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Best Action games on Android
The 245 best Action games on Android, ranked from 41,664 critic and player ratings.
The best Action game on Android right now is Half-Life 2, with a critic score of 96/100 — updated September 2026.
How this ranking is built
- Games are ranked on the aggregated critic score out of 100 imported from IGDB and Metacritic, never on Tier's own grades.
- A game only enters the ranking with at least 80 external ratings, so a single enthusiastic review never outranks a proven classic.
- Community grades from F to S are shown next to every game, and only stated as a fact above 5 Tier ratings.
- Release window covered: 1970 to 2026.
- 50 games are listed on this page, carrying 41,664 ratings between them.
- Rankings are recomputed hourly; this one was last rebuilt on 28 September 2026.
Top 50
01
S
Half-Life 2
1998. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. NOW. By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around them, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies.
96
/100
02
Modern Combat 5
Step into the action as the latest installment in the best FPS series raises the bar for shooter games once more! Create a squad, add your friends and test your individual and team skills against other squads in dynamic multiplayer warfare! Is single player your thing? Then step into a world on the brink of anarchy and shoot your way out of one dire situation after another to expose a lunatic who’s trying to tear the world to shreds.
96
/100
03
A
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
In the year 1986, Tommy Vercetti is heavily indebted to his mafia superiors after a drug deal gone awry, but his dreams of taking over Vice City (based on Miami) push him down a different path. Featuring a wide variety of vehicles and weapons, radio stations playing hit songs from the era and an intense atmosphere, GTA: Vice City is an open-world sandbox satire of '80's Miami.
94
/100
S
Half-Life 2
1998. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. NOW. By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around them, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies.
96
/100
02
Modern Combat 5
Step into the action as the latest installment in the best FPS series raises the bar for shooter games once more! Create a squad, add your friends and test your individual and team skills against other squads in dynamic multiplayer warfare! Is single player your thing? Then step into a world on the brink of anarchy and shoot your way out of one dire situation after another to expose a lunatic who’s trying to tear the world to shreds.
96
/100
03
A
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
In the year 1986, Tommy Vercetti is heavily indebted to his mafia superiors after a drug deal gone awry, but his dreams of taking over Vice City (based on Miami) push him down a different path. Featuring a wide variety of vehicles and weapons, radio stations playing hit songs from the era and an intense atmosphere, GTA: Vice City is an open-world sandbox satire of '80's Miami.
94
/100
04
Jet Set Radio
94
/100
05
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Choose Your Path! Set 4,000 years before the Galactic Empire, you are the last hope for the Jedi Order and the Republic - can you master the ways of the Force to become their savior? Or will you fall to the dark side and achieve ultimate power? Hero, villain, peacekeeper, or chaos-bringer... you and your party will determine the fate of the galaxy! Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a role-playing video game. Players will be able to create their own characters and be able to choose what gender, appearance, class, skills, attributes, and feats they have throughout the game - no two characters will be the same!
94
/100
06
Planet of Lana
A young girl and her loyal friend embark on a rescue mission through a colorful world full of cold machines and unfamiliar creatures. Planet of Lana is a cinematic puzzle adventure framed by an epic sci-fi saga that stretches across centuries and galaxies.
93
/100
07
S
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Returning after his mother's murder to the semi-fictional city of Los Santos (based on Los Angeles), Carl Johnson, a former gang banger, must take back the streets for his family and friends by gaining respect and once again gaining control over the streets. However, a story filled with crime, lies and corruption will lead him to trudge the entire state of San Andreas (based on California and Nevada) to rebuild his life.
93
/100
08
S
Grand Theft Auto III
Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let loose in a fully-realised 3 dimensional city, in which anything can happen and probably will. With a cast of hundreds, 50 plus vehicles, ranging from sports cars to ice cream trucks and from boats to buses, 3 hours of music, including opera, reggae, house, drum and bass, pop and disco, a huge array of street ready weapons and some of the seediest characters in video game history, Grand Theft Auto 3 is a sprawling epic which will show you that sometimes, crime can pay and sometimes it can pay you back. Available now for PlayStation2, Xbox, PC and Macintosh.
93
/100
09
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Having been awoken from his eternal slumber by the reappearance of Castlevania, Alucard must once again face the evil minions of darkness. Use your vampiric powers, along with weapons, potions, and other magical relics to change the tide of battle. A mixture of platform and role-playing action with many hidden areas and secrets. Can you discover them all?
92
/100
10
Alto's Adventure
Join Alto and his friends as they embark on an endless snowboarding odyssey. Journey across the beautiful alpine hills of their native wilderness, through neighbouring villages, ancient woodlands, and long-abandoned ruins. Along the way you'll rescue runaway llamas, grind rooftops, leap over terrifying chasms and outwit the mountain elders – all while braving the ever changing elements and passage of time upon the mountain.
92
/100
11
Sanitarium
92
/100
12
Vampire Survivors
91
/100
13
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
91
/100
14
Street Fighter IV
91
/100
15
Rez Infinite
91
/100
16
S
Portal
90
/100
17
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
90
/100
18
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
90
/100
19
Jetpack Joyride
90
/100
20
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
90
/100
21
One Finger Death Punch
90
/100
22
Deathloop
90
/100
23
Fallout 2
89
/100
24
Figment
89
/100
25
A
Dead Cells
88
/100
26
Tomb Raider (1996)
88
/100
27
Alto's Odyssey
88
/100
28
B
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
87
/100
29
Half-Life 2: Episode One
87
/100
30
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
87
/100
31
Death's Door
87
/100
32
XCOM: Enemy Within
86
/100
33
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
85
/100
34
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
85
/100
35
Mega Man 2
85
/100
36
S
Final Fantasy VII
85
/100
37
Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy)
85
/100
38
Thumper
85
/100
39
Trine 2
85
/100
40
Frozen Synapse
85
/100
41
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
85
/100
42
Katana Zero
85
/100
43
S
The Walking Dead
84
/100
44
Limbo
84
/100
45
SpeedRunners
84
/100
46
FAR: Lone Sails
84
/100
47
Rayman
84
/100
48
ICEY
84
/100
49
Ikaruga
84
/100
50
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
84
/100
Jet Set Radio
94
/100
05
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Choose Your Path! Set 4,000 years before the Galactic Empire, you are the last hope for the Jedi Order and the Republic - can you master the ways of the Force to become their savior? Or will you fall to the dark side and achieve ultimate power? Hero, villain, peacekeeper, or chaos-bringer... you and your party will determine the fate of the galaxy! Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a role-playing video game. Players will be able to create their own characters and be able to choose what gender, appearance, class, skills, attributes, and feats they have throughout the game - no two characters will be the same!
94
/100
06
Planet of Lana
A young girl and her loyal friend embark on a rescue mission through a colorful world full of cold machines and unfamiliar creatures. Planet of Lana is a cinematic puzzle adventure framed by an epic sci-fi saga that stretches across centuries and galaxies.
93
/100
07
S
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Returning after his mother's murder to the semi-fictional city of Los Santos (based on Los Angeles), Carl Johnson, a former gang banger, must take back the streets for his family and friends by gaining respect and once again gaining control over the streets. However, a story filled with crime, lies and corruption will lead him to trudge the entire state of San Andreas (based on California and Nevada) to rebuild his life.
93
/100
08
S
Grand Theft Auto III
Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let loose in a fully-realised 3 dimensional city, in which anything can happen and probably will. With a cast of hundreds, 50 plus vehicles, ranging from sports cars to ice cream trucks and from boats to buses, 3 hours of music, including opera, reggae, house, drum and bass, pop and disco, a huge array of street ready weapons and some of the seediest characters in video game history, Grand Theft Auto 3 is a sprawling epic which will show you that sometimes, crime can pay and sometimes it can pay you back. Available now for PlayStation2, Xbox, PC and Macintosh.
93
/100
09
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Having been awoken from his eternal slumber by the reappearance of Castlevania, Alucard must once again face the evil minions of darkness. Use your vampiric powers, along with weapons, potions, and other magical relics to change the tide of battle. A mixture of platform and role-playing action with many hidden areas and secrets. Can you discover them all?
92
/100
10
Alto's Adventure
Join Alto and his friends as they embark on an endless snowboarding odyssey. Journey across the beautiful alpine hills of their native wilderness, through neighbouring villages, ancient woodlands, and long-abandoned ruins. Along the way you'll rescue runaway llamas, grind rooftops, leap over terrifying chasms and outwit the mountain elders – all while braving the ever changing elements and passage of time upon the mountain.
92
/100
11
Sanitarium
92
/100
12
Vampire Survivors
91
/100
13
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
91
/100
14
Street Fighter IV
91
/100
15
Rez Infinite
91
/100
16
S
Portal
90
/100
17
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
90
/100
18
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
90
/100
19
Jetpack Joyride
90
/100
20
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
90
/100
21
One Finger Death Punch
90
/100
22
Deathloop
90
/100
23
Fallout 2
89
/100
24
Figment
89
/100
25
A
Dead Cells
88
/100
26
Tomb Raider (1996)
88
/100
27
Alto's Odyssey
88
/100
28
B
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
87
/100
29
Half-Life 2: Episode One
87
/100
30
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
87
/100
31
Death's Door
87
/100
32
XCOM: Enemy Within
86
/100
33
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
85
/100
34
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
85
/100
35
Mega Man 2
85
/100
36
S
Final Fantasy VII
85
/100
37
Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy)
85
/100
38
Thumper
85
/100
39
Trine 2
85
/100
40
Frozen Synapse
85
/100
41
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
85
/100
42
Katana Zero
85
/100
43
S
The Walking Dead
84
/100
44
Limbo
84
/100
45
SpeedRunners
84
/100
46
FAR: Lone Sails
84
/100
47
Rayman
84
/100
48
ICEY
84
/100
49
Ikaruga
84
/100
50
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
84
/100
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Action game on Android?
Half-Life 2 currently tops the ranking with a score of 96/100 across 4,105 ratings. Ranking updated September 2026.
How is this ranking built?
Games are ranked on their aggregated critic score out of 100, with a minimum vote threshold so a single glowing review never outranks a proven classic; the Tier community's own F-to-S grades are shown alongside each game.