Icy Veins vs Retro Game Guides

Icy Veins is a gaming guides and news site, with resources for World of Warcraft, Diablo IV and III, Path of Exile, Final Fantasy XIV, and HoYoverse games including Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero. Its material includes strategies, builds, talent trees, and tier lists. The site says its writers curate guides alongside skilled players, top raiders, competitive team members, and streamers, with new content and updates each week and attention to patches and expansions.

A companion desktop app brings World of Warcraft material to the desktop and currently covers Retail WoW. Its Class Codex addon gives in-game recommendations for talents, best-in-slot gear, stats, and rotations. The app runs through the U.GG app platform. A free plan is supported by ads; paid plans remove ads and include WoW masterclass videos and Discord expert help. The app is available for Linux, macOS, Windows, and web. Paid plans start at $3.99/mo (annual).

Retro Game Guides is an iPhone and iPad offline reader and library for classic game walkthroughs. Reflow, Original, and No wrap layouts provide different reading presentations; Reflow adjusts prose to the phone width while preserving recognized maps and tables. Guide headings become a Contents view, search results include surrounding passage context, and each guide keeps its reading position. Readers can highlight passages, add notes, and bookmark locations, collected in the Notes tab. Plain-text imports up to 10 MB support folder previews, duplicate skipping, and review of uncertain matches. Supported online guide pages can be saved as attributed text snapshots for offline reading. The library also includes original Standard Edition walkthroughs whose pages identify game platform and route scope. Once content is available on-device, reading, organization, search, progress, favorites, bookmarks, highlights, and notes work offline. The maker says there is no account, advertising, analytics, tracking, or cloud-sync service. The free plan covers up to three games; Unlimited Library costs $4.99, paid once.