14 Best FPS Games For Android, Ranked

From "Duck Hunt" to "Call of Duty," people love first-person shooters. In fact, shooters are among the most popular genre across nearly every age group, from teenagers to retirees.

Most of us got our first taste of aiming a digital weapon on a console, a personal computer, or at the arcade. The fast-paced gameplay and controls required a certain amount of hardware, which largely kept those games tethered to living rooms and gaming spaces. However, the rising ubiquity of mobile phones brought along with it a new kind of gaming. In 2022, mobile games accounted for more than half the total video game market. As such, it's no wonder that as soon as the technology allowed, a whole host of mobile FPS games cropped up on mobile devices, from console adaptations to mobile exclusives.

Now we're living in a renaissance of mobile FPS games. There are so many, in fact, that it can be hard to know where to jump in. There are dozens of options, and you could spend a while jumping from one virtual battleground to the next looking for your own personal Colosseum. Allow us to take some of the guesswork out of finding the best mobile FPS games to play on your Android — here are 14 you can try right now.

As the name suggests, "Combat Master Mobile FPS" is a fully-fledged first-person shooter for mobile platforms, which is both its greatest strength and biggest weakness. Players navigate environments using jumps and slides to avoid certain death. There are maps that can be played in either horizontal or vertical modes, which allows for a little flexibility in the way you experience the game.

It's not a game that holds your hand in the user interface or gameplay itself. There's a moderately steep learning curve right out of the gate as you figure out the controls, which newbies must manage while being mercilessly hunted by other players. The game demands that you get good or die. Once you get the hang of things, it becomes a fast-paced battle simulator that will push you to your limit.

The biggest flaw is the game's lack of controller support. With so many weapons and actions to choose from and only two thumbs, the game suffers from the limitations of its touchscreen format. You can't help but feel like a few finishing touches might make the game really shine.

Created by Azur Interactive Games Limited, "Infinity Ops: Cyberpunk FPS" is a free-to-play game that takes place in a dystopian cyberpunk future, as the name suggests. Having achieved incredible technological capabilities the likes of which should have lifted us into a technological utopia, humanity instead descends into all-out interplanetary war — and you're a soldier on the frontlines.

The graphics are sharp and the gameplay is smooth whether you're running around on the ground or piloting a giant mechanical war machine. The game takes cues from console favorites like "Titanfall" and puts it on your mobile phone. You start each match as an ordinary soldier running on the ground with other ordinary soldiers. You and your squad mates are on a mission to defeat the opposing team before it's too late.

However, you're given the option to call in a Titan, which descends from the sky and lands in front of you. Climbing in makes you slower and less maneuverable but much more powerful, allowing you to crush your enemies — sometimes quite literally. While some people hate auto-fire, the feature is a benefit here, simplifying the controls and allowing you to focus on fighting giant robots with your own giant robot.

"Unkilled" comes from the creative and ghoulish minds at Madfinger Games, whose titles are now distributed by Deca_Games, and is free to download. Where some zombie games lean into the blood and gore, "Unkilled" leans into the wacky decayed heart at the center of the genre.

You're a survivor in the aftermath of a zombie catastrophe and it's your job to move through the city, block by block and building by building, clearing the area of zombies. It's the only way humanity can reclaim its cities, and it's the only way we're going to survive. While the stakes are high, the experience is lighthearted. You and your squad move from checkpoint to checkpoint, clearing zombies, moving debris, and rescuing civilians. Along the way, you'll unlock more powerful weapons and equipment upgrades. You're going to need them.

As the game progresses, you'll face down increasingly difficult and increasingly disgusting enemies. While the environment and movements get the job done, the zombie-kill animations leave a little something to be desired. It feels almost as if the developers stopped work before the last ten percent of the game was completed. While "Unkilled" is missing those finishing touches which could elevate it from a good game to a great one, it still delivers solid FPS thrills for Android gamers.

"Guns of Boom" comes to us from Game Insight and is free to download on the Google Play store. Right away, you'll notice the deliberately unrealistic art style. It is crisp but cartoony, letting you know right up front that you're going to be using weapons, but in the same way that kids transform sticks into swords with your imagination. It is a first-person shooter, but more importantly, it's a game.

The art style will be familiar to fans of "Fortnite," although the game itself is slightly less frantic. Rather than 100 players in an all-out battle for supremacy, you play on teams of four, working together to control the map and defeat the opposing players. You'll have a variety of weapons and health packs at your disposal and the game defaults to aim-assist and auto-fire. If you can get your reticle in the region of your target, the game will help get it the rest of the way there. It may not be the game of choice for competitive FPS gamers, but it's a fun way to unwind, especially with younger players.

From Azur Games (the same folks who brought us "Infinity Ops") comes a free-to-play first-person shooter which delivers exactly what you want from the genre. If you've played even one or two shooters before, you know pretty much what you're getting with "Modern Strike Online."

After a very brief tutorial that covers basic movements and attacks, you're dropped into an active game with real players to duke it out in the arena. Switching between weapons is easy and intuitive, but having all of the buttons on the screen means that sometimes you accidentally swap out for a knife in the midst of a gunfight. That problem aside, the aim assist and auto-fire work well, even when switching between weapons, to keep you plowing toward victory with as little interruption as possible. Moreover, it prevents you from needing to shift between moving and firing during a firefight. Added effects, like sniper rifles only firing when zoomed in, add a layer of realism to the gameplay.

Maps are small and tight, which keeps the fight engaging. If you want a more casual FPS experience that still feels intense, this might be it.

"Standoff 2" sits somewhere between realistic, unforgiving warfare and the combat equivalent of a particularly enthusiastic water balloon fight. The combination of nearly realistic weapons and wacky avatars makes for an odd but endearing juxtaposition.

There are several different game modes available. Arms Race requires you to kill players with every available weapon in the game, while Defuse pits a team of terrorists trying to plant a bomb against a bomb squad trying to stop them. Meanwhile, Arcade drops you into a map with a timer and a kill counter, and the team with the most kills at the end wins.

Joining a match drops you into a lobby while locating other players, giving you an opportunity to familiarize yourself with the controls before the bloodshed starts. Your gameplay options are limited at the beginning, but new game modes are unlocked as you progress through the game. Keep your guard up, however. The maps are tight and close quarters mean you're never too far from an enemy.

The lore is that the "PUBG" creator thought of the game after seeing the 2000 Japanese horror film "Battle Royale," and the format introduced by the title has taken the FPS landscape by storm. Like other battle royale games, "PUBG Mobile" is free to play but does offer loot boxes and other in-game purchases.

Players have the option of first or third-person perspective in an island arena with up to 99 other players. Each match begins with you and your competitors in a plane, flying high over an island. You can jump out at any time, but choose where you land carefully. You're safer in the middle of nowhere but supplies and weapons only spawn in or near buildings. Just remember there are 99 other people on this island, and they all want you dead. However, you're going to have to face them eventually because the map is shrinking, forcing you all into close quarters.

The "PUBG" community remains active today, having been downloaded more than half a billion times, and new content is always being added. Your next victory could start right now in this classic Android FPS.