Hardcore Droid: Mobile gaming is its own animal with its own unique set of challenges and perks. Unfortunately, much of its character is shaped by the cost-to-profit ratio that’s made mobile gaming a gold mine to some. The cost of entry is dirt cheap and the money aims to keep it that way, which is why mobile developers continue to develop bite-sized games delivered in bite-sized chunks. It’s also why you can’t ask how well an Android RPG holds up when compared to a cross-platform role-playing game like Skyrim that was built by a veritable army of developers. It follows that because we don’t have vast, resource-rich development houses like Bethesda working on Android RPGs, nothing on par with the Elder Scrolls franchise has yet reared its head. And yet a number of intrepid Android developers have opted to try and build 3D, open world role-playing games for mobile. Most of these titles fall under the umbrella of crapware and play like an undergraduate’s failed senior project, and yet, there are a couple of exceptions.
If you looking for a great Android RPG, we offer you the following lists of the the best Android RPGs You Never Heard Of.
I'm not big on phone games, but Lone Wolf and Atom RPG are great games and work well on a phone.
That said, it blows my mind they didn't include at least one Dragon Quest/Warrior or Final Fantasy game.
They have a great port for FF Tactics: War of the Lions damn it. Show it some love.
Indie games in Android land wax rather indie. I am going to tell you now that somewhere below the Android indie cellar is a sub-cellar wherein dwell solo devs and two-man teams—sub-basement Android indies. The freakish step-child of the gaming industry. But, as is true with any cadre of social misfits, some rather compelling stuff occasionally pokes its woolly head out of this outsider morass. If you’re looking to play rich, compelling RPGs on your phone, there is within said midden heap a small cache of absolute gems, which is, of course, what our list is all about. Beyond shining a spotlight on said hidden treasure, however, the criteria for the “You Never Heard Of” lists is the absolute best Android indie RPGs with less than 10K downloads. To be sure, the following indie RPGs did not receive the love they deserve, though, of course, our latest edition of the Ten Best Android RPGs You Never Heard of is, at the end of the day, for you.
For many, the premise behind a list of the best Android RPGs amounts to a contradiction in terms. Most of us who work and play in the mobile gaming sphere do in fact understand that our platform of choice is the red-haired stepchild of the gaming industry. Believe it or not, if you dig down a level deeper into the sub-cellar of small one, two-man indie dev teams, you have a subgenre that is the village idiot of the gaming industry. Thing is, as with the best social misfits, some genuinely compelling stuff has reared its wholly head out of the depths of gaming’s social underbelly.
