Simulation
A laid-back fishing sim where you steer a little boat across calm lakes and learn to read the water.
★★★★☆ 4.4
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We sit down with each game, play it for hours, and write the kind of guide we wish we'd had on day one. No fluff, just what works, what stalls you, and what's worth your time. Big Bass Boat — A laid-back fishing sim where you steer a little boat across calm lakes and learn to read the water.
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Simulation · 4.4★
144games tested
69articles written
2years running
0paid placements
Why us
We play first
Every guide comes from real hours in the game. If we haven't hit the wall you're stuck on, we don't write about it.
Honest ratings
Our scores are opinions, not marketing. We'll tell you when a game gets grindy or when the controls fight you.
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No jargon walls. We explain systems the way a friend would, step by step, with the fiddly details included.
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Emberfall Saga
★★★★★ 4.6
Emberfall Saga is a proper RPG that respects your time on a phone. Battles are turn-based and you build a party of four, mixing tanks, healers and damage dealers. The clever bit is a stance system — swapping a character's stance mid-fight changes their whole kit, so you're always thinking a turn ahead rather than tapping attack on repeat.
- Stance-swapping keeps combat sharp
- Branching story with real consequences
- Fits both short sessions and long ones
Latest articles
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The early hours of Big Bass Boat hide a few habits that make everything smoother.
Stance-swapping is the whole game once you understand it — here's how I stopped losing fights.
It's almost never about firepower — it's about the line feeding your fleet.
The gap between a good lap and a great one is entirely about not wasting your drift.
What readers say
«A laid-back fishing sim where you steer a little boat across calm lakes and learn to read the water.»
Nora · Big Bass Boat
«A party-based role-playing game with turn-based combat and a story that leans into hard choices.»
Tomas · Emberfall Saga
«A real-time naval strategy game about supply lines, positioning, and knowing when to retreat.»
Clara · Iron Tide Command
Questions & answers
How do you choose which games to cover?
We pick from a mix of what readers ask about and what the team is genuinely curious to play. We try to spread coverage across genres so it's not all puzzles or all RPGs. If nobody on the team has put real hours into a game, we hold off until someone has.
Do developers pay you to write reviews?
No. Nobody pays for a review or a rating on Pocket Playbook, and our scores reflect our own experience playing. If that ever changes for a specific piece, we'll say so clearly at the top of the article.
Can I suggest a game for you to cover?
Absolutely, and we read every suggestion. Drop us a note through the contact page with the game and why you'd like a guide. We can't promise to cover everything, but reader requests genuinely shape our queue.
Are your guides based on real playthroughs?
Yes, every guide comes from someone on the team actually playing the game. Take our Big Bass Boat guide as an example — that came from hours spent learning where fish gather and how the casting and reeling actually feel. We don't write walkthroughs for games we haven't played properly.