What’s in the Warehouse? By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 5th, 2021 For maximum effect, say the name of this episode using your best impression of Brad Pitt’s Seven whine.
Revving the Engine Under the Hood By Ben Sailer • April 1st, 2021 The beauty of having a dream, and making it so, and then having thousands of others make their dreams within your dream.
I Played It Like Twice Fearful Symmetry: Building the Best of All Possible Overworlds in Overboss By Orrin Grey • April 1st, 2021 In a world where plenty of board games at least claim to be playable with only one person it is, in my experience, rare to find one that actually plays well in solitaire mode.
Forms in Light Parasites By Justin Reeve • March 30th, 2021 The real parasites are always the capitalists.
Collision Detection Controlling the Narrative By Ben Sailer • March 26th, 2021 Why the hell would anyone play two-player sports videogames by themselves?
Feature Excerpt Dungeons and Comrades: The Capitialism Catharsis of Going Under By Andrew Kiya • March 19th, 2021 “Disrupting” is great if by that you mean smashing up corporate hell.
Traveller By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 15th, 2021 Play Traveller! See the galaxy! Pay off your starship mortgage!
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly, March 2021 By Stu Horvath • March 12th, 2021 Spring is here, maybe. The March issue of Unwinnable Monthly is here, definitely.
This Mortal Coyle Drinking With Arthur Morgan By Deirdre Coyle • March 12th, 2021 One more couldn’t hurt, right?
Collision Detection Cyberpunkland and the Full Service Dystopia Simulator of Tomorrow, Today By Ben Sailer • March 10th, 2021 A free dystopian browser-based game like Cyberpunkland should be a silly diversion. But considering recent events, it feels bizarrely prescient instead.
Dark Tower By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 8th, 2021 Do you dare explore one of the most famous D&D dungeons of all time? Plus, a quick chat with Amanda Lee Franck!
Another Look Digital Distractions By Yussef Cole • March 8th, 2021 Yussef finds Lightning for the first time. Gets lost along the way.
Forms in Light Wealth and Poverty By Justin Reeve • March 5th, 2021 A tale of haves and have nots on the frontier.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Versus Mode – Arcadia Quest x Super Dungeon Explore By Orrin Grey • March 2nd, 2021 For the first installment of this periodic feature, we’ll be looking at Arcadia Quest and Super Dungeon Explore.
Revving the Engine Creature in the Well: Between the Known and the Unknown By Melissa King • March 2nd, 2021 “Every aspect of gameplay is a teaching moment”
Goblinville and Rebel Crown Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 1st, 2021 We talk to Michael Dunn-O’Connor and Eric Swanson of Narrative Dynamics!
Feature Excerpt We Found Love in a Chatless Place: Community through Silent Multiplayer By Emma Kostopolus • February 26th, 2021 Painting in a world where no one has mouths but they must speak.
Gingy's Corner Huniepop 2 By Gingy Gibson • February 26th, 2021 A disappointing sequel actively working to quash any joy the player may attempt to derive from it.
Feature Excerpt Videogame Chamber Music By William Dowell • February 26th, 2021 “One Winged Angel” is plenty haunting to start but then you hear the string quartet version. Find out what goes into that.
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHEN YOU KILL ALL THE CIVILIANS By Edward Smith • February 23rd, 2021 I firmly believe that the player is the least interesting character in every videogame.
Appendix N: Peter Bebergal Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 22nd, 2021 This week, we chat with Peter Bebergal, editor of the new anthology exploring classic Dungeons & Dragons-influencing fantasy fiction: Appendix N!
I Wish Quarantine Was More Like Demon’s Souls By Lucas DeRuyter • February 16th, 2021 Demon’s Souls mechanics also remind me that other people are struggling against the same challenges that I am.
Little Nightmares II and the Case of Weak Imagery By Amanda Hudgins • February 15th, 2021 Not every game has to say something with its imagery, but it’s clear that Little Nightmares II wants desperately to be saying something.
Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 15th, 2021 Yup, there was an RPG based on the hit television show Dallas. And it was a disaster.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – February 2021 By Stu Horvath • February 14th, 2021 February sure is long for the shortest month, right? Pass the time with the new Unwinnable Monthly.
Lady Love Dies Cannot Save You By Trevor Richardson • February 12th, 2021 For Paradise Killer, Audre Lorde’s warning about “the master’s tools” rings loud amongst the psychic death screams of a caste that cannot be uplifted by mere reformation.
Casting Deep Meteo The Lust of Early Access: Everspace 2 and 30XX By Levi Rubeck • February 11th, 2021 Everspace 2 fulfills a similar desire to expand upon the past, in this case, more Star Fox vibrations.
Greater Failures in Tabletop Gaming By Joshua Jarrett • February 10th, 2021 Impulse Drive is a tabletop RPG that empowers disempowerment.
Hey, Dad: Hades & Fatherhood By George Umbarger • February 9th, 2021 Hey, Dad. See you in Hell. Hopefully.
Eyeing Elsewhere Owning the Mask By Phillip Russell • February 8th, 2021 I want Black stories to feel whole, to feel uncompromising and to take risks.
Heaven from the Other Side By Yussef Cole • February 8th, 2021 Blasphemous serves as an aesthetic exploration of the mind of the devout.
Letter to a Heroine Mei By Melissa King • February 5th, 2021 “News stories don’t always have to be major, they just have to matter.”
Casting Deep Meteo El Hijo, the Solid Snake of Tag By Levi Rubeck • February 4th, 2021 In stealth games, I always aspire to be the ghost.
I Played It, Like, Twice… The Moorcock Connection: Sailors on the Seas of Warhammer Quest By Orrin Grey • February 2nd, 2021 I realized what Age of Sigmar really was: Games Workshop leaning hard into that Moorcockian strain of cosmic fantasy that had always been there.
Here's the Thing No Man’s Sky vs. Cyberpunk 2077 By Rob Rich • February 2nd, 2021 The edgelords never get what they want, do they?
Forms in Light Marble Madness By Justin Reeve • February 1st, 2021 Marble, marble, everywhere. Why is it all white and shiny?
Exalted Funeral Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 1st, 2021 Hold onto your wallets! We’re talking to the guy behind the coolest RPG shop online.
