Download Best Free Android Games of All Time
Skiing Yeti Mountain
Skiing Yeti Mountain has all the hallmarks of free Android classics such as Flappy Bird and Timberman. Lo-fi graphics, excellent controls and addictive gameplay. In Skiing Yeti Mountain, you control a skiier as he or she navigates a mountainside course, by tilting your finger at the bottom of the screen.
Skiing Yeti Mountain
Brickies
Noodlecake Studios is known for Android hits Devious Dungeon and Zombie Road Trip Trials, and Brickies is another great game in its roster. As the name suggests, brickies is a 'brick-breaker' title where you control paddles on the top and bottom of the screen and are tasked with bouncing a ball against objects in the center to destroy them.
Vainglory
This multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) is as good to play as it is to look at, and while there are the inevitable in-app purchases, the core game is free to play. The game makes it across to Android after a successful run on iOS, and if there's a better developer name than Super Evil Megacorp, we'd love to know what it is.
Hardest Game Ever 2
Hardest Game Ever 2 is not the hardest game ever, but it is one of the most fun. It’s based around a series of frantic minigames such as Mario Party or the WarioWare titles. It’s great in short bursts, but it’s not ideal for tablets because the resolution is quite low. Also, it’s kind of crass, and might be a bit unsavory for some people. If you can stomach it, give it a try.
Wire Defuser
Wire Defuser, a tense, time-limited puzzle game in which you have to dispose of bombs before they blow. There are more than 80 levels in the game, and once you've conquered it you can unlock a Hardcore mode. It's well presented too, with the bomb dials and knobs looking like something straight out of 80s action movies.
Forsaken World Mobile
Forsaken World is an Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) that's been a huge hit on PC, and it's a sign of just how far Android has come that it's just as exciting on mobile devices. It delivers everything you'd expect from the genre – loot, dungeons, classes, loot, fighting, loot, boss battles and loot – but you'll need to allow plenty of time to download it: the file's massive and the developers recommend that your device has 2 GB of RAM for best results.
Luna League Soccer
Big football game franchises like FIFA and Pro Evo have failed to convert their brilliant big-screen games to mobile. So rather than trying to replicate the beautiful game on the small screen, why not just go all out in the opposite direction and create a crazy arcade game filled with power-ups and magic kicks? That's the philosophy at play in Luna League Soccer.
Wrassling
This hilarious and beautifully minimal game sees you control a flailing 'Wrassler' made up of about 20 pixels, competing in an endless royal rumble match. It's all against all in the ring, as opponents keep jumping in, and attempting to throw their rivals out by windmilling their arms around. The Commodore 64-style graphics and haphazard-looking gameplay make this game both charming and hilarious. As you reach certain scores, you can unlock hats for your wrassler and fight bosses, on your path to become the wrassling champion of Slamdovia (the home of Wrassling, apparently).
Driver Speedboat Paradise
Driver Speedboat Paradise is a fun little thrill ride which can be enjoyed for free. As you win races, you get the chance to customize your boat to make it ride faster and look better, and you can even unlock new clothes and houses for your rider (though we should warn you that some of these things come as in-app purchases).
Silly Sausage in Meat Land
Silly Sausage is actually a varied and challenging platformer with much more in common with indie classic Super Meat Boy. You control a very stretchy sausage dog, winding its elongated body through levels filled with spikes, pipes, keys and treasures. This game may not be easy, but it's unique and very rewarding.
Silly Sausage in Meat Land
ZigZag
Puzzle games that look like they belong on trendy design websites have been pretty commonplace since the fantastic Monument Valley, and ZigZag is the latest to jump on the bandwagon. Despite its looks, ZigZag is more of a reflex-based game than a puzzler; you guide a ball along thin zig-zagging paths, and have to time your taps right to stop it falling off the edge. A simple, great-looking game for those quick-fix sessions.
RPG Clicker
RPG Clicker is the latest in a long line, but its charming pixellated visual style and fantasy-RPG elements make it stand out. Take your hero out on quests, hunt for treasure, and take on bosses when you're ready. As you'd expect, the gameplay is all about the tapping – tap to move, tap to fight, tap to level up. A compulsive combo of classic RPG and relentless touchscreen-tapping.
Super Monsters Ate My Condo!
In Super Monsters Ate My Condo! apartments floors of various colors drop down from the top of the screen, and it's your job to swipe them away into the mouths of the correspondingly-colored monsters sitting in wait. If you leave the monsters unfed for too long, they get angry, and you don't want to see them angry (well, you probably do, but it'll lead to you losing the game).
Winter Walk / Autumn Walk
As the weather conditions worsen, you'll find it more and more difficult to keep his hat on, even though mechanically all you need to do is hold your finger on it. Both games are similar, although in Autumn Walk you have to hold onto an unruly dog on a leash too, and you can buy new outfits to make your gentleman look quite the dandy!
Autumn WalkDungeon Hunter 5
The latest installment in the demonically popular Dungeon Hunter series is here, and it offers an interesting new twist on the dungeon-crawling hack-and-slash formula. It has a similar main quest to previous games, as you and up to three of your friends slash and spell-blast your way through piles of monsters to save the Kingdom of Valenthia.
There is spellcrafting, leveling-up and boss-fighting in abundance. However, the most interesting new feature is the new 'Strongholds' multiplayer mode, in which you build a base, train a monster army, and then take on other players and their strongholds. Clash of Clans had better look out!
Crossy Road
Falling somewhere between Frogger and infinity runners Temple Run and Subway Surfers, Crossy Road is a cute game that's great for quick-fix sessions. So great, in fact, that it won 'Best quickplay game' at the International Mobile Gaming Awards. The longer you survive, the more gold you earn, which allows you to unlock new characters to traverse the endless 3D pixel-blocky world. It's old-school and new-school, charming and challenging, and we love it.
Skyward
It may look suspiciously similar to the wonderful Monument Valley, but give Skyward a chance (it's free, after all) and you'll see that it offers something quite different. You control a red and a blue circle, which you must rhythmically guide through Escher-like levels that are falling away behind you. If you take too long, the circles shrink to nothing. It looks fantastic, and there are no in-app purchases, so you get the full experience for free.
Subway Surfers
Subway Surfers takes over from the venerable Temple Run as the top infinity runner on Android, and rightfully so. Subway Surfers takes you to the subway and railway tracks of colorful, cartoony versions of famous places like Miami, Las Vegas, London and Bangkok. The idea is simply to run (very fast) along the railway tracks, avoiding trains and other obstacles, and picking up coins. Earning enough coins lets you unlock new characters and powerups. It's great fast-paced fun!
Subway Surfers
New Words With Friends
This Scrabble clone changes the classic board game from something you sit down and play with your grandparents, to an online experience where you can play several people simultaneously, and take your turn whenever you like. The new version tracks your performance, showing you your scores relative to other people, the longest words you've played, and your overall win-lose record. There is now also an in-built dictionary feature, so next time you gain points with a two-letter word you don't understand, you can find out what it actually means.
Hopeless: The Dark Cave
Horror, comedy and cuteness combine to great effect in this shooter about a small group of incandescent blobs in the middle of a dark cave, trying to fight off an endless horde of dark-dwelling monstrosities. There is no end to the game as such, you just collect coins to upgrade your weapons arsenal for the next go, and do your best to keep the cute little fellas alive. The game is not for the faint-hearted, because watching the brave blobs get swallowed up one-by-one by the darkness is a heart-rending experience.
Plants vs Zombies 2
Sequel to one of the most successful free-to-play games ever, EA’s Plants vs Zombies 2 retains the spirit of the original while adding more zombies, plants and power ups. This colorful tower defense game will suck up a lot of your time (and potentially money, if you want to make use of its in-app purchases), but you are guaranteed fun along the way.
GalaxIR
This one's been around for a while, but that doesn't stop it being one of the most addictive and intense multiplayer games on Android. Set in an abstract galaxy (presumably far, far away), you use a fleet of spaceships to fight for control of planets against the computer or other players. The more planets you control, the faster your fleet grows. The single-player campaign is OK, but the real fun starts when you play against others over Bluetooth or online.
Fruit Ninja
Fruit Ninja has also been around for years now, but it is still just as addictive as it was when it first hit the scene. Swiping your finger – sorry, ninja sword – across the touchscreen to dish out deadly attacks to, erm, fruit, and watermelons, bananas, peaches will fall by your blade. Slice your way through your five a day while creating combos and making highscores in this infinitely satisfying arcade game.
Words On Tour
The second wordy Zynga game on this list is a bit less conventional. Think of it as a free-for-all word search meets Tetris. You complete levels by creating words out of letters that are adjacent to each other in the grid. You don't have to create words in straight lines either, which means your mental muscles will be flexed if you want to gain maximum points. There are power-up tiles and traps hidden in the game, and you can take your progress online to compare yourself against your friends and rivals.
Clash of Clans
Clash of Clans has a simple, highly addictive concept. Build a town and its defences, then train your troops to fend off attacks from other players. As it's a persistent multiplayer game, its duration is basically never-ending, and is one of the most popular games on the Play Store. Your progress syncs to your Google + account, so you can continue your game across multiple devices.
Candy Crush Saga
Candy Crush is based on the concept of Diamond Mine, where you connect colors together in series of three to make them explode. It's a tried-and-tested idea dating back to the days of Bejeweled, but something about the psychedelic world of Candy Crush has caught millions of peoples' imaginations. What’s more, Candy Crush Saga often gets festive for holidays, so you'll have unique features for Christmas, Valentine's and Easter.
Asphalt 8: Airborne
Asphalt 8: Airborne, a favorite arcade game among Android users. Why do we love it so much? Well, it's free for a start, and you get to choose between real-life cars that you’ve always dreamed of driving – from Lamborghinis to Ferraris – ripping them down courses in various stunning locations. Plus if you’ve got a competitive side, you can drive in career mode, which takes you through eight seasons and 180 events.
Angry Birds Go!
Angry Birds has more or less taken over the world, taking the form of soft toys in our bedrooms, breakfast cereals, and now Mario Kart-style racing games. In Angry Birds Go! you choose from a variety of Angry Birds characters and race your way through fanciful terrains while shooting random objects at your opponents. Just like Mario Kart, the controls take some time to get used to at the beginning, but soon you’ll be slinging those birds down the race track with ease.
Dumb Ways To Die 2: The Games
Dumb Ways To Die was originally created as an educational game to teach you and your kids a lesson about foolish things that people do that often lead to embarrassing deaths. The sequel doesn't have the same educational slant as the original, instead throwing the colorful characters into dangerous athletics games-style scenarios. You must jump over electric fences, unclog doorways, and ride dolphins for as long as possible. The game gets faster and faster, then after you've lost three lives, you're dead. Simple, and hilarious.
Dead Trigger 2
Following the success of their first game, MadFinger Games released Dead Trigger 2, which is so zombielicious you’ll soon be asking for more blood and guts after just a few minutes of playing. You must travel through various undead-infested areas of the world, killing as many zombies with your jam-packed artillery of weapons. It’s positively disgusting, and that’s why we love it.
Dots
Dots is an Android favorite, in which you must combine as many same-colored dots as you can in just 60 seconds. There are also some other game modes, such as endless mode, no-limits, un-timed (which counts the number of moves), and so on. The game design is also really nice and minimalistic.
QuizUp
QuizUp landed like a bomb in 2014, revealing that everyone's a sucker for a good trivia game. The sky’s the limit for the number of categories, with new ones added daily. It’s not just your usual 'sports, films, history' fare either, with categories ranging from Android, to Harry Potter, to Batman.
Badland
Badland is a adventure game where you tap the screen to guide a group of forest dwellers through strange, swampy forests full of eerie shadows and obstacles. Think of it as the connoiseur's Flappy Bird. Aside from compelling gameplay, the graphics are great, there's a multiplayer mode, and it has a fantastic soundtrack.
SHADOWGUN: DeadZone
SHADOWGUN is hands-down the best multiplayer shooter on Android, and will push powerful Android devices to the limit because of its demanding graphics. There are several classic shooter modes, including Deathmatch, and the Battlefield-style Zone Control. To better coordinate your team, or just yell insults at your enemy, there is also an easy-to-use multiplayer voice chat.
Boom Beach
From the creators of Clash of Clans comes Boom Beach. Like in Clash of Clans, you must build and defend your base while building up your forces to attack and conquer enemy territories. The battles that go down on Boom Beach are among the best you can get on Android, because the order and the type of units sent really make the difference between victory and defeat.
Icomania
Another cult classic: Icomania shows you a series of icons and you have to guess which movie star, cartoon, place, or various other category of thing in the world it is. If you get stuck, we’ve got all of the answers in our forum.
Cut the Rope series
Cut the Rope is a veteran game by Android standards now. The aim is to feed the monsters by cutting free the candies that are teasingly hanging on ropes over their heads. Sounds weird? Yes, it is, and it's utterly brilliant for it. Cut the Rope 2 adds a host of new characters and locations, while Cut the Rope: Experiments adds 200 new levels. All this for free. You can't say no to that, can you?
Cut the Rope 2Cut the Rope: Experiments FREEOriginal Angry Birds series
TAngry Birds now (Space, Rovio, Epic, to name just a few) that they'd take up too much of our list if we added them individually. The basic premise is that you slingshot the birds (we assume they volunteer for this suicidal strategy) and knock down forts created by the green pigs.
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