About

Vault Pin started as a shared notebook between a handful of friends who kept texting each other 'how do you beat this level?' at midnight. Eventually the notes got long enough that we turned them into a proper site. Everything you read here comes from time actually spent inside the game, not press copy or trailer highlights.

We cover different genres on purpose. Some weeks it's a slow strategy title, other weeks a twitchy arcade racer or a story-heavy adventure. We think a good guide meets you where you are, so we write for both the person just installing the app and the one who already cleared chapter ten and wants the deeper mechanics.

How do we pick games? Mostly a mix of what's trending in the stores and what our readers keep asking about. If three people email us about the same title, it usually ends up on the desk. We try each game for at least a week before publishing anything, and we go back to update guides when big patches change how things play.

Nobody here gets told what to write. If a game bores us, we say so; if it surprises us, we say that too.

Marek Novák — Marek has been chasing high scores and finishing overlong RPGs since flip phones. He edits everything on Vault Pin and still refuses to use auto-battle.