The Best VPNs for PUBG Mobile

Surfshark is one of our favorite VPNs for playing online games on smartphones and tablets.

Thanks to its 10Gbps servers in 100 countries, Surfshark allowed us to quickly and easily escape “sweaty” North American and European lobbies at any time.

The service’s Android, iOS, and iPadOS apps are straightforward to install directly from your device’s app store. They’re also very intuitive to use, and come with helpful settings for enhanced gaming.

Unlike most mobile VPNs that only hide your IP address, Surfshark’s ‘Override GPS Location’ function in its Android app also spoofs your phone’s physical coordinates.

Using Surfshark’s Override GPS location function.

And if you’re playing on a shaky 4G or 5G connection, Surfshark’s ‘Use Small Packets’ setting optimizes data transfers over weaker cellular networks, significantly reducing jitter.

The only issue we had using Surfshark’s apps are that it takes a few extra seconds to connect to a server compared to ExpressVPN.

If you simply need a VPN for a few days, or you can’t pay for one right now, then Surfshark’s free trial will come in very handy.

The trial runs for seven days and you can sign up to it directly via your mobile app store, or through the website.

The only “catch” is that the trial offer doesn’t apply to monthly plans, so make sure you cancel in time to avoid being charged.

Keep in mind that after the trial, Surfshark’s 30-day money-back guarantee kicks in, which gives you up to 37 days of free use (as long as you request a refund).

ExpressVPN continues to rank among the best VPNs for speed, latency, and jitter, no matter which server we connected to.

Our download speeds dipped by a mere 2% on close-by servers, and 15% connecting to far away server locations.

Our latency readings were also very strong, with the VPN adding very little to our non-VPN ping, even over distances of thousands of miles.

What’s more, we rarely experienced lag and our gameplay remained smooth throughout the match.

If you’re in India, the service’s VPN server in Singapore worked really well to bypass the local PUBG ban.

You can also connect to a number of other servers in Asia, including Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. All Asian server locations delivered a stable ping regardless of where we connected from.

These locations were particularly useful to get crossover Jujutsu Kaisen and Evangelion skins (Japan and Korea), and high-value growth packs (Taiwan and Thailand).

ExpressVPN’s Korean server locations.

ExpressVPN’s mobile apps are also extremely easy to use with servers that connect almost instantly.

With a 6ms on short-distance connections and 180ms over long ones, Windscribe really surprised us.

For a free service to register such results is very rare, which is why the VPN has deservedly earned its spot in our PUBG VPN rankings.

We did pick up spikes in ping here and there, but Windscribe’s jitter recordings were mostly good.

Download speeds were equally good, with only a 9% and 13% slowdown on short and long distances, respectively.

As with latency, we experienced occasional speed fluctuations, but it’s to be expected considering the popularity of Windscribe’s free servers, particularly during peak hours.

The great thing about Windscribe’s free service is the amount of settings included at no extra costs.

We love the GPS spoofer in the Android app, which allows you to change your device’s GPS location, and its MTU adjuster, which helps to stabilize inconsistent cellular connections.

Another great feature is the VPN’s ability to work in high-censorship countries like China, Turkey, and the UAE.

By turning on the ‘Circumvent Censorship’ toggle in the app’s ‘Connection’ settings, you can activate the VPN’s obfuscation technology to bypass a country’s firewall and access blocked domains and web services.

Now to the drawbacks, which are significant if you’re planning on using a VPN on a daily basis.

Firstly, Windscribe only offers free servers in 10 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.

Europe and North America are covered sufficiently, but there’s only one location in Asia, and none in Central or South America, or Africa.

Secondly, Windscribe only gives you 10GB worth of bandwidth each month (if you create an account). You can also receive an extra 5GB by sharing a promotional message on X.

But even with the extra data added on, the bandwidth at your disposal is still skimpy for serious gamers. If you’re downloading in-game updates and resource packs while connected to the VPN, you’ll quickly use up the allowance.