Single Hand Phone Games for New Dads

My partner and I recently had our first child which has been amazing but has also lead to a lot of late nights/early mornings cradling a sleeping infant so my wife can get some rest.

My question is does anyone have any phone games they'd recommend that can be played single handed while the little dude sleeps?

Cheers

Hi, Congrats on the new addition to your family!

Here's what I played when I was in your situation. Pretty much all puzzle-ish games that don't require any fast reaction times.

Solitarica (Rouge Lite Solitare)

Knotwords (Hybrid of Crosswords, and Wordle)

Threes! (Numbers game)

10000000 & It's sequel; You Must Build a Boat (both are match three with lite RPG mechanics)

Imbroglio (Rogue lite that takes place on a 4x4 grid)

Vampire Survivors is on mobile now. I played on my PC with WASD and all you'd really need is one hand.

Edit: Also, congrats on the kid! I had my third in late October and it was a revelation when I found I could play Vampire Survivors while cradling her.

We had our second child recently, and I’ve played a ton of the mobile port of Slay The Spire. If I wasn’t burned out on it by this point, I would also have played a lot of Super Auto Pets.

Ah love this topic. So got to be Slay the spire on mobile. Especially as you can drop it and leave. HEARTHSTONE does work but u can't drop and leave as easily. Lots of JRPG on mobile work well. Oddly enough my daughter when she was born wouldn't sleep alone and had to be on someone. So I took the night shift and whilst she slept on me tucked in my dressing gown I played and 100% God Of War 2018!

Thanks for all the great responses guys, have been MIA for a few days with aforementioned new Dad responsibilities so just getting around to reading through them.

Saw Vampire Survivors mobile on the GAs and gave it a shot and am loving it so far. Will check out the other recs too.

@fingerprints: Haha yeah my little dude is the same, hit or miss sleeping in the bassinet but if he's on someone he'll go down for hours.

@palumanic: Congrats mate! Enjoy the beautiful rollercoaster. Can 1000% recommend Vampire Survivors. I think I put about 50 hrs into it over the course of 2 weeks, incredible game and perfect to play with one hand.

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