Best Android Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 107
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
Featured on Best Android Apps & Games
Tearscape
Action gameTearscape has a coherent Souls-like skeleton and strong boss design, but a weak map, thin enemy variety, uneven difficulty and a combat model that lea...Mixed6.2Never Grave: The Witch and the Curse
Action gameNever Grave's cursed-hat possession system is a genuinely clever hook, but the game built around it is too thin to recommend to most people. The villa...Mixed5.9Friday Night Funkin'
Action gameFriday Night Funkin' is a four-arrow rhythm game with a genuinely strong soundtrack and animation full of personality. The official mobile port is the...Good7.4Leo's Fortune
Action gameLeo's Fortune is a beautifully made physics platformer that holds up better than most of its 2014 mobile peers: tightly tuned, complete, and free of m...Good7.7Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty!
Action gameJust Add Water's remake of Abe's Oddysee keeps the satire of industrial greed landing as hard as it did in 1997, and quicksave finally makes the game ...Good7.3Hoa
Action gameHoa is gorgeous and nearly frictionless, but its puzzles never develop past their first idea and its floaty movement keeps the core verb from ever fee...Mixed6.3Jenny LeClue – Detectivú
Action gameMografi's meta-fictional detective adventure is a charming and structurally ambitious story game with real writing chops — even if its audio engineeri...Good7.1Sky Force Reloaded
Action gameSky Force Reloaded is a gorgeous, content-dense vertical shooter with a well-built upgrade loop, held back by a star grind that gates progression in w...Good7.8
Karateka Classic
Action gameKarateka Classic is a piece of playable history — a restored 1984 artifact whose brutal, single-blow combat is exactly as clunky and exactly as influe...Good7.7Brok 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...Good7.8Dicefolk
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...Good7.1Mo:Astray
Action gameArchpray's blob-slinging puzzle-platformer has one of the freshest traversal ideas the genre has seen in years, wrapped in striking pixel art. It is a...Good7.2Vectronom
Action gameVectronom is a rhythm game that doesn't ask you to press buttons in time with music — it rebuilds the entire world around the metronome and dares you ...Good7.4Sonic Mania
Action gameFew revivals land this cleanly: Sonic Mania hands classic Sonic back to the people who spent two decades reverse-engineering why those games worked, a...Great8.0Wolfstride
Action gameA striking monochrome mecha RPG whose art, score and writing outclass its thin exploration and grindy mid-game, and whose mobile versions are compromi...Mixed6.6Descenders
Action gameRageSquid built a physics model strong enough to carry an entire genre experiment, and the result is a genuinely demanding skill curve in action sport...Good7.5Huntdown
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 ...Outstanding9.4Blue 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...Mixed6.4Where 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...Good7.5Rift 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...Good7.8Wonder 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...Good7.6Castlevania: 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 ...Good7.5ScourgeBringer
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...Good7.5
