Arcade
A breezy fishing arcade about timing your cast and reeling in the day's biggest catch.
★★★★☆ 4.4
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We install, we play, and then we tell you whether a game is worth your evening. From brain-benders to sprawling RPGs, every review here comes from real time spent tapping the screen. No hype, just what we thought. Big Bass Drop — A breezy fishing arcade about timing your cast and reeling in the day's biggest catch.
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Arcade · 4.4★
144games tested
69articles written
2years running
0paid placements
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RPG
Emberfall Saga
★★★★★ 4.6
Emberfall Saga is the kind of RPG that respects a small screen. Combat is turn-based, the menus are clean, and you can save mid-battle — a small thing that matters enormously when you're playing in stolen moments. You build a party of four, mix their skills, and slowly figure out which combinations actually carry you through the harder fights.
- Clean turn-based combat built for touch
- Characters worth caring about
- Mid-battle saving fits real life
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What readers say
«A breezy fishing arcade about timing your cast and reeling in the day's biggest catch.»
Tomas · Big Bass Drop
«A party-based RPG with hand-drawn regions and a surprisingly gripping revenge story.»
Marek · Emberfall Saga
«A coastal strategy game about routing supply lines and holding fragile island chains.»
Bruno · Tideward Command
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How do you choose which games to review?
We pick games we're genuinely curious about, across every genre, and only commit to a full review once someone on the team has played enough to have a real opinion. Reader suggestions push a lot of titles up our list. If a game bores us fast, we may skip it rather than pad out a thin review.
Do you get paid to write positive reviews?
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