About

Pebble Lab started as a shared note between two friends who kept recommending each other games for long commutes. The list grew, the notes got longer, and eventually it made more sense to put everything in one place than to keep texting screenshots back and forth.,Our focus is narrow on purpose: games you can play with airplane mode on. That means no forced logins, no waiting for servers, no pop-ups asking you to stay connected. If a game needs the internet just to open its menu, it usually doesn't make the cut.,We pick titles by playing them ourselves — real sessions, not five-minute demos. A puzzle gets a few evenings, an RPG gets a weekend or more. We note what works, what annoys, and whether we actually came back to it the next day.,Nobody pays us to write a positive review. The ratings here are our own opinions, sometimes stubbornly so, and we'd rather tell you a popular game bored us than pretend otherwise.

Markus Vogel — Markus has been reviewing mobile games for over a decade and still keeps a drawer full of old phones for testing. He's happiest with a turn-based RPG and a long train ride.