Best Android Apps & Games

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...

I Love Hue turns colour sorting into something close to meditation, and it does so with more craft than its simple premise suggests. The free version'...

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

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...

inbento is a near-perfect bite of a puzzle game — gorgeous, gentle, and quietly clever — that ends too soon and now hides its mobile version behind a ...

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

Twelve years after its seven-day birth, Hoplite remains the gold standard for turn-based tactics on a phone. Four dollars buys you a lifetime of two-m...

Zach Gage takes a sledgehammer to chess's most sacred convention — balanced armies — and somehow produces the most accessible, replayable version of t...

Railbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of the past few years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietl...

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 featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never once raises its vo...

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...

A gorgeous, big-hearted throwback that coasts on charm and comedy more than mechanics — short, funny, and genuinely touching, so long as you don't com...

Two Dots is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games ever made for a touchscreen — and one of the most quietly persistent about separating you ...

*Prune* is a rare thing — a mobile game with the soul of an art installation and the discipline to never overstay its welcome. Ten years on, it remain...

A wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that hits like a short story you'll remember longer than most 40-hour epics — just do...

A gleefully deranged marriage of physics toy and roguelike math-engine, *Nubby's Number Factory* turns bouncing a ball off pegs into one of the most c...

A ruthlessly elegant geometry puzzler that trades flashy production for genuine intellectual reward. If you've ever wanted to *feel* the logic behind ...

Draknek has smuggled a genuinely fiendish Sokoban into a game that looks like a greeting card, and the disguise is the point. If you finish the main r...

Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...

A surreal survival-horror gem that weaponizes corporate dread into genuine terror, hobbled only by a save system that punishes curiosity. Weird, funny...

A rare puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — brilliant, brief, and occasionally its own worst enemy. If the Android ...

Train Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...

A ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is one of the most satisfying premium puzz...