About PhonePlayers
What PhonePlayers covers, how it decides what to write about, and how it relates to the specialized products and the company that builds it.
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PhonePlayers is a publication for people who play games on phones and tablets. Not people who play console games and occasionally use a phone — people whose main gaming device is the one in their pocket.
That framing decides everything else. It is why battery and thermal behaviour is treated as a real part of coverage rather than a footnote, why we care whether a control scheme works with two thumbs, and why an article about a game's monetisation is as useful to us as one about its combat.
What counts as mobile coverage
We cover iPhone and iPad games, Android games, and cross-platform games with a mobile version that is genuinely worth playing. A game that technically runs on a phone but is clearly designed for a controller and a television is out of scope unless the mobile version is the point.
- Guides — how to actually play something better, written for a phone screen.
- Codes — promotional codes, with the date a human last checked them.
- Tier lists — rankings with published criteria and a change history.
- News — updates, releases and shutdowns, sourced to primary announcements.
- Reviews — firsthand, with the device, playtime and spending disclosed.
- Discover — recommendations, including games without a marketing budget.
- Features — analysis and opinion on how mobile games are made, sold and played.
How we choose games
Two things get a game onto the site: a lot of people play it, or it is genuinely interesting. The first is obvious and the second is the reason to read us rather than a chart. We deliberately do not publish thin pages for abandoned games to catch search traffic, and a game hub with nothing on it stays honest about that rather than being padded out.
Where we send you for live data
Some things change faster than an article can keep up with — current card statistics, Brawler rankings, live player counts, per-Pokémon reference data. We do not restate those here, because a number typed into a paragraph is wrong within the week.
Where a game we cover has a site that maintains that data properly, we link to it: Clashest (opens in a new tab) for Clash Royale and Clash of Clans, Brawlest (opens in a new tab) for Brawl Stars, Bloxism (opens in a new tab) for Roblox, and Pokémonism (opens in a new tab) for Pokémon. What we keep is the editorial half — what changed, what it means, and whether something is worth your time.
Our relationship to Solagon
Solagon (opens in a new tab) is the software development company that builds and maintains the technology behind this site. It has no editorial involvement: it does not commission, review or approve anything published here. The credit in the footer is a technology credit, nothing more.