Adventure
A gentle open-world painting adventure where you travel between towns capturing scenery on your phone.
★★★★★ 4.6
Mobile games, tested the slow way
We play every title long enough to know how it feels on a real commute, not just in a trailer. Here you'll find reviews, battery notes, control breakdowns and the occasional rant about menus. Everything is written after we've actually finished a few sessions. Pleinair Online — A gentle open-world painting adventure where you travel between towns capturing scenery on your phone.
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Adventure · 4.6★
144games tested
69articles written
2years running
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We actually finish games
No verdicts based on the first ten minutes. We play until we have something real to say, then we say it.
Battery and heat notes
Every review includes how a game treats your phone, because a great title is no fun if it cooks your battery.
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RPG
A story-heavy fantasy RPG with turn-based combat and a surprisingly deep party system.
★★★★☆ 4.4
Strategy
A naval strategy game about routing supply lines and out-thinking a smarter-than-expected AI.
★★★★☆ 4.2
Racing
An arcade drift racer with tight controls and a soundtrack that gets stuck in your head.
★★★★☆ 4.1
Simulation
A cosy farming and village-building sim with no timers pushing you to hurry.
★★★★☆ 4.3
Arcade
A fast reflex arcade game where you sprint through shifting temples solving symbol puzzles on the fly.
★★★★☆ 3.9
Editor’s pick
RPG
Emberfall Saga
★★★★☆ 4.4
Emberfall Saga is the kind of RPG that respects your time even though it clearly wants a lot of it. You build a party of four from a roster of misfits, each with their own reasons for chasing a dying flame across a fractured kingdom. The writing is above average for mobile — actual jokes, actual grief — and the voice acting on the main scenes is a nice touch.
- Genuinely good writing and characters
- Clean, readable turn-based combat
- Deep rune and gear customisation
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What readers say
«A gentle open-world painting adventure where you travel between towns capturing scenery on your phone.»
Elin · Pleinair Online
«A story-heavy fantasy RPG with turn-based combat and a surprisingly deep party system.»
Clara · Emberfall Saga
«A naval strategy game about routing supply lines and out-thinking a smarter-than-expected AI.»
Elin · Tide Command
Questions & answers
How do you choose which games to review?
We pick games we're genuinely curious about, whether that's a big new release or a small thing someone stumbled onto. Genre variety matters to us, so we deliberately mix RPGs, strategy, racing and cosy sims rather than reviewing the same style over and over. If nobody here wants to keep playing it, it doesn't get a review.
Do developers pay you to write reviews?
No. We don't accept payment for reviews or for a particular score, full stop. Developers are welcome to send us a game to try, but that only gets it in our queue — it never buys a rating or a kind word. Pleinair Online, for example, we found and played entirely on our own before writing about it.
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