Whats better than a free game Pretty much nothing.
Except when its terrible and youve wasted time on downloading and playing it.
Fortunately, there are loads of fantastic free games for Android and we list the very best here.Whether youre into word games, endless runners, platformers or puzzles, theres something here for you.Click through to the next pages to see each category or read on below for our pick of the week.
And check back weekly for our latest pick.Free Android game of the week: Dropwords 2Dropwords 2 brings together Boggle and Bejeweled.
You sit before a five-by-five grid of letters while a timer ticks down.
When you spot a word that snakes through the board, you tap it out from start to end.
Submit your word and its letters vanish; gravity then has its brief moment of glory, bringing in new letters for you to use.Like in timed Bejeweled modes, fast matches are the key to high scores.
However, keeping your timer bar full doesnt just require rapidly submitting words, but also finding longer ones thatll give you an extra second or two.If that all seems a bit stressful, there are more relaxing modes too.
And the app rather neatly provides a slew of other customization options, from larger boards to alternate typefaces just as well, given the default Chalkboard that whiffs of Comic Sans.The best free racing games for AndroidOur favorite free Android 3D, retro, 2D and on-rails racers.CarmageddonCarmageddon is a blast from the past of PC gaming.
It masquerades as a racer, but often feels like youre hunting prey albeit while encased in a suit of speeding metal.The games freeform arenas are networks of roads in a dystopian future.
People and cows blithely amble about while deranged drivers smash each other to pieces.
Victories come by way of completing laps, wrecking all your opponents, or mowing down every living thing in the vicinity.In the 1990s, this was shocking to the point of Carmageddon being banned in some countries.
Today, the lo-fi violence seems quaint.
But the games tongue-in-cheek humor survives, sitting nicely alongside bouncy physics, madcap sort-of-racing, and deranged cops attempting to crush you into oblivion should you cross their path.Asphalt 8: AirborneAsphalt 8: Airborne is a high-octane racer that gave a cursory glance towards realism.
It then decided against bothering with such a trifling issue, and decided itd much prefer you to pelt along at insane speeds under the power of glorious nitro, which frequently sends your car soaring into the air.Not one for the simulation crowd, then, but this racer is perfect for everyone else.
The larger-than-life branched courses hyper-real takes on real-world locations are madcap and exciting.
Rather than doing laps around a boring circuit surrounded by gravel traps, you blast through rocket launch sites, and blaze through volcanos.There are downsides cynical IAPs and timers abound, welding a massive comedy tailfin to this otherwise sleek racers stylings.
But for dizzying speed, mid-air barrel rolls, and loads of laughs, this racer is tough to beat.Sonic Forces: Speed BattleSonic Forces: Speed Battle reimagines Sonic The Hedgehog as an into-the-screen lane-based auto-runner.
Which probably sounds a lot like Sonic Dash but here, you battle it out against online opposition.With trap-laden courses and pick-ups you can regularly grab as you belt along, Speed Battle has hints of Mario Kart about it.
Races are packed with tense moments as you unleash a fireball, in the hope of taking out a distant leader, or have the checkered flag in sight, but know your opponents are only fractions of a second behind.There is some grind chests with timers; multiple currencies; glacially slow leveling up.
But Speed Battle puts a colorful, entertaining spin on auto-runners thats fun even if you keep your wallet firmly closed.Data WingData Wing has the appearance of a minimal top-down racer, but its far, far more than that.
Thats not to say the racing bit isnt great - because it is.
You guide your little triangular ship around neon courses, scooting across boost pads, and scraping track edges for a bit of extra speed.But theres something else going on here an underlying narrative where you discover youre, in fact, ferrying bits of data about, all under the eye of an artificially intelligent Mother.
Initially, all seems well, but it soon becomes clear Mother has some electrons loose, not least when you start getting glimpses of a world beyond the silicon.With perfect touch controls, varied racing levels, a few hours of story, and plenty of replay value, Data Wing would be a bargain for a few dollarpounds.
For free, its absurdly generous.One Tap RallyThis game does for racing what auto-runners do for platform games.
One Tap Rally is controlled with a single finger, pressing on the screen to accelerate and releasing to brake, while your car steers automatically.
The aim is to not hit the sides of the track, because that slows you down.Win and you move up the rankings, then playing a tougher, faster opponent.
In a neat touch, said opponents are recordings of real-world attempts by other players, ranked by time.In essence, this is a digital take on slot-racing, then, without the slots.
But the mix of speed and strategy, along with a decent range of tracks, makes you forget about the simplistic controls.
If anything, they become a boon, shifting the focus to learning track layouts and razor-sharp timing.
Top stuff.Maximum CarIf youre of the opinion gaming takes itself a tad too seriously at times, Maximum Car is a perfect antidote.
This amusingly over-the-top racer has you barrel along winding roads, blowing up rival racers, and driving like a maniac.Smash the same kind of car up enough across multiple races and you can buy it in the shop, using coins acquired by terrorizing other road users.It all feels a bit like someone stripped down Burnout, added a slice of OutRun, and shoved the lot through a Lego-like visual filter.Along with a brainless commentator (Ive got a reading age of six!) growling at regular intervals as you use your ice cream van to smash an unfortunate convertible to smithereens, this all makes for a suitably silly and entertaining blast of speed thats great in small doses.Splash CarsIn the world of Splash Cars, it appears everyone's a miserable grump apart from you.
Their world is dull and grey, but your magical vehicle brings colour to anything it goes near.
The police aren't happy about this and aim to bring your hue-based shenanigans to a close, by ramming your car into oblivion.
There's also the tiny snag of a petrol tank that runs dry alarmingly quickly.Splash Cars therefore becomes a fun game of fleeing from the fuzz, zooming past buildings by a hair's breadth, grabbing petrol and coins carelessly left lying about, and trying to hit an amount-painted target before the timer runs out.
Succeed and you go on to bigger and better locations, with increasingly powerful cars.xPaZ2RjgiAqqSytPGcrKR7.jpg#