Best Android Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 118
Top rated on Android
- 01Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a relic of the 16-bit era that still works: its narrative economy and mechanical elegance remain the…9.7Outstanding
- 02The StoryGraphThe StoryGraph is a sophisticated analytical mirror for your reading life and one of the very best apps in its category…9.7Outstanding
- 03Khan Academy KidsKhan Academy Kids delivers a shockingly robust, genuinely educational, and completely free early learning suite that se…9.7Outstanding
Spirit Island
Board gameHandelabra's adaptation of one of tabletop's most demanding cooperative games is faithful to a fault — strong rules automation and real depth, held ba...Good7.7Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3Rift Riff
Action gameRift Riff strips almost every source of frustration out of tower defense without stripping out the strategy — and then, bafflingly, forgets to explain...Good7.8Ironclad Tactics
Strategy gameZachtronics took the tactics genre's most sacred cow — the turn — and shot it, replacing move-by-move deliberation with simultaneous resolution that p...Mixed6.2Unciv
Strategy gameUnciv is a volunteer-built, ad-free reconstruction of Civilization V with a remarkably small download and a design built to run on modest hardware. Th...Great8.2Sunderfolk
RPG gameSunderfolk turns four phones into four character sheets and, in doing so, builds a genuinely convincing digital board game night. It's strong with fri...Good7.8Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Board gameOzymandias strips the 4X genre down to its load-bearing walls and delivers a complete rise-and-fall arc in under an hour — a smart piece of design tha...Good7.4Yes, Your Grace
Adventure gameA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...Good7.8
Timelie
Adventure gameUrnique Studio built a stealth game where you don't react — you author. Timelie's scrubbable timeline is a genuinely new mechanic, understood by its...Good7.8Through the Ages
Board gameCGE Digital's adaptation of Vlaada Chvátil's civilization epic is the rare port that improves on its source material — a dense, brutal, brilliant stra...Great8.6Teamfight Tactics
Action gameRiot's auto-battler is a deep economic strategy game that survives the port to touch largely intact — but years in, its interface still treats a 6-inc...Good7.7Isle of Arrows
Board gameDaniel Lutz has welded tile-laying board game logic onto tower defense and produced a quietly clever strategy game worth a look — provided you can mak...Good7.6Athena Crisis
Strategy gameSolid, systems-first grid tactics with one genuinely fresh idea — Invasions — held back by a short campaign, exploitable AI, and a cramped mobile inte...Good7.2King of Dragon Pass
Adventure gameDecades on, King of Dragon Pass remains a high-water mark for narrative strategy — a clan-management sim where myth is a game mechanic and every decis...Great8.3The Jackbox Party Pack
Family gameThe original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...Mixed6.9Terraforming Mars
Board gameTerraforming Mars is one of the deepest engine-builders you can put on a screen, and this adaptation gets the rules right while stumbling on presentat...Mixed6.5Clash of Clans
Action gameA well-built strategy game with a strong clan layer and a progression system that asks for patience by the week. We recommend it to players who want a...Good7.7Hoplite
Puzzle gameTwelve years after its seven-day birth, Hoplite remains a benchmark-free but genuinely excellent take on turn-based tactics on a phone. Four dollars b...Great8.3CloverPit
Action gameA grimy, debt-driven slot-machine roguelike that borrows Balatro's engine-building and wraps it in real dread. It's a smart $4.99 pick for players who...Good7.6Root
Board gameRoot is a strong digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...Good7.7Chess.com
Board gameChess.com is the most complete chess product available on a phone — a sprawling, polished, occasionally exhausting ecosystem built to make you a bette...Great8.4Star Traders: Frontiers
RPG gameA staggeringly deep sandbox space RPG that rewards patience with emergent storytelling—if you can survive an onboarding process that feels like being ...Good7.79 Kings
RPG game9 Kings is an Early Access roguelike that already knows what it is — a tight, vicious, twenty-minute engine for building combo machines that shatter t...Good7.8Pocket City
Simulation gamePocket City is a modest, principled city-builder—a paywall-free tribute to classic SimCity that fits in your pocket and never reaches for your wallet....Good7.2
