Best Android Apps & Games — Page 9
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
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- 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
Ironclad 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...Mixed6.2Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Action gameCastlevania: Symphony of the Night is a landmark game and this is the complete, uncut, ad-free version of it — but Konami bolted on a touch control ...Good7.5WorldBox - God Simulator
RPG gameWorldBox is a rare, uncompromising sandbox — a toy box of civilizations you can nurture for hours or vaporize in four seconds — held back by a late ga...Good7.5Unciv
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...Great8.2Arcaea
Music gamelowiro built one of the most mechanically inventive rhythm games on mobile by dragging the genre off its flat plane and into the air, then wrapped it ...Good7.7Sunderfolk
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...Good7.4Insight Timer
Health & Fitness appInsight Timer gives away more mindfulness content for free than Calm and Headspace sell combined, and the price of that generosity is a navigation exp...Great8.4
Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Adventure gameCygames built a genuinely deep management sim, wrapped it in a polished presentation layer, and then chained the whole thing to a gacha economy and a ...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...Good7.8ScourgeBringer
Action gameScourgeBringer strips the action-roguelite down to one idea — attack or die — and executes it with a discipline most of its peers never reach. It's sh...Good7.5Wuthering Waves
Action gameWuthering Waves builds some of the most skill-expressive real-time combat in the free-to-play action-RPG space and wraps it in an open world that trus...Good7.3Timelie
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...Good7.8italki
Education appitalki solved the hardest problem in language learning — putting a real human on the other end of the call, cheaply, in 150+ languages — and then wrap...Good7.3Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Adventure gameUrban Myth Dissolution Center is a strikingly original occult adventure with real writing chops, held back by deduction puzzles that never bite. Solid...Good7.3Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
Puzzle gameForty logic games, infinite algorithmically-generated puzzles, zero ads, zero tracking, zero dollars. It looks like a spreadsheet and plays like a dee...Great8.5Detention
Adventure gameRed Candle Games turns Taiwan's White Terror into a quietly devastating horror game built on meaning rather than monsters. It's short, mechanically si...Great8.2Thimbleweed Park
Adventure gameRon Gilbert and Gary Winnick built a time machine, and it works. Thimbleweed Park is a sharp, well-produced classic point-and-click adventure — provid...Good7.9Through 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...Great8.6Absolute Drift
Action gameAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...Good7.8Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Action gameSnoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is very funny and tightly built, but thin where it counts and over almost as soon as it finds its ...Good7.1Glass
Photo & Video appGlass is a rare social app built on subtraction rather than addiction, offering a calm, craft-first place to look at photographs — but the $39.99-a-ye...Good7.6Teamfight 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...Good7.7Kero Blaster
Action gameSeven years after Cave Story, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya shipped something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog exterminating ...Good7.7
