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Best long term Android games	Price	Genre	Controller Support
90 Terraria	$4.99	2D platformer / Minecraft-like	Android (MOGA / HID), Steam (Full)
85 Knights of the Old Republic	$9.99	Sandbox	HID (IOS), Yes (PC)
-- Crashlands	-	Adventure	Yes
76 XCOM: Enemy Within	$9.99	-	-
-- CHAOS RINGS Ⅲ	$19.99	RPG	No

Terraria

Top Pro

Has no in app purchases

Despite what the Google Play Store description says their actually is no in app purchases included in this game. See More

Top Con

Low replay value for those who play it as an adventure game

Terraria is a sandbox platform-adventure game, so it partly hinges on beating various bosses. If you play it purely for the sake of defeating all the bosses, you might have little else to do afterwards. Restarting the game won't be as enjoyable either because you'll already know what to expect, causing continued play without a new goal feel mundane or boring. See More

FunnyCian's Experience

Really good game! Played many hours. Still not at the end! See More

Specs

Genre:2D platformer / Minecraft-like

Controller Support:Android (MOGA / HID), Steam (Full)

Co-Op:8 Player Online / 8 Player LAN

Top Pro

Lots to explore and find

Terraria has a randomly generated world with all kinds different areas to explore, items to find and craft, and secrets to unearth. There is a basic introduction to the game, but mostly everything revolves around experimenting and exploring. See More

Top Con

Touch controls are not great

Although a lot of effort went into designing the touch control system, placing or removing blocks precisely is very difficult. See More

Top Pro

Always a new experience

Upon start of the game a world is randomly generated which allows the user to get a new experience any time they start a new world making for unlimited replayability. See More

Top Con

Cloud saving is broken

Currently cloud saving is broken so that means you can build your world but it sits in your phone. You cannot back it up, you cannot sync it with other devices, nor even manually backup unless your device is rooted. See More

Top Pro

Combines platforming with Minecraft-like gameplay

The game consists as much of typical 2D platforming as it does of Minecraft-inspired resource gathering and crafting systems. See More

Top Con

No non-branded controller support

Plenty of decent controllers out there that are compatible with hundreds of games, just not Terraria for some reason. See More

Top Pro

Allows for great freedom of expression

The game has all kinds of tools and materials that you can acquire and use to build whatever you can imagine. See More

Top Con

Risk of loosing data

Many users have reported that they have lost save games as well as cloud save files. Whether it is caused by the game updating or just random bugginess is still unknown as the devs have not responded to these issues. See More

Top Pro

Intriguing world

Terraria uses a bright color palette and an upbeat chiptune soundtrack to ease you into its world. However, once you start exploring and spend time in it you'll notice it's not as cozy as it first seemed to be. Blood Moons that rouse the dead from their graves. Goblin armies trying to destroy everything in their wake. Vast and dark cave systems, filled with odd creatures and various dangers. Ancient ruins, teeming with the restless dead and evil spirits. Pockets of decaying land, thriving with misshapen monstrosities. It's really fun to explore and discover something new about the world of Terraria. See More

Top Pro

Lots of community servers, tutorials, and streams

Terraria has a large community of players on every platform including mobile, desktop, and console. Because of this, there are many servers to play on, as well as tutorials and Let's Plays. Finding content or help getting started is quite easy. See More

Top Pro

Excellent crafting elements

You can see where Minecraft draws some of its ideas. Overall one of my favorite crafting/survival type games to have existed. Clean with easy to understand progression. See More

Top Pro

Has an extensive crafting system

The vast majority of items in Terraria can be used to create other items, often requiring specific crafting stations (which themselves must be crafted). This is the core of character advancement, since gear defines nearly everything about your character. See More

Top Pro

Survival-horror elements give a sense of urgency

Instead of building a deliberate feeling of suspense, Terraria uses bright palettes and arcade action to provide a fun experience outside of the survival elements. When those elements gradually appear one by one, each is all the more shocking from the contrast which makes for an ever growing sense of urgency in the game to craft a safe space as well as weapons to protect oneself. See More

Top Pro

Fun combat

It starts out simple, with you whacking away at slow moving zombies and flying eyes, gradually shifting to more fierce and fearsome enemies such as flying demons, agile lizardmen, and many more. To survive you'll have to be always on the move, dodge enemy attacks, and be accurate when you retaliate. There are also plenty of weapons to choose from. Melee weapons such as swords, hammers, lances, and flails. Ranged weapons such as bows, crossbows, rifles, and miniguns. And various items that allow you to cast spells. Whatever you choose, it feels great to destroy hordes of enemies. See More

Top Pro

Free demo for easy testing

A trial version of the game can be downloaded on Google Play. A feature of the trial version is that it does have a full game unlock through in app purchase, for those that don't want to lose their games progress by downloading a different version of the game. See More

Top Pro

Immersive mode on Android 4.4+

Terraria features immersive mode on any Android device with Android version 4.4+. See More

21 Other Games Considered

Knights of the Old Republic

Top Pro

Lengthy

The main story of the game can take a good bit of time to finish. See More

Top Con

Movement does not work that great on touchscreens

The on screen controls for movement in the game do not work as good as they could giving a sense of non-preciseness. See More

Yanis's Experience

May the Force... You know ;) See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Controller Support:HID (IOS), Yes (PC)

Top Pro

Gameplay holds up well

For what is now an eleven year old game the Bioware RPG game mechanics hold up well. See More

Top Pro

Engaging story

Being a role playing game, KotOR has a pretty good story that feel very engaging. See More

Top Pro

MOGA controller support

KotOR features MOGA controller support. See More

Top Pro

HID controller support

KotOR features full HID controller support. See More

Crashlands

Top Pro

Great soundtrack that suits the humor and setting of the game quite well

A great mix of chill and energized music, that fits the setting of the game at all times. A pleasure to listen to on its own as well. See More

Top Con

Cloud saves not through Google services

An extra account will need to be used in order to take advantage of the cloud saving as it does not work with Googles solution to cloud saves. While this does allow for the cloud saves to work cross platform, people may not want to take the extra step to make a new account with Butterscotch Shenanigans. See More

Specs

Genre:Adventure

Controller Support:Yes

Top Pro

Pleasing graphics that show off a well designed and polished game

The graphics look nice and you can tell time has been put into designing them. While not the most flashy, there is a certain style to the whole game that makes for a very cohesive experience. See More

Top Pro

Pick up from your last save, no matter the device you are using, thanks to the built in cloud saving

Playable on Android, iOS and PC you're able to transfer the one game between multiple devices (on same or different operating systems) and take it with you anywhere you go. with a Butterscotch ID (the devs self implemented cloud save system). See More

Top Pro

Hours of content just in the main quest alone gives the player plenty to do

For just the medium difficulty setting there is hours upon hours of content, and that's even if you skip all the side quests and just focus on the main story. Plus there are two harder difficulties to try and in the near future a tool will come out which will let you build your own adventures as well as play other people's. See More

Top Pro

Lots of entertaining pop-culture references

Top Pro

Good writing

You don't need to read everything to enjoy the game but the writing is very good and really adds to the enjoyment. See More

Top Pro

Excellent progression system where you never feel like you are grinding too much

Progression never feels sluggish or rushed, everything has a good pace to it from the farming of materials and grinding out the various components for the tons of items, to the incredibly unique combat/interaction system, it all blends well into a long gaming experience. See More

Top Pro

Hundreds items to craft in a deep and varied crafting system that will keep the user busy for hours and hours

There are over 500 items that can be crafted in the game, giving the player quite a lot to experiment with and explore when it comes to crafting items. See More

XCOM: Enemy Within

Top Pro

Online multiplayer

There is support for asynchronous online multiplayer built into the game over Google Play Services. See More

Top Con

Second half of game lacks as many options as first half

The second half of the game feels a bit lack luster in options when compared to the first half. See More

Top Pro

Enjoyable gameplay

XCOM sets the standard as to what to expect in turn based strategy gaming. Players use soldiers to fight off an alien invasion by utilizing cover, flanking and other strategy tactics to defeat the alien baddies on each level of grid based environments. See More

Top Pro

Hardcore strategy gaming at it best on a mobile platform

For a series that is regarded as hardcore gaming even on PC, to see this franchise come to mobile is a godsend. See More

Top Pro

Expansion on what was already a fantastic game

Enemy Within is and expansion on the classic Enemy Unknown. With Enemy Withing players are given new options such as maps, missions, enemies and of course the new Mech Suits. See More

Top Pro

Turn based strategy works well on touchscreen devices

The gaming genre of turn based strategy lends itself very well to touch screen devices. It is actually easier to interact with the characters on screen with ones fingers instead of a mouse. See More

Top Pro

Ethical choices effect long game

The choices the player makes from what kind of upgrades to use to what soldier to send where on a battle map will effect later game play. See More

Top Pro

New upgrade resource

There is a new resource known as Meld that allows the user to purchase upgrades. See More

CHAOS RINGS Ⅲ

Top Pro

Battle coliseum

There is a battle coliseum mode in the game that allows for quick battles against regular enemies and bosses that earn the player experience points. There is no story in this mode and it is meant as more of a quick on the go sesion that can still earn the player some XP that can be used in the regular story mode. See More

Top Con

Poorly adapted for Android

The game does not properly support the 4:3 ratio as the text and graphics are cut off the screen on both sides. The game loads upside down and will not rotate to the correct orientation of volume buttons on the top of the device in landscape. There is no immersive mode support either. Overall for a $20 game the glaring lack of optimization for Android is pretty shameful for such a large company that has such a long history of making video games. See More

Specs

Controller Support:No

Top Pro

Random turn based battles

In classic Square Enix fashion the battles are random and turn based, making for a classic RPG style feel. See More

Top Con

Chance the game could go fremium

Being that all of the freemium aspects are already built into the title it may be a worry that the game could go freemium at the drop of a hat, thus burning anyone who actually paid full price for the title. See More

Top Pro

Elemental rock paper scissors battling

All monster in game have some form of elemental attribute that is designed to be countered with an opposite element when battling. There are cards to be collected in game that can then be equipped to the players character in order to build a team that can hopefully in most situations counter a wide array of elemental monsters. See More

Top Con

Looks to be untested on Lollipop

The game is crashing on the N6 and N7 upon first open. Apparently the game has not been tested on the devices that are listed as working and being sold for. See More

Top Pro

More colorful and cheerful in tone

Chaos Rings II is a bit different from the previous titles in the series due to the brighter color pallet and the more cheerful tone to the story. See More

Top Pro

Freemium style gameplay

The gameplay of the game consists of many of the elements found in free to play titles. There are multiple currencies, multiple characters that can be combined to upgrade as well as other Gatcha style elements. Luckily the game is fully upfront paid with no in app purchases at all. See More

Implosion - Never Lose Hope

Top Pro

HID controller support

Implosion - Never Lose Hope supports HIDs, allowing for many different controllers to be used with the game. See More

Top Con

High price

The full game unlock in app purchase is priced at $9.99, which some may think is a little high for the mobile platform though the amount of game-play and high polish does seem to warrant it. See More

Top Pro

Immersive mode

Implosion - Never Lose Hope includes full screen immersive mode on any Android device with OS 4.4+. See More

Top Pro

Fantastic graphics with plenty of variety

The graphics in game are top notch making for a beautiful play experience. The levels and enemies also have a good assortment of variety keeping the visuals fresh as the player advances. See More

Top Pro

Clear objectives for each mission with side quests

Each mission in the game has a clear objective within pointing the player in the correct direction. There are also some side quests in these missions allowing for the player to branch off and complete optional tasks. See More

Top Pro

Long playtime

With numerous chapters that have 8 missions each the game tops out at around 16 hours of playtime. See More

Top Pro

Free to try and single in app purchase for full content

Implosion - Never Lose Hope is free to try for six full missions in the first level with a full game unlock through in app purchase for $9.99. See More

Top Pro

Cloud saves through the Google Play Games service

Implosion - Never Lose Hope includes a cloud game save feature through the Google Play Games services. See More

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Top Pro

Tons of replayability thanks to the randomly generated levels

In true roguelike fashion, levels are randomly generated each time a new game is started. On top of this mechanic, Shattered Pixel Dungeon goes one step further by randomizing effects of all items as well, so it's impossible to tell if a dropped item will have a positive or a negative effect based on its sprite representation. See More

Top Con

Hard to master

SPD's difficulty can be a turn off for some players as it is quite challenging and takes a long time to master. While there will be those that enjoy such difficulty, those looking for something easy may not enjoy the game. See More

Specs

Genre:Rougelike RPG

The Bard's Tale

Top Pro

Optional high res textures for Tegra 3 devices

The Bard's Tale allows for a high res texture pack to be downloaded and used if the user is using a Tegra 3 device. See More

Top Con

On screen thumb control has permanent placement

The thumb stick placement on screen does not follow around the users thumb b y where they touch the screen but is static in one place. See More

Specs

Controller Support:Yes(Android)

Top Pro

HID gamepad support

The Bard's Tale support native Android HID. See More

Top Pro

SHIELD games support

SHIELD games support is built into this game. See More

Top Pro

MOGA support

The Bard's Tale has MOGA support built in. See More

Top Pro

Funny and excellent storytelling

Rarely anything on mobile platform is on par with the storytelling in this game. See More

Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition

Top Pro

Very long campaign offers great value

Top Con

Harder to play on devices with small screen due to small UI

Baldur's Gate has a pretty small UI to it and it may be difficult to play on smaller screened devices. 5"+ screen recommended. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Overwhelmingly Positive

Top Pro

Immersive mode

Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition includes immersive mode for devices on Android 4.4+. See More

Top Pro

Deep, detailed RPG mechanics, based of official Wizards of the Coast Advanced D&D 2nd Edition rules

A modified version of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition rules were used to base the gameplay off of in Baldur's Gate. See More

Top Pro

Widely regarded as one of the best PC RPG's ever made

Baldur's Gate set the bar for what all other RPGs would be measured and is still one of the best RPGs ever made. See More

Minecraft - Pocket Edition

Top Pro

Good controller and button mapping support

For those that would like to play with a controller, support was added in July 2015. Anyone with a HID supported controller can easily connect through Bluetooth, and are able to then go into the games setting to map which buttons they want where if the standard setup needs tweaked. This customizability means anyone can adjust the controller to their liking now when using a HID controller. See More

Top Con

Laggy multiplayer gameplay

Depending on the speed of your device, and graphics quality, it tends to lag and load chunks slowly while using the multiplayer function. See More

Specs

Genre:Sandbox / Survival / Indie

Controller Support:[Android: MOGA / HID] [iOS: MFI]

Top Pro

Actively being developed

There are updates to the game all the time, new features do get added at a good pace, which means that not only do bugs get fixed but that the game will constantly be growing as the platform grows with it, which allows more demanding features to be added with time. See More

Top Con

Not as deep as other versions

Minecraft - Pocket Edition does not have as much content as other versions due to it's limited size and resources. See More

Top Pro

Difficult to put down

There is always one more thing that the player can get done before turning off the game. Building a structure and want to complete it, oh but you ran out of materials, well you will need to do down in the caves again. Oh you dies in the cave and need to go back before your items disappear, better get down there again. And so it goes, there is always one more thing to do before you are "done", which is the great appeal of the game, never wanting to stop playing. See More

Top Pro

Players can customize their avatars via Skins

Minecraft for Android now offers player skins so users can customize their avatars look. While some of the skins are free, there are others that cost money through in app purchases offered as skin packs. All skin packs are $0.99 a piece. See More

Top Pro

Randomly generated world

Each new world a player starts is randomly generated, making for a different experience every time a new world is started. See More

Top Pro

Can be played offline

Minecraft - Pocket Edition does not need an internet connection to be played once installed. See More

Top Pro

Functionality of the game can be changed and expanded with mods

Minecraft can be modded to bring extended functionality to the game. Using mods created by the community or mods created by themselves users are able to theme the game to their liking, such as theming the game to look like Grand Theft Auto or add extra crafting objects. See More

Top Pro

Local multiplayer

Minecraft can be played with other people locally over Wi-Fi. See More

Top Pro

Great freedom of expression

In Minecraft you explore different landscapes, fight monsters, gather resources, craft items and build. Build houses, traps, monuments, roller coasters and water slides. See More

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

Top Pro

Great even for casual players

Hearthstone has a friendly learning curve that makes picking it up and getting started easy for people who don't want to spend a lot of time learning rules and tricks. See More

Top Con

Additional "Cards" must be paid for if not earned by continuously playing

There is a bit of a grind in earning new cards, so for those that do not want to spend the large amount of time needed to earn quality cards they will need to be purchased, which can get expensive. See More

Top Pro

Active community

It has a lot of players due to Blizzard's fanbase which means finding multiplayer matches is not all that difficult. See More

Top Con

Heavy reliance on a diverse collection, which takes great time/expense

Top Pro

Brawl events, that don't require you to follow "the meta"

You can take advantage of weekly brawl events that give you a certain set of cards (so no need to pay to stay competitive). It keeps the game fresh, fun and fairly "casual". See More

Top Con

Dependent on Battle.net infrastructure, not playable offline

The game requires a connection with Battle.net servers from the developers, and thus can't be played offline. See More

Top Pro

Familiar characters from Warcraft 3 and World of warcraft

The characters used in Hearthstone are all from the lore of the Warcraft series, making for a familiar universe for fans of the series. See More

Top Con

Much of the mechanics based on random numbers

Random effects in the game use a random number generator, which causes an uncertainty of all outcomes. See More

Top Pro

Multi-platform

Available on mobile and on PC. This makes a great commute companion (provided you have internet) as well as a game that is easily picked up where you last left off no matter the device being used at the time. See More

Top Con

Poor port

Plays much better on PC. Sluggish and crashes often on mobile, sometimes connections can be difficult to make as well. See More

Top Pro

Near-perfect balance between going first or second

There's no significant first-turn or second-turn advantage in Hearthstone. The player going second gets an extra card from his deck as well as "The Coin", a card that gives one extra mana crystal for one turn. This subverts the advantage that would be gained otherwise by the player going first. See More

Top Con

Ridiculously bloated

Over 4 GB data installed on ones device. Which is quite a lot of room, something many might not have to spare. See More

Top Pro

Fast paced battles

In this game, everything happens quickly. See More

Top Con

Sometimes unfair matchmaking

Sometimes players will be matched up with people who clearly have been playing longer. See More

Top Pro

Free to play that doesn't exploit

Yes it's free to play, but it's designed to easily continue to play and have fun without having to feel like you HAVE to pay. At the same time, after playing a while you'll probably want to. See More

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

Top Pro

Graphical settings options

There are actual graphical settings options in the setting of the game allowing the player to choose what settings work best for their device. See More

Top Con

FPS sections are difficult to control

The first person shooter sections of the game can be a bit difficult as the player needs to remove their thumb from one of the touch screen movement sticks to shoot, making parts of movement impossible to control while shooting. See More

Specs

Genre:Action / Open World/ Adventure

Controller Support:HID / MOGA / Shield

Top Pro

Intuitive adapted controls

From what was originally an XBox game meant to be played with a controller, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath has been adapted quite well to touch screen. Intuitive features such as shaking the device to heal puts this game apart from other ports as time was actually taken to figure in features that work on the mobile platform. See More

Civilization Revolution 2

Top Con

Pants maps

The game overall is great, but the maps all have tiny landspaces with lots of water between. Original Civ Rev maps were 100x better. No way to select which map you wish to play on either. Everything else is just a port of the original console version. See More

Top Pro

Long per match length with many ways to replay

TalentedPoludnica's Experience

Fantastic game overall. Basically just a port of the console civ rev, but with different maps. Very immersive and lots of replay value. See More

Top Con

Civilization Revolution 2 is expensive

At $14.99 Civilization Revolution 2 is one of the more expensive games on the Android platform. See More

Top Pro

Randomly generated levels

Each map is the same size but is randomly generated to allow for each new session to play differently from the last. See More

Top Pro

Enhanced graphics

The graphics of Civilization Revolution 2 have been enhanced from the first iteration of the game. See More

Top Pro

Offers lots of replay value

Civilization Revolution 2 offers so many maps, leaders and scenarios that the replayability of the game is pretty much endless. See More

DRAGON QUEST VIII

Top Pro

One handed gameplay design

The game plays in portrait mode to cater to the hardcore Japanese gaming audience that enjoy being able to play with one hand while commuting. See More

Top Con

Removed content from North American PS2 release

Things like the original orchestrated music and voice acting that were in the original North American Playstation 2 release have been removed from the mobile version of the game. Most likely to save room. See More

Specs

Controller Support:No

Top Pro

Fine grained controls over leveling each character

Instead of a class system that is found in all of the previous Dragon Quest titles where players upgrade their player through beating monsters a certain amount of time, Dragon Quest VIII uses a skill system to level up the characters and learn new skills by placing skill points earned through battle into the available skill tree, this allows for a more fine grained approach of leveling a character up. See More

Top Pro

Classic JRPG battle system

As one would expect of a JRPG there are random battles on the map that are strictly turn based. See More

Top Pro

Long

Including side quest the game can easily last over 100 hours. See More

Seabeard

Top Con

Online

a bit of problem for offline players See More

Top Pro

As close to Nintendo quality as Android will get until Nintendo releases mobile games

Seabeard is very similar in style to famous Nintendo games such as Animal Crossing or Fantasy Life. A life adventure game where players can play at their own pace and do as much or as little as they like. See More

Top Con

Freemium

Almost every aspect of the game has some kind of timer attached to it. They of course can be paid to be skipped, but considering how many there are it will deplete the in game earned currency very fast. This of course leads to players having to purchase more in game currency if they want to play at a pace considered normal for console games. See More

Top Pro

Cross platform online multiplayer

Seabeard features cross platform online multiplayer through a Facebook sign in. See More

Top Pro

Daily quests

There are new quests that change daily making for plenty of new things to do in the game if one chooses to do so. See More

Top Pro

Mini games

Everytime the player chooses to sail to another island there is a random minigame that the player will take part in. Some of these games include shooting target and a slalom course. See More

Joe Danger

Top Pro

Daily chalenges

There are daily challenges in Joe Danger that offer a new level to beat each day. See More

Top Con

In app purchases despite being upfront paid

There are in app purchases that range from $1.16 - $15.06 per item for purchasing in game currency, something that is usually found in free to play games. Sadly this is an upfront paid game that has a price of $2.86, that still wants users to spend even more money on the game after they already bought it. See More

Top Pro

Intuitive yet complex controls

The controls for the game are unlocked slowly while playing as to allow the player to learn them. Luckily all the actions are intuitive yet remain complex allowing many maneuvers and tricks to be pulled off. See More

Top Pro

Over 20 hours of gameplay

Joe Danger features over 20 hours of gameplay, making for a game that has console quality length. See More

Top Pro

Controller support

Joe Danger supports MOGA, Nvidia Shield and system wide HID. See More

Top Pro

Built from the ground up

The developer Hello Games built Joe Danger from the ground up for the mobile platform which allows for a better design to the touch controls than a port would have allowed. Considering how many ports Android receives, it is refreshing to see a developer that makes an effort to create a worthwhile game for Android instead of the easy cash in of a lazy port. See More

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