About

Pinewick Play started as a group chat where four friends kept swapping screenshots and arguing about which mobile game deserved another evening. At some point we figured we might as well write it all down, so the site grew out of those late messages and half-finished notes.

We play everything ourselves. Nobody on the team writes about a game they haven't actually spent hours with, because a guide built from a trailer is useless once you hit the real levels. When something confuses us, we keep digging until it makes sense, then explain it the simple way.

Choosing what to cover is mostly curiosity. If a title keeps popping up in our feeds, or a reader asks about it, we download it and give it a fair shot across a few sessions. Some games surprise us, some bore us by the second day, and we say so either way.

There's no big company behind this. It's a small editorial crew, a shared spreadsheet, and a lot of coffee.

Marek Novák — Marek has been writing about games for over a decade and still keeps three phones charged for testing. He handles most of the strategy and RPG coverage on the site.