About

JadeHub Play started as a shared spreadsheet between three friends who kept texting each other about weird little games they'd found on the bus. At some point the spreadsheet got too big, and we decided a proper site made more sense than a thousand forwarded links.,We focus on indie and small-studio mobile games across every genre. Nobody here gets to phone in a review. If a game shows up on the site, at least one of us finished a serious chunk of it, sometimes more than one of us so we can argue about it in the notes.,How we pick things is pretty simple. We watch new releases, take reader tips, and occasionally rescue something that flopped on launch but deserved better. We skip anything built around gambling loops or aggressive spending, because that's just not the kind of playing we enjoy writing about.,The tone we aim for is a friend telling you what a game is actually like. No score inflation, no breathless hype. Just whether it's worth the download and the battery drain.

Lukas Brandt — Lukas has been reviewing handheld and mobile games for over a decade and still plays on the tram to work. He runs the editorial side and does most of the arguing about ratings.