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Pocket Verdict started as a shared note between three friends who kept texting each other 'is this one any good?' before installing anything. We got tired of five-star review pages that read like ad copy, so we made a place where the writing sounds like a person who actually held the phone.,Every game here gets played by hand. We don't score from a trailer. Someone on the team installs it, gives it real hours across a few days, and only then sits down to write. If a game bores us by day two, we say so.,We cover all genres on purpose. One editor lives for turn-based tactics, another only touches arcades and racers, and a third will grind an RPG for forty hours just to be sure the late game holds. That spread keeps our verdicts from leaning on one taste.,We're independent. No studio pays us to be nice, and we buy or download the games the same way any reader would. When a developer sends a free copy, we tell you in the review.

Lukas Brandt — Lukas has been writing about handheld and mobile games for over a decade and still keeps a drawer full of old devices. He edits everything on the site and plays far too much on his commute.