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Here Be Monsters
A top-down view of an alien figure in some sort of bed, coffin, or pod. It is unclear if it's living or dead, but something glows within its abdomen.

Can Scorn Get Out From Under the Cosmic Horror Legacy?

By Emma Kostopolus • January 27th, 2023

Scorn and other sci-fi horror games like it rely almost entirely on the horror of the unknown – the unknowable, the inconceivable, and the, well, alien.

Brain Scratch
Some real gross alien architecture, brutalist Geiger, with two giant humanoid heads looming over a wet altar, all with strange vines descending like tentacles

We Scorn Friction at Our Peril

By Steven Nguyen Scaife • October 31st, 2022

A look at some smaller games that use friction to make a point, to express frustration and access emotions beyond the limited vocabulary of realism and polish.

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