Editorial desk

An independent view of free-to-play games

Avelentora is created and maintained in Canada. We cover free browser and mobile games clearly, without hiding limits, wait times or costs.

We started this desk because most game listings read like press releases. A title is announced as epic, unrivalled and free, and none of those words tell you whether it fits a Tuesday night with forty minutes to spare.

So our reviews answer a narrower question: what is it actually like to sit down with this game, and who is it for? We note the device it plays best on, how long a session really takes, whether progress waits on timers, and what a paying player gets that you will not.

We are readers first. Nobody on this desk works for a publisher, and no listing position is for sale. When a game disappoints us we say so in the same paragraph where we say what it does well.

Canada shapes what we notice. Servers are far away, data plans are finite, and a game that assumes a fibre connection in Frankfurt behaves differently here. Where that matters, we mention it.

How we work

We play before we write

Nothing reaches the shelf on the strength of a trailer. Every listing comes from real hours in the game, on the devices most readers here actually use.
Official sources only

Each review points to the publisher's own site. We host no downloads, no clients and no mirrors, and we never wrap a game in our own launcher.
We explain what it really costs

Free-to-play is a business model, not a promise. Our reviews explain where the money and the waiting sit before you invest an evening.
We check over time

Live games change. Listings carry the date we last played them, and we revisit the shelf rather than leaving stale notes online.