Arcadia is an independent game discovery site published in English and Arabic. We do not host games. We play them, write about the ones worth your time, and send you to the site that actually runs them.
That distinction matters, so it is worth stating plainly: when you click a play button here, you leave for Poki, Y8, or the developer's own site. When a title is a mobile or desktop client, we say so and link to the official download. We never wrap someone else's game in our own frame and present it as ours.
Who writes this
Arcadia is a small editorial team. Articles and reviews are published under Arcadia Editorial rather than individual bylines, because more than one person touches most pieces — someone plays the game, someone writes, someone edits.
We would rather attribute honestly to the group than invent personal bylines that imply a newsroom we do not have.
How we score games
Every game page carries a figure labelled Our score. The label is deliberate. It is our opinion after playing the game — not an average of user reviews, and not a rating imported from the host portal.
Because it is an opinion and not an aggregate, we do not publish it as structured review data, and you will not see our stars appear in Google results. Doing that would present one team's judgement as a body of user reviews, which it is not.
What the score responds to:
| We weigh heavily | We ignore |
|---|---|
| How quickly the game becomes fun | Production budget |
| Whether it respects your time | Graphical fidelity for its own sake |
| Controls on both phone and desktop | How many downloads it claims |
| Whether it works without an account | Whether it is currently trending |
We also publish a play count for no game, anywhere on this site. We have no analytics on other companies' servers, so any number we printed would be invented.
What we do not do
- We take no payment for coverage. No sponsored placements, no paid reviews, no "featured" slots for sale. Editorial picks are ours.
- We are not in any affiliate programme, including Steam's. Store links here are plain links; we earn nothing if you buy something.
- We do not manufacture urgency. No countdowns, no fake stock levels, no invented player counts.
How the site pays for itself
Advertising, once approved, served by Google AdSense. Ads are labelled, kept away from play and download buttons, and never dressed up as editorial content.
Advertising and measurement cookies load only after you accept them. If you decline, or simply never answer, no advertising script is requested at all. You can change that decision at any time from the link in the footer.
Full detail is in our privacy policy.
Corrections
If we got something wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say that we did. A game that has moved, closed, or changed hands is exactly the kind of report we want — a review of something that no longer exists is worse than no review.
Reach us at markliang65@gmail.com. More on what to send, and what to expect back, on our contact page.