Best Android Games to Play Right Now

1. Youre in a room, alone, with a box. Theres something in that box, but you dont know what it is just that its locked behind dozens of puzzles that keep the box sealed, and you have to work them all out if you ever want to leave. Thats the story behind The Room, and while its demanding riddles make it well worth playing, its that extra hint of uncertainty and dread that elevates this game to the top of our list. The sound of calm yet eerie music .....

Monument Valley

2. Monument Valley is all about perspective. Each level looks like an M.C. Escher painting doused in watercolor, with paths that invert on themselves to defy the laws of gravity and Euclidian geometry. And its up to you to navigate your little cone headed figure through each of its trials, fiddling with levers, pushing buttons, and spinning knobs to bend and transform each environment to your liking. The puzzles themselves are breezy and inventive, .....

Plants vs Zombies

3. Plants vs Zombies is a classic tower defense title you cant stop playing. The zombie apocalypse is upon us, and theres nothing to defend us from the gnashing teeth of undead jaws except... garden vegetation? Thats right the only thing protecting your from getting your brains munched on are flowers and foods rich in vitamin C. What begins with a front yard barricade of Peashooters and Sunflowers becomes an impenetrable force one thats guarded by .....

Alphabear

4. Simple at its core, Alphabear packs a lot of pleasing attributes into a very tidy, adorable package. Letters are gradually revealed on the playfield, but each tile has a lifespan if you don t use it before its turn based timer runs out, it morphs to stone and blocks your path to the really big bonuses. Play in timed mode to give your brain a quick workout, or do a big board to challenge yourself and achieve the sky high score that will net you .....

Jetpack Joyride

5. Researchers in a top secret lab should know better than to put a Do Not Steal sign next to a kickin jetpack prototype, because inevitably, someone named Barry Steakfries is going to bust through the wall and take that baby for a chaotic, property destroying joyride. This is a simple endless runner that gives you ample freedom of vertical movement and youre going to need it, because there are plenty of floating coins to collect, electrified ga .....

Machinarium

6. Weve given Machinariumhigh praisein the past, even calling it one of thebest steampunk games ever, and we stand by those commendations. In addition to a responsive and smooth touch interface that makes its point and click setup work flawlessly, Machinariums grungy and unforgiving world gives you an immediate sense of place. Just by looking at the world, you feel for its little robot protagonist, lost in this wasteland and searching for his lady r .....

You Must Build A Boat

7. If youre going to build a boat, you may as well go all out. YMBAB starts you out in a dinky dinghy with only a skeleton and a zombie as your crewmates but eventually, youll be the captain of your own magnificent cruiser. Like 10000000 before it, this is a fast paced match three puzzler that has you shifting entire rows and columns instead of individual tiles. But you dont have all day, because your explorer is plowing through a simplistic 2D du .....

Flow Free

8. Flow Free is the gaming equivalent of putting your hand in a bag of rice or peeling the plastic off a new electronic device it just feels so calming andright, which is perfect for anyone dealing with anxiety. The game is simple there are several pairs of colored dots on the screen, arranged along a grid, and you have to draw lines between each pair that fill up all the squares on the board. It can start to get challenging as you reach the highe .....

Puzzle & Dragons

9. Given that mobile phones are more ubiquitous than Game Boys ever were, Puzzle & Dragons could very well be the Pokemon of this generation (at least until the Western release ofYo Kai Watch). P&D uses a similar premise that has you capturing, leveling, and eventually evolving any of the wildly diverse creatures you encounter, hopeful to attain one of the ridiculously rare monsters froma pool of thousands. But its the addictive match three gameplay .....

Angry Birds

10. Maybe its the squeals of the evil pigs as theyre crushed by their collapsing, makeshift fortresses, or the feeling you get from nailing that perfect shot that causes a massive chain reaction. Whatever the allure of Angry Birds, itll dig its talons in deep, and youll find yourself wondering where the time went as you launch yet another feathered projectile from your slingshot. But theres a reason why Angry Birds is one of the most popular mobile g .....

World of Goo

11. With a name like World of Goo, you wouldnt think the game would be all about building things and managing physics. All you have to do is get your goo balls into a pipe at the other side of the screen, but in order to do that, youll need to overcome each levels difficult terrain by building structureswiththose goo balls. Its like that time you had to build a bridge with popsicle sticks in science class, except gelatinous goo is much less stable. H .....

Hitman GO

12. Forget the disguises, stealth kills, and handy gadgets Hitman GO trades all that in for simplistic visuals and turn based, slide puzzle like gameplay thatll definitely have you scratching your head. As Agent 47, you need to make your way to various objectives spread across each level while avoiding and eliminating guard patrols. Its all about studying your enemies movements and positioning yourself in the right place at the right time much li .....

Fallout Shelter

13. Fallout 4isnt in our hands yet, but Bethesda gave us Fallout Shelter to tide us over. Instead of wandering the wasteland killing monsters and bandits, Fallout Shelter puts you in charge of your own vault (with its own number and everything). You decide what goes, and how your residents live their post apocalyptic lives. Everything from the vaults layout and supply production to your populations happiness and reproduction is under your control. Th .....

Haunt the House Terrortown

14. Heres a twist on your standard ghost story instead of being chased by a ghost and trying desperately to escape, youplay asa ghost whos trying to scare people out of the neighborhood so you can rest in peace. Thats the idea behind Haunt the House Terrortown, the mobile sequel to the original flash gameHaunt the House. As you might expect from the title, your job is to haunt various buildings around town to scare away all the people inside, which i .....

80 Days

15. It sure does sound romantic to take a whirlwind adventure around the globe, but somebody has to actuallyplanall that travel, y know. In the case of 80 Days, it s you as Passepartout, valet to the massively unappreciative Phileas Fogg. Gorgeous visuals and crisp writing accompany you as you try to find the best route around the world, while keeping an eye on your finances and trying not to lose any luggage. The path you take is yours to choose, as .....

Osmos

16. If youre looking for a game thatll let you chill on your couch and get lost in some relaxing meditative music, Osmos is perfect for you. In it, you control a mote that gets larger as you absorb other, smaller motes while avoiding the big ones that will suck you up. Its all about using your propulsion sparingly to retain your size, because the more you guide your mote, the smaller it gets. The game modes and goals are simple, but thats the way its .....

Frozen Synapse

17. Frozen Synapse is one of the simplest turn based, tactical strategy games you can find. Your team of armed, neon green soldiers are dropped into an arena with an enemy team and sent to capture objectives or eliminate your opponents. What makes Frozen Synapse interesting is that both teams play their turns out simultaneously, so youll only succeed based on your ability to anticipate enemy movements, set up ambushes, and use reactionary tactics bas .....

Lifeline

18. A science student by the name of Taylor has crash landed on an alien world, and you re his sole point of contact. Alone and afraid, he reaches out to you for advice should he try to make camp, or head for that structure he sees in the distance? Lifeline is a text adventure that plays out in real time as Taylor tries to survive freezing cold, hunger, and hostile aliens. Your advice could save his life, or doom him to a grim fate... and will prob .....

Super Hexagon

19. On paper, Super Hexagon sounds simple enough your goal is to safely navigate your cursor through a tunnel of shapes (such as, oh I dunno,hexagons). Each shape has a gap in it somewhere, and by moving your cursor into that gap, youll successfully avoid being instantly annihilated, free to continue enjoying the rockin techno soundtrack. But things start flying off the rails almost instantly. The screen shifts and tilts all over the place, colors ch .....

Monster Strike

20. The Gotta catch em all! structure is everywhere in mobile games, but its not often that theres truly addictive gameplay to match your fiendish monster collecting. Monster Strike is an exception, with a unique and clever battle system that plays a bit like a turn based version of Tin Pin Slammer. Each monster, faery, or Three Kingdoms warrior in your squad acts like a ball on a billiards table; during your turn, you have to angle a forceful shot t .....

This War of Mine

21. 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 shel .....

Spelltower

22. 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, .....

Blek

23. 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 whe .....

Starlink

24. 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 .....

Lazors

25. 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 .....

Start downloading

26. 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 puzzl .....