Balatro
$9.99 · 4.7 ★ · 26.8K ratings · 2M+
You will look up and it will be 1 a.m. Balatro is the best $9.99 you can spend on Android, and it isn't close.
Stardew Valley
$4.99 · 4.6 ★ · 200.7K ratings · 7M+
Five dollars buys you hundreds of hours of the most generous game ever made. This is the single best value on Google Play.
Papers, Please
$4.99 · 4.6 ★ · 5.6K ratings · 405K+
The most important game on this list. A decade later, nothing else turns paperwork into moral horror this precisely — and it was born for a touchscreen.
Slay the Spire
$9.99 · 4.4 ★ · 29.4K ratings · 2M+
Every deckbuilder on this store is chasing Slay the Spire. Ten dollars gets you the original, complete, with no asterisks.
Mini Metro
$0.99 · 4.6 ★ · 74.2K ratings · 4M+
For the price of a gas-station candy bar you get an infinite, elegant strategy game you'll still be opening in five years.
Terraria
$4.99 · 4.5 ★ · 406.3K ratings · 7M+
Nothing else on this store gives you this much game per dollar. Terraria is a decade of free updates stacked on a five-dollar price tag.
Monument Valley 2
$3.99 · 4.9 ★ · 84.4K ratings · 3M+
Some games are worth buying the way a gallery ticket is worth buying. This is ninety perfect minutes, and you'll replay it just to look at it.
The Room
$0.99 · 4.8 ★ · 289.3K ratings · 3M+
Nothing has ever used a touchscreen better. The Room understands that your finger on glass can feel like a hand on brass — and builds a horror story out of it.