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Guild Road NotesA travel log of fantasy RPGs you can play online

How we review

Every review on this site follows the same route. It is deliberately simple, so that you can retrace it yourself.

1. Start at the source

We open the publisher's official website and its help, FAQ and download pages. That is where we confirm that the game is running, how you reach it — browser, client or app — and how it is paid for. Store listings may be used to confirm a platform, but the publisher's own pages come first.

2. Write down only what we can point to

For each game we keep a source log: the official address, the date of the check and the facts taken from it. Class names, modes, platforms and payment models in our reviews come from that log. Where a publisher gives a figure — a number of items or quests, for example — we say that it is the publisher's figure.

3. Describe, do not score

We do not give stars or points. Instead, each review answers the same questions: what the game is, how a session goes, the time it asks for, how it is paid for, who it suits and who should skip it. Our own judgements are written as judgements, in plain words.

4. Time, in shapes rather than hours

We do not invent hours-per-week figures. We describe the shape of the commitment:

5. Leave out what we cannot confirm

If an official site is down, if a game has closed, or if we cannot confirm a claim, it does not appear. In our October 2026 round one candidate was left out because its official site was offline for maintenance on the day of the check.

Corrections

Games change. If something on these pages is out of date, write to [email protected] and we will check it against the official source and correct or remove it.