BGMI, Free Fire Max are among the best Android games of this year

Google announced its Play best of 2021 awards, listing down the best apps and games for the year. The awards include several categories like best App, best Game, best Hidden Gems, best Indie Games, best App for Personal Growth, and more. The list is region-oriented and may or may not include apps popular in different countries. This year’s list also showcases the eclectic choices users are making and the way app-designers and game-makers are challenging the norm by introducing unique features and giving users a never-seen-before experience. besides, winners were, as always, selected across the developer ecosystem to reinforce that a great game or app can come from anywhere, whether you are a large or a rising developer.

The best game of the year is battlegrounds mobile India (bgmi) developed by Krafton as an India-exclusive version of the banned PUBG mobile. Another popular title that won the Users’ choice pick is Garena Free Fire max. According to data from Sensor Tower, the highly popular game topped the overall downloads on Android and IOS globally in October. In addition to this, Google Play’s best of 2021 best app of the year in India is ‘bitclass’ which is an interactive live learning platform. clubhouse, which launched on Android in may this year, is the Users’ choice app of the year.

As per the Google report, in India, once again, it saw a diverse range of apps help people across the country with relevant and often unique solutions to their daily needs. This year, we saw a distinctive rise in e-learning, with many winners finding creative ways to help the country learn a range of skills online, be it mastering a passion through celebrity-led virtual classes with Frontrow, or using AI to scale student learning outcomes with embibe.■