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- Free Android game of the month
- Kitty Death Room
- The best free racing games for Android
- Code Racer
- Beach Buggy Racing 2
- Disc Drivin’ 2
- Asphalt 9: Legends
- Carmageddon
- Asphalt 8: Airborne
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By Craig Grannell
last updated 1 March 2023
The best free games for Android smartphones and tablets
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Kitty Death Room features a leapy cat aiming to figure out the secrets of a mysterious tower. With this being a platform game, some maniac has filled the entire tower full of traps, including sawblades, fireballs and lava pits. We’re pretty sure the building isn’t up to code.
Your job is to get the cat to each level’s exit – a job made marginally easier by the hero’s superpower. On eating green pills, the cat can project ghostly versions of itself that then act as solid platforms that can hold down switches or be used to access otherwise unreachable areas.
Our favorite free Android 3D, retro, 2D and on-rails racers.
Code Racer takes racing game conventions and throws them out the window, so rather than bombing around a circuit, your twitchy reactions being the only thing keeping your car from flipping over, you instead define your route by way of basic programming-style commands.
At first, Code Racer relies on a lot of trial and error as you define acceleration, braking and turn times, and power levels. It’s hard enough to go around a corner, let alone face levels with jumps, moving platforms and other terrifying hazards.
Beach Buggy Racing 2 is a high-octane kart racer. True to form, your dinky vehicle belts along larger-than-life tracks, taking in everything from medieval castles with fire-breathing dragons, to an ancient world full of dinosaurs – and gigantic sea creatures you can bounce off.
Naturally, your aim is to get to the checkered flag first, across just two laps. To do this, you must find shortcuts, and make use of power-ups that can turn opponents into a block of ice, blast them into the heavens, and far more besides.
Disc Drivin’ 2 is the turn-based driving game which was presumably created when someone reimagined shuffleboard as Mario Kart and shoved that strange concoction online for web-based multiplayer contests.
The concept of a turn-based racer is bonkers and it shouldn’t work, but it really does. As you flick your little disc about tracks suspended in space, the tension ramps up as you home in on your opponent. You will learn to master shortcuts, zip past hazards, and also how to make best use of bonus powers afforded to your little disc.
Asphalt 9: Legends, like its predecessors, is a decidedly nitro-happy, larger-than-life take on arcade racing. It has you belt along at insane speeds, regularly soaring into the air, your car spinning and pinwheeling in a manner that’d have your car insurance company angrily tear up your policy documents.
This racer also differentiates itself by streamlining controls to the point you needn’t steer. The car moves on rails, with you swiping between lanes, and timing actions like boosts and drifts. That might sound reductive, but this doesn’t detract from the racing feel, it gives you a keen sense of focus on timing, and there’s a manual option if you really want that.
Carmageddon is a blast from the past of PC gaming. It masquerades as a racer, but often feels like you’re hunting prey – albeit while encased in a suit of speeding metal.
The game’s freeform ‘arenas’ are networks of roads in a dystopian future. People and cows blithely amble about while deranged drivers smash each other to pieces. Victories come by way of completing laps, wrecking all your opponents, or mowing down every living thing in the vicinity.
Asphalt 8: Airborne is a high-octane racer that gave a cursory glance towards realism. It then decided against bothering with such a trifling issue, and decided it’d much prefer you to pelt along at insane speeds under the power of glorious nitro, which frequently sends your car soaring into the air.
Not one for the simulation crowd, then, but this racer is perfect for everyone else. The larger-than-life branched courses – hyper-real takes on real-world locations – are madcap and exciting. Rather than doing laps around a boring circuit surrounded by gravel traps, you blast through rocket launch sites, and blaze through volcanos.
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