About

Pocket Playbook started because we were tired of star ratings that told us nothing. A few of us who fiddle with phones more than we should decided to write down what we noticed: how a game feels after the tutorial wears off, whether the controls fight your thumbs, and how quickly the battery meter melts.,We don't chase trends. Someone on the team installs a game, plays it for days, drains a couple of charge cycles, and only then do we talk about it. If a title bores us after an hour, we say so. If it quietly becomes the thing we open while waiting for coffee, that gets mentioned too.,Picking what to cover is simple and a little stubborn. We look for variety across genres, we avoid anything that reeks of gambling, and we favour games that respect your time and your hardware. Reader suggestions carry a lot of weight here.,Nobody pays us to be nice. Everything you read is our own opinion, written in plain language, with the mistakes and second thoughts left in.

Lukas Vermeer — Lukas has been reviewing handheld and mobile games for over a decade and still keeps three phones charging on his desk at all times. He edits every piece on the site and plays most of them twice.