Best Android action games

If you'd rather be handling weapons and slaying rivals than kickflipping your way to a high-score, these action games should keep you entertained.

Why We Love Android Games

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 hands on a Galaxy S8, LG G6 or any brand new Android phone ready to fill up with all kinds of games. Browse through Google Play, and you’ll find a surplus of top games across a wide variety of genres. Whether it’s action and adventure, puzzle games, or titles that the entire family can enjoy, our roundup of the best games available for Android offers something for every kind of gamer.

Best Android action games

Dead Trigger 2

If you like shooting games, and are particularly keen on blasting zombies into many, many smaller parts, then Dead Trigger 2 is a good long-term choice as it's being regularly updated with new content and challenges. It's also been around long enough, and is popular enough to have a huge number of people to go up against in various different versus modes too.

Dead Trigger 2 offers a huge amount of gameplay and different challenges. / © AndroidPIT

There's a main story mode, side missions to earn extra component parts and cash to upgrade your weapons and enough other challenges and options to keep you busy for a really long time.

You can select between different control methods, and there's support for gamepads and button mapping too, which is handy for a game like this. There's also no real need to hand over any cash for in-game purchases either.

Dead Trigger 2 specs

PRICE: Free (in-app purchases available)

SIZE : Around 460 MB

ANDROID REQUIREMENT: Android 4.0 and above

VERSION TESTED: 1.2.1

Godfire: Rise of Prometheus

If you're looking to immerse yourself in an epic-feeling hack and slash game, then check out Godfire: Rise of Prometheus, which despite being available for quite a while, still offers a whole lot of gameplay for free.

Godfire is a satisfying mix of puzzle and battling. / © AndroidPIT

Like the others we've tried to include in this list, there's no need to hand over any real cash to play this game, and provided you don't intend on making any purchases, the story element of the game works well offline. It still looks pretty good for its age, though not the graphical achievement it once was, and the 'final hit' moves will be familiar to anyone that's seen a Mortal Kombat 'fatality' sequence.

It's more action-adventure than puzzler, but each level does throw in a puzzle challenge, as well as plenty of enemies to hack up and an end-of-level boss to defeat. Naturally, there are a whole load of different weapons you can acquire and upgrade along the way too.

Godfire: Rise of Prometheus specs

PRICE: Free (in-app purchases available)

SIZE : Around 2.15 GB

ANDROID REQUIREMENT: Not listed.
VERSION TESTED: 1.1.3