About Us

This site started with a simple habit: bookmarking itch.io pages so we wouldn’t lose track of the games worth remembering. Itch.io has thousands of new uploads every month, and most of them never surface anywhere near the front page — some of the best stuff we’ve played came from a random tag search at 1am, not from any list anyone had put together. Eventually the bookmarks folder got long enough that it made more sense to build something out of it.

What you’ll find here is a curated catalog of games hosted on itch.io, organized in a way the platform itself doesn’t really attempt — by genre, by mood, by what kind of session you’re looking for, rather than by upload date or algorithmic guesswork. Alongside the catalog, we write shorter breakdowns of individual titles: what makes them worth your time, who they’re actually for, and where they might fall short, since not every game needs five stars to be worth playing.

Why focus specifically on itch.io instead of covering games generally? Because it’s a genuinely different kind of platform — full of solo developers, game jam entries that grew into real releases, and experimental work that would never get greenlit anywhere else. A lot of it rewards exactly the kind of attention a small, honest catalog can give it, instead of getting buried under storefronts built for AAA releases.

What keeps us coming back to this project is how often a five-minute jam game turns out to be more interesting than something ten times its size — the strange mechanic, the art style that shouldn’t work but does, the one-person team that clearly cared about a very specific idea. That’s hard to convey with a star rating, which is part of why we wanted a place to actually write about it.

None of this is affiliated with itch.io or with the developers whose games we cover. We’re an independent catalog and set of write-ups built by people who spend a lot of time browsing itch.io and wanted somewhere to organize what we’d found.

If a listing here is out of date, if a game deserves a spot in the catalog, or if we’ve gotten a detail about a title wrong, the contact page is exactly where to tell us. Have a look around, and let us know what we’re missing.