The very best Android games picked by our experts, including shooters, adventure games, arcade games and much more.
We’ve tested and rated all the best games for Android, covering all genres, and rounded them all up right here. No more botched console ports or dreary puzzles – here you’ll find on the best touchscreen experiences. We cover the best titles on Android right now, including the finest racers, puzzlers, adventure games, arcade titles and more. We’ve tried these games out, and looked to see where the costs come in – there might be a free sticker added to some of these in the Google Play Store, but sometimes you’ll need an in app purchase (IAP) to get the real benefit – so we’ll make sure you know about that ahead of the download. Check back every month for a new game, and click through to the following pages to see the best of the best divided into the genres that best represent what people are playing right now, from arcade and adventure, to racing, puzzle, strategy, and beyond. ($4.99/£4.89/AU$8.99) There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension kicks things off by insisting it’s not a game. This is a lie. It gruffly suggests you go and do something else instead. This is an insult, considering you just paid for the thing. A bit of fiddling later and you quickly break into the not-game, much to the consternation of the increasingly frustrated narrator. From there, the production only gets smarter, funnier and more bizarre. There are tributes to classic adventure titles and sections that provide cutting commentary on modern mobile gaming. Throughout, the fourth wall isn’t so much broken as battered while you think outside the box to solve puzzles that wouldn’t make sense in any other game. Sorry, not game, because there is no game. Ahem. Our favorite Android top-down,3D and retro racers. ($5.99/£4.79/AU$8.99) Table Top Racing: World Tour is a high-speed racer that has you guide tiny cars around circuits made from comparatively massive household objects. It’s like the offspring of Micro Machines and Mario Kart. Races are extremely competitive, and find you fending off crazed opponents by way of cunning maneuvers and unsportsmanlike weapons, in a mad dash to the finish line. Although there are opportunities to upgrade your vehicle to better compete on tougher tracks, World Tour is devoid of IAP. Instead, it’s your skills that will see you take checkered flags – and end up with enough cash to buy swanky new cars. With simple but responsive controls, this Android game is a breath of fresh air on a platform where arcade racing is often as much about the depth of your wallet as your skills on the track. ($9.99/£9.99/AU$14.99) GRID Autosport is a racer, but also a challenge to Android gamers complaining they never get premium titles, and that freemium fare comes packed with ads and IAP. This is a full-on ad-free premium AAA hit, transferred intact to your phone (assuming your phone can run it – see the list on the game’s Google Play page). Even on PC and consoles, GRID Autosport was impressive stuff on its release. Five or so years on, it’s no less astonishing as a mobile title, as you blaze around 100 circuits, battling it out in a huge range of cars. This is, note, a simulation. It won’t go easy on you, or allow you to smash through walls at top speed and carry on as though nothing’s happened, but driving aids help you master what’s without a doubt the finest premium racing experience on Android. ($1.49/£1.59/AU$2.39) Repulze exists in a future beyond racers driving cars far too quickly; instead, they’re placed in experimental hovercraft that belt along at insane speeds.
