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
Wanderful: Orbital construction pick — Juno: New Origins
Education gameJuno: New Origins gives phone players a real aerospace sandbox — engine tuning, visual scripting and orbital planning in one package — but a cramped t...Good7.2and 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...Great8.7Cookie 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...Great8.3Cell to Singularity
Education gameA free idle game that turns the history of life and technology into a progression worth following, though the late game settles into the same reset gr...Good7.3Fallout Shelter
RPG gameFallout Shelter's early hours are a sharp, funny management sim, but the vault eventually runs itself and the game turns into timer-watching and chore...Mixed6.8Retro Bowl
Simulation gameRetro Bowl pairs a one-gesture passing game with a front-office sim that actually bites, and hands over both for free. Its refusal to let you play def...Good7.7SIMULACRA
Adventure gameSIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...Good7.4Grand Mountain Adventure
Adventure gameThree snowboarding brothers built a skiing game with an honest physics model and a top-down camera nobody else uses. That camera can hide the terrain ...Good7.7
Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector
Board gameA free-to-play game that declines to exploit you — no energy meters, no ad walls, no manufactured urgency — and that restraint is the most interesting...Good7.6Usagi Shima
Simulation gameA hand-drawn bunny sanctuary that treats your absence as a feature instead of a debt to be collected — a quietly ethical take on free-to-play design, ...Good7.5LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4Sultan's Game
Adventure gameA ruthless card-draw RPG that turns moral compromise into a resource you spend weekly, Sultan's Game is an audacious narrative design held back by a...Good7.8Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3Bad End Theater
Adventure gameNomnomNami turned the visual novel inside out and found a puzzle box underneath. Bad End Theater is a couple of hours of compressed, cruel, funny ...Great8.6Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8The Powder Toy
Simulation gameA free, open-source particle physics engine masquerading as a toy — quietly ambitious in a way few pieces of software manage. The interface is a relic...Great8.5WorldBox - God Simulator
RPG gameWorldBox is a rare, uncompromising sandbox — a toy box of civilizations you can nurture for hours or vaporize in four seconds — held back by a late ga...Good7.5Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Board gameOzymandias strips the 4X genre down to its load-bearing walls and delivers a complete rise-and-fall arc in under an hour — a smart piece of design tha...Good7.4Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Adventure gameCygames built a genuinely deep management sim, wrapped it in a polished presentation layer, and then chained the whole thing to a gacha economy and a ...Good7.4Yes, Your Grace
Adventure gameA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...Good7.8Absolute Drift
Action gameAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...Good7.8Bury Me, My Love
Adventure gameA wrenching, formally ambitious text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that turns the phone's most familiar interface against complacency....Good7.4CloverPit
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...Good7.6
