Best Android Games 2017
If you’re looking for a first-rate mobile basketball game, look no further further than NBA 2K17. Slick graphics, a multitude of game modes, and utter court gameplay proceed the record set by the series, with expanded gameplay features and physical controller support included in the latest release. Highlights include a deeper MyCareer mode with a fresh Off Day Simulator, as well as an expanded EuroLeague feature, alternate team uniforms, and historic players. All of this comes on top of the already excellent package of Season, MyCareer, and Blacktop mode play, making this a premium sports game well worth its asking price.
Nothing brings a party together like getting people to dance. Still, not everyone knows how to dance, which is where Just Dance Now comes in. This mobile spinoff of the hit console series brings more than two hundred titles to iOS and Android smartphones, including "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson, "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley and (for some unfathomable reason) “Hungarian Dance No. 5” by Johannes Brahms.
An officially licensed app from the professional tournament for high-level poker players, World Series of Poker (WSOP) concentrates on bringing the cutting edge competition right to your phone. You can play with friends or with online opponents to hone your abilities and get on the world leaderboard. The game aims to make you a better poker player, and the extensive statitstic tracking will help you improve your poker game. If you’re feeling all pokered out, you can take a break by playing the virtual slot machine and get chips to fuel your next poker campaign. If your objective is to be a Las Vegas pro, this is the app for you.
Battle of Polytopia pares down the 4x (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) genre of strategy games into a mobile-friendly format. You instruction one of the game’s many tribes and attempt to score the highest score that you can in thirty turns by exploring the map, developing you civilization, and dealing with your neighbors. The game’s quick-playing mechanics and brief time limit cuts out the fat from the 4X formula to provide a sleek and mobile-friendly strategy title that doesn’t skimp on strategic choices.
Trivia Crack Kingdoms gives the Trivia Crack formula a more focused treatment by permitting players to subscribe to specific categories (“channels”) of trivia questions to go after, and then engaging in asynchronous head to head trivia battles against your Facebook friends or random opponents. Players can choose to engage in focused single-channel games or multi channel trivia matches, and the asynchronous design permits you to have numerous games up while you wait for other players to take their turns.
Maybe it’s demonstrating its age a little bit, but Real Racing three remains an excellent free-to-play driving sim that lets you take the wheel of a host of real-world cars as you drive around gorgeously rendered real-world racetracks. Numerous game modes — including time trials, standard races and the Time Shift multiplayer mode — suggest varied challenges to players, with updates continuously adding fresh content such as fresh cars and racing events.
Dual Fine’s venture Cracked Age, the game that helped begin gaming’s crowdfunding revolution, goes mobile. Cracked Age tells the story of two teenagers, each fighting against traditions that tie them. Deep in the bowels of a starship, Shay Volta is attempting to escape the clutches of a stiflingly maternal AI, while Vella Tartine has been chosen to be sacrificed to a mysterious monster in order to save her village. Gorgeously rendered 2D graphics, a neat soundtrack and a genuinely well-built escapade make Violated Age a keeper.
The Room Three builds on the success of its previous installments, providing gamers with a series of challenging tactile puzzles. The game’s hallmark is its use of touch screen controls, with swipes, taps, and gestures intuitively manipulating puzzle elements. That gives The Room Three a very natural, immersive feel. Players must unravel a series of increasingly complicated puzzles as they seek to unearth the secrets of The Null and the mysterious Craftsman. Fresh additions to the series include a ‘hub’ area called Grey Holm with a series of ongoing puzzles, as well as a branching ending that depends on how well you solve the game’s mysteries.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a joy, free and fair digital collectible card game that you won’t be able to stop playing. Playing as one of the fine heroes (or villains) of the Warcraft universe — such as Thrall, Jaina Proudmoore or Gul’dan — you’ll fight epic duels and summon allies and minions to your side. The easy-to-learn rules work cross-platform among PC, iPad and Android players. You can earn gold that can be spent on booster packs. Plus, in the Arena mode you can play in a special, "sealed draft" format that prizes canny deck building and brainy play.
Nintendo’s very first foray into smartphone game is a winner, and now Android users can join in on the joy with this runner game. You can play one of three modes. The main World Tour plays the most like a traditional Mario game, with players navigating hazards and collecting coins to reach the end of the level in a limited amount of time, while an asynchronous Toad Rally mode has you contesting against your friends’ scores and collecting coins and Toads. In Kingdom Builder mode, you spend the coins you’ve gathered to customize your own Mushroom Kingdom and unlock more characters like Luigi and Princess Peach. A free download lets you play the very first free levels, while a one-time $9.99 purchase unlocks all twenty four levels.
A mobile RPG that takes equal inspiration from classic computer RPGs and Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, seven Mages casts players as the titular seven mages gathered together to defend the island of Roven against its many enemies. Seven Mages owes much to games like the Westwood classics of yore like Eye of the Beholder, as well as the more latest Legend of Grimrock. It combines a detailed turn-based combat and magic system with intricate, adventure-like puzzles, introduced with a slick, premium feel. The very first part of the game is free to download, with the rest of the chapters unlockable as in-app purchases.
When it comes to mobile gaming, Android no longer finds itself in the shadow cast by the iPhone. And that’s good news if you’ve gotten your arms on a Galaxy S8, LG G6 or any brand fresh Android phone ready to pack up with all kinds of games. Browse through Google Play, and you’ll find a surplus of top games across a broad diversity of genres. Whether it’s activity and venture, puzzle games, or titles that the entire family can love, our roundup of the best games available for Android offers something for every kind of gamer.
Best Android Games two thousand seventeen – Top Rated Games by Category – Tom’s Guide
Best Android Games 2017
If you’re looking for a first-rate mobile basketball game, look no further further than NBA 2K17. Slick graphics, a multiplicity of game modes, and utter court gameplay proceed the record set by the series, with expanded gameplay features and physical controller support included in the latest release. Highlights include a deeper MyCareer mode with a fresh Off Day Simulator, as well as an expanded EuroLeague feature, alternate team uniforms, and historic players. All of this comes on top of the already excellent package of Season, MyCareer, and Blacktop mode play, making this a premium sports game well worth its asking price.
Nothing brings a party together like getting people to dance. Still, not everyone knows how to dance, which is where Just Dance Now comes in. This mobile spinoff of the hit console series brings more than two hundred titles to iOS and Android smartphones, including "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson, "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley and (for some unfathomable reason) “Hungarian Dance No. 5” by Johannes Brahms.
An officially licensed app from the professional tournament for high-level poker players, World Series of Poker (WSOP) concentrates on bringing the cutting edge competition right to your phone. You can play with friends or with online opponents to hone your abilities and get on the world leaderboard. The game aims to make you a better poker player, and the extensive statitstic tracking will help you improve your poker game. If you’re feeling all pokered out, you can take a break by playing the virtual slot machine and get chips to fuel your next poker campaign. If your aim is to be a Las Vegas pro, this is the app for you.
Battle of Polytopia pares down the 4x (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) genre of strategy games into a mobile-friendly format. You directive one of the game’s many tribes and attempt to score the highest score that you can in thirty turns by exploring the map, developing you civilization, and dealing with your neighbors. The game’s quick-playing mechanics and brief time limit cuts out the fat from the 4X formula to provide a sleek and mobile-friendly strategy title that doesn’t skimp on strategic choices.
Trivia Crack Kingdoms gives the Trivia Crack formula a more focused treatment by permitting players to subscribe to specific categories (“channels”) of trivia questions to go after, and then engaging in asynchronous head to head trivia battles against your Facebook friends or random opponents. Players can choose to engage in focused single-channel games or multi channel trivia matches, and the asynchronous design permits you to have numerous games up while you wait for other players to take their turns.
Maybe it’s demonstrating its age a little bit, but Real Racing three remains an excellent free-to-play driving sim that lets you take the wheel of a host of real-world cars as you drive around gorgeously rendered real-world racetracks. Numerous game modes — including time trials, standard races and the Time Shift multiplayer mode — suggest varied challenges to players, with updates continuously adding fresh content such as fresh cars and racing events.
Dual Fine’s venture Cracked Age, the game that helped begin gaming’s crowdfunding revolution, goes mobile. Cracked Age tells the story of two teenagers, each fighting against traditions that truss them. Deep in the bowels of a starship, Shay Volta is attempting to escape the clutches of a stiflingly maternal AI, while Vella Tartine has been chosen to be sacrificed to a mysterious monster in order to save her village. Gorgeously rendered 2D graphics, a neat soundtrack and a genuinely well-built escapade make Cracked Age a keeper.
The Room Three builds on the success of its previous installments, providing gamers with a series of challenging tactile puzzles. The game’s hallmark is its use of touch screen controls, with swipes, taps, and gestures intuitively manipulating puzzle elements. That gives The Room Three a very natural, immersive feel. Players must unravel a series of increasingly complicated puzzles as they seek to unearth the secrets of The Null and the mysterious Craftsman. Fresh additions to the series include a ‘hub’ area called Grey Holm with a series of ongoing puzzles, as well as a branching ending that depends on how well you solve the game’s mysteries.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a joy, free and fair digital collectible card game that you won’t be able to stop playing. Playing as one of the fine heroes (or villains) of the Warcraft universe — such as Thrall, Jaina Proudmoore or Gul’dan — you’ll fight epic duels and summon allies and minions to your side. The easy-to-learn rules work cross-platform among PC, iPad and Android players. You can earn gold that can be spent on booster packs. Plus, in the Arena mode you can play in a special, "sealed draft" format that prizes canny deck building and wise play.
Nintendo’s very first foray into smartphone game is a winner, and now Android users can join in on the joy with this runner game. You can play one of three modes. The main World Tour plays the most like a traditional Mario game, with players navigating hazards and collecting coins to reach the end of the level in a limited amount of time, while an asynchronous Toad Rally mode has you rivaling against your friends’ scores and collecting coins and Toads. In Kingdom Builder mode, you spend the coins you’ve gathered to customize your own Mushroom Kingdom and unlock more characters like Luigi and Princess Peach. A free download lets you play the very first free levels, while a one-time $9.99 purchase unlocks all twenty four levels.
A mobile RPG that takes equal inspiration from classic computer RPGs and Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, seven Mages casts players as the titular seven mages gathered together to defend the island of Roven against its many enemies. Seven Mages owes much to games like the Westwood classics of yore like Eye of the Beholder, as well as the more latest Legend of Grimrock. It combines a detailed turn-based combat and magic system with intricate, adventure-like puzzles, introduced with a slick, premium feel. The very first part of the game is free to download, with the rest of the chapters unlockable as in-app purchases.
When it comes to mobile gaming, Android no longer finds itself in the shadow cast by the iPhone. And that’s good news if you’ve gotten your palms on a Galaxy S8, LG G6 or any brand fresh Android phone ready to pack up with all kinds of games. Browse through Google Play, and you’ll find a surplus of top games across a broad diversity of genres. Whether it’s activity and venture, puzzle games, or titles that the entire family can love, our roundup of the best games available for Android offers something for every kind of gamer.
Best Android Games two thousand seventeen – Top Rated Games by Category – Tom’s Guide
Best Android Games 2017
If you’re looking for a first-rate mobile basketball game, look no further further than NBA 2K17. Slick graphics, a diversity of game modes, and total court gameplay proceed the record set by the series, with expanded gameplay features and physical controller support included in the latest release. Highlights include a deeper MyCareer mode with a fresh Off Day Simulator, as well as an expanded EuroLeague feature, alternate team uniforms, and historic players. All of this comes on top of the already excellent package of Season, MyCareer, and Blacktop mode play, making this a premium sports game well worth its asking price.
Nothing brings a party together like getting people to dance. Still, not everyone knows how to dance, which is where Just Dance Now comes in. This mobile spinoff of the hit console series brings more than two hundred titles to iOS and Android smartphones, including "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson, "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley and (for some unfathomable reason) “Hungarian Dance No. 5” by Johannes Brahms.
An officially licensed app from the professional tournament for high-level poker players, World Series of Poker (WSOP) concentrates on bringing the cutting edge competition right to your phone. You can play with friends or with online opponents to hone your abilities and get on the world leaderboard. The game aims to make you a better poker player, and the extensive statitstic tracking will help you improve your poker game. If you’re feeling all pokered out, you can take a break by playing the virtual slot machine and get chips to fuel your next poker campaign. If your purpose is to be a Las Vegas pro, this is the app for you.
Battle of Polytopia pares down the 4x (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) genre of strategy games into a mobile-friendly format. You guideline one of the game’s many tribes and attempt to score the highest score that you can in thirty turns by exploring the map, developing you civilization, and dealing with your neighbors. The game’s quick-playing mechanics and brief time limit cuts out the fat from the 4X formula to provide a sleek and mobile-friendly strategy title that doesn’t skimp on strategic choices.
Trivia Crack Kingdoms gives the Trivia Crack formula a more focused treatment by permitting players to subscribe to specific categories (“channels”) of trivia questions to go after, and then engaging in asynchronous head to head trivia battles against your Facebook friends or random opponents. Players can choose to engage in focused single-channel games or multi channel trivia matches, and the asynchronous design permits you to have numerous games up while you wait for other players to take their turns.
Maybe it’s demonstrating its age a little bit, but Real Racing three remains an excellent free-to-play driving sim that lets you take the wheel of a host of real-world cars as you drive around gorgeously rendered real-world racetracks. Numerous game modes — including time trials, standard races and the Time Shift multiplayer mode — suggest varied challenges to players, with updates continuously adding fresh content such as fresh cars and racing events.
Dual Fine’s escapade Cracked Age, the game that helped embark gaming’s crowdfunding revolution, goes mobile. Cracked Age tells the story of two teenagers, each fighting against traditions that tie them. Deep in the bowels of a starship, Shay Volta is attempting to escape the clutches of a stiflingly maternal AI, while Vella Tartine has been chosen to be sacrificed to a mysterious monster in order to save her village. Gorgeously rendered 2D graphics, a neat soundtrack and a genuinely well-built venture make Cracked Age a keeper.
The Room Three builds on the success of its previous installments, providing gamers with a series of challenging tactile puzzles. The game’s hallmark is its use of touch screen controls, with swipes, taps, and gestures intuitively manipulating puzzle elements. That gives The Room Three a very natural, immersive feel. Players must unravel a series of increasingly elaborate puzzles as they seek to unearth the secrets of The Null and the mysterious Craftsman. Fresh additions to the series include a ‘hub’ area called Grey Holm with a series of ongoing puzzles, as well as a branching ending that depends on how well you solve the game’s mysteries.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a joy, free and fair digital collectible card game that you won’t be able to stop playing. Playing as one of the fine heroes (or villains) of the Warcraft universe — such as Thrall, Jaina Proudmoore or Gul’dan — you’ll fight epic duels and summon allies and minions to your side. The easy-to-learn rules work cross-platform among PC, iPad and Android players. You can earn gold that can be spent on booster packs. Plus, in the Arena mode you can play in a special, "sealed draft" format that prizes canny deck building and brainy play.
Nintendo’s very first foray into smartphone game is a winner, and now Android users can join in on the joy with this runner game. You can play one of three modes. The main World Tour plays the most like a traditional Mario game, with players navigating hazards and collecting coins to reach the end of the level in a limited amount of time, while an asynchronous Toad Rally mode has you rivaling against your friends’ scores and collecting coins and Toads. In Kingdom Builder mode, you spend the coins you’ve gathered to customize your own Mushroom Kingdom and unlock more characters like Luigi and Princess Peach. A free download lets you play the very first free levels, while a one-time $9.99 purchase unlocks all twenty four levels.
A mobile RPG that takes equal inspiration from classic computer RPGs and Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, seven Mages casts players as the titular seven mages gathered together to defend the island of Roven against its many enemies. Seven Mages owes much to games like the Westwood classics of yore like Eye of the Beholder, as well as the more latest Legend of Grimrock. It combines a detailed turn-based combat and magic system with intricate, adventure-like puzzles, introduced with a slick, premium feel. The very first part of the game is free to download, with the rest of the chapters unlockable as in-app purchases.
When it comes to mobile gaming, Android no longer finds itself in the shadow cast by the iPhone. And that’s good news if you’ve gotten your forearms on a Galaxy S8, LG G6 or any brand fresh Android phone ready to pack up with all kinds of games. Browse through Google Play, and you’ll find a surplus of top games across a broad multiplicity of genres. Whether it’s act and venture, puzzle games, or titles that the entire family can love, our roundup of the best games available for Android offers something for every kind of gamer.
Best Android Games two thousand seventeen – Top Rated Games by Category – Tom’s Guide
Best Android Games 2017
If you’re looking for a first-rate mobile basketball game, look no further further than NBA 2K17. Slick graphics, a multitude of game modes, and total court gameplay proceed the record set by the series, with expanded gameplay features and physical controller support included in the latest release. Highlights include a deeper MyCareer mode with a fresh Off Day Simulator, as well as an expanded EuroLeague feature, alternate team uniforms, and historic players. All of this comes on top of the already excellent package of Season, MyCareer, and Blacktop mode play, making this a premium sports game well worth its asking price.
Nothing brings a party together like getting people to dance. Still, not everyone knows how to dance, which is where Just Dance Now comes in. This mobile spinoff of the hit console series brings more than two hundred titles to iOS and Android smartphones, including "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson, "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley and (for some unfathomable reason) “Hungarian Dance No. 5” by Johannes Brahms.
An officially licensed app from the professional tournament for high-level poker players, World Series of Poker (WSOP) concentrates on bringing the cutting edge competition right to your phone. You can play with friends or with online opponents to hone your abilities and get on the world leaderboard. The game aims to make you a better poker player, and the extensive statitstic tracking will help you improve your poker game. If you’re feeling all pokered out, you can take a break by playing the virtual slot machine and get chips to fuel your next poker campaign. If your aim is to be a Las Vegas pro, this is the app for you.
Battle of Polytopia pares down the 4x (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) genre of strategy games into a mobile-friendly format. You instruction one of the game’s many tribes and attempt to score the highest score that you can in thirty turns by exploring the map, developing you civilization, and dealing with your neighbors. The game’s quick-playing mechanics and brief time limit cuts out the fat from the 4X formula to provide a sleek and mobile-friendly strategy title that doesn’t skimp on strategic choices.
Trivia Crack Kingdoms gives the Trivia Crack formula a more focused treatment by permitting players to subscribe to specific categories (“channels”) of trivia questions to go after, and then engaging in asynchronous head to head trivia battles against your Facebook friends or random opponents. Players can choose to engage in focused single-channel games or multi channel trivia matches, and the asynchronous design permits you to have numerous games up while you wait for other players to take their turns.
Maybe it’s showcasing its age a little bit, but Real Racing three remains an excellent free-to-play driving sim that lets you take the wheel of a host of real-world cars as you drive around gorgeously rendered real-world racetracks. Numerous game modes — including time trials, standard races and the Time Shift multiplayer mode — suggest varied challenges to players, with updates continuously adding fresh content such as fresh cars and racing events.
Dual Fine’s escapade Cracked Age, the game that helped begin gaming’s crowdfunding revolution, goes mobile. Cracked Age tells the story of two teenagers, each fighting against traditions that truss them. Deep in the bowels of a starship, Shay Volta is attempting to escape the clutches of a stiflingly maternal AI, while Vella Tartine has been chosen to be sacrificed to a mysterious monster in order to save her village. Gorgeously rendered 2D graphics, a neat soundtrack and a genuinely well-built venture make Cracked Age a keeper.
The Room Three builds on the success of its previous installments, providing gamers with a series of challenging tactile puzzles. The game’s hallmark is its use of touch screen controls, with swipes, taps, and gestures intuitively manipulating puzzle elements. That gives The Room Three a very natural, immersive feel. Players must unravel a series of increasingly elaborate puzzles as they seek to unearth the secrets of The Null and the mysterious Craftsman. Fresh additions to the series include a ‘hub’ area called Grey Holm with a series of ongoing puzzles, as well as a branching ending that depends on how well you solve the game’s mysteries.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a joy, free and fair digital collectible card game that you won’t be able to stop playing. Playing as one of the fine heroes (or villains) of the Warcraft universe — such as Thrall, Jaina Proudmoore or Gul’dan — you’ll fight epic duels and summon allies and minions to your side. The easy-to-learn rules work cross-platform among PC, iPad and Android players. You can earn gold that can be spent on booster packs. Plus, in the Arena mode you can play in a special, "sealed draft" format that prizes canny deck building and wise play.
Nintendo’s very first foray into smartphone game is a winner, and now Android users can join in on the joy with this runner game. You can play one of three modes. The main World Tour plays the most like a traditional Mario game, with players navigating hazards and collecting coins to reach the end of the level in a limited amount of time, while an asynchronous Toad Rally mode has you challenging against your friends’ scores and collecting coins and Toads. In Kingdom Builder mode, you spend the coins you’ve gathered to customize your own Mushroom Kingdom and unlock more characters like Luigi and Princess Peach. A free download lets you play the very first free levels, while a one-time $9.99 purchase unlocks all twenty four levels.
A mobile RPG that takes equal inspiration from classic computer RPGs and Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, seven Mages casts players as the titular seven mages gathered together to defend the island of Roven against its many enemies. Seven Mages owes much to games like the Westwood classics of yore like Eye of the Beholder, as well as the more latest Legend of Grimrock. It combines a detailed turn-based combat and magic system with intricate, adventure-like puzzles, introduced with a slick, premium feel. The very first part of the game is free to download, with the rest of the chapters unlockable as in-app purchases.
When it comes to mobile gaming, Android no longer finds itself in the shadow cast by the iPhone. And that’s good news if you’ve gotten your forearms on a Galaxy S8, LG G6 or any brand fresh Android phone ready to pack up with all kinds of games. Browse through Google Play, and you’ll find a surplus of top games across a broad multitude of genres. Whether it’s act and escapade, puzzle games, or titles that the entire family can love, our roundup of the best games available for Android offers something for every kind of gamer.