About

Pocket Playbook started as a group chat where four friends kept arguing about which mobile games were worth the storage space. At some point we figured we should just write it all down properly, so here we are. Everything you read is based on time we spent with the game on our own devices, not a press release.

We cover a bit of everything because our tastes are all over the place. One of us lives for slow strategy games, another only touches racing and arcade stuff, and somebody is always deep in a long RPG. That mix keeps the catalogue varied and keeps us honest when a genre isn't our usual thing.

Games get picked for the simplest reason: we actually wanted to play them, or enough readers asked about them. We don't chase whatever is trending that week. If a title doesn't give us anything useful to say, it quietly doesn't make the cut.

We write the way we'd explain a game to a friend over coffee. No fluff, no inflated scores, and when something annoys us we say so.

Mikael Virtanen — Mikael has been reviewing mobile games for the better part of a decade and still gets genuinely excited about a clever tutorial. He handles most of the strategy and RPG coverage.