Feature Excerpt Apocalyptic Pregnancy By Natasha Ochshorn • April 19th, 2024 Perhaps an emotional response to a presidential election year, the weather, uncontrolled rent, or genocide – people on a large scale are questioning parenting as an ethical choice.
Feature Excerpt It’s Not a Loop, It’s a Spiral By Autumn Wright • April 18th, 2024 Maybe Alan Wake is like me. Maybe I’m like Alan. Trying to write my way out. Maybe the writing is just incidental to this compulsion, something we’re drawn to.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – April 2024 By David Shimomura • April 16th, 2024 Blake’s back. Autumn is here for Spring.
Dragon’s Lair By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 8th, 2024 There may be a million ways to die, but you’re probably only going to see the first two or three.
Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time) By Juno Stump • April 5th, 2024 We may never know for sure, but I think there’s a reason that so many trans women have been able to identify with Kurt Cobain’s joy, pain and suffering, so strongly.
Exploits Feature Liminality: Fear of Transition By Kasio Dalton • April 1st, 2024 “It’s a terrifying suggestion that someone might call a transitory space home.”
Arkham By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 1st, 2024 If the Colour is out of Space it should maybe consider weeding some of its shelves, amirite?
Funeral Rites Between the Skies and Beyond the Horizon By Justin Reeve • March 28th, 2024 Designer Huffa Frobes-Cross refers to Between the Skies as “rules minimalist, fiction maximalist.”
Feature Excerpt Ueda, Buddha & Me By Perry Gottschalk • March 27th, 2024 Don’t come to these games as experts of others, come to these games as someone who has never played one.
Feature Excerpt This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health By Orrin Grey • March 26th, 2024 Sometimes watching a cute little blue alien struggle with the same things we struggle with can make it a little easier, at least for a while.
Caverns of Thracia By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 25th, 2024 Are you brave enough to face the Minotaur King?
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – March 2024 By David Shimomura • March 19th, 2024 In which I lay the groundwork for spring/summer surprises.
Mystic Punks, Part Two By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 18th, 2024 The squares still ain’t gonna save the day.
Mystic Punks, Part One By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 11th, 2024 The squares sure aren’t gonna save the day.
Jack of Shadows By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 4th, 2024 Revenge is a dish best served over and over and over again.
Exploits Feature The Century-Long Humanification of King Kong By Van Dennis • March 1st, 2024 Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
Funeral Rites Embarking on a DuckQuest By Alyssa Wejebe • February 26th, 2024 “What if ducks weren’t the comical sidekick? What if ducks were the heroes of the adventure?”
Feature Excerpt Made With Love: Anime Mashups and Their Creators By Justin Kim • February 23rd, 2024 They’re not just shitposts!
Feature Excerpt Fortnite, Eminem and Kidproofing Media in the Age of Content By Holly Boson • February 22nd, 2024 Eminem’s presence in The Big Bang can be interpreted as an apology to the players following their disastrous attempts at childproofing.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – February 2024 By David Shimomura • February 19th, 2024 The really weird stuff happens in February.
Ninja City: Drug Demon Disco By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 5th, 2024 Grab your shuriken, paisans!
Exploits Feature Is it Alt to Like Call of Duty These Days? By Elijah Beahm • February 1st, 2024 Somehow, some Call of Duty games seem to have slipped out of the mainstream…
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 29th, 2024 Beware the minions of the Insect God!
Funeral Rites Collaborating on Microcosmic Adventures in Mausritter By Phoenix Simms • January 25th, 2024 Mausritter has come a long way from its homebrew session and zine days.
Feature Excerpt Why I Played a 20-Year-Old Nancy Drew Game Over the Holidays By Amanda Tien • January 24th, 2024 Twice a year for more than a decade, I’d gather around a computer with my mom and sister so we could play the newest Nancy Drew game. This was our ritual, until the games stopped coming.
Feature Excerpt Solace and Play Within Games By Alyssa Hatmaker • January 23rd, 2024 Sometimes being reminded that you’re playing a videogame is a welcome feeling.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – January 2024 By David Shimomura • January 18th, 2024 Welcome to the new year!
MIG3: The Meints Index to Glorantha By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 15th, 2024 The definitive guide to Glorantha guides.
How to Write Adventure Modules that Don’t Suck By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 8th, 2024 Goodman Games, killin’ it as always.
Exploits Feature The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes By Autumn Wright • January 2nd, 2024 While The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes is a coming-of-age drama without any action – all its conflict is psychological – it still invokes all these tropes.
Funeral Rites Getting Exiled with My Chivalric Bromance By Alyssa Wejebe • December 26th, 2023 While its title is a tribute to and parody of the classic New Jersey emo band My Chemical Romance, the game’s roots dig down through medieval history.
The Official AD&D Coloring Album (Remastered) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 25th, 2023 This week we check out a counter-culture infused Dungeons & Dragons coloring book from 1979!
Feature Excerpt How We Learned to Stop Arguing and Enjoy the Vibes By Aldo Garcia • December 22nd, 2023 Style (like modern discourse itself) is everything to Killer7.
Feature Excerpt A Destructive Love Affair with Minimaps By Jon Place • December 21st, 2023 As games got bigger, and their worlds got bigger still, the need for a constant map sitting on the screen at all times became more important as a tool for navigation.