15 best open world games for Android
Open world games are interesting. The players have the entire game world at hand. They can explore, make the story, do side quests, and generally walk around the game world as they like. Grand Theft Auto III revolutionized the genre and one of the most popular games in the world, Minecraft, is an open world too. You can find the open world mechanic in shooters, role-playing games, adventure games, and all sorts of other genres. That means you have a wide choice. Here are the best open world games for Android.
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ARK: evolved survival
Price: Free to Play / $ 4.99 per month / $ 39.99 per year
ARK: Survival Evolved is an open world adventure game with survival and other game elements. Players try to survive a landscape full of dinosaurs. You can build a base, tame the various dinosaurs for your own use, make things, and build things. There is also a social element. You can play with (or against) other players and even join Tribes for more cooperative play. The game is free to play with an optional subscription. The subscription grants double experience points and connections to better servers. In all honesty, you don’t really need it to enjoy the game.
Baldur’s Gate: Extended Edition
Price: $ 9.99 for in-app purchases
Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition is a port of the popular open-world role-playing game from the early 2000s. It features a long, complex storyline and a huge world for you to explore at your leisure. It is a faithful replica of the original and is played like the original without touchscreen controls. We recommend this for larger displays as the user interface can be a bit cluttered. Otherwise, it’s a standout RPG experience. There are in-app purchases, but the only thing you can buy is language packs for your character. The game also includes all of the DLC from the original. The game hasn’t seen an update since 2018, but the developers are working on a fairly large patch as of this writing.
Crashlands
Price: $ 6.99
Crashlands is one of the really great open world games for mobile. It is an adventure game with RPG elements. Players land on a planet and have to get back the packages they promised. There are over 500 items to craft, a huge world to explore, and players can even build bases and tame creatures. To top it off, the game offers cloud storage and cross-platform support. This is one that you can sink your teeth into and play for a very long time. It’s also free if you use Google Play Games.
Don’t Starve (two games)
Price: $ 4.99 each
Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition and Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked are two excellent survival games for the open world. You will be transported into a strange world in which you have to make ends meet yourself. It offers a classic survival theme with some modern twists. There are things to collect, tinker, and build as you explore the game world. The game also includes multiple biomes and seasons. The only real downside are the controls. The touchscreen controls are a bit dodgy but play a lot better on a controller.
Gangster Vegas: World of Crime
Price: Play for free
Gangster Vegas: World of Crime is one of the oldest open world games for Android. It’s a riff from the popular Grand Theft Auto franchise. The player is transferred to a city and can traverse the city at will while completing story missions and side quests. There are also a variety of mini-games such as the casino, racing challenges, collectibles, and other things to keep the player busy. It pales in comparison to the size and depth of a console or PC game like Grand Theft Auto 5, but is a viable replacement and a good open world adventure game with shooter elements.
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Genshin Impact
Price: Play for free
Genshin Impact is one of the newer open world mobile games. It’s very reminiscent of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. You can explore a huge open world and crawl over every inch of it. The game even gives you a glider that makes it a little easier to cover longer distances. In terms of the game, it’s an action RPG with some slight gacha elements. Additional characters are unlocked through quests instead of pulling them with in-game money like most gachas. We really appreciate the attention to detail in this book and it should stay popular and good for a long time to come.
Grand Theft Auto series (five games) (
Price: $ 4.99 – $ 6.99 each
Of course, we put Grand Theft Auto on that list. Grant Theft Auto III has modernized the open world genre and is mobile with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Vice City, Liberty City Stories and Chinatown Wars. Most people know how GTA works. You get full access to a huge city. There are side quests, story missions, and various mini-games to keep you entertained as you progress through the game. They can also steal cars, antagonize the police, and even buy property in the newer titles. The games cost between $ 4.99 and $ 6.99 with no in-app purchases. Rockstar Games also has Bully (Google Play Link), an open world game where you control a student instead of a gangster or gangster. Each of the six games offers excellent open world experiences.
MadOut2 BigCityOnline
Price: Play for free
MadOut2 BigCityOnline is another adventure game with elements similar to Grand Theft Auto. You can steal cars, fight people, shoot things, and drive around the open world. However, this one also borrows some elements from racing games and allows you to do things like customize your cars, racers, and other things. The game also features over 40 cars, various missions and up to 100 players simultaneously on one map. Overall, it’s a nice experience, but not quite as polished as Gangster Vegas or GTA.
Minecraft
Price: $ 6.99 for in-app purchases
Minecraft is one of the most popular open world games on any platform. Survival mode is a pure open world experience. You can mine resources, make things, build things, kill bad guys, go fishing, and even travel to other worlds. There is a creative mode that is an open world, but it’s more of a sandbox experience than an open world. You can play alone or with friends and, with a little patience, build some really ridiculous things. The game is $ 6.99 with some in-app purchases for character skins if you’d like. They are completely optional. There’s Minecraft Earth (Google Play Link) too if you want to play the game in the real world.
Oceanhorn
Price: Free / $ 5.49
Oceanhorn is an adventure game that is similar to the Legend of Zelda series in terms of mechanics. The player is given a number of islands to explore and each is its own little open world. There are various puzzles, mini-games and things that can be collected along with a story. It is technically not an open world by the truest definition of the word as there are multiple domains. However, you can explore them as you see fit to get the same effect. It’s nowhere near as good as a Legend of Zelda game, but the spirit is there and the soundtrack is from the famous Nobuo Uematsu, the composer of most of the previous Final Fantasy games.
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Pokemon Go
Price: Play for free
Pokemon Go is perhaps the most open world game of all time. Players explore the actual, real world and use the augmented reality features in the game to actually play. There are gyms and poke stops all over the world and you travel there in real life either to fight or to collect items. The game has evolved quite a bit from the start. You can fight against coaches, take over gyms, collect items, hatch eggs and complete missions in the game. The game has the occasional bug and for a long time players will be a little burned out, but the game is fun and family friendly.
Old School RuneScape
Price: Free / $ 10.99 per month / $ 99.99 per year
RuneScape is one of the most popular MMORPGs of all time. It’s been around for almost 20 years too. It is an open world MMORPG with both solo and cooperative play. There are tons of missions and quests to play, items to collect, equipment to equip, and much more. The game also has one of the deepest player-centric economies of any game. The free version contains most of the game. You will get additional skills, a bigger world, more quests, and 400 additional banking slots when you choose the subscription service. It’s also one of the few MMORPGs with a subscription and no microtransactions. Most of the MMORPGs are open world and you can check out other excellent Android MMORPGs here.
Portal Knights
Price: $ 4.99
Portal Knights is an open world action role-playing game with some sandbox elements. It has all the usual RPG stuff like level progression, a story, boss fights and lots of things to collect. However, the game includes a Crative mode where you can build your own island and the world is randomly generated similar to Minecraft. You can also play with other players in multiplayer mode. It’s a seriously underrated game and it’s surprisingly cheap how big it is. You can also play it for free with Google Play Pass.
Heaven: children of light
Price: Play for free
Sky: Children of Light is different in this genre. It’s an open world game, but it doesn’t feel like a GTA or Minecraft experience. Instead, players drift around the world exploring all of their curiosities. It’s a bit like Portal Knights, which has seven different areas to explore, but you can explore them however you want. So purists may not identify it as a true open world game. In any case, it’s really fun and we really like the art style and atmosphere of this one. It’s a lot more laid back than most of the others in the genre.
Terraria
Price: $ 4.99
Terraris is one of Minecraft’s biggest competitors. It takes place in a 2D world instead of a 3D world, but you still have a lot of freedom to explore as you wish. The game includes building, crafting, mining, boss fights, and all sorts of other activities. You also get customizable controls and different world sizes in case you want something massive or smaller. The game was completely redesigned not that long ago and is now essentially the same as the PC version of the game. It’s definitely one of the greats in the genre.
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