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About BrickRecap

BrickRecap is a small editorial site about one narrow corner of the Google Play catalogue: games about wolves. Four of them put you inside the animal and let you cross a valley; two of them put the animal in the frame and give you a puzzle. It covers six of them properly rather than sixty of them briefly.

It is written and maintained by one person, Isla Mackenzie, from a desk in Melbourne. There is no team, no office and no group of contributors, and everything here is one person opinion attached to facts taken from Google Play.

Why only six, and why wolves

Because the alternative is worse. A site covering everything gives each game a paragraph, and a paragraph cannot tell you what a session actually feels like, which is the only thing worth knowing before you install something.

Wolves in particular turn up constantly in this part of the store and the results are wildly uneven: two of the six are genuinely good, two are competent, and the differences between them are invisible from an icon grid. Six is a number one person can hold in their head and compare honestly.

How a review is made

The game is played on an ordinary Android handset over at least three sessions on separate days, at the time of day it is designed for. Notes are kept during play rather than written up afterwards from memory.

The factual part of each page - developer, star rating, number of ratings, content rating, last update date - is taken from the Australian Google Play listing and was checked on 10 September 2026. The editorial part, including the score, the session length and the entry barrier, is judgement rather than data and is labelled as such on every review.

What this site is not

It is not a download site. All six games live on Google Play and the links go to the store listing, where you can read the developer own description alongside mine.

It is not a news site, so there are no dates on the front page and nothing is republished to look fresh. It is not a community either: there are no comments, no accounts and no forms anywhere on the site, and nothing you do here is recorded.

And it is not comprehensive. Six games is a deliberate limit, chosen because they were worth writing about at length rather than because they are the only six that exist.

Corrections

Store facts drift and mistakes happen. If something here no longer matches the current Play listing, or a review describes a mechanic incorrectly, the contact page has the address and corrections get made.

The scoring page sets out the method in full, the site map lists every page, and the contact page carries the address for corrections.