We've compiled a list of the best Android games
to help you navigate the Play Store's myriad titles. Join us as we
explore various game genres and present all the best titles to install
on your Android phone or tablet in 2017. Let's go!
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Sports games
Offline games
Puzzle games
Tower defense games
RPGs
Endless runner games
Action games
Racing games
Fighting games
Strategy games
Best Android racing games
The
racers included below have been selected for quality and fun, rather
than realism and depth of play. There's plenty to explore in both, but
anyone looking for a more traditional big name racer will want to check
out long-standing favorites like Asphalt: Airborne 8, CSR 2 and Real
Racing 3.
Asphalt Xtreme
Asphalt
Xtreme is an offroad racer from Gameloft. You'll be racing on a variety
of offroad tracks with a variety of vehicles. Currently, there are 35
vehicles that you can drive that cover seven different categories.
Gameloft will likely add more to the game later. The game also features
online multiplayer racing, over 400 career events, 500 mastery
challenges, and limited time events to keep things interesting. It's a
freemium game so adjust your expectations accordingly. Asphalt 8:
Airborne is another of the great racing games from this series as well.
Hill
Climb Racing 2 is one of the newer racing games on Android. It features
a simple premise, colorful graphics, and simple controls. You'll be
racing up and down hills against opponents. It sounds easier than it
actually is. Players can also customize their vehicles, tune them to
behave a certain way, and more. The game includes a campaign, an online
multiplayer mode, achievements, daily tasks, and challenges. It also
works pretty well on older devices. It's a freemium game. That's not a
big deal, but we just wanted to let you know.
Racing
Fever is a racing game that’s about as middle of the road as you can
get. The graphics are okay and it features various controls schemes
based on how you drive. You’ll also get four environments to race
through, four racing modes (including free ride which is just you
driving around), leaderboards, various upgrades, and a slow motion mode
that lets you take tricky corners more easily. It’s a solid overall
experience and worth a shot if you’re looking for something that isn’t
overly heavy. There are also bonuses and an online multiplayer mode.
It's not bad as far as racing games go.
Micro Machines needs little
introduction on any platform, and the Android game is no different. Grab
yourself a car, select a race mode and you'll be thrown into a race
against other real opponents playing around the world.
As is common in many free-to-play games nowadays, you'll
need to play a fair amount to unlock new courses and vehicles as you
progress, but there's enough variety to keep you entertained. And if
you're happy to hand over some money to skip the grind, you can do that
instead.
In race modes, the objective is pretty simple - get
across the line first by any means necessary, which means using the
weapons and other pickups you'll collect as you race. In elimination
mode, points are awarded to racers that manage to keep up the pace and
stay on screen, and in Battle mode there's no course to race around and
the only aim is destruction of your enemies.
Sounds like fun? That's because it is.
For anyone that prefers their races short
and on two wheels, Dirt Xtreme is a new game that pitches a great
balance of exciting races with challenging courses. It's essentially a
racing game that's somewhere between a straight-out motocross game and a
trial bike game that rewards balance and control.
Races are
mostly a minute or less, making it ideal for quick blasts when you just
have a few minutes and there's a selection of different bikes and tracks
to unlock.
Sports games
are a tricky beast that usually take lots of hours of practice refining
those skills. They're also likely dictated by the sort of sports you
like, so if soccer is your game, you'll want to check out Fifa's latest
instalment and if basketball or baseball or more your speed, there are
big name franchises to check out there too. What we've offered below are
a couple of suggestions that should be fun for everyone, whatever
sports you like.
Golf Clash
Golf Clash is one of the
newer games on this list, but while it hasn't been around for too long,
it's already attracted a lot of dedicated players.
As
with any other golf game, the aim is pretty clear, but rather than put
you through a time-consuming 9 or 18-hole round, all games take place
against other real players and last just one hole. If you both take the
same number of shots sinking the ball, you then need to win a one-shot
closest to the pin shootout.
Golf Clash is a great balance of skill and simplicity
Winning or losing carries a benefit or punishment of winning
or losing the wagered coins and trophy points. As you get more trophy
points, you can access games worth more coins - but losing games means
you lose trophy points too.
There's
no tournament mode as yet, but it's on it's way, and there is a weekly
leaderboard with various different leagues so you can see how well
you're progressing.
Best offline gamesSometimes you
end up in a situation where you've got no data or Wi-Fi connection
available, and in those situations, you're going to need a fun game that
plays well offline. The suggestions below lean towards the casual
gamer, but a number of others in this list (Eternium: Mage And Minions
particularly) also work well without a connection.
Doodle Bowling
Doodle
Bowling is not an in-depth strategy game, and nor does it require
sporting prowess, or any real interest in a sport at all. In exchange
for this lack of required interest, Doodle Bowling can keep you
entertained a few minutes at a time by letting you play through frame
after frame of a scrawled game of bowling.
Doodle Bowling is a fun way to kill a few minutes and it doesn't require any data connection
Rather than offer realistic HD graphic, Doodle Bowling
reduces everything to simple line drawings. Swiping upwards from the
bottom of the screen bowls the ball, and swiping left or right while
it's in motion controls the spin. It's probably not a game that's going
to keep you entertained on a long-haul flight, unless you really, really
like bowling, but it'll certainly keep you distracted for a 15-minute
commute to the office.
There are different lanes and graphics to choose between and unlock, but the basic game remains the same, obviously.
Even though Shadow Fight 2 has been
out for three years already, and there's a new one due to drop in 2017,
Shadow Fight 2 is still worth downloading in the meantime to fill that
void. More than 100 million downloads suggest it's probably worth your
time.
With no requirement to eat up your data plan or fight
online against other real people, there's a whole long series of battles
for you to fight your way through, learning new moves and gaining new
weapon skills along the way. Where Shadow Fight differs from most other
fighting games is that it's not just a button masher.
There's an emphasis on form, which means that it's not all
about striking as quickly as you can, and there's real benefit -and
satisfaction - to timing your attacks and blocks correctly. If you want a
super-fast fighting game, this isn't it.
While Shadow Fight 2's
name is pretty self-explanatory, the upcoming Shadow Fight 3 will drop
the sketched shadowy look altogether.
Need a
brain scratcher to keep you entertained? These suggestions should have
you covered, whether you like physics-based puzzlers or more exploratory
games.
Rolling Snail
Sometimes the sheer simplicity of a
game is what gets under your skin, and that's the case with Rolling
Snail, which describes itself as a physics-based drawing game. The aim
is simple: get your snail to the weird portal-looking thing to advance
to the next level.
You do this by drawing a line for the snail to roll along,
occassionally helping it along its way by dropping a rock on it or
removing/snipping lines that you've already drawn.
Each level has
three stars for you to collect on your way to the exit - the more stars
you get, the more points you'll get for each level too. You might think
it sounds a little too simple, but if you like an occassional puzzler,
Rolling Snail is worth a look.
Best Android tower defense gamesTower
defense is a huge genre with many Clash of Clans-style imitators.
Often, however, these are blatant money-grabs or vehicles for ads. The
ones below offer a better experience than that.
Realm Defense
Realm
Defense makes its way into this list for being beginner-friendly but
still offering enough variety for veteran tower defense fans. It's also
one of the better balanced games in the genre, not requiring you to
spend money to progress as long as you're willing to put in the time.
The main game is made up of waves of enemies set across more
than 40 levels, and each of your weapons can be levelled up in various
ways to add new abilities. There are also other bonus items to use, like
spells to burn or freeze enemies, and end of level bosses as you
progress.
There's also a league that gives one free entry per
day. If you want to play a 'league' game more than that, it'll cost you
diamonds.
If you'd like your tower defense games
a little brighter but equally unforgiving in their difficulty,
Fieldrunners 2 is well worth downloading, particularly if you missed out
the original game that came a few years before. Even if you did play
that one, you'll probably still enjoy the sequel.
With a fun,
cartoony graphic style and unrelenting waves of enemies with different
abilities to defeat, you'll need to carefully plan how you will deal
with each wave, if you want to make it through to the next level.
As you play, you unlock different quantity-limited items
that you can use in each round - playing on a harder difficulty level
gives you more stars, which allows you to unlock items quicker but
presents a significantly harder challenge with each leap in difficulty.
Whether you spend just five minutes in the game or two hours unable to
drag yourself away, it's a whole lot of fun.
It's not free to
download, but for just $2, it's not hard to get your money's worth.
Unfortunately, it's not been updated in quite some time, but it still
worked just fine for us.
Just like with
tower defense and sports games, there's a good chance you have your
favorite RPG that you've already invested a lot of time (and possibly
money) in already. If you're looking for a new one to check out,
Eternium is a fun option that doesn't lean too heavily on grinding, and
if you do choose to pay for in-game content, it's not stupidly priced.
If you're a Final Fantasy fan, you might want to check out Brave Exvius.
Eternium: Mage And Minions
Eternium:
Mage And Minions is an excellent RPG in its own right, but it's helped
even more by the fact that you can play it for as long as you like with
no restrictions - there's no power guage or stamina system that limits
how much you can play each day without spending on coins or diamonds, as
with many other games. It also works entirely offline once it's fully
downloaded and updated.
The gameplay is classic RPG fare with a huge variety of
weapons, different characters to use (you can also create your own) and a
crafting system for both abilities and weapon upgrades, which will keep
you playing in pursuit of that next unlock.
Moving and attacking
are simple, and you can execute special commands by drawing a sign on
the screen. These commands are handily shown next to the moves as you
play, in case you forget which is which. With lots to explore and craft,
it'll keep you busy for a long time.
Endless
runners are always one of the most popular Android games categories,
and our suggestions below should keep you entertained for a long, long
time.
Sky Dancer
Sky Dancer is a stylish endless runner
in a similar vein to Temple Run, but one that keeps things nice and
simple in terms of options and power-ups.
What makes Sky Dancer both irritating and fun is the
precision required to plant your landing perfectly as you sprint through
the 3D landscape. Tap both sides of the screen to jump, or hold either
side to move in that direction, and that's all your controls.
When
you do inevitably meet your demise, you get once chance to continue
(either by using coins or watching an ad). The next time you slip up,
the game is over.
There's no need to buy any in-game content
(though there are different characters available), it's free to download
and pleasingly simple.
If you want an endless runner that
involves no actual running, Epic Skater is a fun way to pass a few
minutes as you hone your skating skills.
Like similar games, the
main aim is to get as far as you can, racking up as many points as you
can along the way. To do that, you need to ollie, kickflip, grind and
manual your way through different side-scrolling levels.
There's a coin upgrade system that allows you to change
things like your appearance and the board you're using, which also
affects how well you're likely to do. Some items give bonus coins or
boosts once you've equipped them. You can choose to go for top score,
longest distance or highest combo on each run.
However, what
makes Epic Skater fun is the fluidity of controls and precision that
makes pulling off an endless stream of tricks a really rewarding
feeling.
If you'd
rather be handling weapons and slaying rivals than kickflipping your
way to a high-score, these action games should keep you entertained.
Dead Trigger 2
If
you like shooting games, and are particularly keen on blasting zombies
into many, many smaller parts, then Dead Trigger 2 is a good long-term
choice as it's being regularly updated with new content and challenges.
It's also been around long enough, and is popular enough to have a huge
number of people to go up against in various different versus modes
too.
There's a main story mode, side missions to earn extra
component parts and cash to upgrade your weapons and enough other
challenges and options to keep you busy for a really long time.
You
can select between different control methods, and there's support for
gamepads and button mapping too, which is handy for a game like this.
There's also no real need to hand over any cash for in-game purchases
either.
If you're looking to
immerse yourself in an epic-feeling hack and slash game, then check out
Godfire: Rise of Prometheus, which despite being available for quite a
while, still offers a whole lot of gameplay for free.
Like the others we've tried to include in this list, there's
no need to hand over any real cash to play this game, and provided you
don't intend on making any purchases, the story element of the game
works well offline. It still looks pretty good for its age, though not
the graphical achievement it once was, and the 'final hit' moves will be
familiar to anyone that's seen a Mortal Kombat 'fatality' sequence.
It's
more action-adventure than puzzler, but each level does throw in a
puzzle challenge, as well as plenty of enemies to hack up and an
end-of-level boss to defeat. Naturally, there are a whole load of
different weapons you can acquire and upgrade along the way too.
Best Android fighting gamesSometimes
all you really want to do to release frustration with the real world is
bash the hell out of someone in a video game. For those moments, we'd
recommend these Android fighting games.
Real Boxing 2 Rocky
For
anyone that wants a little more realism in their fighting game -
whether you're a boxing fan or not - Real Boxing 2 is well worth
downloading.
How you tap or swipe the screen dictates what sort
of swing you'll take at your opponent, which works pretty neatly.
Swiping upwards on the right side of the screen, for example, will
deliver a right-handed uppercut, while swiping sideways on the right
side will deliver a body blow.
Working your way through the bouts will eventually lead you
towards a face-off with Rocky Balboa, but the main appeal of the game is
levelling up your fighter's skills and then taking those online and
using them against other real-life opponents.
Mortal Kombat is another fighting
series that's stood the test of time, and this iteration brings it
in-line with the mechanics for other mobile fighting games, by
simplifying the controls and adding in a granular upgrade system.
Naturally,
you'll find all the characters you know and love from previous Mortal
Kombat games across different platforms from the past, and it keeps all
the gore and 'fatality' moves that you'd expect from a Mortal Kombat
game too.
Attacking is reduced to tapping the screen, which activates
combos of moves, plus you also have special moves which are activated
after a successful combo. Rather than offering up the standard
one-on-one format, each battle is a team of three fighters pitted
against another trio of computer or human-controlled players.
With
plenty of different game modes and the need to level up your teams and
characters, there's plenty to get stuck in with in Mortal Kombat X. If
you'd rather play with the same sort of game mechanics (tapping and
swiping to pull off moves) but would prefer the DC Comics universe of
characters, then check out Injustice: God Among Us instead.
Want
to plot the rise of an empire? Conquer new lands while
developing technologies that catapult you through the ages? These
Android strategy game suggestions have got you covered.
The Battle of Polytopia
The
Battle of Polytopia is a wonderful mix of of strategy and adventure
that sees you exploring (and conquering new lands) and battling any AI
tribes you come across on the way. It's also one of the better looking
options with cute, blocky graphics.
The tribe you choose for each game will dictate the type of
adventurer you start with, but you can research new abilities along the
way, so it really just dictates what you'll be doing at the
start. Levelling up is easy enough to achieve to not be frustrating but
the gameplay is tricky (and varied) enough to keep you coming back for
more. This is also helped by the automatically generated maps and
different tribes you can join.
It's very simple in comparison to
many strategy games, meaning there aren't too many in-game options and
items, not that it doesn't present a challenge. It's a pleasingly small
download and there's really no need to pay for any in-game purchases in
order to progress or fight off the newest challenge.
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