About

OfflinePocket started as a shared note between three friends who kept losing games the moment the Wi-Fi dropped. We got tired of downloading something promising only to hit a screen that said 'connection required' during a two-hour flight. So we began keeping a list of titles that genuinely run offline, and the list turned into this site.,Every game we cover gets installed on a real phone and played for at least a few evenings. We check whether it truly works with airplane mode on, how heavy it is on storage, and whether the fun holds up past the first hour. If a game secretly phones home for basic features, it doesn't make the cut.,We lean toward variety on purpose. One week it's a slow farming simulator, the next it's a chunky tactics RPG or a physics puzzle. The goal is a shelf where anyone can find something for a quiet commute, regardless of the genre they usually reach for.,Nobody pays us to be listed, and we don't run a scoreboard for advertisers. Ratings reflect what the editors thought after playing, and we say so plainly when something disappoints us.

Lukas Brandt — Lukas has been reviewing mobile games for over a decade and still tests most of them on an aging phone to see how they hold up. He handles the final call on ratings and reads every reader suggestion.