Despite the variety of action games, shooters, racing games, strategies, RPGs and other games released for Android smartphones, most of them one way or another require a constant connection to the Internet or WiFi
A large number of different RPGs have been released on Android, but only some of them do not require a constant connection to the Internet: most games use the network in one way or another to update information and the ability to interact with other players
Shooters are one of the main gaming genres for mobile platforms like Android, but most of these games only work with a constant Internet connection or Wi-Fi
Survival games usually offer gamers a huge open world in which they need to survive by crafting equipment, exploring new locations and trying not to spend a lot of resources to defeat the enemy
Many games tell an alternative history of our world, in which a nuclear war or some other massive deadly incident occurred: it was because of it that fields and forests were replaced by lifeless deserts, and the planet’s population fell hundreds of times
Slashers are a well-known genre of games in which the gameplay is tied to the destruction of monsters in closed locations using a huge list of combinations, weapons and not without the use of special skills and the environment
Westerns are games whose plot tells about events in the setting of the Wild West: it includes stories about cowboys and Indians, duels with firearms, travel across the desert prairies and bounty hunts
Flight simulators are a well-known genre, the games of which give the player the opportunity to feel like the pilot of a real plane: unlike arcade “flyers”, in such games you need to take into account many factors and participate in large-scale battles, which the developers tried to make as realistic as possible
Wargames are a subgenre of strategies whose developers try to convey the conditions of military conflicts as realistically and authentically as possible
God simulators include those games in which the gamer becomes a real arbiter of destinies: usually he is given unlimited power over a small human settlement, which, unfortunately, cannot live without the gaze of a deity
Quests are a fairly common genre of games in which the main emphasis is on working with your head: you need to constantly solve riddles, look for uses for found things and listen to hundreds of dialogues in which NPCs will try to help the main character in his endeavors
Roguelike or “bagels” is a unique genre, the games of which have the following similar features: a constantly dying main character, procedural generation of levels, many role-playing elements and hardcore (especially for beginners)
Steampunk is a science fiction style in which worlds are surrounded by steam technology: all automatic devices, vehicles, weapons and other technologies are based on steam engines
Many multiplayer competitive games that are still supported by developers have long since opened their own eSports discipline: the best players around the world gather in teams and fight for big cash prizes, medals and cups
Tower Defense is a common genre of strategy games in which the player does not have the ability to control an army of units: he must defend a road (or roads) from oncoming enemies by building towers
Games about the Stone Age tell players about a difficult and very distant time when people lived in caves, made fire with pieces of wood and killed mammoths with homemade spears
MOBA games are a genre of multiplayer games that became popular thanks to a custom map for the famous Warcraft 3 strategy called Defense of the Ancients
Puzzle games require the gamer to be focused and willing to solve puzzles, because in such games the entire gameplay will be connected with this: there is a whole list of quests where you need to find objects in a partially open world and find a use for them
Many games, especially those made by small indie studios, are made in pixel graphics, which gives them a special appearance and reminds seasoned gamers of the times of the last century when games were just beginning to emerge
Games about maniacs usually tell a short story in the setting of our time, where the player either gets into the skin of a serial killer himself, or becomes a defenseless victim who must survive in endless deadly chases
Historical games usually touch on a specific period in human history, either completely retelling it and allowing the gamer to participate in it, or embellishing events by adding new faces or some details
The Roman Empire, which began before our era, is a great time period in the history of the world for some developers, so there are many games that focus only on this country and the period of its expansion
There are many games in the world in which the gamer looks at his hero from above: such games are called isometric (if the camera is placed diagonally) or with a camera from above
Games about magic almost always offer gamers a vast fantasy world where magical abilities are the main gift of humanity: magicians can create huge fireballs, change the weather, distort space and time, summon magical creatures and simply make the world around them better
Fantasy role-playing games offer players to plunge into a fictional world, which is usually shared with each other not only by people, but also by elves, gnomes, orcs and other already known creatures
Despite the fact that basically all games in a fantasy setting are role-playing, there are many exceptions that prove that strategy, action and even shooters can exist in the fantasy style
Battle royale games, which became really popular in 2017 thanks to PUBG, are multiplayer shooter games in which 100 players compete for first place, trying to destroy all their opponents on a fairly large island