50 Best Free Mobile Games To Play in 2023

The best things in life are free, and the same goes for video games. Mobile gaming has seen an incredible rise in the last few years, and plenty of big franchises are moving to handheld gaming and phones. And while ads are still annoying, it’s a small price to pay to have top-notch content for free. We decided to put together this list of the 50 best free mobile games based on reviews and ratings, and I gotta tell you there is something for everyone, from puzzles to time management, mysteries, hidden objects, and even cross-platform shooters. Let’s see what are the absolute must be play mobile games in 2023.

Editor’s Note: This list was updated in November 2023 and includes the newest and hottest free releases.

1. TSM

TSM is a mobile game that allows players to create and customize Sims with unique personalities, appearances, and lifestyles. Players can personalize homes, choose furniture and decorations, and guide Sims through various aspects of life, including careers, relationships, and family building. The game also features social elements, allowing players to host parties, attend social events, and even move in with other players’ Sims for collaborative gameplay.

2. Mario Kart Tour

Mario Kart Tour offers global multiplayer races for up to eight players with customizable rules. Explore real-world cities alongside classic Mario Kart courses, experiencing endless Mario Kart fun with simple touchscreen controls and the addition of powerful items and Frenzy mode.

3. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery

This Harry Potter-inspired game allows players to roleplay as a new witch or wizard at Hogwarts, learning spells and brewing potions while progressing through the years. Immerse yourself in the Harry Potter universe, investigate mysteries, including the truth behind Cursed Vaults and a brother’s disappearance, and make impactful choices in this magical adventure filled with chapters and episodes. Unravel magic puzzles and take your place among Hogwarts students in a captivating and immersive experience.

4. Penguin Isle

In Penguin Isle, raise and collect a variety of adorable penguins by creating their habitats, decorating with over 300 themes, and enjoying idle gameplay with a soothing melody and the sound of waves. Dress up your penguin, explore beautiful polar scenery, and engage in a mini-game for extra fun, creating a relaxing and charming gaming experience.

5. I Love Hue

I Love Hue is a visually soothing color grid puzzle game where players reorder mosaics of colored tiles into harmonious spectrums. With a minimalistic aesthetic and a tranquil synth soundtrack, the game offers a gentle and mesmerizing puzzle experience based on perception rather than logic. Featuring over 900 levels, multiple play modes, and the ability to compare performance globally.

6. Fruit Ninja®

Fruit Ninja is a game that probably anyone with a phone has heard of. The game has three classic game modes—Arcade, Zen, and Classic—players can dodge bombs, achieve high scores, and equip power-ups for an extra boost while also engaging in challenging clashes in Event mode and competing with friends in local multiplayer matches. The game can also be played offline in single-player mode, however you do need internet connectivity for multiplayer and for leaderboards.

7. Shadow Fight 3 – RPG fighting

In this epic fighting game, players create their hero from options like a black ninja, honorable knight, or skilled samurai, winning unique skins in battles for a personalized look. Engage in hero battles with distinct fighting styles, allowing customization to create a unique combat approach, and explore a captivating storyline that unfolds based on your chosen clan, with powerful bosses and time travel adding depth to the narrative.

8. Dumb Ways To Draw

Dumb Ways to Draw is a unique drawing puzzle game set in the world of Dumb Ways To Die, where players sketch lines to save the Beans in a brand-new adventure. With interesting puzzles, real physics interactions, and various scenarios to save beans, the game offers a fresh and entertaining experience featuring shiny pencils, funny death moments, and localization in multiple languages.

9. Another Eden

Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space is a single-player JRPG offering a fully solo experience with no time-limited content. The game also boasts an extensive volume of content, featuring a profound story that spans past, present, and future. With additional crossover quests, a rich orchestral soundtrack, and unique character personalities voiced by talented actors.

10. Diablo Immortal

This is a mobile action RPG set in the Diablo universe. It bridges the gap between the events of Diablo II and Diablo III, offering an immersive storyline. Players can choose from familiar classes, explore dungeons, and engage in dynamic combat, bringing the Diablo experience to mobile platforms.

11. Tiny Room Stories Town Mystery

In this detective game, you receive a letter from your father and venture to the empty town of Redcliff to uncover the mystery of its missing inhabitants and your father’s disappearance. The gameplay involves exploring fully 3D levels, rotating environments for different perspectives, and solving puzzles in a mix of escape the room and classic quest elements.

12. WordBrain – Word puzzle game

WordBrain is a word puzzle game that has been used by over 40 million word geniuses to sharpen their word searching and logic skills. As you progress through thousands of challenging puzzles, the game introduces a unique way of thinking beyond traditional word searches or crossword puzzles. Starting with easy anagram puzzles, the game gets trickier with hidden words, challenging players to apply logic and increase their brain size score.

13. Sherlock – Hidden Object Mystery

While Sherlock – Hidden Object Mystery is free to play, optional in-app purchases unlock bonuses like with the majority of the games on this list. Choose between finding hidden objects or matching gems to uncover clues, complete quests, explore colorful locations from famous books, meet familiar characters, solve perplexing puzzles, and follow a gripping storyline, with regular free updates introducing new books and cases.

14. Call of Duty: Mobile

Call of Duty: Mobile brings Call of Duty well to phones. It includes multiplayer modes like Team Deathmatch, Domination, and Kill-Confirmed on familiar maps such as Shipment, Raid, and Standoff. Squad up, survive thrilling multiplayer experiences, and enjoy the fast-paced 5v5 team deathmatch, intense Zombies action, and sniper vs. sniper battles anytime, anywhere on your phone.

15. Modern Combat 5

This is a Call of Duty mobile ripoff; let’s be honest, it has all the same game modes like Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Push the Payload, Free-for-All, Battle Royale, and a thrilling single-player campaign. You can also participate in weekly events to win rewards, embark on a mobile shooter campaign with fast-paced story missions, and customize over ten unique classes, each with its own modern combat style in this action-packed first-person shooter game.

16. RPG Toram Online

In RPG Toram Online, unleash your creativity with over 500 billion character creation possibilities. Choose your own fighting style without set professions, customize your character’s skills with a versatile Skill Tree system, and color your weapons as you like.

17. Tsuki Adventure

Tsuki Adventure is a game with an emphasis on exploration. Tsuki, lonely and stressed in a chaotic city life, receives a letter from his late grandfather, inheriting a carrot farm in Mushroom Village. The move to the countryside brings a new beginning, allowing Tsuki to appreciate simple joys like fishing with friends and enjoying ramen.

18. Fortnite Mobile

Fortnite Mobile was highly controversial due to Epic Games’ lawsuit against Google. But still, this doesn’t take away from an excellent game. With Fortnite Mobile, you know exactly what you’re getting, completely free of charge.

19. Gwent: The Witcher Card Game

I’ve yet to find a single person who actually knows how Gwent works and enjoyed the in-game mini-game, but here we are. Collect iconic heroes like Geralt and Yennefer, strategically build decks, and use spells to turn the tide in classic, seasonal, and Arena modes. With a fair progression system and stunning hand-drawn art.

20. RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch

Return to the gold standard of 3D park-building sims in RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch. You will manage everything—from coasters and rides to shops, restaurants, and janitors. Use the roller coaster builder to create thrilling rides with loops, rolls, twists, and more. Collect and customize hundreds of attractions, upgrade your park, earn rewards through challenges, and even visit friends’ parks in this feature-packed experience.

21. Life Gallery

Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that immerses players in a world of profound horror. Produced by 751 Games, the game unfolds through a series of more than 50 illustrations, inviting players to solve puzzles, unravel mysteries, and explore a dark and chilling storyline involving twins, a broken household, and a mysterious fish-head cult.

22. Good Pizza, Great Pizza

Run your own pizza shop in TapBlaze’s cooking game made by professionals. Manage pizza orders, make money, and upgrade your restaurant to compete against the pizza rival Alicante. With over 100 customers, unique pizza orders, and equipment upgrades.

23. Hidden City: Hidden Object

Embark on a hidden object mobile journey and explore mystery locations, solve brain puzzles, and uncover clues in a detective adventure story. Meet distinctive characters, join friends to fight evil, and enjoy regular free updates with new content in a world where magic, witchcraft, and science converge.

24. Card Thief

Card Thief, the sequel to Card Crawl, brings a solitaire-style card game that condenses the classic stealth genre. Engage in 4 different heists, each with unique enemies and obstacles, using 12 unlockable and upgradeable equipment cards. With solitaire gameplay, mini deck building, and deep tactical planning, Card Thief offers quick 2-3 minute play sessions, challenging your skills in a stealthy adventure.

25. Assassin’s Creed Rebellion

Assassin’s Creed Rebellion is the official mobile Strategy-RPG set in the Assassin’s Creed universe. Experience memories from the past with a new version of the Animus, allowing you to play with different Assassins simultaneously. Build and manage your own Brotherhood, gather over 70 characters, train and promote assassins, and strengthen your forces to unite against the Templars in Spain.

26. Albion Online

Albion Online is a free-to-play MMO offering a vast open world, hardcore PvE and PvP combat, a player-driven economy, and a unique classless system where “you are what you wear.” Engage in thrilling open-world and arena battles, conquer territories, and build a homestead. With cross-platform play, explore diverse biomes, participate in full-loot PvP, and shape the player-driven economy by crafting and trading.

27. Hearthstone

Hearthstone needs no introduction! Choose your strategy, whether aggressive rushing or powerful card-building, and play in different modes like Standard, Wild, and Casual for both PvP and PvE challenges. Engage in ranked matches or friendly challenges to test your skills and climb the ranks.

28. Gumballs & Dungeons(G&D)

Gumballs & Dungeons is a mysterious adventure game where puny monsters counterattack powerful bosses. Join worldwide players in 22 roguelike mazes with random starts and stops. Collect over 200 distinctive Gumballs, strategically defeat bosses, and explore endless adventures in the celestial city.

29. Miracle Merchant

In Miracle Merchant, you become an apprentice alchemist, creating potions for thirsty customers by mixing and combining different ingredient cards. The game features solitaire-style gameplay with a unique, randomly generated set of cards in each game.

30. I am innocent

Investigate a series of murders with teenage victims related to the disappearance of your sister many years ago in this mystery and texting game. Dive into a realistic detective simulator with interactive elements, group chats, calls, and criminal evidence to unravel the mystery and find the killer. With dozens of hours of gameplay and unusual characters, it blends the traditions of crime scene investigation games like Criminal Case and Simulacra with the storytelling style of Duskwood and Bitlife.

31. Fallout Shelter

Coming from the Fallout Universe, Fallout Shelter allows you to build the perfect underground Vault by selecting modern-day rooms and overseeing a thriving community of Dwellers. Lead them to happiness, customize their appearance, and prosper by attracting new Dwellers and exploring the wasteland for survival loot.

32. BitLife – Life Simulator

In BitLife, live your life by making choices that lead to different outcomes. Strive to become a model citizen with a happy family and a successful career, or take a different path filled with adventures, crime, and unconventional decisions. Your choices shape your unique story in this interactive text life simulator, offering a realistic simulation of adult life.

33. Sumikkogurashi Farm

Grow crops, make snacks, and create your own charming farm. Harvest crops, craft snacks, and dishes, and fulfill orders to earn XP and coins. Level up to expand your farm, decorate with various items, and unlock titles. Enjoy dressing up Sumikkogurashi and interact with your unique farm using social features.

34. Deep Town: Idle Mining Tycoon

Deep Town: Mining Factory is an idle tycoon game blending mining, crafting, and management. Dig, craft, and optimize resources to build a mining empire. Use spells to explore zones and rockets to mine asteroids in outer space.

35. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, you can design your campsite with a variety of furniture, tents, and accessories. Create themed setups, from a cozy café to an outdoor music festival. Collect items from events, including furniture and clothing, with over 1,000 pieces to choose from. Befriend animals, fulfill their requests, and invite them to your campsite.

36. PUBG Mobile

PUBG Mobile offers an epic battle royale experience with numerous events and intense 10-minute matches. Explore various maps and modes for thrilling survival, and play anytime, anywhere on mobile.

37. The Bonfire 2 Uncharted Shores

In this city-building game, design and manage your city, overseeing resources and unique worker personalities. Explore a procedurally generated world with ships, trade-in free cities, and delve into mysterious dungeons. Strategic building placement is crucial for resource management, and you must build a powerful settlement, acquiring magical artifacts to combat an ancient evil.

38. Soul Knight

This shooter game offers easy and intuitive controls, featuring 20+ unique heroes, 400+ weapons, and randomly generated dungeons. The gameplay includes an auto-aim mechanism for smooth control and supports multiplayer modes for online co-op or offline LAN games.

39. My Tamagotchi Forever

Adopt Tamagotchi characters, care for them, play minigames, and explore Tamatown. Customize your companions with cute outfits, raise them with proper care to see them evolve, and collect a variety of Tamagotchi characters.

40. Pocket City Free

In Pocket City, you play as the mayor, building and managing your own city. Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones, build parks, and respond to crime and disasters. The free version offers a taste of the experience, while the full version, with additional features, provides the complete city-building simulation, including a sandbox mode where everything is unlocked.

41. Pokemon Go

Pokémon GO is a global adventure where you explore the world, catch Pokémon, and complete your Pokédex. Join the GO Battle League to battle other Trainers online. Strengthen your Pokémon by journeying with your Buddy and participating in Gym battles and Raid Battles with other Trainers.

42. Rebel Inc.

From the creators of Plague Inc. comes Rebel Inc. where you are tasked with stabilizing seven detailed regions using innovative counter-insurgency tactics. Empower the local government with realistic initiatives and navigate a hyper-realistic world based on thorough research.

43. Dead Cells

A part of the ‘Castlevania’ franchise, Dead Cells allows you to explore Dracula’s Castle and its outskirts in two new biomes, face nine new monsters, and wield 14 new weapons like the Vampire Killer and Holy Water. Confront three new bosses, including Death and Dracula, and dress up in 20 new outfits resembling Castlevania characters.

44. Diner DASH Adventures

Diner DASH Adventures elevates casual cooking simulation with classic time management challenges. Cook delicious dishes, match orders, and renovate the town in a fast-paced cooking simulator.

45. Merge Dragons!

Match over 500 objects through 81 challenges, evolving them by matching 3 of a kind. Explore a beautiful world, match Life Essence to unleash healing power, and solve puzzles by matching Gaia statues. Collect 37 new dragon breeds, evolving them through 8 growth stages by matching eggs.

46. Marvel Contest of Champions

In Marvel Contest of Champions, you take control of iconic Marvel characters like Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Wolverine, and more. The Collector has summoned you to engage in epic battles against villains like Thanos and Kang the Conqueror. Team up with friends to build a strong Alliance, strategize together, and participate in Alliance Events and Wars.

47. Bubble Witch 3 Saga

In Bubble Witch 3 Saga, join Stella the Witch on a magical bubble-shooting puzzle adventure to defeat the mischievous Wilbur. Pop bubbles with precision using the magical aiming line, solve puzzles to reunite ghosts, save owls, and free fairies.

48. Marvel SNAP

Marvel Snap is a fast-paced collectible card game featuring Marvel Super Heroes and Villains. Build a deck of 12 cards, each with unique powers. Outsmart and outwit opponents in 3-minute games.

49. One Piece Treasure Cruise

Join Luffy, Zoro, and Nami to build your dream crew of pirates. Recruit over 2,000 characters from every arc, island, and season of One Piece. Assemble heroes and villains, sail iconic ships like the Thousand Sunny, and relive the entire One Piece storyline.

50. Gardenscapes

I’m sure that you’ve all seen the ads but Gardenscapes is truly a good game. You get to solve match-3 puzzles to restore a stunning garden to its former glory. Beat unique match-3 levels, decorate the garden, and uncover its secrets. Enjoy the company of amusing characters, including Austin, your butler.

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