These are Android games, but I think only Air Attack isn’t on iOS. These are the four games that are always on my phone and tablet and I don’t get bored of.

Legends of Yore is worth a look, simple roguelike that can be played in short bursts.
I second the Dungeon Raid votes.
Also Canabalt.
Air Attack by Wedo Games (there was a web/java version somewhere at one point).

Holy cow – entering text into this field from my phone is just about impossible. Let’s try this instead.

I’ve been playing Draw Something on my phone since the Penny-Arcade comic about the game brought it to my attention. It’s good, but there need to be more things that you can spend coins on, and way more words. I see the same things come up over and over, and it’s boring. Another big problem with the game is the number of great drawings I’ve lost when I have a poor connection. Seems to me that one could code around that issue.

Air Control is a fun plane-landing game that I’ve had on my phone for a long time and still play. Casual and fun. Ditto Plants vs zombies, which I’ve played start-to-finish twice on my PC, and which my daughter now plays on the iPad.

Probably my all-time favorite Android game is Gem Miner. The original, not Gem Miner 2. Dig tunnels, mine coal, iron, silver, etc., buy upgrades, dig deeper. It’s fun for the same reason Dungeon Keeper was – you dig paths and define the structure yourself.

Dungeon Scroll is an Android game wherein you make words to fight monsters in a dungeon. I keep going back to that one.

I also play Androminion, the android version of the card game Dominion. Playing the game looks like you’re using a terminal screen, but it’s very functional.

I just got Osmos HD for my android phone, and it’s nearly as good as the pc version.

There’s a great game called Osmos HD. Very cool – you start as a small microbe, eating smaller microbes. As you do, you get bigger. Sounds dull, but isn’t.

As for most games, I hate the push notifications and social networking lack of privacy of most of them – which is why I refuse to play Draw Something. Install AppBrain Ad to check the issues with games and other apps.

Dungeon Raid looks really nice (if spending some minutes of free time is the goal).
The one I’ve been sinking time in was Pirates & Traders (pretty much like the old Pirates back when the first was new).
Then the author-mentioned-as-inspiration StarTraders. Even more time sink-value but not really useable for short play.
And then there was the “humblebundle for android” and it gave me canabalt.
Yepp, the Canabalt where you run from something and jump from house to house while the city around you is destroyed and which was originally a browsergame.
Since I got that I pretty much forgot all other games…
Let’s see if Dungeon Raid can change that :)

@ mcai8sh4: They have SpaceChem for the iPad?!? Holy crap- I’m going to pick that up as soon as my iPad comes in. That game is QUALITY.

As far as time wasting games, I’ve recently (past three days) been playing drawsomething, I find it quite addictive, although I’ve only really played against a couple of people I know, all of whom are not exactly gifted with an artistic bent. That said neither am I – good fun though.
I’ve played words with friends, another social game that can last for days, but not too bad.
I like jetpack joyride, did all the challenges 3 times then got a little bored of it.
Angry birds – passed the time, but got old quite quick for me.

I did find ‘the impossible game’ quite addictive for a while – worth looking at.

The main one I’ve played is Crossfingers! it’s a simple slide wooden blocks around, but I found it a great time waster!!

As for android games, I don’t really play anything on my phone.

oh, another game I liked on the ipad…. Space chem – bit of a mind f**k, but fun none the less.

@ Luke Maciak:

yikes.. Junk Jack DOES look alot like terraria, never seen that one.

I’ve tried both of those nethack ports, and while pretty cool, i found the controls too awkward to play all that often.

ALSO.. thanks for the dungeon raid rec. perfect for wasting time at work today.

@ Gothmog:

I emailed you. :)

Luke, what’s your Draw Something username? I think we qualify as ‘like minded’ enough to play.