The Best Mobile Games To Play With Your Friends
There are few better ways to spend a couple of free hours than gaming with a group of friends. Before wi-fi, we played board games — the oldest of which date back thousands of years. We still play board games, but now there’s a new way for gamers to enjoy each other's company.
The best multiplayer mobile games for Android and iOS stretch countless genres. Shooters, battle royale, MOBA, puzzle games, strategy games, and even digitized board or card games make mobile gaming fun. We’ve collected a few of the best multiplayer games to play with your friends.
The below include casual, asynchronous games that you can play no matter your location. It also features high-speed squad-based games and creative, new ways to engage with the digital world.
WTFast is here to help you make the most of your time gaming with this comprehensive list of games your whole group will love.
Scrabble Go
Let’s begin our guide with a classic standard. Word games have been one of the earliest mobile gaming staples for as long as we can remember. They are easy to pick up, attack a very different skill from many other games, and they aren’t processor- intensive.
Scrabble Go is a mobile version of the classic board game, though Words With Friends 2 is a strong competitor as well.
The aim of the game is simple: Place your tiles across a board to spell words and score points. Special word and letter multipliers make this a game of both strategy and vocabulary. Scrabble Go is available on both Android and iPhone. A recently added multiplayer option allows up to 4 players to engage in a game.
You can play with friends from your contact list, or be matched randomly with strangers across the globe. Scrabble Go has one major benefit against all its competitors on the list: The game is meant to be played asynchronously, so players don’t need to be online at the same time in order to play together.
This way, if you find you can’t schedule a time to game together, you can play with friends anyway. All you need to do is find a moment throughout the day to plot your next time.
Spaceteam
Scrabble Go is a fun, relaxed way to play mobile games at your own pace. Our next option is fun, too, but it’s anything but relaxed.
Sometimes, the best party games involve utter nonsense and force you to act ridiculous in order to win. If you played a game like Keep Talking or Nobody Explodes and turned the silliness to 10, you’d have Spaceteam.
In Spaceteam, you play a crew of a spaceship trying desperately to keep their ship running. Each player is given instructions to yell to other players. These instructions are extremely and accurately scientific, such as “Suspend Disbelief” and “Lather Terabypass.” In other words, it’s complete technobabble.
The game is made complicated by the fact that each player has only some of the overall controls and instructions. When playing with the maximum eight players, this video game is a surefire recipe for chaos (and fun).
Fortnite
We can’t make a list of the top mobile games without including a battle royale. Fortnite is the definitive battle royale game and one that continues to dazzle players.
The gameplay loop of Fortnite is one that’s easy to learn and difficult to master. You start out with a variety of conditions based on the mode and season.
In the most popular variation, 100 players in teams of up to four fight it out in a shrinking arena. If you survive to the end, you get a well-earned victory and the process begins again.
Fortnite is great for how quick it is to pick up and play. The building and shooting mechanics allow for complex, nail-biting duels and elaborate tactical teamwork.
Minecraft
There’s little to say in Minecraft’s favor that isn’t already common knowledge. The classic building game and RPG is available through the Apple app store and Google Play store. The mobile version is virtually identical to its PC counterpart, allowing you to survive and build with friends.
This blocky, fun game is a mainstay for a reason, and it’s fully accessible on most gaming devices.
Mario Kart Tour
Nintendo is notorious for protecting their IP. This includes extreme takedowns on fangames and a lack of cross-platform appearances for their characters. Thankfully, this embargo is lifted in the world of mobile games.
Does this have anything to do with the fact that mobile games make 57% of all video game profits worldwide? The answer is that it probably can’t hurt.
Regardless, mobile games are essential enough that Nintendo has brought some flagship franchises to your devices.
An exploration of international cities takes you on a Mario Kart world tour, with tracks based on real locales. While the game is still a racer, it also uses a point-based system. Players gain points by using items and maintaining a high position at lap ends. These can help unlock new characters, karts, and more.
The game can be played with up to eight friends. Unlike some other games, you also use gliders and submersibles to drive through all sorts of terrain.
Several driving functions are performed automatically to simplify controls. For an easy-to-pick-up mobile racing game, Mario Kart Tour is a compelling entry.
Uno
This classic card game is now a mobile classic. It’s appropriate, given that since it came out in 1971, Uno is one year older than the oldest video game.
Uno is a fast-paced, chaotic card game with extra optional rules. Players can swap hands, gently spite their friends, and more in this competitive classic.
The best games to play with friends are chaotic and move at a breakneck pace. Uno delivers this in full on mobile devices. With additional house rules adding features like swapping hands, Uno has never been more unpredictable and unhinged than this.
Call of Duty
We can’t make a full list of mobile games without including one of the most iconic shooters on the market. COD Mobile takes the big rapid-fire action the franchise is known for and ports it to small devices. The squad-based gameplay is quick and easy to get into, thanks to a variety of accessibility features.
COD Mobile understands better than most games on the market the issue of porting complex controls to mobile systems. For that reason, there are countless options for controls in the game menus. These can also be partially addressed if you use add-ons like mobile controllers and grips.
Regardless, this shooter marks the gold standard for near to real-life digital combat.
COD is also benefited by a variety of options to improve performance. Complex graphics settings help you target any performance issues you may have. For even better performance, WTFast provides additional help through our route optimizer.
Pokémon Go
Summer and autumn are both fun seasons to get out and explore. You can gamify your fitness and exploration through Pokémon Go. The app itself was launched to get people moving, and it’s certainly achieved that. Over one billion people have downloaded Pokemon Go since its launch, and it continues to be one of the highest-grossing games.
Pokémon Go belongs to a line of AR, or augmented reality games. With it, you can see Pokémon through your screen and capture and fight with them. It’s not the only game to use this methodology. Pikmin Bloom is another app dedicated to using a Nintendo IP to encourage fitness and world exploration.
Among Us
There’s no denying that Among Us is the absolute definition of a meme game that has forever changed internet slang.
It wouldn’t have been able to achieve that sort of all-encompassing status without some merited popularity — and it wouldn’t have become this popular without its quick-paced and strategic mixture of bluff and betrayal.
Among Us takes general cues from the game Mafia. Players are separated into crewmates, performing various tasks on a ship, and imposters, who try to blend in. The imposters can kill players, at which point all living can vote to kill someone in hopes it’s an imposter. Part of the fun is fooling your friends and fellow players.
Public and private lobbies can be made by anyone. This allows you to do short, private games or chaotic, filled-to-capacity ones as you desire.
Making the Most of Your Mobile Gaming
A lot goes into having a wonderful gaming experience.
Naturally, finding a game or games that everyone can have fun with matters. Finding the time to coordinate schedules is also essential and possibly the most daunting task of all (unless you’re playing asynchronously, of course).
The best mobile gaming also requires a strong internet connection, so you can stay in the game for uninterrupted blocks.
Thankfully there are solutions to any of these issues, especially issues relating to lag and ping. The most important factor of all, though, is finding the right group of people to play with.
Even single-player games offer shared experiences that can be enjoyed as you all make progress asynchronously. With the above games, there’s something for gamers of all tastes.
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