How We Rate Wolf Games
What the Riftgaze score means, and what it does not.
Riftgaze is run by one person, not an editorial team, and we think it is worth saying that plainly rather than implying otherwise. Every review on this site reflects one player's time with a game, played on a single mid-range Android test phone, over several sessions rather than one sitting.
The number attached to each review — the Riftgaze score — is a personal, editorial judgement. It is not an average of other reviews, not a leaderboard position, and not affiliated with Google Play in any way.
What We Look At
Five things come up in every review, in different proportions depending on the game: how territory and the map itself are built, how pack or family systems work if the game has them, how the controls feel on a phone screen, how steep the first half hour is, and how the game holds up against the others in its own hub.
We do not weigh a game down for being free to play, and we do not discuss monetization at all — that is a separate question from whether the game itself is worth your time, and it is not one this site covers.
Where the Play Store Numbers Come From
Ratings, download counts, content ratings and "updated on" dates shown on this site are pulled directly from each game's own Google Play listing at the time of writing and are Google's data, not ours. We show them next to our own score so you can see both — the crowd figure and one reviewer's view — side by side.
Google Play does not publish an original release year for most listings, only a most-recent-update date, so that is what you will see in every fact card here. We would rather show an honest "last updated" than guess at a launch year.
What "Free-to-Play" Means Here
Every game in this catalogue can be installed and played at no cost. That single fact — free entry — is the only thing this site promises about pricing, and it is the only thing we mean when we use the phrase "free-to-play." We do not cover in-game economies, purchases, or anything beyond that.
Corrections and Changes
Mobile games update constantly — a mechanic we describe today can change in a future patch. If something on this site no longer matches what you find in the game, the contact page is the fastest way to flag it, and we would rather fix a review than leave it stale.
Frequently asked
No — reviews are written from a focused play session around the time of publishing, not re-tested with every patch. Update dates on each fact card show when the listing itself last changed on Google Play.
No. The Play rating is the aggregate of every reviewer on the store and is shown as its own field. The Riftgaze score sits next to it as one person's separate, editorial view of the same game.
A handful of listings in this catalogue simply have not accumulated enough reviews on Google Play yet to show a public rating. We say so plainly on those fact cards rather than inventing a number.
Yes — the contact page is open for suggestions. We cannot promise every request gets covered, but genre-fit suggestions are always welcome.
