About

Cobalt Kit started as a group chat between a few friends who kept sending each other screenshots of tower defence maps at two in the morning. We got tired of reviews that clearly hadn't been played past the tutorial, so we started writing our own.

Every game on this site gets real hours put into it. Somebody on the team installs it, plays through the early and mid game, and takes messy notes along the way. Those notes become the reviews you read here.

We pick games mostly by genre fit — strategy, tower defence, and the occasional neighbour genre when it does something clever. We also chase reader suggestions when they sound interesting. If a game is boring, we say so.

Nobody here is paid by a studio to be nice. The whole point is that we can be blunt, because the only people we answer to are the ones reading.

Markus Vogel — Markus has been playing strategy games since the days of dial-up and now edits everything that goes out on Cobalt Kit. He is unreasonably fond of maze-building tower defence.