Chrome OS only has a very small market share. But allChromebooks can play games, as they have Android compatibility baked into them since 2016. This means that most Android games will run fine on a Chromebook. However, it should be noted that some are not designed to display on a screen any larger than a phone or tablet.
Role-playing games are a very popular game genre, arguably the most popular of all over time. There are a great many excellentAndroid RPGsthat Chromebook owners can install and play perfectly. These range from great indie titles, and custom-developed Android games, to classic RPGs that have been reworked for Android.
8Monster Hunter Stories
Capture And Train Monsters
Monster Hunter Storiesbrings theMonster Hunterfranchise to the Chromebook. It incorporates key tropes from the franchise, including hatching monster eggs and having turn-based battles using the hatched, trained, and grown monsters.
There is a slight change in this mobile-friendly take onMonster Hunterthough. In this game, the player is known as a rider, not a hunter. There is a basic storyline to the game, but this acts more like a glorified tutorial than true game content. Sure, this is a very cut-down version of Monster Hunter, but it is fun nonetheless, and worth a place on this list.
Modern Cross Platform Casual RPG
Raid: Shadow Legends
Teleria trembles. The shadow cast by the Dark Lord Siroth grows longer with each day. Only one hope stands in defiance: you. Answer the summons of the Arbiter to liberate the realm.Assemble an alliance of Champions and lead them through a brutal world with challenging Dungeons, terrifying Clan Boss fights, and more. Discover a sprawling, fully-voiced Campaign through 12 striking locations. Experience tactical PvE gameplay where every choice matters, forming one of the most cohesive and enjoyable gaming experiences in the battle collection RPG genre.Start your RAID: Shadow Legends journey today, and experience skilful Clan-centered cooperative play, unprecedented customization, and a mind-blowing range of strategic decisions to make. May the Arbiter grant you victory!Immerse yourself in the world of Teleria and watch RAID: Call of the Arbiter, a ten-part limited series available exclusively on YouTube. An ancient guardian, the Arbiter, must summon a band of unlikely champions to find a path back to our world. Discover the origins of these characters and follow their journey as they are challenged to lay down their grievances, join forces, and light the spark that will cast down the darkness.Then, delve deeper into the history of Teleria and its people, and discover the stories behind some of your favorite RAID: Shadow Legends Champions in-game. Immerse yourself in deep character stories, and piece together Teleria’s history told by those who lived through it.
Raid Shadow Legendsis a modern take on the traditional MMORPG. Tasks in the game are split into challenges and quests, but this is in name only. Quests and challenges simply involve the player completing certain goals. The gameplay revolves around unlocking, training, and skilling up champions to build teams.
Teams are then pitched against the many different types of content in the game. Including simple campaign mode, through faction warfare, dungeons, and boss fights, all of which are PvE only. PvP is also part ofRaid Shadow Legends, in the form of three arena modes; classic arena, tag team arena, and live arena. Overall, this is a great game if a player can only spare ashort time to playeach day.
6Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
Based On Dungeons & Dragons Rules
The originalNeverwinter Nightswas the first BioWare game to follow theDungeons & Dragonsruleset completely. This made it instantly accessible to anyone familiar withD&D. It made choosing skills easy to understand, and the class system was very well-defined.
TheNeverwinter Nights: Enhanced Editionbreathes new life into this old game. It has been remastered to work well on devices with a touch screen, and the graphics have been optimized for mobile CPU/GPU. Overall, this is a fantastic new version of what was one of the best top-down RPG games of all time.
TheDiablofranchise needs no introduction. It has been one of the most popular action RPG franchises going back to 1997.Diablo Immortalbrings a similar game experience to the Android platform. The timeline for the game fits somewhere in betweenDiablo 2andDiablo 3.
Players can choose from the usual classes of Blood Knight, Crusader, Hunter, Necromancer, Demon, Wizard, and Barbarian. Featuring isometric graphics following the usual top-down approach, this free-to-play game has been lauded as a great new edition to the franchise, that is not simply a cut-down mobile game, but a full-blown action RPG in its own right.
This is a cross-platform action role-playing game that was released in 2021. It has full cross-play as well.Genshin Impactis operated as a live service game and gets plenty of content updates and feature patches. With its open-world playing style and interesting action-based way of handling combat, it works great on smaller Chromebooks with a touch screen.
During combat, the player can easily swap between characters, and fire off skills and attacks. Each character has their skills, stats, and gear. Much of the gameplay revolves around training and equipping these characters, ready for combat. Overall, this is a fantastic anime RPG that aficionados of anime will no doubt enjoy.
3Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition
Old School BioWare RPG
BioWare has been pretty smart in realizing many of its older titles could be easily converted to mobile platforms and limited hardware such as a Chromebook. TheBaldur’s Gatefranchise has been one of the most successful ones for BioWare, so bringing the original Baldur’s Gate back as an enhanced edition must have been a no-brainer.
Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Editionbrings the full, original game to mobile, but in a format that is more easily consumed by small devices with touchscreen input. Players who have followed the franchise might like to try this version, as it can be played anywhere.
Yet another BioWare game that has been reworked to perform well on Android.Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republictakes a place high on this list because it is widely recognized as being one of the best action RPG games of all time. And of course, because it’sStar Wars.
This is the full game, and very little has been changed for the newer Android version. The display is handled a little differently simply because of the size restraints, and the control scheme has been modified for touchscreen control. For Star Wars fans, whether they played the original version ofStar Wars: Knights of the Old Republicor not, this is a fantastic game to install on their mobile devices.
Stardew Valleyis anindie RPGthat was developed by a single person, over some 4.5 years. Anecdotally, the developers stated that they hated the game just before release and were convinced it would flop, and they had wasted years of development time. Of course, this isn’t what happened at all.Stardew Valleyhas been one of the most successful indie RPGs of all time.
The Android version ofStardew Valleyis exactly the same as the desktop version. It was developed from the ground up to be a fully cross-platform game. This means it works very well on a Chromebook under Android. This pixel art graphical RPG has some incredible depth, with great writing and fun gameplay.
