In this article we have collected a list with all the best free Android games available, can be downloaded directly from the Google Play Store.
This list, which contains over 200 games with the highest ratings ever, is updated every month and is divided into categories, to facilitate the type of game you prefer: Arcade, Strategy, Racing, Action, Puzzle, Simulation, Music, Cards, Role, RPG, Sport, Educational Shooter, Culture, Table.
A few years ago the only way to play something graphically beautiful and compelling, was to buy a console, now there is a very valid alternative, thanks to smartphones and tablets, which from year to year become more and more powerful, with the advantage of not having to stay at home, but allowing us to play wherever we are.
Given a large number of games available, we will give you a hand to choose among the best Android games, some of which have abundantly exceeded the figure of 500 million downloads.
The Best Android Games by gender:
To make a little ‘order we have divided the best games into different categories, click on your choice will immediately bring to the category of your interest:
- Arcade games
- Strategy Games
- Racing Games
- Action and Adventure Games
- Puzzle Games
- Simulation Games
- Table games
- Music Games
- Card games
- Role Games and RPGs
- Sports Games
- Shooting Games
- Education, Culture and Games based on words
THE BEST ANDROID GAMES
Best Arcade Games for Android
Arcade games are the category of games that have characteristics like Speed, Simplicity, Stimulus / Response. The first real examples of Arcade games were those from the games room like: Tetris, Pac Man, Space Invaders, Defender, Asteroids, Ridge racer. That said, here is the list of the best Arcade games for Android.
- Tigerball
- Subway Surfers
- PAC-MAN
- Zombie Tsunami
- Piano Tiles 2 ™
- Geometry Dash World
- Fruit Ninja Free
- Hungry Shark Evolution
- Geometry Dash Lite
- Jetpack Joyride
- Lep’s World 2
- Paper.io
- Temple Run
- Dancing Line
- Glow Hockey
- Cooking Fever
- Sboy World Adventure
- Sonic Dash
- Potion Punch
- Tap Tap Dash
- Angry Birds Friends
Best Strategy Games for Android
Category of games in which the ability to make the right decisions has a great impact in determining the result. In these games, strategy and tactics are generally countered by luck.
- Clash Royale
- Clash of Clans
- Lords Mobile
- Castle Clash: the Era of the Beasts
- Clash of Kings
- Mobile Strike
- Top developer Forge of Empires
- AA
- Plants vs. Plants Zombies FREE
- Game of War – Fire Age
- Megapolis
- King of Avalon: Dragon Warfare
- Last Empire-War Z
- Empire: Four Kingdoms
Best Racing Games for Android
Do you love racing? Unleash with this category of games, which are nothing more than driving simulators or driving video game (in English racing game), or video games in which the player must pilot a vehicle, car, motorcycle or other, in a virtual setting. Each game tries to represent the races more or less faithfully simulating what the real engine of a vehicle can do in every situation.
- Hill Climb Racing 2
- Asphalt Airbone 8
- Traffic Rider
- Real Racing 3
- Extreme Car Driving Simulator
- Hill Climb Racing
- CSR Racing 2
- Hot Wheels: Race Off
- Uphill Rush
- Bumper Cars fun
- Traffic Racer
- Bike Race Free Motorcycle Game
- Dr. Driving 2
- Need for Speed ™ No Limits
- Moto Rider GO: Highway Traffic
- Bike park as a boss
- Driving School 2016
- Carry Over The Hill
- Dr. Parking 4
- CSR Racing
Best Action and Adventure Games for Android
One of the most challenging category of games, characterized by exploration, solving riddles, interaction with game characters, focused on the performance of the game rather than on the challenges based on the readiness of reflexes.
- PUBG Mobile
- CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars
- Nonstop Chuck Norris
- Super Mario Run
- Pokemon GO
- Distraint: Pocket Pixel Horror
- Ninja Arashi
- Arrow.io
- Sky Dancer
- Legendary Stuntman Run
- Cube Escape: The Cave
- BADLAND 2
- Criminal Case
- Criminal Case: Pacific Bay
- Legendary Stuntman Run
- Guide for Exploration Lite
- Minecraft: Story Mode
- Draw Your Game
- Tinker Island
- Hidden City: Mystery of Shadows
- The End of the World
Best Puzzle Games for Android
This category is recommended especially for those who are very patient and want to develop their cognitive skills, very suitable for children. These games are the digital variant of the table puzzles in which you have to fit small pieces of cardboard together until you get back to the original image.
- Toy Blast
- Bubble Witch 3 Saga
- Brain games
- RollTheBall: sliding puzzle
- Physics Drop
- Cookie Cats Pop
- Block! Hexa Puzzle
- Skillz
- Block Puzzle Jewel
- Escape from the prison
- Tic Tac Toe Glow
- 3D Magic Cube
- Candy Crush Jelly Saga
- Cut the Rope
- Cell Connect
Best Simulation Games for Android
In this category of games tries to simulate an aspect of reality and generally requires a mixture of skill, luck and strategy. One tries as much as possible to reproduce the actual experience as if the player were really in the situation represented. The game can also be set in an imaginative world, but in any case the theme of the game is dealt with in detail as if it were real.
- The Sims ™ FreePlay
- SimCity BuildIt
- Plague Inc.
- Flight Pilot Simulator 3D
- Fallout Shelter
- Design Home
- Farming Simulator 14
- Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium
- MultiCraft – Free Miner!
- My Singing Monsters
- Flight simulator
- Block Craft 3D: Simulator
- MTB Descent: Multiplayer
- Idle Miner Tycoon
- Dragon Mania Legends
- Euro Train Simulator
- Episode – Choose Your Story
- Epic Battle Simulator 2
Best Board Games for Android
Category of games that shows on your smartphone or tablet the most famous table games like checkers, chess, monopolies, risiko, dice, etc etc .. In short all the best games before the digital age, right on our devices.
- Pinball pinball machine
- Rento – Online (Monopoli)
- Fleet Battle naval battle
- Rolling the sky
- Chess
- Lady
- Block Puzzle
- Guess who it is!
- Mahjong Titan
- YAHTZEE® With Buddies
- Names Things City
- Hangman: word game
Best Music Games for Android
Main features of these games are rhythm, harmony and melody, which combines the pleasure of playing with the pleasure of music, drums, guitar, piano and your own voice.
- Piano Tiles 2
- Do not Tap The White Tile
- Just Dance Now
- Virtual Piano Free
- YASUHATI / With your voice!
- SongPop 2 – Musical Quiz
- SUPER PADS – Hits
- Realistic Guitar to play
- Simple Drums – Rock
- Free Musical Battery
Best Card Games for Android
The card games, represented that series of simple games but on which we are able to spend hours and hours, games that stimulate reasoning, intelligence and memory, as well as the pleasure of challenging friends, relatives or people all over the world and see who is smarter or lucky.
- One
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
- Solitary
- Hearthstone
- Broom
- Trump
- Burraco
- WSOP Poker – Texas Hold’em
- Players Panini Figurine AdrenalynXL 2016-2017
- Card Wars Kingdom
- Pyramid Solitaire Saga
- Scale 40
- Tressette
Best Role Playing Games and GDR for Android
A role-playing game, also called with the abbreviated RPG, RPG or RPG (from the English role-playing game), is a type of game in which players play the role of one or more characters and through conversation and exchange dialectic create an imaginary space, where fictitious, adventurous events take place, in a narrative setting that can be inspired by a novel, a film, any creative, historical or pure invention source.
- Hustle Castle: Magic Castle
- Empires & Puzzles: RPG Quest
- Gymnast – Get a perfect 10!
- Goddess: Primal Chaos
- Plants vs. Plants Zombies 2
- FINAL FANTASY V
- Masha: cooking games for free
- WWE Champions
- Star Wars ™: Galaxy of Heroes
- Avakin Life
- Hyper Heroes
- Ninja turtles: Legends
- The teacher – play in the classroom
- Oceanhorn ™
- Avengers
Best Sports Games for Android
A wide range of games in which there is definitely a sport you like or practice.
- 8 Ball Pool
- Dream League Soccer 2017
- FIFA Mobile Soccer
- NBA LIVE Mobile Basketball
- EA SPORTS ™ UFC®
- Top Eleven Soccer Manager
- Archery King
- 3D bowls
- Flip Diving
- Score! Hero
- Rocketball: Championship Cup
- Golf Clash
- Basketball Stars
- 3D Bowling
- Range Master: Sniper Academy
- Virtual Table Tennis
- Bowling King
- Table football
- Head Soccer
- Online Soccer Manager
- Volleyball at the beach 3D
- 3D City Stars Arcade Minigolf
- 3D Billiards
- Darts king
Best Shooting Games for Android
Shooter games are those games in which the predominant action is to shoot with different types of ranged weapons but not necessarily firearms, mainly with first-person graphics, to the enemies present in the game levels.
- DEAD TRIGGER 2
- Modern Combat 5: Blackout
- Six-Guns: Gang Showdown
- Into the Dead
- FRONTLINE COMMANDO
- Brothers in Arms® 3
- Major Mayhem
- Zombie Frontier
- Call of Duty®: Strike Team
- Hero Hunters
Best Educational, Culture and Word-Based Games for Android
Educational games are defined as the whole category of games that exploit an interactive structure, graphics, animations and audio to stimulate useful skills in teaching general knowledge or related to one or more monographic topics. They promote intellectual and cultural development of users in particular in children and young people.
- Ruzzle
- Braided words
- Crossword puzzle
- Trivia Crack Kingdoms
- Mathematics for children
- Connect the dots
- Next one more
- 8 words disassembled
- Italian Football Logo Quiz
- LEGO® Juniors Create & Cruise
- Peppa Pig: Paintbox
- Heart ER Surgery emergency
- Trivia Crack
- Fight List
- COOKING MAMA Let’s Cook!
How to try Android games without installing them
Google has introduced a new feature, which gives us the opportunity to try games immediately without installing them, or Google Play Instant. For the moment this possibility is given for a few games, but quickly many more will be added.
Thanks to this new feature we will not waste data traffic in downloading a game that maybe you may not like it, deciding only after trying it if it is worth downloading and installing it.
To experience a game instantly, open Play Games by searching for it in your apps.
Click on “Arcade” and scroll down the page to find the item ” Instant Gameplay – try now and install later”.
All the games that will appear in this section can be tested in an immediate way, without installing them, deciding at a later time what to do.
If you know other games not on this list, or you want to write to tell us what is your favorite game, leave us a comment, so you can add it to this list!
For those wishing to try these Android games on their computer, you can install Bluestacks, find the link to download it and the explanation here: Use Android applications on Windows and Mac. I highly recommend it because some Android games on the computer are even more exciting, for the simple reason that using the mouse and a larger display control becomes greater and even fun, see as an example the game Defender II!
Most games run smoothly on all smartphones, so you just have to try and if you want to leave us your comment
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