Game Night: My Neighbors Are Trying to Eat Me In ‘Look Outside’ April 4, 2025 I watched a lot of reruns of the original “Muppet Show” as a kid, and one of the things that… Read More →
Game Night: Move Into An Escape Room in ‘Your House’ March 28, 2025 In my experience, visual novels have a mixed reputation. They’ve become relatively easy to make in the last decade, so… Read More →
Game Night: Investigate Multiple Planes of Reality (?) in ‘Centum’ March 22, 2025 Serenity Forge, despite its name, seems to specialize in games that are meant to upset or disturb you. It’s probably… Read More →
Game Night: Let’s Mindjack Suicide Cultists for Fun and Profit in ‘Memory Lost’ March 14, 2025 I’m not sure I’d have released a game in 2025 about a sentient AI that comes to question its creators.… Read More →
Game Night: Let’s (Carpal) Tunnel To the Earth’s Core in ‘A Game About Digging A Hole’ March 7, 2025 Sometimes my plans don’t work out. My first candidate for this week’s column, due to transoceanic communication breakdown, turned out… Read More →
Game Night: Bring Disaster to a Small Town in ‘Slender Threads’ February 28, 2025 Adventure games have always had a low-key sociopathy issue. The genre is built on petty theft, where you’re encouraged if… Read More →
Game Night: Unravel Decades of Family Drama in ‘The Roottrees Are Dead’ February 21, 2025 The Roottrees Are Dead is a nostalgia project, but not in the way you’d think. It’s an “armchair detective” game… Read More →
Game Night: Avoid Solving Crimes and Doom Japan in ‘Urban Myth Dissolution Center’ February 14, 2025 I didn’t get the chance to play Urban Myth Dissolution Center at last year’s PAX West, but it was lurking… Read More →
Game Night: It’s Good Vibes Only In ‘Spirit Swap,’ Except When It Isn’t February 7, 2025 Spirit Swap sells itself as a chill, low stakes/lo-fi match-3 puzzle game with relentlessly cheerful vibes. It is also a… Read More →
Game Night: Fight Demons With the Power of God and Anime in ‘Blade Chimera’ January 31, 2025 Someone recommended Blade Chimera to me as a sort of palette cleanser, and I’m glad they did. At a point… Read More →