When people think of mobile games, usually simple games like Candy Crush or popular games like PUBG Mobile comes to mind. However, the mobile platform is much more capable than you might think... the hardware of mobile devices have advanced enough to be able to play a lot of story-driven older PC games.
In this article, we would list out the top 8 best story mode games for Android. While most of these games are paid, you can download their APK and Data for a free install on various other 3rd party pages out there like kingmodapk or apkpure.
Best Story Mode Games For Android
1 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
One of the best and most famous entry in the GTA Series. San Andreas put you into the shoes of Carl Johnson, a gangster returning home after 5 years. Many things have happened while he was gone - his mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster.
You would follow the journey of CJ across the entire city of San Andreas to save his family and friends... and take control of the streets.
2 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Vice City is based on Miami in the 1980s, which is a highly varied urban sprawl ranging from beaches to swamps, glitz to ghetto. You would follow the footsteps of mobster Tommy Vercetti after his prison release. Upon being caught up in an ambushed drug deal, he seeks out those responsible while slowly building a criminal empire and seizing power from other criminal organizations in the city.
Combining a character-driven narrative with open-world gameplay, Vice City is definitely one of the best RPG Rockstars ever created
3 - Grand Theft Auto 3
Vice City's predecessor - GTA III is the first time a GTA game gets transported to a fully 3D world.
The game set within Liberty City, a fictional city loosely based on New York. You would step into the shoes of Claude, a criminal who's on a quest for revenge against his girlfriend, who betrayed and left him for dead during a bank robbery. On this mission, Claude would tangle with a world full of crime, corruption, drugs, and gang warfare. The player can freely roam Liberty City's three islands.
4 - This War of Mine
This game has one of the weirdest settings in gaming - you would play as a group of civilians trying to survive in a war-torn city in ww2. You would have to struggle with the lack of food and the constant danger from hostile scavengers and snipers. You would get to see wars from an entirely new angle - not from the eyes of soldiers but from the civilians stuck in the war zone.
5 - Game of Thrones
This is a side story based on the famous TV and book series. You would step into the shoes of House Forrester, a noble family subordinate to the Starks of Winterfell. They are caught in the events of the War of the Five Kings and thrown into a maelstrom of bloody warfare and intrigue.
You would step in the shoes of the different members of the Forrester family and determine their fate through the choices you made. Your actions would affect the world around you. This game is currently not available on the Google Play Store - you have to download it from 3rd party sites.
6 - The Banner Saga
You would travel through an epic Viking RPG saga in which your choices would affect your personal journey. In this game, you would step into the shoes of the leader of a caravan, journey to the end of the earth to avoid calamity. The world is ending... and your group might be everyone's last hope.
Every decision you make in conversation, combat and travel would have an effect on the outcome as your tale unfolds.
7 - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
The story of KOTOR takes place almost 4,000 years before the formation of the Galactic Empire (the settings of the movies where Darth Malak, a Dark Lord of the Sith, has unleashed a Sith armada against the Galactic Republic. The player character, as a Jedi, must venture to different planets in the galaxy to defeat Malak.
This is one of the most detailed and epic RPG out there - it is a miracle that KOTOR was adapted successfully for Android.
8 - The Wolf Among Us
In The Wolf Among Us, you would step into the shoes of Bigby Wolf, the Sheriff of Fabletown, a location where all the fairytale characters gathered. A mysterious murder has happened and your job is to solve the case and reveal the real killer before they strike again.
A lot of famous storybook character would make an appearance - from Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio... and more.
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