BEST 5 ANDROID GAMES OF 2017

Golf Clash

Golf Clash is one of the newer games on this list, but while it hasn't been around for too long, it's already attracted a lot of dedicated players. 

As with any other golf game, the aim is pretty clear, but rather than put you through a time-consuming 9 or 18-hole round, all games take place against other real players and last just one hole. If you both take the same number of shots sinking the ball, you then need to win a one-shot closest to the pin shootout.

Table Tennis Touch

Table Tennis Touch is by no means the only ping pong game available on Android, but it is one of the best, despite needing to pay $2.99 upfront to download it. Once you have, you'll realize that while the controls are simple, the level of precision required (and possible to get out of your shots) is immense. Topspin, backspin, sidespin and powerful smash shots are just a stroke away. 

Doodle Bowling

Doodle Bowling is not an in-depth strategy game, and nor does it require sporting prowess, or any real interest in a sport at all. In exchange for this lack of required interest, Doodle Bowling can keep you entertained a few minutes at a time by letting you play through frame after frame of a scrawled game of bowling. 

Shadow Fight 2

Even though Shadow Fight 2 has been out for three years already, and there's a new one due to drop in 2017, Shadow Fight 2 is still worth downloading in the meantime to fill that void. More than 100 million downloads suggest it's probably worth your time. 

With no requirement to eat up your data plan or fight online against other real people, there's a whole long series of battles for you to fight your way through, learning new moves and gaining new weapon skills along the way. Where Shadow Fight differs from most other fighting games is that it's not just a button masher. 

Rolling Snail

Sometimes the sheer simplicity of a game is what gets under your skin, and that's the case with Rolling Snail, which describes itself as a physics-based drawing game. The aim is simple: get your snail to the weird portal-looking thing to advance to the next level.