About Us
LemonLama Story
We started because we got burned.
Not once. Repeatedly. By games that looked different in trailers than they played on launch day. By studios that patched out the good parts and called it balance. By an industry that learned it could ship half a product, promise the rest in updates, and count on reviewers to move on before the truth surfaced.
So we stopped moving on.
LemonLama was built by people who play obsessively, write honestly, and hold grudges professionally. We are not journalists chasing access. We are not influencers chasing sponsorships. We are investigators — and we work for the people handing over their money, not the people collecting it.
We Are Driven By These
Three things keep us from becoming everything we hate about games media.
We Stay Independent
No review codes accepted. No studio partnerships. No affiliate links buried in copy. Every game we investigate gets purchased with our own money, which means our findings belong to nobody but the truth.
We Go The Distance
A game reveals itself at hour 40, not hour 4. We don’t publish until we’ve seen everything — the post-launch patches, the community fallout, the studio’s response, the silence that follows. Short takes are someone else’s problem.
We Name Names
Vague criticism protects the guilty. We document specific claims, specific studios, specific decisions. If we’re wrong we say so publicly. If we’re right we stand behind every word.
How We Work
No Studio Deals
We’ve turned down every partnership offer we’ve ever received. Our budget comes from readers, not publishers. That’s not a flex — it’s a firewall.
You Report, We Investigate
Got a tip about a game that doesn’t add up? Submit it. We follow every lead that smells wrong, whether it comes from us or from someone who lost $70 and wants answers.
The Record Stays Public
Every investigation we publish stays up permanently — including the ones where we got something wrong. We correct in public, on the same page, with the original text still visible.
The team behind
These are the people who stayed in games long enough to get suspicious.
Anastasia Malaman
Strategy
Aranka Dzhola
Marketing
Markus Rede
Copywriting
Tetyana Santino
Public Relations
Join The Unit
Feeling inspired? Join the team
We are always looking for people who play too much, trust too little, and write like they mean it.
No formal applications. No CV required. Send us your best piece of games writing — something you wrote because you were angry, not because someone asked you to. If it’s good we’ll be in touch.