The 11 best free Android games of 2015 come to show just how ridiculously developed mobile computing has become recently. As much as ten years ago people were making insane profits from portable consoles dedicated specifically to playing games which were so tightly optimized for it that you could get pretty good graphics (for a portable device) on a system with a CPU clocked at around 300MHz. However, the moment you shut off the game and try to do anything other than media playback, such as browsing your favorite forum or image board, the shortcomings of such a system come to light. Eventually gaming took off even higher than before, which you can read more about in our article on the 16 best selling video games in 2015. Simultaneously, mobile technology kept on pushing the boundaries to the point where it became powerful enough to handle all you could expect from a phone plus a PDA and a portable gaming console, effectively making the former disappear from the markets and delivering a painful blow to the industry of portable gaming devices.
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Nowadays you can grab your phone and successfully do your job on it, all while listening to music and reading about the weather forecast for the next week/planning your route to your next holiday destination of choice without the device stuttering the least bit. Of course, while hardware has developed immensely, following Moore’s law almost perfectly and doubling up every two years, none of this would be possible without the operating systems that hold it all together. Many have come and gone, some better than others. We saw the rise and fall of Palm OS, Nokia’s attempts at branding their own with MeeGo and Maemo and we continue to be right in the middle of the never ending success of the two mobile OS giants – Android and iOS. While some scantily clad young person in the street will, without a doubt, have no preference over one or the other, people with more technical knowledge are willing to battle to their death to prove the superiority of either. While there is a lot that can be said about the pros and cons of both, this article will show you how you can most effectively waste your time on the one with the bigger market share and versatility – Android.
Mobile devices are taking an inevitable turn towards becoming more and more entertainment-oriented and mobile gaming right now is a blooming business after the introduction of schemes such as the app markets and freemium games. This list will show you the most often downloaded/played and rated free(mium) mobile games on the Google Play store which can all, interestingly enough, be found in the “Most Grossing” section for a number of reasons – they are all free and, just like the majority of free games, rely on in game currency purchases, they are all very strongly marketed and thus – very widely known. Let’s take a look at them.
11.Taichi Panda
With a name that sounds like a innovatively marketed bootleg copy of Kung-Fu Panda, comes the dungeon crawler/ RPG called Taichi Panda which has already enjoyed upwards of thirty million downloads worldwide.
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10.Slotomania
People who get addicted to slot machines in real life go to therapy. People who get addicted to slot machines on their phones go and leave bad reviews for the game when things go wrong. One thing’s for sure, though – this “free” game is raking in some serious profit for its creators.
9.Stormfall: Rise of Balur
Our ninth spot belongs to Stormfall: Rise of Balur, a strategy MMO that has successfully deployed the age old formula – build your kingdom fast with in game currency or get ravaged by your friends who will later rub it in your face.
8.Galaxy Legend
Speaking of this age old formula, our eighth contender takes it and puts a flashy space-age twist on it where you have to basically do the same things all over but with more space ships and explosions.
7.Empire: Four Kingdoms
Our seventh spot goes out to Empire: Four Kingdoms. Just like the previous two, this game is sort of like FarmVille, except with soldiers, battles and conquering other people’s farm… empires, I mean.
6.Top Eleven: Be a Soccer Manager
Following the success of the browser-based soccer management games, this one took the concept and its execution and squished it tight enough to fit on your mobile phone’s screen.
5.Castle Clash
Anything with “Clash” in the name should tell you just what type of game you are looking at. Continuing the streak of build-protect-conquer-repeat games, the fifth spot in the list of the 11 best free android games goes to Castle Clash.
4.Game of War – Fire Age
“Will you build an empire that lasts?” – asks our fourth contender. The answer is – probably not. However, you will likely shell out ten or twenty dollars while racing other empires which is more than enough for the developers.
3.Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
For our third spot, this is a truly original experience, albeit based on one of the oldest concepts. A full-blown combat card game of its own sort, Hearthstone has taken both PC and mobile gaming by storm.
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2.Clash of Kings
The second spot goes to another “Clash” type of contraption with Clash of Kings being the name and very closely resembling the other such apps, including the one you are about to see is the game.
1.Clash of Clans
On TV, your favorite website you never tell anyone about or in some other game, you have surely seen a Clash of Clans advertisement. It is the most profitable and played free game on the market right now, taking the first place in the list of 11 best free Android games of 2015.
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