Arcade
A rhythm-flavoured fishing arcade about timing your drop and reeling in odd creatures.
★★★★☆ 4.4
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We dig through the app stores looking for RPGs, puzzles and simulators that run fully offline. No login walls, no forced connection — just games you can open on a plane or in the metro. Everything here is played by our team before we write a word. Big Bass Drop — A rhythm-flavoured fishing arcade about timing your drop and reeling in odd creatures.
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Arcade · 4.4★
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«A rhythm-flavoured fishing arcade about timing your drop and reeling in odd creatures.»
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Questions & answers
How do you choose which games to review?
We pick games that run offline and cover a mix of genres so the catalogue stays varied. Someone on the team installs and plays each one before we write about it. We don't take requests from studios about what deserves coverage.
Do studios pay you for reviews?
No. Nobody pays us to write a review or to score a game a certain way. If our opinion of a game is mixed or negative, that's exactly what we publish — for example, we still pointed out the slow middle chapters in Big Bass Drop even though we liked it overall.
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