About

Offline Arcade started as a group chat where a few of us kept swapping recommendations for games we could play on the subway. No download-halfway-then-wait-for-a-server nonsense. Just install, open, play. Eventually the list got too big for a chat, so here we are.

,We only write about games we've actually installed and spent real time with. Nobody on the team reviews something after five minutes. If a game claims to be offline but nags you to reconnect every two levels, we say so plainly.,When we pick titles for the catalogue, we look for three things: does it run fully offline, is it fun past the first hour, and does it respect your time and battery. Genre doesn't matter to us — a tiny puzzle can earn a spot next to a 40-hour RPG.,We're a small, independent crew. No publisher pays us to feature anything, and we don't hide sponsored content among the reviews. What you read is what we honestly thought after playing.

Lukas Brandt — Lukas has been reviewing mobile games for over a decade and still keeps a drawer of old phones just to test how games run on weaker hardware.