Arcade
A snappy one-thumb arcade game about flicking metal discs across a board to knock others off.
★★★★☆ 4.4
Indie Mobile Games Worth Your Time
We dig through app stores so you don't have to, pulling out the small games that actually feel made with care. Recently the team spent a week with Coin Strike, and you'll find our notes along with reviews across every genre.
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Arcade · 4.4★
144games tested
69articles written
2years running
0paid placements
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Strategy
A real-time base strategy game where you hold a mountain pass against waves of raiders.
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Racing
An arcade racer built entirely around holding perfect drifts through neon city corners.
★★★★☆ 4.1
Adventure
A gentle point-and-tap adventure through a misty village full of small mysteries.
★★★★★ 4.5
Simulation
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Editor’s pick
RPG
Emberfall Saga
★★★★★ 4.6
Emberfall Saga looks tiny from its store page and turns out to be a proper little role-playing game. You lead a party of four through hand-drawn regions, fighting in a clean turn-based system where positioning matters as much as your attack choice. Characters have distinct roles that mix nicely once you get a feel for them.
- Tight turn-based combat with meaningful positioning
- Characters you actually come to like
- Town-building gives purpose to progress
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What readers say
«A snappy one-thumb arcade game about flicking metal discs across a board to knock others off.»
Lena · Coin Strike
«A compact turn-based RPG about a wandering group of outcasts rebuilding a burned-out town.»
Elin · Emberfall Saga
«A real-time base strategy game where you hold a mountain pass against waves of raiders.»
Bruno · Frontier Command
Questions & answers
How do you choose which games to review?
Mostly it's whatever catches our eye on the store charts or lands in our inbox from a reader. We lean toward independent and smaller releases because they get ignored, but genre doesn't matter much. If one of us finds it interesting, someone takes it for a proper play.
Do you get paid to write reviews?
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