About

Grove Handheld started as a group chat between four friends who kept swapping game recommendations during commutes. At some point we realized we were writing longer messages than most published reviews, so we moved everything to one place.,Everyone on the team plays on their own phone, on their own time. Nobody hands us a script or a talking point. When a game runs hot or drains the battery in twenty minutes, we say so, because that's the stuff we wish someone had told us.,We pick games by rotating suggestions from readers and from what climbs the charts. Then one of us commits real hours to it, another picks it up on a different device, and we compare notes before anything goes live.,We're small on purpose. It keeps us honest and lets us focus on how a game actually feels in your hand, not on chasing every release the week it drops.

Mikael Lindqvist — Mikael has been reviewing handheld and mobile games for over a decade and still gets grumpy about bad touch controls. He edits every piece before it publishes.