Casual
A relaxed reel-spinning puzzle game with a surprisingly charming fantasy world to collect.
★★★★☆ 4.2
Phone games you can play without signal
We dig through the app stores so you don't have to, picking out RPGs, puzzles and simulators that run fine with the Wi-Fi switched off. Every write-up comes from us actually sitting down and playing the thing. No fluff, no copied press blurbs. Legends of Slots — A relaxed reel-spinning puzzle game with a surprisingly charming fantasy world to collect.
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Casual · 4.2★
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«A relaxed reel-spinning puzzle game with a surprisingly charming fantasy world to collect.»
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How do you choose which games to review?
We pick games that run offline, do something interesting in their genre, and don't waste the player's time. The team suggests titles, someone plays each one for several hours, and only then do we decide if it's worth a full write-up. We try to keep the catalogue varied rather than filling it with one genre.
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Always. Every review, including the one for Legends of Slots, comes from us actually playing the game in airplane mode to confirm it works offline. If we only got a few hours in, we'll say so rather than pretend we finished it.