Spend two minutes in the settings menu, always

I've watched friends struggle with a game, declare it bad, and never once open the settings. Nine times out of ten there was a toggle that would've fixed their problem. The settings menu is where a game shows whether it respects you.

Look for control customisation, graphics scaling, and accessibility options like larger text or colourblind modes. A game that offers these has thought about different players. Frontier Command even lets you resize its interface, which is a quiet blessing on a phone.

Sound matters too — many games default to loud music and quiet effects, which hides important cues. A quick rebalance changes how you read the action.

It takes two minutes. Do it before you form an opinion, and you'll be reviewing the game as it was meant to be played rather than its clumsy defaults.