Best Android Apps & Games

Snoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is one of the funniest, tightest small games of its generation — and it ends roughly forty minutes...

Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya spent seven years after *Cave Story* building something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog extermin...

A Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...

Silver Lining Studio's painted vignette is one of the most emotionally efficient games of its generation — it earns its ending honestly, and the endin...

Twenty-seven years on, King of Dragon Pass remains the high-water mark for narrative strategy — a clan-management sim where myth is a game mechanic an...

Wizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is one of the genre's most satisfying a...

A gorgeous, genuinely affecting point-and-click adventure that proves premium mobile design still has a pulse. Short, occasionally obtuse, but the kin...

A wrenching, formally brilliant text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that weaponizes your phone's most familiar interface against your c...

Amanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a two-hour nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it will ...

Lara Croft GO strips a bombastic action franchise down to a chessboard and somehow loses none of its soul. It's short and rarely brutal, but it remain...

Battle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that has no business working this well. A short campa...

Pilgrims compresses Amanita Design's twenty years of hand-drawn whimsy into a two-hour, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over corre...

CloverPit takes Balatro's number-go-up alchemy, locks it in a rusting prison cell, and wires it to a horror story about debt and addiction. It's grimy...

CHUCHEL is barely a game and entirely a delight — a two-hour Czech slapstick cartoon you poke with your finger. If you demand challenge, walk away. If...

Storyteller is one of the most genuinely original puzzle games of the decade — a drag-and-drop narrative machine that makes you feel like a mischievou...

A quietly radical little RPG that reads your character by watching what you *do*, not what you *say*—and the results land closer to home than any Buzz...

Grimvalor is a razor-sharp action platformer that treats your phone like a real gaming console—demanding precision, rewarding mastery, and refusing to...

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

Highwater is a gorgeous, sharp-witted narrative adventure that wears its low-poly heart on its sleeve—but its turn-based combat is a rowboat with one ...

A wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

Fortnite stopped being a game years ago and became a platform—a chaotic, generous, occasionally exhausting entertainment machine that gives away the w...

A genuinely clever mash-up of *Stardew Valley* comfort and *Slay the Spire* tactics that pulls off the fusion better than it has any right to—so long ...