The best mobile games can look like just about anything. A social deception game about a suspicious crew on an alien spaceship. The latest entry in the biggest strategy series in the world. A serious single-player story about love and loss. A game where you, for some reason, must build a boat.
A decade ago, smart money said that mobile games would replace consoles as gamers increasingly turned to their phones for convenient fun. But, it’s 2022, and Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo are all still going strong. Paradoxically, the mobile market has never been bigger, with millions of players using their phones to play a wide variety of games, including portable versions of the most popular multiplayer games in the world, like Call of Duty, Fortnite, Genshin Impact, and PUBG.
However, none of those games are on this list. Instead, we’ve tried to pick games that are easy to pick up and get into and can be played skillfully without the use of a controller. Because who wants to carry an Xbox One controller with them on the bus? Read on for our picks for the 26 best mobile games available on iOS and/or Android, listed in alphabetical order, including our July 2022 addition of Into the Breach.
If you do prefer gaming on mobile with a controller, make sure to check out our roundup of the best phone controllers. If you have an Apple Arcade subscription, we've rounded up the 12 best Apple Arcade games right now.
Among Us is easy to understand--it’s social deception in space!--but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to fool your friends. As a round begins, each innocent player has tasks that they must accomplish, while impostors have no tasks but must attempt to appear innocent. All the while, each impostor is concocting a plan to kill their
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