After a month of downloading everything, the games that stuck were the ones that did one thing and stopped.

The mechanic is everywhere now, so here's how to tell the clever ones from the lazy ones.

Put on headphones for these, because playing them on phone speakers is missing the game entirely.

A free download can still cost you your patience, so here's what I check first.

Fiddly controls can sink a good game, and screen size is often the real culprit.

Mobile trained me to abandon things halfway, and short indie games are fixing that.