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Best Simulation games on Android

The 19 best Simulation games on Android, ranked from 6,584 critic and player ratings.

The best Simulation game on Android right now is Stardew Valley, with a critic score of 91/100 — updated November 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.
  • Each game is ranked in one genre only, the one that defines it best, so the same title never tops two different genre charts.
  • 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.
  • 19 games are listed on this page, carrying 6,584 ratings between them.
  • Rankings are recomputed hourly; this one was last rebuilt on 13 November 2026.

Top 19

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01 Stardew Valley A Stardew Valley 2016 · 1,842 ratings · 3 Tier votes · finished by 13% · 13 h to beat Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home? It won’t be easy. Ever since Joja Corporation came to town, the old ways of life have all but disappeared. The community center, once the town’s most vibrant hub of activity, now lies in shambles. But the valley seems full of opportunity. With a little dedication, you might just be the one to restore Stardew Valley to greatness! 91 /100
02 Minecraft S Minecraft 2016 · 588 ratings · 13 Tier votes · finished by 28% Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically-generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artwork on various multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel to a dimension called the End, and defeat the ender dragon. 83 /100
03 Don't Starve Together D Don't Starve Together 2016 · 274 ratings · 1 Tier vote · finished by 5% · 34 h to beat Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve. Discover and explore a massive procedurally generated and biome-rich world with countless resources and threats. Whether you stick to the surface world, go spelunking in the caves, dive deeper into the Ancient Archive, or set sail for the Lunar islands, it will be a long time before you run out of things to do. 83 /100
04 Papers, Please Papers, Please 2013 · 733 ratings · finished by 23% The communist state of Arstotzka has just ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin. Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia. Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists. Using only the documents provided by travelers and the Ministry of Admission's primitive inspect, search, and fingerprint systems you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested. 82 /100
05 This War of Mine This War of Mine 2014 · 405 ratings · finished by 11% In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle. The pace of This War of Mine is imposed by the day and night cycle. During the day snipers outside stop you from leaving your refuge, so you need to focus on maintaining your hideout: crafting, trading and taking care of your survivors. At night, take one of your civilians on a mission to scavenge through a set of unique locations for items that will help you stay alive. Make life-and-death decisions driven by your conscience. Try to protect everybody from your shelter or sacrifice some of them for longer-term survival. During war, there are no good or bad decisions; there is only survival. The sooner you realize that, the better. 82 /100
06 Prison Architect Prison Architect 2015 · 198 ratings · finished by 4% The game is a top-down 2D construction and management simulation where the player takes control of building and running a prison. The player is responsible for managing various aspects of their prison including building cells and facilities, planning and connecting utilities, hiring and assigning staff, including a warden, guards, workers, and more. The player needs to recruit staff to unlock more aspects of the game. The player is also responsible for the finance, and keeping their inmates content. 81 /100
07 Once Human Once Human 2024 · 94 ratings Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world. 84 /100
08 Beholder Beholder 2016 · 126 ratings · finished by 9% A totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and social life. Laws are oppressive. Surveillance is total. Privacy is dead. You are a State-installed manager of an apartment house. The State requires you to spy on your tenants, and report any illegal or subversive activity. However, you can also choose to keep the information to yourself, or use it to blackmail the residents, resulting in a multitude of choices and endings. 80 /100
09 Surgeon Simulator Surgeon Simulator 2013 · 572 ratings · finished by 6% 71 /100
10 My Time at Portia My Time at Portia 2019 · 113 ratings · finished by 4% Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land! 70 /100
11 AdVenture Capitalist AdVenture Capitalist 2014 · 124 ratings · finished by 6% 70 /100
12 The Escapists The Escapists 2015 · 100 ratings · finished by 5% 69 /100
13 Ark: Survival Evolved Ark: Survival Evolved 2017 · 265 ratings · finished by 2% 69 /100
14 Punch Club Punch Club 2016 · 95 ratings · finished by 9% 68 /100
15 Game Dev Tycoon Game Dev Tycoon 2012 · 341 ratings · finished by 19% 68 /100
16 Graveyard Keeper Graveyard Keeper 2018 · 107 ratings · finished by 6% 68 /100
17 Fallout Shelter Fallout Shelter 2015 · 410 ratings · finished by 11% 68 /100
18 60 Seconds! 60 Seconds! 2015 · 80 ratings 63 /100
19 This is the Police This is the Police 2016 · 117 ratings · finished by 14% 61 /100
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What is the best Simulation game on Android?

Stardew Valley currently tops the ranking with a score of 91/100 across 1,842 ratings. Ranking updated November 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.