Games

A puzzle you can pay to skip was never a puzzle.

Graphics sell the screenshot. The handling model decides whether you keep playing.

If the game punishes you for not opening it, it is managing you rather than the other way round.

The emulator is not the legal question. The game file is.

The best co-op number on a phone is two, and most games are not designed for it.

Nothing is free. The question is whether you are paying with money, attention or data.

The test is whether closing the app mid-round costs you anything.

Touch controls are the reason most people stop playing action games on a phone.

One phone, two thumbs at each end. It works better than it sounds.

Half the games marketed as offline still phone home before the first level.

Games that download in under a minute and leave room for your photos.

Free-to-play covers everything from genuinely generous to barely playable. These are the games on the right side of that line.

The limit is rarely the graphics. It is the game being evicted from memory the moment you switch away.

The data is on your phone. The game is looking somewhere else.