Best Android Apps & Games — Page 8
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
Huntdown
Action gameHuntdown is a lesson in execution over invention — a cover-based arcade shooter built like a lost Contra sequel directed by John Carpenter. It's short...Great8.4Poinpy
Action gamePoinpy was already one of the finest mobile games ever built when it was locked behind a Netflix subscription. Now it's completely free, ad-free, and ...Outstanding9.4Freshly 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 ...Good7.3Karakeep
Productivity appKarakeep is the read-it-later app for people who read the privacy policy first — a solid, thoughtfully built self-hosted archive with AI tagging that ...Good7.1Blue Fire
Action gameBlue Fire's movement system is genuinely special, but a punishing camera, shallow combat, and a rough opening make it hard to recommend to most people...Mixed6.4Lex
Lifestyle appLex bets that words are hotter than selfies, and that bet pays off often enough to matter — but a stingy paywall and thin moderation keep a genuinely ...Good7.4Trüberbrook
Adventure gameTrüberbrook is the best-looking point-and-click adventure of the last decade and one of the least satisfying — a ten-hour walk through hand-built mini...Mixed6.1Whispers of a Machine
Adventure gameA tight, chilling Nordic-noir adventure whose augmentation system genuinely rewires its puzzles around the player's personality — a smart structural i...Good7.3
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
Adventure appThirty years on, Zoombinis remains one of the sharpest pieces of educational software ever shipped to consumers — a set-theory course wearing a blue r...Great8.6Bad End Theater
Adventure gameNomnomNami turned the visual novel inside out and found a puzzle box underneath. Bad End Theater is a couple of hours of compressed, cruel, funny ...Great8.6Last.fm
Music appLast.fm remains the most valuable listening record in music — a decades-deep archive nothing else can replicate — but the mobile apps are unreliable a...Mixed6.0ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
Adventure gameATOM RPG is the most faithful successor to Fallout 1 and 2 that anyone has managed in a quarter-century — a dense, funny, genuinely nonlinear Sovi...Mixed6.8The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
Card gameEight genuinely distinct solitaire variants — not eight reskins of Klondike — assembled with the same obsessive rule-design that built Zachtronics' re...Great8.4Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Adventure gameA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...Good7.3StreetComplete
Travel appStreetComplete solves the hardest problem in crowdsourced cartography — not motivation, but expertise — by refusing to make you an expert at all. It i...Great8.8Where Winds Meet
Action gameA generous, mechanically rich wuxia open world whose cosmetic-only model and strong campaign are undercut by a thin endgame and a punishing install si...Good7.5Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Angband
RPG gameAngband on Android is one of the most punishing and most rewarding roguelikes ever written, bundled into one free app with zero ads and zero monetizat...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...Good7.8Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Adventure gameSerpentcoil Island is a faithful, uncompromising take on the classic roguelike loop — brutal, fair, and endlessly replayable, now portable across ever...Good7.7Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Action gameLizardcube's hand-drawn resurrection of a 1989 cult classic is a model of how to remake a game — gorgeous, reverent, and honest enough to leave the or...Good7.6The Powder Toy
Simulation gameA free, open-source particle physics engine masquerading as a toy — quietly ambitious in a way few pieces of software manage. The interface is a relic...Great8.5Geneva
Lifestyle appGeneva solved a problem Discord and iMessage both fumbled — giving a real-world community a home that isn't a server or a 200-person group text — and ...Good7.5Splitwise
Finance appSplitwise remains the most capable shared-expense tracker ever built for normal people, with split math and debt-netting logic nobody has beaten. But ...Mixed6.7
