Mobile gaming is a bit of a headache. Many of the biggest and most popular games have extreme monitisation, pay to win mechanics or are simply ad infested shovelware clones of existing popular games.
With all of that in mind, what are your "exemplars" of mobile gaming. The kind of diamonds in the rough you'd recommend to your fellow mobile gamers?
I played a lot of Plants vs. Zombies 2 before EA redesigned the game. I have yet to get back into the game after losing the save, but I'm hoping it's still good. I hope you can still do the challenge missions.
Plague Inc. feels nice. At a cheap few $$, it's worth it for the few hours of novelty you'll get out of it.