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The 10 Best Kindle Fire Games

Sascha Segan
 & Sascha Segan Former Lead Analyst, Mobile

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    Buying Guide: The 10 Best Kindle Fire Games

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    Contents

    • The 10 Best Kindle Fire Games
    • 1-5
    • 6-10

    Your new Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HDSee it at Amazon UK, or Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet isn't just for reading books and watching movies. Amazon's Appstore also has thousands of games, and it's easy to while away the hours playing well-known titles on your inexpensive tablet. We played a slew of them to pick out the best.

    A great Kindle Fire game is different from a great Android game, because Amazon's world isn't quite the same as Google's. There's a different app store involved, different cloud services and some relatively specific hardware requirements. So we tested these games on Kindle Fires—although many of the games in our 25 Best Android Games will also run on these top tablets.

    Air Patriots
    Angry Birds Star Wars Premium HD (Kindle Tablet Edition)
    Contre Jour
    Diner Dash
    Minecraft-Pocket Edition
    Symphony of Eternity
    Quell Reflect
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    Here are some of the rules we followed to come up with this list:

    1. It must be available in Amazon's Appstore. While it's possible to sideload games onto a Kindle Fire from elsewhere, Amazon's Appstore is by far the easiest option for Kindle Fire owners.

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    2. It shouldn't have a giant supplementary download. Storage on Kindle Fire tablets can sometimes be a little pinched, so we'll avoid games larger than 500MB (we're looking at you, Bard's Tale, with your 3.5GB download.)

    3. It should run well on a range of hardware, as there are now four Kindle Fire models with three screen resolutions.

    4. Ideally, it should use Amazon's GameCircle cloud features, including achievements and WhisperSync for Games, which lets you sync game progress between different devices.

    5. This is my list. So it has games I like, and doesn't have games I don't like. I don't like Doodle Jump. I don't like "free-to-play" games that demand in-app purchases to get anywhere. I don't like anything that demands to post stuff on Facebook for me, and I'm not very social. Your mileage may vary. Add more games you like, and I don't, in the comments. I won't be offended.

    So what should you play on your Kindle Fire? Click to the next page to read the list, or check out screen shots in the slideshow above.
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    Sascha Segan

    Sascha Segan

    Former Lead Analyst, Mobile

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    I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been here for every "G." I reviewed well over a thousand products during 18 years working full-time at PCMag.com, including every generation of the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S. I also wrote a weekly newsletter, Fully Mobilized, where I obsessed about phones and networks.

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    Being cross-platform is critical for someone in my position. In the US, the mobile world is split pretty cleanly between iOS and Android. So I think it's really important to have Apple, Android and Windows devices all in my daily orbit.

    I use a Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 for work and a 2021 Apple MacBook Pro for personal use. My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, although I'm probably going to move to an Android foldable. Most of my writing is either in Microsoft OneNote or a free notepad app called Notepad++. Number crunching, which I do often for those big data stories, is via Microsoft Excel, DataGrip for MySQL, and Tableau.

    In terms of apps and cloud services, I use both Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive heavily, although I also have iCloud because of the three Macs and three iPads in our house. I subscribe to way too many streaming services. 

    My primary tablet is a 12.9-inch, 2020-model Apple iPad Pro. When I want to read a book, I've got a 2018-model flat-front Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. My home smart speakers run Google Home, and I watch a TCL Roku TV. And Verizon Fios keeps me connected at home.

    My first computer was an Atari 800 and my first cell phone was a Qualcomm Thin Phone. I still have very fond feelings about both of them.

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