Indie Illuminator – Discover Play Share

While we occasionally cover indie game favorites in this blog, today I’d love to highlight a dedicated indie game review site: Discover Play Share. The website’s tagline is “light, digestible (indie) game reviews,” and I think they execute that idea to perfection. I admire a well-organized but excruciatingly exhaustive review that extensively covers all the minutiae of a game. But I also love a simple, succinct review. That's exactly what Discover Play Share offers.

Screen cap from the Discover Play Share review section.

In each game review, you’ll generally find (quick-as-a) bullet-point lists of likes and dislikes, gameplay screenshots, a breakdown of cost and hours of amusement provided, as well as a “final word” section that provides a few insightful paragraphs on the game. At the end of the review, Discover Play Share offers a simple yes or no recommendation instead of a traditional 1-10 rating system. From what I’ve seen, most of the games reviewed are also recommended, so it’s probably a good idea to at least glance through the other parts of the review. And that’s exactly why their “light and digestible” format works so well—I think it encourages the reader to not simply rely on an inadequate numerical rating by keeping the rest of the review easy to scan through.

I also appreciate the unique, colorful layout of the website, and you can tell the designer built the site with mobile users in mind. If you have a moment, pull out your smart phone and check out the current reviews on Discover Play Share—you’ll likely find some sweet games you haven’t heard of, and who knows…you might just find one of my own reviews on there some day.