About

Onyx Hub started as a shared chat where a few of us kept dropping links to weird little games nobody else was covering. At some point the chat got too big for itself, so we turned it into a site. Everything you read here comes from people who actually finished (or at least seriously wrestled with) the game in question.

We focus on indie and mid-size mobile releases because that's where the interesting design lives. Big studios have their own megaphones; small teams usually don't. We try to be the ear those teams don't get elsewhere, without pretending every game is a masterpiece.

How we pick: someone on the team finds a game, plays it long enough to have an opinion worth defending, and pitches it. If two of us agree it's worth writing about, it gets a review. Genre doesn't matter — puzzle, racing, RPG, whatever — the only rule is that it has to give us something to say.

We don't run sponsored reviews, and developers can't buy a better score. If that ever changes, we'll say so loudly on this page first.

Lukas Brandt — Lukas has been reviewing games since flip phones had Snake, and still keeps three cheap Android phones on his desk for testing. He's the one who insists every review answer the question: would you actually keep this installed?