We bring you a compilation with the 17 best multiplayer games for mobile phones , so that if you have a good mobile phone and want to play with your friends or other people from all over the world, you have a few titles to start with. The games in this article are all cross-platform, so you will be able to install them on both an iPhone and an Android mobile.
We are going to try to make the list as varied as possible, so you will have several proposals from different genres , from card games to Battle Royale, through MOBAs and various other genres. You should also know that the vast majority of them use the same monetization system, that of offering the game for free but with internal micropayments.
Creating one of these lists is not easy, because we all have our personal tastes. We have tried to ensure that the most essential ones are included and that they are native and installable on the mobile, without cloud gaming. However, we invite you to leave us your suggestions in the comments section if you think we have left out a game that is worth recommending so that the rest of the readers can benefit from the knowledge of our xatakeros.
Among Us
One of the last great hits in multiplayer games. The game begins with you inside a ship with other players. All on the same map. And here, one of the players has been assigned as an imposter, and the rest are the crew members. The crew members have to do various missions, and the impostor must kill crew members.
The idea is that the impostor kills crew members without being discovered. Crew members can request a vote, in which they vote on who is believed to be the impostor and they are ejected from the ship. Here, two things can happen: you get it right and win the game, or another crew member is eliminated while the imposter is still free.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Ark: Survival Evolved
ARK Survival Evolved is an action and survival game , in which you will be on an island full of dinosaurs and a game mode that will increase in complexity as we find new objects, enemies and allied tribes. We will have a character who will level up as he collects resources, builds new weapons and defeats enemies.
The game is initially designed for single player mode, but we can also ally with a tribe to form a group and enjoy the cooperative mode. It all depends on how you prefer to play and take on the 80 unique dinosaurs and primitive creatures that you will be able to capture and tame.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Black Desert Mobile
‘Black Desert Mobile’ is a free-to-play, open-world, massively multiplayer online RPG. Black Desert is one of the heavyweights within this genre of multiplayer games, and this is a version fully adapted for mobile phones. Inside, you will have realistic graphics, and a wide world to explore full of missions that you can carry out alone or with other players.
Players can choose from five character classes: Warrior, Ranger, Giant, Mage, or Valkyrie. Each of these classes has its own abilities, and once you choose your character you will be able to customize it down to the last detail , being able to change everything in its physical appearance. This allows you to feel like your character is truly yours, and the immersion is greater.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Brawl Stars
‘Brawl Stars’ is a brawler shooter inspired by PC MOBAs , but adapted for mobile. It is a game in which a team of three people faces another team of three, all in a scenario in which you will have to move looking for cover and shooting at rivals.
The title offers almost twenty characters with their different abilities, and you have several game modes to compete. It is a game especially suitable for eSports lovers. Each of the characters has its own primary and secondary ability, so one of the secrets to playing is to choose the one that best suits you.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Brawlhalla
If you like Nintendo’s ‘Super Smash Bros’ franchise, Brawlhalla is similar, in which you will face other players in crazy battles with two-dimensional graphics and a cartoon style . There’s everything from characters you know from other franchises to more unique ones.
In this title you can play up to 8 people at a time in your custom games with cross-play. You can also play its online 1v1 or 2v2 modes, as well as free-for-all. Its cast is several dozen characters, who grow as special events and new additions take place.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Call of Duty Mobile
‘Call of Duty Mobile’ is the mobile version of this legendary saga, a game that comes to try to translate the spirit of the franchise on the screen of your mobile. It is a free to play shooter with customizable controls, voice and text chat to chat while you play, 3D graphics and a good sound section.
It is a multiplayer game with several game modes, and divided into seasons to release content and customizations to give variety to the game as the months go by. In the game, the longer you play, the more content and characters you can unlock, and as for its gameplay… well, it’s CoD.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Clash Royale
This game has been one of the highest grossing games in the sector for years . It is a title that timidly began as a new proposal in which the dynamic of protecting and building villages of Clash of Clans was changed for a card combat game , in the Hearthstone style.
Therefore, it is a game in which you have to fight battles by using different warriors and weapons that we use in the form of cards in order to destroy the enemy’s towers while maintaining our own. To use them you need to have enough elixir, which is reduced as each card is used and increases over time.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Dragon Ball Legends
The first thing you should know is that ‘Dragon Ball Legends’ is not the latest rehash that retells the already well-known story of the main Dragon Ball characters, although they do appear in the game, but rather a new adventure within that universe in which that we will control an unknown saiyan with a mysterious past, and that has been created by Akira Toriyama himself exclusively for this title.
For the rest, it is a fighting game with several game modes , ranging from a story mode to another in which you can face other players from all over the world in single combat, demonstrating which of the two best masters the techniques of fighting. title match.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier
Battle Royales have been one of the reference genres in online games for years, also on mobile phones. Hence few resist trying their luck. Square Enix does it with this excellent ‘Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier’ , which is a Battle Royale set in the world of its most popular franchise in which you will not only have to face all the other rivals on the island to which you descend, but also to the monsters that inhabit it.
Therefore, we are talking about an Action JRPG with games developed under the rules of Battle Royale , but also a competitive experience that seeks to evolve season by season, with a background plot, and an authentic festival of action and survival with swords. , spells and bullets.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Genshin Impact
‘Genshin Impact’ is one of the biggest hits in terms of online games in recent years. It is an open-world online role-playing game with manga-style graphics , with a graphic aesthetic markedly influenced by ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ and has become the best launch in the history of a Chinese IP.
The game is also a resounding success on mobile phones . In this title we will wake up awake in Teyvat, a fantasy world where the seven elements flow and converge. The game can be played alone or in cooperative mode, and stands out for its well-worked combat system full of action and for how beautiful it looks.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Hearthstone
Hearthstone is one of those games capable of marking an era, and that is why, after having been released in the now distant 2014, it is still in top shape today . It is a multiplayer game that offers the possibility of facing other opponents using cards . Each one has their own deck, which has been improving throughout the games, and you face each other one against one.
Here, like all these types of card games, each of the cards in the deck has its characteristics and functions, in addition to the hero you can choose. And then, you have to design a strategy based on your knowledge of the cards , thinking about which ones you may get or which ones your opponent may have, and evolving your deck in the direction that is closest to your way of playing.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Magic The Gathering
And if we have talked about competitive card games in this list, we cannot leave out ‘Magic: The Gathering’ . Basically because it is, by far, one of the most popular collectible card games in the world . We could say that if Magic had not existed, possibly the rest of the card games would not either. Or at least not as they are now.
It is a card game in which everyone creates and puts together their own deck , with dozens of rare and special cards, and each of them with their own abilities. Therefore, in order to win in one-on-one battles, you need a good deck adapted to your way of playing and a good strategy. And don’t underestimate it, because it is such a complex game that not even artificial intelligence machines and algorithms know how to win.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Mario Kart Tour
Although initially the sensations were not as good as expected, ‘Mario Kart Tour’ continues to remain an entertaining multiplayer racing game set in the world of Mario. The biggest difference with the rest of the Mario Kart games is in the controls, since it is played vertically and the car accelerates on its own. For this reason, all you have to do is drive the car by sliding your finger on the screen.
In it, you will perform races for which you will earn stars that you can later exchange for characters and cosmetic elements. There are also micropayments, which serve both to acquire these characters and elements earlier and special prizes in the seasons. In everything else, it is a Mario Kart specially designed for mobile phones.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Minecraft
Minecraft is like playing Lego on your mobile or computer, and it has been a reference in creativity games for years. You can play alone or on a server with other people, and you decide if you want a living world where you interact with creatures and monsters, or you prefer a relaxing creative world.
Minecraft is an open world game where everything is made up of terrain tiles and items. You go in there with nothing, and you have to start cutting down trees and digging, combining elements to build others, exploring the world, and building. There are also animals that you can raise and obtain resources from. A survival sandbox that you can play in many ways.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Pokémon Unite
‘Pokémon Unite’ is a MOBA game based on the Pokémon universe . It is one of the most important and representative genres in the world of eSports, and all games are played on the same stage, the same arena that all players are already familiar with. And in it, you can choose between different Pokémon to fight, each one with its own abilities.
It is a free game with paid elements, and with crossplay and crossplatform functions, allowing crossplay between the different mobile operating systems and the Switch, which are where the game has arrived. Its mechanics are simple, you play on a map against another team, and each team has three bases. Your character heals at your bases, and you earn points when you deliver the Pokéballs you collect to enemy bases.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
PUBG Mobile
The mobile version of one of the great precursors of the Battle Royale genre , which premiered in 2022 , moving to Free-to-Play. The mechanics are as follows: 100 participants are thrown on an island and only one can remain. Once on the ground, you will have to explore and collect weapons and equipment, while trying to see the rivals and kill them before they finish you off first.
All this happens with a time limit, since to prevent it from becoming eternal, as time goes by the playable area is reduced, so you also have to calculate the strategy so that you are in the playable areas before the the map will be cropped next time. Otherwise, it is a free-for-all with several game modes in which anything can happen.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Roblox
Roblox is another one of those games that has redefined the industry. Well, it’s actually like a metagame, Roblox is the foundation on which anyone can create their own games or servers, and then everyone else can join in multiplayer to play in each of those worlds. Therefore, the mechanics and how it is played will depend on each creator.
It is a game aimed especially at the little ones, and that is why at Xataka we have a Roblox guide for parents . And if you have created an account and don’t know where to start, you also have a list of 21 Roblox games to start exploring its possibilities.
- Download: App Store and Google Play
Sharlene Meriel is an avid gamer with a knack for technology. He has been writing about the latest technologies for the past 5 years. His contribution in technology journalism has been noteworthy. He is also a day trader with interest in the Forex market.
