Best Android Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
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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...Mixed6.2Pight
Puzzle gameA clean, coherent puzzle game with a fair one-time price, but the no-hint, no-text design will strand many players at its difficulty spikes. At $3.99 ...Mixed6.7Never 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...Mixed5.9and Roger
Adventure gameand Roger is one of the most quietly ambitious small games of the year — a one-hour interactive fiction that weaponizes bad UX on purpose, and in do...Great8.7Underground Blossom
Adventure gameUnderground Blossom is a solid, approachable entry in Rusty Lake's catalog. Seven self-contained puzzle rooms linked by a haunted metro line make for ...Good7.7Cookie Clicker
Simulation gameFew games can claim to have founded a genre and still hold their place in it, but Cookie Clicker comes close. It's a lean, funny, surprisingly deep ec...Great8.3Desert Golfing
Sports gameDesert Golfing strips away nearly everything a modern mobile game piles on and leaves one shot, one hole and one stroke counter that can never be rese...Great8.1Out There: Ω Edition
Adventure gameOut There: Ω Edition is a bleak, well-written survival roguelike whose blunt randomness, opaque endgame and thin onboarding make it hard to recommend ...Mixed6.7
Kids
Adventure gameKids is a 20-minute interactive short about crowds, priced like one at $3.99, and it will disappoint anyone expecting a conventional game. The animati...Mixed6.3Leo'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...Good7.7Wheels of Aurelia
Adventure gameWheels of Aurelia is a stylish, politically ambitious piece of interactive fiction set on a 1978 coastal road, but the car barely matters and the piec...Mixed5.8Oddworld: 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 ...Good7.3The White Door
Adventure gameThe White Door proves Rusty Lake's surrealism can work in a slower, more structured form, but it's short, gentle, and repeats itself more than it shou...Mixed6.6Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
Adventure gameOxenfree II: Lost Signals has sharp writing, a strong adult lead and a soundtrack that gets under your skin, but it sticks too closely to the origin...Good7.1Hexologic
Education gameHexologic takes a familiar number-sum rule and gets real depth out of it by moving it to a hexagonal grid, and it does so with unusual restraint. It's...Good7.6Rusty Lake Paradise
Adventure gameSolid but flawed, Rusty Lake Paradise delivers ten tightly designed chapters, disturbing and beautiful art, and puzzles that reward patience. Its logi...Good7.7Pine Hearts
Adventure gameA short, gentle, carefully judged hike through grief. The puzzles won't challenge anyone and the structure is familiar, but the warmth and restraint i...Good7.4Rusty Lake Hotel
Adventure gameRusty Lake Hotel is a short, macabre point-and-click puzzler whose mood carries it through a few stretches of bad logic. At its price it's a solid way...Good7.5El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Adventure gameEl Hijo – A Wild West Tale is a charming, low-stakes stealth adventure that's more affectionate pastiche than genre breakthrough — and at $19.99, it...Mixed5.9The Wreck
Adventure gameFew narrative games make reinterpreting a memory the central verb, and The Wreck builds its whole design around that idea. It's a solid, affecting t...Good7.0Jenny 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...Good7.8Karateka 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...Good7.7Phantom Rose
Adventure gameBy deleting random card draws entirely, solo developer makaroll's Phantom Rose rebuilds deckbuilding around sequencing, planning, and accountability...Good7.5
