About

Offline Grove started because half of us commute underground and the other half live somewhere the mobile signal gives up. We got tired of downloading a game only to find it begs for a login screen the moment the Wi-Fi drops. So we decided to keep track of the ones that actually respect your time and your data plan.,Everyone on the team plays. There is no shortcut here: a game gets a review only after someone has spent real hours with it, on airplane mode where possible, on a mid-range phone rather than some flagship monster. We want to know how it feels for normal people with normal batteries.,We pick titles across genres on purpose. Some days you want a deep role-playing story, other days you just want a puzzle to unwind before sleep. So the catalog stays mixed, and we say plainly what worked and what annoyed us.,Nobody pays us to be nice. If a game stutters or nags you for an account, we write that down. If it surprised us, we say that too. Simple as that.

Lena Vogt — Lena has been reviewing mobile games for over a decade and still keeps a drawer of old phones for compatibility testing. She edits every review before it goes live.