On the hunt for the best Android battle royale shooters? The battle royale genre has gone from strength to strength on mobile over the past few years. There are games for most tastes, but especially if your tastes run to military shooters. So that’s cool.
We expect there to be even more coming in the future. But in the meantime, we thought it was a good idea to check out the very best battle royale games you can get on Android right now.
You can click on the names of the games below to download them, and if you’ve got your own suggestion for a brilliant battle royale that isn’t included, let us know in the comments section below.
The Best Android Battle Royale Shooters
Let’s get into it.
Fortnite Mobile
Fortnite Mobile isn’t as easy to get hold of as it used to be, thanks to a long-running dispute with Google and Apple, but you can download it on the Epic Store if you don’t mind going off-road. It’s worth it. While Fortnite isn’t the first big battle royale, it was the one that sent the genre into the stratosphere, thanks to its bold, cartoony aesthetic, fun weekly challenges, and perfectly balanced gameplay.
PUBG Mobile
PUBG can rightly claim to be the original battle royale game – the mod that became a runaway success and spawned a whole new genre. It’s not hard to see why. The mobile version of the game has been cleverly optimised for smartphones, with plenty of automated actions to save you getting shot in the face while frantically swiping at your screen. It’s an impressive technical achievement, too.
Free Fire
PUBG Mobile has just over 37 million reviews on the Google Play Store. That’s a lot, right? Garena Free Fire has 85.5 million. It was also the most downloaded game globally in 2020. Its success is largely down to its popularity in SE Asia, India, and Latin America, but this year Garena Free Fire overtook PUBG Mobile in the US too, meaning if you haven’t played it yet, you’re seriously behind the curve. This huge playbase also brings big collabs too. Last we checked it was a Naruto Shippuden crossover.
New State Mobile
A souped-up version of PUBG with shinier graphics, a futuristic story, and loads more. The violence is just as tight and taut, and there are plenty of new twists thrown in for good measure. If you’re just starting out your battle royale journey, this is hands-down one of the best places for you to start.
Farlight 84
This one might be a slightly more controversial one as this battle royale appears to be going through a rough patch. The game itself is great, a more colorful and varied take on the genre. This game just received a major rework, with a look to dealing with some issues it had in the past. Current reviews are a little mixed, mostly as they dropped jetpacks from the lineup of equipment. We’ll keep an eye on this one and see how things go.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Call of Duty: Mobile may not be a straight-up battle royale game, but it does have a battle royale mode. It’s also a brilliant online shooter, and if you like your battles to be royale you’d be a fool to miss out on it.
Blood Strike
Blood Strike is a character-based battle royale with cross-platform play and optimizations to make teaming up with your buddies as smooth as possible. It’s also got some really good performance, even on lower-end devices.
Brawl Stars
And now for something completely different. If all the tactical military shooters have to burned out, give Brawl Stars a go. This top-down shooter has battle royale and vs modes, and brings some silly characters and a more wacky vibe.
Zooba
Another addition to the more toony side of the genre, Zooba is a game where adorable forest creatures come together and… fight to the death with an arsenal of lethal weapons. Each character has its own abilities and playstyle, which adds some fun variety to the rounds.
Want some more shooter action? Check out our feature on the best Android shooters.
