Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s get one thing straight: If you are here because you saw Transistor on sale for $3.99 and you’re wondering if it holds up in the era of A.I.-generated NPCs and games that require a 6,000-watt power supply to render individual sweat droplets—the answer is yes. Obviously. In […]

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. You’re tired of the rain outside your window looking suspiciously like the rain in Blade Runner. You’re tired of megacorporations literally owning the air we breathe. You’re tired of seeing the same AAA open-world slop where you have to grind for 40 hours just to afford a

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Look, we all saw the trailers. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 looked like a painting come to life—beautiful, serene, full of Belle Époque vibes. Then you actually played it, and suddenly that painting was trying to punch you in the face with a 20-hit combo while you frantically mashed

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be honest: most “strategy” games today aren’t strategy. They are vibes. You know the ones. You click a button, a colorful animation plays, and a disembodied voice tells you that you’re a “brilliant tactician” for simply showing up. If you want to feel the warm, comforting

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. If you loved Pragmata, you might need a support group. Or at least a few more games that scratch that very specific itch: armored dad energy, cryptic moon lore, a sidekick who may or may not be human, and at least one confusing cat cameo. You’ve been

Look, I love sports. In theory. The human drama, the peak physical conditioning, the million-dollar contracts for catching a slightly oblong ball. It’s all very compelling. But let’s be honest: watching a 90-minute soccer match that ends 0-0 feels a bit like watching paint dry, if the paint was also guilty of simulation and rolling

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. TL;DR: We need to talk about the rabbit’s foot. We really need to talk about the red cabbage. Let me paint a picture for you. It’s Fall of Year 2 in Stardew Valley. The leaves are turning beautiful shades of orange. The music is gentle and nostalgic. And I am

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be honest, the survival crafting genre has officially jumped the shark. We’ve been marooned on so many beaches, frozen in so many snowstorms, and force-fed so many digital berries that if we actually got stranded in the wilderness tomorrow, we’d probably file a complaint about

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be real: usually, when someone invites you over to look at “slideshows” of their trip to Arizona, you start looking for the nearest exit or a blunt object. But Interior/Night decided to turn that specific brand of mid-western torture into a game called As Dusk

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. A roguelike is the gaming equivalent of Groundhog Day, if Groundhog Day was directed by a masochist and starred you, failing upwards into the sun. We are living in the golden era of the “one more run” philosophy, which is really just a clinical term for