About

Pocket Verdict started as a group chat where a few of us kept swapping screenshots and arguing about which arcade game felt best with one thumb. At some point the arguments got long enough that we decided to write them down properly. That's the whole origin story — no big studio behind it, just people who like mobile games and want to be straight about them.,Everything on this site comes from real playtime. We don't post a review after ten minutes; we sit with a game long enough to know whether the fun holds up on day three. That means noticing how the controls feel after your hands get tired, how quickly the battery empties, and whether the difficulty curve respects you or just wants your attention.,We choose games from a mix of sources: reader suggestions, things we stumble across, and titles our editors get genuinely hooked on. We try to cover different genres so the catalogue isn't just puzzle after puzzle. If a game bores us, we say so.,There's no sponsor deciding our scores. We buy or download what we review like anyone else, and our opinions are ours. That's the only way the ratings mean anything.

Markus Feldmann — Markus 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.