How Oakstarlight checks

No scores are given here. One number cannot compare a tank battle with an Egyptian city, and it would bury the only genuinely useful information in the process.

The time Oakstarlight puts in first

A fortnight of real sessions minimum before writing, extended for games built on multi-week timers where a single evening is uninformative.

Unpaid accounts throughout. A free route that ends on day nine is invisible to anybody who did not walk that far along it.

Four questions behind a Oakstarlight entry

What the loop is with the presentation set aside. What this game offers that the other five do not. The honest length of one sitting. The machine it wants before enjoyment thins out.

• Runs in a browser with nothing to install.
• The whole game is reachable without paying.
• Servers are populated on a UK evening.
• It fills a role no other entry fills.

What takes a game off Oakstarlight

Delay manufactured so that it can be sold back. Costs concealed until after a click. An event schedule that degrades a newcomer's opening week.