About

Pocket Playbook started as a group chat where a few of us kept swapping screenshots and arguing about which games were worth the storage space. At some point the arguments got detailed enough that we decided to write them down properly. That's the whole origin story — no marketing plan, just curiosity.,We play everything on real phones, not emulators. That matters, because a game can look great in a trailer and still stutter on a mid-range device or drain your battery in forty minutes. When we review something, at least two of us put hours into it before a word gets published.,How we pick games is simple: we chase whatever looks interesting across genres, plus reader suggestions and the occasional deep dive into an older title people still talk about. We don't limit ourselves to one category, because a good racing game deserves the same attention as a slow-burn strategy title.,Nobody here is a full-time critic with a corporate schedule. We're players first, and the site reflects that. If a game annoys us, we say so; if it surprises us, we tell you why.

Lena Vogel — Lena has been reviewing handheld and mobile games for over a decade and still keeps three phones charged just to test frame rates. She likes tactics games and hates loading screens.