Three people, one test bench, zero sponsored scores.
Invincible You is an independent PC gaming magazine published by Meridian Play Media Ltd from a small studio in London. We started in 2021 with one rule that still decides everything we publish: finish the game before you score it.
Our story
From a shared spreadsheet of benchmark runs to a magazine read across three continents.
Invincible You began in early 2021 as a shared document between three friends who kept arguing about graphics settings. Mara tracked review scores across outlets and noticed how rarely they moved after day-one patches. Devon ran a repair bench and had strong opinions about which "optimization" advice was snake oil. Jonas built PCs for local clients and kept a log of every first-boot failure he'd ever fixed.
The document became a blog, the blog became a publication, and in 2023 we registered Meridian Play Media Ltd to run it properly — with an editorial policy, a corrections log, and a firewall between advertising and scores. We buy our own review copies and hardware samples. When a PR agency sends us something anyway, we disclose it in the piece.
Five years in, the rule hasn't changed: every scored review on this site was written after the credits rolled. If a game collapses in its third act, you'll read about the collapse — not about a polished first ten hours.
The team
Everyone here writes, benchmarks, and answers reader mail.
Mara Ellison
Founded the site after six years covering games retail. Writes most of the long-form reviews and keeps the corrections log honest. Currently on her fourth Baldur's Gate 3 honour run.
Devon Okafor
Runs the test bench and owns the frame-time graphs. Previously repaired gaming laptops for a living, which is where the optimization guides come from. Allergic to the phrase "future-proof".
Jonas Whitfield
Has assembled over 300 gaming PCs for clients and documented every mistake worth learning from. Writes the build guides and the monthly news digest. Believes cable management is a personality trait.
The studio
Where the benchmarks happen — four desks, a shelf of board games, and a very patient neighbours' agreement about fan noise.
Our test bench runs a documented, fixed configuration for hardware comparisons, and we retest older conclusions whenever a major driver or patch lands. If you're choosing between two GPUs or wondering whether a setting is worth its frame cost, that's the work we're proudest of.
Questions, corrections, or a game you think we scored wrong? Write to us — reader mail has changed at least two verdicts so far, and both times we published the correction.