How we test mobile games

People sometimes ask how a game ends up on our site, so here's the honest version. It starts with someone actually installing and playing it — usually for several evenings, not a quick ten minutes.

The first real test is airplane mode. We turn off every connection and see if the game still opens, still saves, still behaves. If it demands an account or a signal to do basic things, it's out.

Then we look at the day-to-day feel: does it run on a weaker phone, does it drain the battery, does it respect your attention. We keep an old device around specifically to check how games perform when the hardware isn't fancy.

Only after all that does anyone start writing. The review is one person's honest take, shaped by real hours with the game rather than a marketing sheet. That's the whole method, no magic to it.