Best Android Apps & Games — Page 6
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 896
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
Medito
Education appMedito offers most of what Calm and Headspace charge for: guided sessions, structured courses, sleep content and a proper timer, with no paywall, no a...Great8.4rymdkapsel
Puzzle gamerymdkapsel strips real-time strategy down to planning alone and turns what's left into a tense, calm puzzle about space and greed. A slow start, short...Good7.3Tinkercad
Education appTinkercad's shape-and-hole approach remains one of the best introductions to 3D design, but flaky sign-ins, buggy dimension entry and a cramped Androi...Mixed6.5Teslagrad
Adventure gameRain Games built a puzzle-platformer that teaches physics through play and tells its whole story without a word, and its design still holds up more th...Good7.2Stone Story RPG
Adventure gameStone Story RPG turns ASCII art into some of the most expressive animation in indie gaming, and it hides a real programming language under its idle-RP...Great8.2Kolibri
Education appFor schools that must teach without a connection, Kolibri is a serious and unusually complete answer — solid but unremarkable as a consumer Android ap...Good7.9INMOST
Adventure gameFor all its polish, INMOST is a solid but uneven package: a three-to-five hour pixel-art story with real emotional weight, held back by stiff combat a...Good7.4SIMULACRA
Adventure gameSIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...Good7.4
Down Dog
Health & Fitness appDown Dog swaps the pre-recorded video library for a sequencing engine that builds a fresh class on every tap, and the result is one of the most person...Great8.6Candy Box 2
Adventure gameCandy Box 2 remains a clever bait-and-switch: a free, open-source ASCII RPG that unfolds from a single candy counter. We recommend the desktop browser...Good7.1Bloomberg Connects
Education appBloomberg Connects replaces the $8 rental audio guide with a free, ad-free app covering more than a thousand institutions, and its accessibility work ...Good7.4Grand Mountain Adventure
Adventure gameThree snowboarding brothers built a skiing game with an honest physics model and a top-down camera nobody else uses. That camera can hide the terrain ...Good7.7Flickr
Photo & Video appA serious archive and critique community wrapped in a phone app that still leans on the website for its best tools. Worth paying for if you shoot seri...Good7.1Lumino City
Adventure gameState of Play spent three years building a ten-foot city out of paper, card and miniature motors, then filmed it — and the result is a game whose art ...Good7.4Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Hidden Through Time 2: Myths & Magic
Family gameA hand-drawn hidden object game priced like it respects its audience, with a short campaign and a level editor that carries the real weight. Solid for...Good7.3Dawncaster
Card gameDawncaster is one of the more generous roguelike deckbuilders around — a sprawling card RPG that layers talents, gear and enchantments onto the Slay t...Great8.2Marco Polo
Photo & Video appMarco Polo is built around one good idea — video conversation without the tyranny of the calendar — executed with restraint. It's also an app that has...Good7.8Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector
Board gameA free-to-play game that declines to exploit you — no energy meters, no ad walls, no manufactured urgency — and that restraint is the most interesting...Good7.6Dicefolk
Action gameDicefolk's central trick — handing you the enemy's dice as well as your own — converts a genre built on gambling into a series of tight, solvable comb...Good7.1Jelly no Puzzle
Puzzle gameQrostar's 2013 freeware puzzle design survives its Android port with the rules untouched and the presentation showing every one of its years. If you w...Good7.7Hardcover
Books appFor readers ready to leave Goodreads behind, Hardcover offers the sharpest set of ideas in the category: half-star ratings, match-score recommendation...Good7.0Gartic Phone
Design appFor groups that already exist, Gartic Phone is one of the better free party games on a phone — a Telephone-meets-Pictionary machine with eleven modes,...Good7.8Polarsteps
Travel appThe rare travel journal that fills itself in, Polarsteps turns passive GPS capture into a map worth keeping and a hardback book worth buying. The rout...Great8.2