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Author: Ruth Cassidy

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Screenshot from Life Eater where a very bright room has a man on his knees and holding his head as if in great pain while in shadow behind him someone crouches or lies in a cage, and words at the bottom read "my brain explodes for my insolence"

Surveillance Paranoia Where You Most and Least Expect It

By Ruth Cassidy • April 25th, 2024

When Life Eater takes away access, you realize just what you were getting from it.

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A screenshot from Mosa Lina with the player character jumping in the air off a tower of blocks over to a balloon platform and a fish balloon?

(Sometimes) Literally Unwinnable

By Ruth Cassidy • March 29th, 2024

It would be easy for Mosa Lina to feel like an opponent to conquer, but instead it feels like we’re on the same team.

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A screenshot of Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 speaking to another character off stage with her face covered in blood and probably saying something sassy

The Surprising Horrors of Frictionless Romance

By Ruth Cassidy • February 26th, 2024

If I want to enjoy romances in RPGs, it seems against my best interests to want it to be more likely that I am rejected – and yet…

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A screenshot for A Highland Song, with protagonist Moira with climbing up a sheer mountain face while eagles soar around and rain falls. She's saying "just don't look down Moira"

Returning to Rhythm in A Highland Song

By Ruth Cassidy • February 7th, 2024

There’s a lot to learn from falling down mountains.

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Never to Return

By Ruth Cassidy • November 15th, 2023

It feels like knowing Pyre’s secrets should remove its surface tensions, but a risk you know how to calculate just makes the gambles feel larger.

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The cover art for Terra Nil: Reclaim the Wasteland, featuring a lush valley being terraformed while surrounded by barren rocky mountains

Press Restart for Planet Earth

By Ruth Cassidy • April 7th, 2023

Terra Nil offers a similar kind of escapist fantasy to other city builders – just from another angle.

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A crop of the painting Melancholia by Domenico Fetti, featuring a finely detailed portrait of a young person with their head in their hands, arm draped in a puffy sleeve, holding a weathered human skull

The Writer Will Do Criticism

By Ruth Cassidy • March 9th, 2023

The friction between knowing how games are made, and knowing that I don’t know how any one game is made.

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