Mobile Games

Games on phones and tablets — iOS and Android releases, ports, live-service updates and the monetisation models that increasingly define the platform. Mobile is where most of the world plays, and it is covered here with the same seriousness as any other platform rather than as an afterthought.

That includes being direct about spending. Free-to-play economies, gacha mechanics, battle passes and paid progression all get explained in terms of what they actually cost a player over time. Where a game’s design is built to convert rather than to entertain, we say so.