Casual
A slow gardening game with real waiting. Fine in short visits, tedious in long ones.
★★★★☆ 3.5
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Casual · 3.5★
144games tested
69articles written
2years running
0paid placements
Why us
Offline first
Every review says plainly whether the game works on a plane or a train without signal.
Battery and size
How much space it takes and how quickly it drains a phone — both are in the review.
We finish what we start
A review only goes up after at least a week with the game, not after ten minutes of the tutorial.
Ads and purchases, measured
We count how often ads interrupt play and what the paid version actually removes.
Games
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Puzzle
Rebuild broken radio circuits. Hard from the start and honest about it.
★★★★★ 4.5
Cards
Classic card games with a decent offline opponent and no forced online play.
★★★★☆ 4.0
Strategy
Draw delivery lines across a growing town. Quiet, clever and unforgiving later on.
★★★★☆ 4.0
Adventure
A short story game about a night shift in a small town. Two evenings long.
★★★★★ 4.5
Editor’s pick
Puzzle
Signal Lost
★★★★★ 4.5
Signal Lost does not ease you in. The third puzzle already asks you to think, and the game trusts you to sit with it.
- No timers, no lives
- Free hints
- Around ninety puzzles
- Under 90 MB
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A week with the game, the purchases bought with our own money, and notes taken as we go.
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Where we stop recommending a game, no matter how good it is.
Twelve months after the reviews, only four survived on our phones.
What readers say
«A slow gardening game with real waiting. Fine in short visits, tedious in long ones.»
Hugo · 40 Burning Hot
«Rebuild broken radio circuits. Hard from the start and honest about it.»
Rafael · Signal Lost
«Classic card games with a decent offline opponent and no forced online play.»
Mila · Card Club
Questions & answers
How do you choose what to review?
Readers suggest most of them by email. The rest come from what we see people playing around us.
Can I republish your reviews?
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Do you accept payment for reviews?
No. We buy every game and every in-app purchase we write about, and we do not run sponsored posts.
Why are there no scores out of ten?
A number without an explanation tells you nothing. We give a short verdict instead, and say who the game is for.