Games that won't kill your battery

An offline game is only useful if your phone survives the trip. We started tracking battery drain during reviews because a game that eats 30% an hour isn't really portable, no matter how good it is.

Racers and flashy 3D titles are the usual culprits, though Neon Drift Rush surprised us by staying reasonable. Slower games like fishing sims and adventures barely register on the battery.

A few habits help: drop the brightness, close background apps, and check whether a game has a frame-rate cap in its settings. Capping to 30fps on a phone often halves the drain with no real loss.

We now note rough battery impact in each review. It's the kind of detail store pages never tell you.