The Best Premium Android Games in 2025
Free-to-play might dominate mobile gaming, but sometimes you want something more substantial — a game that doesn’t shove ads in your face or nickel-and-dime you with endless microtransactions. That’s where premium Android games come in.
For a few dollars (okay, sometimes more than a few), you get console-quality experiences, clever ports, and games that feel like they actually belong on your phone. And in 2025, the lineup of premium Android titles has never looked better.
Here are the ones worth your time — and your storage space.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Ubisoft finally brought The Lost Crown to Android this year, and it’s a stunner. Originally a 2024 console release, the mobile port isn’t just a lazy afterthought. It has touch controls you can fully remap, controller support, and even little extras like auto-parry or wall-grab assists if you just want to enjoy the story without sweating every combo.
It’s a slick side-scrolling platformer, drenched in Persian-inspired art and packed with clever puzzles and combat encounters that feel great on a small screen. You can try it for free before unlocking the full game with a one-time purchase.
Price: Free trial + single unlock via Google Play
Crashlands 2
Flux Dabes is back, still disgruntled, still intergalactic, and still crashing into weird planets. Crashlands 2 doubles down on everything that made the first game such a cult hit: crafting, exploration, and a bizarrely charming alien world filled with creatures and societies you actually want to hang out in.
It’s $9.99 for a full-fat premium experience with no strings attached. Think of it as a sci-fi survival RPG with a goofy heart.
Price: $9.99 on Google Play
Limbo
If you somehow missed Limbo over the last 15 years, don’t keep making that mistake. This award-winning puzzle-platformer is eerie, minimalist, and unforgettable. You play a nameless boy searching for his sister in a black-and-white world filled with traps, shadows, and the occasional horrifying spider.
At $3.99, it’s one of the cheapest ways to remind yourself that games can be art — and also terrifying.
Price: $3.99 on Google Play
GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition
Mobile racing doesn’t get much flashier than this. GRID Legends is the kind of game that demands a flagship phone and 18GB of storage. It’s big, fast, and unapologetically premium.
For $13.49, you’re getting the full package — all DLC, multiple racing styles, and a career mode that can suck you in for weeks. It’s part arcade racer, part simulation, and all spectacle.
Price: $13.49 on Google Play
Alien: Isolation
Few games capture dread quite like Alien: Isolation, and the Android port nails it. You play as Amanda Ripley, trapped on the Sevastopol space station with a single, terrifying alien that cannot be killed — only avoided.
Feral Interactive, the masters of mobile ports, let you try the first two missions for free. If you’re hooked (you will be), the full unlock is $13.49, including all DLC. Just clear out some space — the game asks for up to 22GB.
Price: Free trial + $13.49 full unlock on Google Play
The Banner Saga
Imagine Fire Emblem with Viking vibes. That’s The Banner Saga. It’s a tactical RPG where your choices matter: who lives, who dies, and how your caravan survives its journey.
The hand-drawn art is gorgeous, the story is heavy, and the battles will test your patience in the best way. At $10, it’s a serious commitment, but it’s also one of the most memorable strategy games you can play on mobile.
Price: $9.99 on Google Play
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
One of the most influential games of all time is also one of the cheapest here. Symphony of the Night is a defining Metroidvania — the game that set the template for countless side-scrollers after it.
On Android, it’s smooth, stylish, and surprisingly easy to play with touch controls (though a controller makes it shine). For a few bucks, you’re buying a piece of history that still plays like a dream.
Price: $2.99 on Google Play
Crypt of the NecroDancer
What if Dance Dance Revolution and Diablo had a baby? That’s Crypt of the NecroDancer. Every movement and attack is tied to the beat of an insanely good soundtrack. Stay in rhythm, and you’ll crush monsters while racking up multipliers. Miss a beat, and you’ll pay for it.
It’s weird, brilliant, and tough as nails. And at $4.99, it’s cheaper than most rhythm games on console.
Price: $4.99 on Google Play
Bottom line
Premium Android games aren’t just about ditching ads. They’re about getting the kind of experiences you’d expect from a console, shrunk down to your pocket. Whether you want to solve eerie puzzles in Limbo, survive a horror masterpiece in Alien: Isolation, or thrash demons on beat in Crypt of the NecroDancer, 2025 is the best time yet to pay once and play forever.
