Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – January 2021 By Stu Horvath • January 15th, 2021 Happy new year, gang! Let’s see how Unwinnable is kicking off 2021.
Bloodlines Destiny 2: Season of Forgiveness By David Shimomura • January 13th, 2021 Destiny 2 asks you to move on. No amount of levelling or experience will help you do that.
Forms in Light Bizarre Banality By Justin Reeve • January 12th, 2021 The house in Gone Home is WEIRD.
Collision Detection Countering COVID-19 Disinformation in Five Minutes or Less with Go Viral! By Ben Sailer • January 8th, 2021 Separating fact from fiction on the Internet and in the media is more difficult than ever. In the middle of a global pandemic, the consequences are potentially lethal. Could a simple browser game be part of the solution?
Letter to a Heroine Fischl By Melissa King • January 7th, 2021 Was it lonely, being left in your library by yourself? I was lonely like you once, too.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Only Trust Your Fists: The Side-Scrolling Beat-‘em-Up Vibes of Streets of Steel By Orrin Grey • January 6th, 2021 When Streets of Steel is at its best, it is tapping into my fondness for these types of games in a way that makes for innovative tabletop play, rather than just nostalgia.
This Mortal Coyle Joy Johnson-Johjima from Monster Camp By Deirdre Coyle • January 6th, 2021 If I overheard someone talking about a bookish goth who listens to Rumours on repeat too much, I’d assume they were talking about me.
Joe DeSimone Interview By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 4th, 2021 This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to Joe DeSimone of The Academy of Games!
The Best Games of 2020 By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2020 This year has put on one hell of a spectacular shit show. But at the same time, games have proven to be the one salve we need to tide us over through 2020.
Best of 2020 The Best Architecture in Games in 2020 By Justin Reeve • December 30th, 2020 Justin gathers the best examples of architecture in videogames.
Best of 2020 I Played Over 100 games this Year and This is What I Learned By Kris Ligman • December 29th, 2020 At the start of 2020, when all of us were only suffering through heightened depression and hopelessness and not a full-blown extinction event, I gave myself the optimistic task of clearing out my Steam backlog.
Mörk Borg By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 28th, 2020 The world is dying. Will you rage hopelessly against the end or cower in robbed graves in your final days?
Traces Marching On By Diego Nicolás Argüello • December 23rd, 2020 “I am the end. Do you understand? This world, and this tapestry, I would devour. It is my purpose.”
A Visitor’s Guide to the Rainy City By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 21st, 2020 Grab your umbrella!
Always Autumn Winter’s Wind By Autumn Wright • December 21st, 2020 If death is inevitable in Outer Wilds, then so is Timberhearth.
Revving the Engine Adios: Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long By Stu Horvath and David Shimomura • December 18th, 2020 Unwinnable talks to Doc Burford about his forthcoming game Adios, a melancholy game about a pig farmer who won’t dispose of the mob’s bodies any more.
Orks, Goblins & Grenades By Matthew Campbell • December 18th, 2020 Can games provide real-world political insight?
Feature Excerpt Birth of Masculine Bodies By Zsolt David • December 17th, 2020 Press button to move legs.
Feature Excerpt Who Firewatches the Firewatchers By Caroline Delbert • December 17th, 2020 Marshall played Firewatch and thought being a firewatcher sounded good, so he volunteered.
Tasha’s Cauldron of Too Little, Too Late By Orrin Grey • December 17th, 2020 Dungeons & Dragons should be leading the way instead of lagging behind.
Casting Deep Meteo Red Dead Redemption Precedes the Territory By Levi Rubeck • December 16th, 2020 The many flavors of The West (of the United States, specifically) are boiled down to a single salty broth for cinematic consumption.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – December 2020 By Stu Horvath • December 15th, 2020 Volume 7 comes to a close. Find out what treasure this issue contains!
The Fail Cycle Fight or Flummoxed By Declan Taggart • December 15th, 2020 Declan wrestles with a puzzle game…
Forms in Light Formal and Vernacular Architecture By Justin Reeve • December 14th, 2020 The game world in Breath of the Wild is filled with interesting architecture
Hârn By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 14th, 2020 This week, we journey to one of the first, and best, system agnostic campaign settings.
Traces Learning Tetris By Diego Nicolás Argüello • December 11th, 2020 2019 was the year I started learning Tetris.
Collision Detection On Videogames, Accessibility and the Winter From Hell By Ben Sailer • December 10th, 2020 Videogames are more accessible than ever thanks to increased digitization. Facing what will be the harshest winter in a generation, this is a godsend that is easy to miss, but should not be taken for granted.
I Played It, Like, Twice... The Agony of Adaptation: Hellboy and the Perils of Fandom (and Kickstarter) By Orrin Grey • December 9th, 2020 For a while there, writing about Hellboy: The Board Game, about being a Hellboy fan, and what the franchise means to me as a creator, all felt too fraught.
Rookie of the Year I’m Slowly Cracking Under the Weight of Tap Sports Baseball By Matt Marrone • December 9th, 2020 Now I live in fear that my favorite player of all time will show up in a mystery box.
Palace of the Vampire Queen By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 7th, 2020 Why would she have a garlic garden? We don’t know and the adventure never says, but there is one!
Another Look Crowded Apocalypse By Yussef Cole • December 7th, 2020 “A vibrant wasteland, a sparkling new way to experience a dull old formula.”
Immortals Fenyx Rising: Interview with Jeffrey Yohalem By W.C. Hoag • December 4th, 2020 Ancient Greeks took their entertainment seriously—these people invented theatres, after all—and Greek dramas served to investigate the world they lived in and what it means to be human.
No Accounting for Taste Leap of Faith By Adam Boffa • December 4th, 2020 When game industry realism and creative ambition collide.
Exploits 2010 – 2019 By Stu Horvath • December 1st, 2020 Do not party like it’s 2019. Wear masks. Be socially distant. Stay home.
This Mortal Coyle The Forest Spirit By Deirdre Coyle • December 1st, 2020 “I would be grateful to see the forest come to life.”
Letter to a Heroine Fire Keeper By Melissa King • November 30th, 2020 Will you continue to guard the flame? Will you return to as it always has been?
Chivalry & Sorcery By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 30th, 2020 Chivalry and sorcery and…dinosaurs?
I Played It, Like, Twice... Darkness of Unusual Size: The Sword-and-Sorcery Answer to Descent By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2020 If Descent is what we’ve all come to expect from a modern high fantasy D&D-alike, then Massive Darkness is its lo-fi sword-and-sorcery equivalent.
