The world of mobile online gaming has exploded in the past couple of years. As phones become increasingly advanced when it comes to running graphic and CPU heavy games, many users are able to enjoy a smoother gaming experience.

This boost in tech has opened up a whole new world to game developers, allowing them to be much more ambitious with the games that they bring to market.

Multiplayer gaming also played a pivotal role during the recent pandemic and subsequent lockdown periods, allowing families and friends to connect and compete in a shared online space.

If you need to get your competitive fix, check out these top-rated online multiplayer games you can play for absolutely free!

Among Us

Few games have such an immediate impact on the world as Among Us did in 2020. Although the game was quietly released in the middle of 2018, it took a couple of years to hit the mainstream, but when it did, it exploded into something bigger than anyone could have predicted.

In the game, you play as part of a group who are onboard a spaceship. You need to carry out tasks such as refuelling and ship maintenance, done in the form of minigames.

Among the group of characters are people designated as imposters, whose primary objective is to sabotage the ship and kill the crewmates. Players win by either ejecting all of the imposters, or the imposters win by killing off crewmates so that there are equal numbers of players on each side.

Although the game is free to play on Android, it does come with ads and in-app purchases.

Call of Duty: Mobile

Call of Duty is a franchise that is known the world over, having been made extremely popular by its console series such as Modern Warfare and Black Ops. Since making its mobile debut in 2019, COD: Mobile made history by being the fastest game ever to reach 100 million downloads, achieving this feat in just one week.

This free to play version of the console classic offers three main game modes:

• 100 player battle royale
• Five vs five deathmatch
• PVP sniper battle

Each of these modes provides enough variety to keep you coming back for more.

8 Ball Pool

Perfect for the more casual mobile gamer, 8 Ball Pool is a simple 2D game based on classic American pool, sometimes known as billiards or spots and stripes.

The main objective of the game is to win games against online opposition, along with earning coins to unlock better cues and progress to playing tougher opponents.

8 Ball Pool is one of the most downloaded games on Android, with tens of thousands of people online at any given time, ensuring matchmaking is seamless and trouble-free.

There are also no adverts in the game, although you are regularly hit with in-game promotions to buy extra equipment or more in-game currency.

Clash of Clans

Hugely popular across the globe, Clash of Clans is one of the most downloaded games on Google’s Play Store, with upwards of 500 million downloads.

In the game, your job is to build up a village and raise a clan, with unique characters such as archers, barbarians and wizards. These characters are then used to attack other players’ villages, stealing their resources to further improve your own village’s supplies and defences.

With regular updates and unputdownable gameplay, Clash of Clans can serve as a great way to pass the time!

Fortnite & PUBG Mobile

It’s important not to forget these two goliaths of online gaming. Fortnite and PUBG revolutionised the gaming world, introducing an era of mass multiplayer experiences being made available on smartphones.

After their success on console and PC, Fortnite and PUBG released mobile versions of their games in 2017 and 2018, garnering enormous audiences for each.

Both games use a similar premise, a battle royale arena with players dropping in to collect weapons, ammunition and supplies before trying to make their way to the centre of an ever-shrinking play area. In both formats, the last player or team to survive is the winner.

The benefit of both of these games is that neither uses a ‘pay to win’ model, meaning that you don’t need to spend money on the game to further your progress or unlock better equipment. Any financial purchases are purely aesthetic to ensure an even playing field for all players.

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