Mobile RPGs for Android: Dive into captivating stories, battles, and decisions while gaming on your smartphone.
Top 5 Role-Playing Games For Android
Role-playing games can be huge time investments filled with story, characters, decisions, combat, and exploration. Thankfully, Android offers some great options for satisfying your RPG itch.
Konami’s influential Castlevania series finally hits Android with this port of Symphony of the Night. It joins Super Metroid as one of the defining games that launched an entire genre.
Aster Tatariqus
This mobile game is set at the Astera academy, where aspiring heroes train to battle the forces of Barbaroy, a faction of demons and monstrous creatures that threaten to wipe humanity from history. It’s touted as having the biggest story in terms of volume in mobile gaming, with wildly branching narratives and multiple consequences to your choices.
You’ll follow Noir, a young man who has the responsibility of saving the world. In his struggle against the enemies of mankind — the Barbaroi — he learns of a mysterious power and must make a choice that will utterly redefine his destiny.
Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis
This free-to-play smartphone game from Applibot and Square Enix offers a chapter-structured RPG experience that covers the events of the Final Fantasy VII Compilation in mobile-optimized fashion. At launch, this includes a full adaptation of the original Final Fantasy VII up through the Kalm flashback and Crisis Core, as well as new content surrounding young Sephiroth.
The graphics are inspired by Final Fantasy VII’s iconic style and the fast-paced command-based battles are reminiscent of FF7’s Active Time Battle system. However, this game is not without its caveats: gacha elements, a story that dragged on too long, and the usual mobile monetisation horrors. Nevertheless, it’s a solid entry into the Final Fantasy VII collection.
Black Clover M
Developed by Vic Game Studios and published by Garena, Black Clover M is based on the popular anime series. The gacha-style mobile game features an assortment of fan-favorite characters and puts them right in your hands for battling, story-driven quests, and exploring the magical world.
The gameplay mechanics in Black Clover M separate stamina for story mode progression and resource mission farming, offering a unique experience. Prioritize story progress and strategically allocate your resources to ensure the best possible gaming experience.
Healers are vital to any team formation as they can reduce skill cooldowns and apply crucial buffs or debuffs to enemies. Tanks are also essential as they are the most durable members of a team.
Ikemen Villains: Wrapped in Romance
The newest installment in Cybird’s Ikemen series, this mobile game offers players the chance to romance – well – villains. It’s set in 19th century England, where a common woman stumbles upon an organisation mandated by the Queen that employs members hit by fairy tale curses.
The main character is a 19th century girl with a massive sweet tooth who unabashedly enjoys her food. She’s not as worldly as the MC of Ikemen Revolution, but she still has plenty of angst and a spicy romance to match.
This is a city-building fantasy RPG that focuses on teaming up characters to become couples and increase their power. It’s scheduled to release in 2023 on iOS and Android.
Engage Kill
Square Enix has opened the pre-registration campaign for smartphone game Engage Kill, a mobile adaptation of the Project Engage multi-media project. The game is a free-to-play RPG that features an anime-like timeline battle system.
In the game, you establish your own private military company to deal with a world that is plagued by D disasters. Characters from the original anime series like Shu, Kisara and Ayano make appearances.
With a star-studded voice cast and exhilarating anime-like timeline battles, Engage Kill is a must-play mobile RPG for fans of the anime franchise. Its multiplayer mode allows you to fight alongside your friends. It also offers a hint system that helps you overcome tough situations in the game.
Evil Prince and the Puppet
Evil Prince and the Puppet is an otome featuring gorgeous aesthetics and a carefully crafted story. In a world ravaged by the Black Sea, a group of girls specialize in taking down magical beasts that emerge from its waters. They train, bond, and grow into couples as they progressively increase their power.
This is a rerelease of an NIS classic that originally released for the PlayStation in 1998, then remade in 2008. The Attract Mode song features Cornet singing about every trope the game’s genre can think of, and Kururu teasing her about dreams of finding a prince.