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Digitalization has not only changes the way we live but also changes the way we play. Online games are the new thing, and it gained fast popularity without much ado, in leaps and bounds. People have been playing games since time memorial and have always loved it; however, with the digitalization of games, it’s just a click away. Internet on your smartphones has brought almost everything into the palm of your hands. Due to the sudden change, the popularity of online games has also shot up and has seen an immense difference in its gaming structure and culture. It’s continuously evolving to be better and faster over time with changing and improving technology.

A person sitting in any corner of the world can play online games with anyone else across the globe at any point in time, the day or night, without having to move an inch. Also, you can play with your friends or family without even physically being together. This is the beauty of online games. It’s easy, accessible, addictive, and entertaining, keeping you engaged and entertained.

Here are a few top online games that are worthy of being mentioned in 2020 and will keep you engaged and entertained:

• Poker

It’s one of the most played and sort after card game since the early 19^th century in America. However, with a few modifications done in 1970, poker gained even more popularity over the period of time until it boomed from 2003 to 2006, and has kept on rising since then without any interruption. Digitalization has taken this game to all new heights. It’s a card game where you will only win if you have cards that are consecutive and also of the highest value, either from the same deck or from different. There are millions of poker players across the globe.  And now game publishers are providing online Poker gaming solutions to Poker fanatics. Also, there are multiple poker games available online on platforms like Android, Windows, and Apple stores from where you can download and start playing, making it accessible and comfortable.

• Ludo

It’s derived from an ancient game in India known as Pachisi (6^th century), and that’s been modified and made more manageable. It’s a board game that played strategically by 2 to 4 players with rolling dices and moving tokens. You move your tokens as per the number generated from your rolling dice, and it could be anywhere between 0 and 6. The one to win is the one to reach the finish line first with all his/her four tokens. Ludo has been adapted and played in many countries and is considered to be a family game. Game publishers are offering online Ludo gaming solutions to Ludo lovers. With the game going online, it can now be played from anywhere with anyone around the world once you download it via Android, Apple, and Windows Store on your Smartphone.

• Subway Surfers

This is a never-ending mobile game of running released on May 24, 2012, by a Denmark based private company where a young graffiti artist is being chased by a policeman and his dog through railway tracks, for applying graffiti. While running and jumping, the player gains coins and boost-up items while dodging colliding into trains, walls, poles, and other items or objects and also avoid being captured by the policeman or crashing or hitting into/by something. You can download this game from Android, Apple, Windows, and Kindle to play.

• PUBG

Player Unknown’s Battleground was initially an online mobile multiplayer game of battle belonging to the battle royal game format, which was developed by PUBG Corporation whose mother company is Bluehole, a South Korean Company and released in 2018 for Android. This game was inspired by Battle Royale, a Japanese Film in 2000, and is now also available on PC. It’s a game where players (up to 100) land onto an island via parachute from a plane to search for weapons and other pieces of battle equipment for killing others while staying alive themselves. The safe zones in the game shrink over the period as the game progresses, pushing the players into tight confinement areas to create unavoidable encounters, and the team or player who remains alive till the end wins that round of battle. Groups can be of a maximum of 4 players, or you can opt to go solo. PUBG is a very intense game where a round can last up to 30 minutes, and winning gives you in-game cash prize which can be used to enhance your artillery further and proceed in the game.

• Fortnite

Fortnite is also an online game belonging to the battle royal game format. It’s been developed and released by Epic Games in 2017 in three different versions while maintaining the same generic gameplay and background, but with a little twist. Fortnite: Save the World is one version where you or a team (up to 4 players) fight against creatures like a zombie and build fortifications to defend various objects and save the world. Fortnite Battle Royal is the second version of the game where players (up to 100) fight and the last one standing wins; and the third or the last version is Fortnite Creative, where total freedom is given to the players to create or build worlds and battlefields/areas according to their choice. Though Fortnite: Save the World is only available in Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and macOS. Fortnite Battle Royal and Fortnite Creative are available in Android, Nintendo Switch, and Apple stores.

These are just a few of the many online games available in the market that are downloaded and played by millions of people daily. The best part of online games is that players do not belong to any particular age group, country, or occupation and may not even know one another. Still, the online gaming platform has brought them together, and this has only been possible due to the digitalization and easy availability of the internet on smartphones.

For those who are interested in joining the online gaming world, you can log onto any one of the online platforms like Android, Apple Store, or Windows and download any game of your choice and start playing.