best android games to play right now

Your home is in the middle of a war zone. There are no standing grocery stores to get food from, most of the population has been killed, and there are hostile bandits, soldiers, and other skittish survivors everywhere. This is where you need to survive. As youre out scavenging abandoned buildings to gather food, crafting materials, and weapons, you never know who might be in the next room, waiting to gun you down for your stuff. Back at your shelter its no better. You and your companions can become ill from disease, the house can be raided in the night, or people can simply starve to death without the proper supplies. Playing This War of Mine is an intense and engrossing experience, where every decision can result in dire consequences.

Spelltower is one of the most elegant stress inducing games you ll ever play. Its clean lines and gentle colors are always eye pleasing, but theyre a small comfort when you realize that you ve completely screwed yourself by stranding letters too far across the board. As you make words by dragging your finger from tile to tile, the letters disappear from the grid; if you leave letters too far apart to connect, too bad, so sad. For extra pressure, play one of the modes where you must hastily make words as new tiles continue to fill the grid, pushing ever closer to the top (and, in turn, defeat). Spelltower is for the true word game connoisseur.

If youve ever daydreamed about those simplistic doodles in the margins of your notebook coming to life and inching around, Blek is about to make those idle dreams come true. By simply dragging your finger across a portion of the screen, youll create a living line that mimics whatever motion you just drew out. Once youve gotten the hang of directing this lively little loop, you can move on to the actual challenge guiding the line in such a way where it can pass through colored discs without bumping into any black spots. Like any good puzzle game, Blek coaxes you in with simple, open ended solutions, then vigorously tests your logic with elaborate layouts later on.

It may not be Mass Effect or StarCraft, but Starlink brings some strategic space drama to Android nonetheless. Starlink lets you lay claim to the stars themselves in epic war campaigns conducted by tapping your screen, though its not nearly as simple as it sounds. While youre trying to conquer every star in a given map, so is your opponent, and keeping all your stars safe while taking over new ones means fighting a war with many fronts. Demanding your attention and brainpower, Starlink is nonetheless a fun experience that lets you test your mental reflexes. And if you buy into the full version, you get two different kinds of multiplayer to go with it online, or hot seat with the friend sitting next to you. Just be careful about your virtual space war coming to real blows.

For all the frenzied, arcade style experiences on mobile that ask you to race against the clock or scramble for a high score, it can be nice to just kick back and relax with some simple, worry free brainteasers. Thats Lazors to a tee a simple block rearranging game where you need to bounce a laser around a small grid until it overlaps specific nodes. Despite the straightforward presentation, its full of nice little details, particularly the plink! sound effects when rearranging the tiles. And if you think it starts out too easy, just wait until you reach such mind boggling block types like glass or light redirecting prisms. Do yourself a favor and resist the urge to pay for hints, and youll get hours of enjoyment out of this pristine puzzler.

The mobile gaming library is a gargantuan, untamable beast. Just browsing the numerous game options on the Google Play Store can be daunting, making it tough to sort out the gems from the turds. But if youre looking for a great piece of entertainment software for your Android mobile device, weve done all the work for you, picking out all the ones you absolutely need to get your hands on.

Youll find everything from outstanding match three puzzlers to amazing RPG adventures on the Android you just need to know where to look. Thats why weve pulled together 25 of the best Android games you can download right now, so you dont have to wade through the muck and do a bunch of guesswork.