The 11 Best Free Games For Android in 2024

Strategy: Clash of Clans

Clash of Clans,​ by Supercell, includes Barbarians and Wizards to build a village and build a clan strong enough to defend their village with mortars, bombs, cannons, and traps. Your arsenal of weapons also includes spells, troops, and special heroes, including Sneaky Archer, Boxer Giant, and the new Hero Battle Machine. Build your own team, or find new players in the new Verus battle mode. 

Bonus: The creators of Clash of Clans created Clash Royale, featuring the Royales. Cast spells, earn chests to unlock rewards and collect powerful new cards and upgrade the cards you have. Challenge a player to a duel, and form your own clan to share cards and build your own battle community.

A network connection is also required.

Puzzle: Shatterbrain - Physics Puzzles

Exercise your brain with Shatterbrain - Physics Puzzles, by Orbital Nine Games, is an interactive game of brain teasers based on the laws of physics. With the goal of helping you think outside the box, Shatterbrain encourages creativity by offering multiple ways to solve each puzzle. Whether you connect the dots, create a line, or scatter the shapes, Shatterbrain asks you to draw shapes to solve each problem. Leaderboards let you compete, with winners based on the time it takes to solve the puzzle or the most creative solution. Each puzzle offers hints to guide you when you get stuck, and some puzzles are trickier than others. A great way to use, and improve, your brain power.

Survival: PUBG MOBILE

A scavenger-hunt survival game, PUBG Mobile by Tencent Games, includes extravagant real-life, high-quality HD graphics. Players parachute onto a remote island and must locate their own weapons, vehicles, and supplies to be the last man standing. Realistic gameplay includes an HD map for Battle Royale, 3D sound effects and realistic ballistics and travel trajectories.

Math: 2048

This is the original wildly-addicting 2048 number puzzle game created by Gabriele Cirulli and published by Solebon LLC. The goal? Reach the 2048 tile. Simply swipe tiles around to continue adding the numbers. This game includes detailed statistics and an undo button.  When a "2" and a "2" touch, they merge into a "4." Keep playing until you reach the highest score or 131,072.

Crime: Hidden Objects: Mystery Society

Do you love to find hidden objects? Hidden Objects: Mystery Society, by Tamalaki, lets you travel across the most beautiful cities in Europe to solve crimes and recover stolen precious jewels. You'll untangle mysteries and escape dangerous situations. Trade information with the cast to solve the mystery, and look for heirlooms by word, image, or outline - and no internet connection is required. Put your puzzle-solving skills to the test and move up the Mystery Society ranks to become the greatest detective in the world.

Board Game to Mobile: Catan Universe

On the classic board game, Catan Universe, by USM, is a competitive settlement game, where explorers build cities and defend their territories with duels while fighting off barbarian invasions. With graphics that closely follow the board game layout, players expand their territory with trades in a quest to build the largest Catan community. Create your own avatar and play against the game, or play with other players virtually and work toward building your own guild.

Mindless Entertainment: Goat Simulator

With comical, outrageous encounters, discover what it feels like to be a goat, destroying every obstacle in your path with Goat Simulator, by Coffee Stain Studios. Complete, with silly goat challenges, help goats destroy obstacles, with surprises appearing out of nowhere. The goal of this game is fairly straightforward - points are earned from breaking things, and sometimes, random objectives themselves appear with just enough force to cause their own explosions. 

Cooking: Cooking Madness - A Chef's Game

So you want to be the world's best chef? Cooking Madness - A Chef's Game, by ZenLife Games, teaches you to prepare, cook, and serve while keeping your eye on the clock. Try new kitchen appliances to bring your hungry customers delish dishes in amazing restaurants all over the world. Trash dishes you don't want to burn to make more room for the delicacies your hungry customers want.

Trivia: Trivia Crack

Trivia Crack by Etermax lets you challenge your friends and family with multiple-choice quiz questions. It's a race against time, as you try to be the first one to answer the question first - and correctly. Spin the wheel and select from six different categories, including Geography, Entertainment, History, Sports, Art, and Science. Miss too many questions? That's OK - at least you're learning something new. And use a Power Up to wipe out two incorrect answers. 

Arcade: PAC-MAN

PAC-MAN, by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., is the original retro-arcade game, now with no quarters and no lines. With the same familiar tune, swipe your finger to move, as you gobble Power Pellets and get the Ghosts to earn points as you chomp your way through mazes and along the dot-lined pathways. Test your reaction time by competing in tournament challenges, and show off your Pac-Man scores on the leaderboards as you challenge your friends.