Some of the best things in life are free, and by applying a little discretion, we can certainly apply this to Android games. There are a whole ton of free games on the Play Store but this selection is for games without in-app purchases and no ads.
Just because a game is free with no IAP doesn't mean it has to be poor quality. Some of the best free games out there can take on the big-budget giants with nothing but passion, great design and goodwill. These top free Android games won't cost a single cent. Enjoy them without any strain on your wallet or annoying ads!
Battle for Wesnoth
Battle for Wesnoth is an unofficial Android port of a turn-based fantasy strategy game that already has a dedicated community on PC. The free game has several story-based campaigns, and a ton of different units from various fantasy races. You can play vs AI or other players.
Battle for Wesnoth has been around for years and doesn't boast lush graphics, but it has plenty of depth and still receives regular updates from the developers and community. A real work of passion, the Android version handles well and isn't too demanding at all on a modern phone, though you'll want a decent sized screen for a good view of the action.
Underhand
In this free deck-building game, you take on the role of the leader of a spooky Lovecraftian cult on a mission to summon your chosen eldritch abomination into the world. As you play your cards, you also draw new ones representing unexpected events that can help or hinder your progress.
The audio provides a suitably creepy atmosphere, with a nice touch being the in-game radio that reports on how the world is being changed by your actions. Underhand is a complete game, if a little short, the random elements afford some replayability.
Underhand
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Freedoom
Gamers of a certain age will remember losing many hours of precious youth to brutal first-person shooter pioneer Doom. This game is effectively a Doom port made with an original set of assets and game levels to avoid falling foul of copyright.
Freedoom basically plays just like the classic, as the assets are different but still recognizable in the style of the original. You're still blasting ugly creatures in a vaguely industrial wasteland, and all the fun action, atmosphere and tension of Doom is right here in a not-so-different skin.
As an added bonus, you can always load your old (legally owned, of course) original Doom WAD files into the app's config folder, if you want to play the real thing on your phone. Fantastically, this also goes for related games on the same engine, such as Heretic, Hexen, and Strife, or the various mods of these games available online.
Freedoom
Wicked Lair
This game puts you in the evil shoes of what is normally the enemy in video games - a dungeon boss. Tasked with building your lair of evil and filling it with monsters and traps to destroy the pesky do-gooders who insisting on invading and disturbing your peace. Make them pay, because you won't have to.
Wicked Lair
Pixel Dungeon
The various Pixel Dungeon titles are roguelike dungeon crawl games with primitive graphics (but great gameplay), that punish failure harshly, but were so easy to pick up and play again after every character death that I stopped worrying and learned to love restarting.
It's a simple tap to control everything, and although the 'basic' Pixel Dungeon game by Watabou has unlockable character classes and tons of items to enjoy the game with, there are plenty of other addictive versions such as Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Pixel Dungeon Unleashed etc., that offer twists and different features based on the original.
Pixel Dungeon
Unciv
Unciv is an open-source reimplementation of the classic Civilization-style game of empire building, expansion, resource management, economic and technological development. It basically plays like Civilization V, but with very simple graphics. Nonetheless, the strategic depth is impressively preserved and Unciv is a small and lightweight app that runs like a dream even on low-end smartphones.
Pew Pew
This sweet little shoot-em-up puts the old-school spaceship 'bullet hell' scenario in a neon-clouded skin with simple but attractive graphics, but the real draw is the fast paced action. It's basically blasting stuff, in different ways, unlocking rewards and basking in the moving colors and sounds: what more do you want for free entertainment?
PewPew
Pathos Nethack Codex
This game is roguelike dungeon crawling game with random area generation and a variety of different classes to choose from, items to collect and monsters to slay. Based on the old school Nethack ruleset, Pathos is still being updated with quality of life fixes, and offers a choice of graphical tiles and hours upon hours of play time.
Warfare Incorporated
Warfare Incorporated is an old school favorite, originally for Windows Phones and PalmOS devices, but its style hearkens back even further to the Command and Conquer real-time strategy games. You must build up base and produce an army to control resources on the newly discovered planet of Icarus. Sure, Warfare Incorporated looks dated by now, but the experience stands the test of time and you won't find a more fully featured mobile RTS for completely free.
Warfare Incorporated
Gloomy Dungeons 2
The Gloomy Dungeons series of indie games are first-person shooters in the classic Doom/Wolfenstein mold with some modern additions like sniper rifles and dual-wielding weapons. Note that while Google Play does say it has ads, it's only a single small banner on the main page for advertising the other games from the studio which are also free, so I'll allow it.
The game is free and even comes with built-in cheats, if you just want to give yourself all the weapons and powerups and let 'er rip. While it's on the Google Play store, fans of alternative open-source repositories can also find it as one of the few games on F-Droid.
Gloomy Dungeons 2: Blood Honor
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- What's the new on the Play Store? These are the best mobile games out this month
- Play freely without Internet with the best offline Android games
- Feast your eyes on the most graphically gorgeous games for your smartphone
Have you discovered any free Android games that we should mention here? Let us know, and it might just make the list one day.
When it comes to gaming, mobile is no longer a dirty word. Sure, there are hundreds of pointless, cash-grabbing clones available for Android, but you can also play games full of imagination, and originality. The best Android games won’t just occupy your commute to work—they’ll take over your life, and you’ll want to play them at home on your sofa, too.
Sorting through the endless lists of games on the Play Store to unearth the gems is arduous, but thankfully, we’ve done all the hard work for you. From 100-hour RPGs to quick puzzlers you can complete in 10-minute chunks, here are the best Android games you can play right now.
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Vip kavithai in friendship. Each month, we review a major new Android release in the hopes of finding new entries to this list. Some will make the cut, others won’t, but all the games we’ll review are at least worth knowing about. For the full list of the best Android games, turn to page 2.
April Android Game of the Month - Cultist Simulator
Short sentences, artistic portraits, mood music. Using just these three tools, Cultist Simulator creates a world in which you’re a famous painter one minute, drawing inspiration for your work from troubling dreams, and the next you’re sending a loyal disciple of your cult to assassinate a pesky police officer who’s learnt too much about your nighttime, spirit-summoning rituals.
In essence, all you’re doing in Cultist Simulator is laying down cards onto Action buttons to produce outcomes, but it feels like each run could go in a hundred different directions. You start with just one possible Action—‘Work’—but you’ll soon have ‘Dream’, ‘Study’, ‘Explore’ and ‘Talk’, which is the one I used to tell my follower to knock off the detective.
Your early moves are straightforward: placing a ‘Health’ card into the Work slot starts a day of manual labour, while putting it in the Study slot will produce another card, Vitality. Later, you can Study two Vitality cards to increase your overall health, and that might come in handy if you’re struck by disease and another Action button, Sickness, appears on the table, sucking in your Health cards.
These interactions quickly become complex. You’ll Explore book shops for old tomes, finding lore to found your cult. You’ll Dream about a strange tree that opens a door to immortality. The joy of Cultist Simulator comes from experimenting with different cards and actions, and as your number of cards expands into the dozens, you'll come up with a stream of ‘what if’ questions. What if you lock one of the followers you’ve recruited in a cupboard? What happens if you summon an undead spirit? What happens if you ignore the occult altogether, and just try to make your way up the ladder in a law firm?
I didn’t enjoy my first few hours with it. It puts you under constant pressure to raise funds, to watch your health, to stave off Dread cards that haunt your dreams and can eventually spell Game Over. It doesn’t explain its systems very well—it has no tutorial—and there’s no easy way to keep track of what cards you’ve come across, so I forgot the outcome of combinations I’d already tried. I felt rudderless for my first five runs, unsure about what to do next, or even what my final goal was.
But when I started analysing every interaction, and accepted that I was going to fail, I was hooked. During one run I hit the pause button and clicked on every card on the table, clueless about how I could avoid catastrophe. And then a particularly poignant piece of writing caught my eye, shoving me down a new rabbit hole of possible interactions. You never get more than a snippet of story at a time, but every sentence hides a deeper meaning, and sends my thoughts down five different trails.
I love piecing together the significance of a rare card, especially when the same character or old book appears in a later run. You can ‘win’ by reaching one of its positive endings—most runs will end in failure—but that’s not the point of Cultist Simulator. The point is gradually unravelling its secrets, it’s experimenting with each of its nine different cults, and revelling in the writing that an unusual card combination produces. Each run feels unique, aided by Legacies that will appear after one run ends. These Legacies determine your starting position next time, turning you into a detective, or young upstart with a vault of family money.
I can’t help feel that its scope makes it less suited to Android than other platforms. On PC, where it first came out last year, players are generally happy to spend a lot time looking at Wikis because chances are they’ll be playing for long stretches. But on Android, where play sessions are generally shorter, it’s easier to feel lost, and minimising the game to read a forum post is harder (I realise if you’re a tablet gamer that plays while lounging on your sofa, rather than on a work commute, this criticism might not apply).
The UI translates well to touchscreen, but playing on a phone can feel awkward at times. If you zoom in close enough to read the text on a card, you can’t get an overview of what else is on the table. If you zoom out to get a look at your options, the cards are too small to read. I was playing on my phone in landscape mode, and sometimes I couldn’t reach far enough with my thumb to drag and drop a card from one side of my screen to the other.
But these annoyances weren’t bad enough to sully my time with it. If you’re willing to move past a few hours of failure, and to learn from mistakes, Cultist Simulator is fascinating. Through its simple card game mechanics it will slowly draw you into a web of dread and dream worlds, of murder and intimidation, of old books and long-forgotten rituals. Once it caught me, I didn’t want to escape.
Verdict
Dark and difficult, Cultist Simulator is a storytelling marvel—just don’t expect to understand it straightaway.
Price: £5.99/$6.99
Turn to page two for our pick of the top 45 best Android games to play right now..
Just because a game is free with no IAP doesn't mean it has to be poor quality. Some of the best free games out there can take on the big-budget giants with nothing but passion, great design and goodwill. These top free Android games won't cost a single cent. Enjoy them without any strain on your wallet or annoying ads!
Battle for Wesnoth
Battle for Wesnoth is an unofficial Android port of a turn-based fantasy strategy game that already has a dedicated community on PC. The free game has several story-based campaigns, and a ton of different units from various fantasy races. You can play vs AI or other players.
Battle for Wesnoth has been around for years and doesn't boast lush graphics, but it has plenty of depth and still receives regular updates from the developers and community. A real work of passion, the Android version handles well and isn't too demanding at all on a modern phone, though you'll want a decent sized screen for a good view of the action.
Underhand
In this free deck-building game, you take on the role of the leader of a spooky Lovecraftian cult on a mission to summon your chosen eldritch abomination into the world. As you play your cards, you also draw new ones representing unexpected events that can help or hinder your progress.
The audio provides a suitably creepy atmosphere, with a nice touch being the in-game radio that reports on how the world is being changed by your actions. Underhand is a complete game, if a little short, the random elements afford some replayability.
Underhand
Freedoom
Gamers of a certain age will remember losing many hours of precious youth to brutal first-person shooter pioneer Doom. This game is effectively a Doom port made with an original set of assets and game levels to avoid falling foul of copyright.
Freedoom basically plays just like the classic, as the assets are different but still recognizable in the style of the original. You're still blasting ugly creatures in a vaguely industrial wasteland, and all the fun action, atmosphere and tension of Doom is right here in a not-so-different skin.
As an added bonus, you can always load your old (legally owned, of course) original Doom WAD files into the app's config folder, if you want to play the real thing on your phone. Fantastically, this also goes for related games on the same engine, such as Heretic, Hexen, and Strife, or the various mods of these games available online.
Freedoom
Wicked Lair
This game puts you in the evil shoes of what is normally the enemy in video games - a dungeon boss. Tasked with building your lair of evil and filling it with monsters and traps to destroy the pesky do-gooders who insisting on invading and disturbing your peace. Make them pay, because you won't have to.
Wicked Lair
Pixel Dungeon
The various Pixel Dungeon titles are roguelike dungeon crawl games with primitive graphics (but great gameplay), that punish failure harshly, but were so easy to pick up and play again after every character death that I stopped worrying and learned to love restarting.
It's a simple tap to control everything, and although the 'basic' Pixel Dungeon game by Watabou has unlockable character classes and tons of items to enjoy the game with, there are plenty of other addictive versions such as Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Pixel Dungeon Unleashed etc., that offer twists and different features based on the original.
Pixel Dungeon
Unciv
Unciv is an open-source reimplementation of the classic Civilization-style game of empire building, expansion, resource management, economic and technological development. It basically plays like Civilization V, but with very simple graphics. Nonetheless, the strategic depth is impressively preserved and Unciv is a small and lightweight app that runs like a dream even on low-end smartphones.
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Pew Pew
This sweet little shoot-em-up puts the old-school spaceship 'bullet hell' scenario in a neon-clouded skin with simple but attractive graphics, but the real draw is the fast paced action. It's basically blasting stuff, in different ways, unlocking rewards and basking in the moving colors and sounds: what more do you want for free entertainment?
PewPew
Pathos Nethack Codex
This game is roguelike dungeon crawling game with random area generation and a variety of different classes to choose from, items to collect and monsters to slay. Based on the old school Nethack ruleset, Pathos is still being updated with quality of life fixes, and offers a choice of graphical tiles and hours upon hours of play time.
Pathos: Nethack Codex
Warfare Incorporated
Warfare Incorporated is an old school favorite, originally for Windows Phones and PalmOS devices, but its style hearkens back even further to the Command and Conquer real-time strategy games. You must build up base and produce an army to control resources on the newly discovered planet of Icarus. Sure, Warfare Incorporated looks dated by now, but the experience stands the test of time and you won't find a more fully featured mobile RTS for completely free.
Warfare Incorporated
Gloomy Dungeons 2
The Gloomy Dungeons series of indie games are first-person shooters in the classic Doom/Wolfenstein mold with some modern additions like sniper rifles and dual-wielding weapons. Note that while Google Play does say it has ads, it's only a single small banner on the main page for advertising the other games from the studio which are also free, so I'll allow it.
The game is free and even comes with built-in cheats, if you just want to give yourself all the weapons and powerups and let 'er rip. While it's on the Google Play store, fans of alternative open-source repositories can also find it as one of the few games on F-Droid.
Gloomy Dungeons 2: Blood Honor
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