Must Play Mobile Games For Making Online Friends

One of the biggest challenges during quarantine is finding ways to socialise and meeting new people. Are you thinking of how to meet new people without having to go on Tinder, Bumble, or any of the other social apps filled with people looking for more than just friends?This article gives you a list of mobile games that are designed for social interaction and ultimately making friends with people you meet in the game.

We made sure the following games are gender neutral (has a fairly balanced player base of both genders), doesn't have a high skill requirement, has great communication tools, places you directly with strangers over the game, high replay value, and free!

1. Among Us

2. Dragon Raja

3. Mobile Legends

4. Sky: Children of the Light

5. Quizup

6. IMVU

7. Roblox

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Among Us

Platform: iOS and Android (Cross play with PC players on Steam)

Genre: Mystery murder / Strategy Max Players at Once: 10

Communication: Text only (There are voice groups on discord for this game)

How to Meet New People: Simple, just join an online game and you will be matched with people in the same server as you. (Make sure you choose the server for your region so you get the same language speakers)

Things You Can Do With Strangers and Friends: Since Among Us's core game play depends on multiplayer, you need to have discussions every time an emergency or dead body is called to figure out who is an imposter.

Dragon Raja

Platform: iOS and Android

Genre: MMORPG

Max Players at Once: 5 for parties, otherwise no limit.

Communication: Text and voice

How to Meet New People: The game has a large player base with many daily quests and events, just look in world chat, people are always needing players for their party. There is also a great guild system for you to join to meet new people and talk about the game and other things.

Things You Can Do With Strangers and Friends: The reason why Dragon Raja is so special compared to other MMORPGs is that beyond typical monster killing, dungeon grinding, PvP and collecting gear, the game has many other features for players to engage with each other. There is a housing system, pet system, baby system, battle royale mode, special guild events, daily and weekly events, daily timed events, side quests and puzzles, and lots of character/mount customisation.

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Platform: iOS and Android

Genre: MOBA

Max Players at Once: 5 per team

Communication: Text and voice

How to Meet New People: Every mode in Mobile Legends requires multiplayer, usually with 5 players on each team. When you are matched into a game, you are already on a team with 4 other people which you can communicate and strategise with. If you enjoy playing with them, add them as a friend after the game and start playing together.

Things You Can Do With Strangers and Friends: Mobile Legends has many modes, so you can queue the different modes together and play with friends and strangers you just met.

Sky: Children of the Light

Platform: iOS and Android

Genre: Adventure

Max Players at Once: 8

Communication: Text and Emotes

How to Meet New People: In the game you will see many greyed out avatars walking and flying around, these are players. The game has a very unique style of communication where you can really only communicate through emotes and actions. There is also a text system if you use a candle or go on the community bench with a candle to chat with other players.

Things You Can Do With Strangers and Friends: You can do pretty much everything in this game with other players, including exploring new areas of the game, solving puzzles, completing the main story line and completing side quests.

Quizup

Platform: iOS and Android

Genre: Quiz

Max Players at Once: 2

Communication: Text only

How to Meet New People:

Things You Can Do With Strangers and Friends:

IMVU

Platform: iOS and Android

Genre: Role playing

Max Players at Once: No limit

Communication: Text and voice

How to Meet New People: There is a search and browse feature which players can use to find kindred spirits that they want to engage with. You can also stick around in different rooms and start making your way into their circle or they will approach you.

Things You Can Do With Strangers and Friends: The game is mostly for strangers to chat with each other, so your imagination is the limit. You can also dress up your character and customise them to your liking.

Roblox

Platform: iOS and Android

Genre: RPG and Minigames

Max Players at Once: 100

Communication: Text only (There are many voice chat groups on discord you can join)

How to Meet New People: Quite simple, join games with people in them. Stick with them for a bit, start chatting and do random things with them. Eventually add them as a friend so you can go do other things together.

Things You Can Do With Strangers and Friends: Join different games, play mini games, explore, pretty much anything you want. Once you make new friends, make sure to try out all the mini games out there to find the ones you enjoy playing.