15 best card games for Android!
Card games are a fantastic form of entertainment. They work anywhere and everywhere, they’re small enough to fit into a bag for travel, and there are many different kinds of card games out there. However, they can be boiled down into three varieties. There are your classic card games like Poker, Spades, and Solitaire. Then, you have more complex card games like Hearthstone, Clash Royale, and Reigns. Finally, you have your party card games like Exploding Kittens. We have a selection of both varieties on this list so let’s get right to it. Here are the best card games on Android!
AI Factory Limited card games
Price: Free / Varies
AI Factory Limited is a developer on Google Play. They make tons of card games and board games. Some of their offerings include Euchre, Spades, Solitaire, Gin Rummy, and Hearts. The games aren’t overly complex nor are they much to look at. However, they are rock solid. It’s a good way to get some simple card games on the cheap. They don’t take up much space on your phone and they just work. You can get them for free if you don’t mind ads. The paid version removes the advertising.
Clash Royale
Price: Free to play
Clash Royale is one of the most popular card games ever. This one plays a lot like Hearthstone and features many of the same mechanics. You’ll be collecting cards based on the characters of the Clash of Clans universe and then using them to duel other players. It has one of the healthiest online communities that you can find these days. You can even join a clan to share cards and challenge clan members. It’s a freemium game. That’s not great, but at least it still plays well.
Clue
Price: $1.99 with in-app purchases
Clue is a mobile remake of the classic board game. Players shuffle about a map, collect clues, and try to guess the killer’s name, weapon of choice, and place of the murder. Players collect various cards with the suspects, tools, and locations. They then play one of each to guess the murderer. It’s a fairly faithful port of the original board game. There are additional micro-transactions in the game as well. However, they are wholly optional after you pay the $1.99 for the main game. We would like to include something like Uno. However, the mobile versions of a lot of those simple card games got wrecked by the freemium business model. Clue may be stretching the definition of card games a little bit, but it’s still a good game.
The Elder Scrolls: Legends
Price: Free to play
We’re calling our shot a bit with this one. It still isn’t out officially just yet (at the time of this writing). However, we have played the game. It’s one of the better card games for sure. It competes with games like Clash of Clans and Hearthstone. You’ll collect cards, build a deck, and then duel opponents. It has a campaign mode, an online PvP mode, and more. The mechanics include lanes to add an extra strategical mechanic to the combat. It’ll be good whenever it eventually comes out. You can pre-register now at least. Or, maybe if you’re reading this later, it might actually be out.
Exploding Kittens
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Exploding Kittens is one of the newer card games. This one is actually a successful Kickstarter project. The way this one work is you play with two to five players. Each player draws cards until one of them gets an exploding kitten. If they don’t have a diffuse card, their game is over right there on the spot. You can also play local multiplayer or with strangers on the Internet. You get a selection of cards for free when you download the game. There are a bunch of extras available as in-app purchases as well. Some don’t like the nickel-and-dime strategy, but at least most of the DLC is permanent.
Hearthstone
Price: Free to play
Hearthstone is one of the most popular card games out there. With that comes a fairly large and loyal following of players that you can watch on Twitch or YouTube at your leisure. The game itself comes with hundreds of cards so that you can build some truly unique decks. It also features the ability to make multiple decks. That helps add some variety into the game. It gets semi-regular updates to include new content and the game is almost exclusively multiplayer. It’s free with in-app purchases. You can also sign up for a Battle.net account and play your save file on PC. This one is rather old, but it’s still pretty good.
Magic: The Gathering Puzzle Quest
Price: Free to play
Magic: The Gathering Puzzle Quest is a match-three game with card collecting elements. Players collect cards from the famous Magic: The Gathering collection, build decks, and go head-to-head with opponents. However, the developers added a match-three mechanic in with the usual card play. The game also boasts recent cards like the 2020 core set and other such things. Of course, there is online PvP as well if you want to go that route. It’s a solid card game all around although people who dislike match-three games may want to skip this one.
Microsoft Solitaire
Price: Free / Up to $9.99
Microsoft Solitaire is one of the most popular card games ever. Those who had a PC in the 1990’s and 2000’s no doubt remember playing Microsoft Solitaire. This is a refresh of that old game. It includes the original Solitaire along with four other variants. That includes Freecell, Tripeaks, Spider, and Pyramid. The game also includes daily challenges, Xbox Live achievements, and cross-platform support with Windows 10. It even has the original victory animation from the old PC days. It’s a good card game that works. The only real complaint we saw were the annoying advertisements.
Pokemon TCG Online
Price: Free to play
Pokemon TCG Online is different from most mobile Pokemon games. Those games have you collecting the actual monsters and battling them out. This one, however, is modeled after the actual card game. Players collect cards, build decks, and take on one another in glorious battle. There is an online PvP mode, a mode to play with friends, and you can even trade cards with other players. Most of the complaints we’ve seen are login issues and crash issues on Chromebooks. Otherwise, people seem to like this one.
Reigns trilogy
Price: $2.99-$3.99 each
Reigns is a trilogy of popular card games. The premise is the same between all three games. Players are presented with a scenario on a card. The player swipes the card left or right to answer yes or no. The goal is to rule your kingdom for as long as possible. The first game provides the most basic experience. Meanwhile, the second game (Reigns: Her Majesty) and the third game (Reigns: Game of Thrones) add more game mechanics, actual story line, missions, and all kinds of extra mechanics. They are all relatively inexpensive and none of them have ads or in-app purchases. Reigns: Game of Thrones is the most recent so we linked it at the button above.
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RWBY: Amity Arena
Price: Free to play
RWBY: Amity Arena is one of the newer card games on the list. It’s a lot like Hearthstone, Clash Royale, and similar games. You collect a variety of cards from the RWBY universe and duel it out against online opponents. The game boasts dozens of collectible cards, online multiplayer (obviously), tournaments, leaderboards, and some other game play features. The matchmaking definitely needs some work and there are the occasional balance issues. We don’t think it’s pay-to-win, but we can definitely see why some people would say that. However, it’s otherwise a fun little time waster card game, especially for fans of the RWBY series.
Say WHAT?!
Price: Free / Up to $9.99
Say WHAT? is, well, a mobile clone of the popular Cards Against Humanity game. We would list CAH here if it had a mobile version, but it does not. Say WHAT? lets you play games with various people with the usual array of raunchy, potentially offensive cards. You can play with friends or with random people as you choose and the game has a bunch of cards. That basically fulfills all of the qualifications. Cards Against games aren’t complex, really. If this one doesn’t work, try Evil Apples or Words Against Humanity. Both of those are solid substitutes as well. They are all free with optional in-app purchases that usually include card packs, the ability to remove ads, and some other stuff.
TopDecked MTG
Price: Free / Optional subscriptions
TopDecked MTG is an excellent app for those who play the physical Magic: The Gathering card game. For players, it has a deck builder, a deck simulator, cloud syncing, card prices, and all kinds of other little tools. For card shops, the app helps you organize, promote, and hold Magic: The Gathering events and tournaments. The app is free for player user and for basic promotional use. However, there are rather expensive subscriptions available for heavier use by card shops and tournament holders.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
Price: Free to play
There are many Yu-Gi-Oh! card games in the Play Store. However, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links seems to be the most popular and highest rated one. Players collect cards, build decks, and duel it out against AI and human opponents. The free to play mechanics are surprisingly kind to players and even criticisms of the game seem to always come with compliments as well. It’s emulates the Yu-Gi-Oh! style about as well as can be expected for a free to play game and it remains fresh even if it’s not a young game anymore.
Zynga Poker
Price: Free to play
Zynga Poker is one of the better online poker card games for Android. It plays like you would expect a free to play online poker game to play. Players log in, join in tournaments and games, and either lose or win. Zynga boasts certification to act like a real table experience although some of the bigger detractors debate it. In any case, the free chip system is generous enough and you don’t really have to pay to play if you don’t want to. The game definitely has flaws, but generally fewer of them than most of its competitors.
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