Why Willowbrooklarks writes only about cities and civilisations

Willowbrooklarks began with a simple frustration. Lists of free browser games tend to throw city builders in with everything else, rate them after an afternoon and move on. But a city builder only shows its real character after a week or two, when the easy upgrades run out and the planning starts to bite. We wanted reviews that waited for that moment.

So we narrowed the focus. This site covers city builders and civilisation games that run in a browser, from Stone Age camps to sprawling empires, plus the occasional management game that scratches the same itch. Every game on our shelf has been played for weeks, with notes kept on what each day asked of us.

We write in British English, from desks in Britain, and we play the way most readers do: in short visits around work and family, with the odd longer evening for replanning. Our scores reflect that real rhythm rather than marathon testing sessions that nobody actually plays.

The site is small on purpose. Six games, two long guides and a finder that points you to a sensible first city. We would rather know a handful of games properly than skim a hundred, and we update our pages when the games change in ways that matter.