Best Android Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 25
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
Magic: The Gathering Arena
Card gameMTG Arena's rules engine is a genuine technical achievement, and its Limited scene is the strongest reason to install it. But the economy is built for...Mixed6.1Pirates Outlaws
Card gamePirates Outlaws leans so heavily on Slay the Spire's skeleton that its own identity rests almost entirely on one idea, and harsh difficulty spikes can...Mixed6.8Race for the Galaxy
Board gameTemple Gates Games' adaptation of Tom Lehmann's dense, brilliant card game is a close, rules-exact conversion built around a neural-network AI that gi...Great8.0Phantom Rose
Adventure gameBy deleting random card draws entirely, solo developer makaroll's Phantom Rose rebuilds deckbuilding around sequencing, planning, and accountability...Good7.5Dawncaster
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...Great8.2Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Adventure gameA political RPG built on a card game, with real writing and real consequences — but the battles go easy on Gwent veterans and the mobile release fumbl...Good7.3Pokémon TCG Pocket
Card gameA gorgeous pack-opening ritual and a generous free daily cadence can't carry battles that come down to coin flips and a trading system that barely tra...Mixed6.2Nowhere Prophet
Card gameNowhere Prophet's punishing attrition and thin early-run power curve will strand plenty of players in the first biome, and that undercuts one of the m...Mixed6.4
Arknights
Card gameArknights is a gacha game where the strategy layer isn't set dressing for the pull screen — it's the whole point, and it holds up. The price of admiss...Good7.8The 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...Great8.4CloverPit
Action gameA grimy, debt-driven slot-machine roguelike that borrows Balatro's engine-building and wraps it in real dread. It's a smart $4.99 pick for players who...Good7.6Solitairica
Card gameSolitairica welds the mindless comfort of card-clearing to the white-knuckle tension of a roguelike, and the seam barely shows. It's a small game with...Good7.3Card Crawl
Card gameCard Crawl takes the loneliness of solitaire and weaponizes it into a taut, brutal little dungeon crawler. It's a superb example of mobile game design...Great8.2Vault of the Void
Card gameVault of the Void is a rigorous, deeply rewarding take on the roguelike deckbuilder that systematically dismantles the RNG-heavy frustrations of the g...Great8.8Dungeon Clawler
Action gameDungeon Clawler turns the most dangerous weapon in a dungeon into a poorly calibrated metal claw and a bad case of physics. It's a clever, genuinely f...Great8.5Luck be a Landlord
Card gameA sharp, well-designed take on probability management that strips the predatory skin off slot machines to reveal a clever, satirical roguelike engine-...Great8.5Card Thief
Board gameArnold Rauers' Card Thief distills the tension of stealth gameplay into a remarkably elegant and endlessly replayable solitaire experience that st...Outstanding9.1Meteorfall: Journeys
Card gameMeteorfall: Journeys is a smartly designed, mobile-first deck-builder with real strategic depth and a charming art style, offered as a complete prem...Great8.6Wildfrost
Card gameWildfrost is a deceptively charming roguelike deck-builder that relentlessly tests strategic depth, rewarding perseverance with an addictive combat sy...Great8.1Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Card gameAstrea: Six-Sided Oracles rethinks the roguelike deck-builder by swapping cards for a volatile, deeply strategic dice-based combat system. It's a ge...Great8.5MARVEL SNAP
Card gameMARVEL SNAP packs real strategic depth into three-minute matches, and its core design still holds up. But its collection economy turns that design int...Good7.4Cultist Simulator
Books gameCultist Simulator is a brilliantly infuriating puzzle box that stands apart from most narrative games. It rewards intellect and patience with rich sto...Great8.4Hearthstone
Card gameHearthstone remains a remarkably accessible strategy game, blending polished presentation with deep mechanics. A decade in, though, its free-to-play e...Good7.3Reigns
Adventure gameReigns distills the complex, often absurd, art of governance into a single swipe. It's a clever, highly replayable loop of power, peril, and political...Great8.6
