on gaming overall may be tainted.

This reminds me there is/was a r/delistedgames back in Reddit. I wonder if there’s anything of the sorts here in the federated forums.