Rookie of the Year Beers of the Osa Peninsula By Matt Marrone • April 4th, 2024 Consumed at any temperature lower than brain-freeze cold, they are uninspiring at best. When found frigid on a deliriously humid day in the rain forest, however, they are a revelation.
I Played It, Like, Twice... But Not Too Bold: Building a Better Dungeon in Boss Monster By Orrin Grey • April 3rd, 2024 The real draw of both Boss Monster and Overboss is the low-res pixel art of side-scrolling dungeon rooms (in the former case) and top-down overworlds (in the latter).
Interlinked A 16-Bit Memorial Garden By Phoenix Simms • April 3rd, 2024 If All the World and Love were Young is not only a stunning elegy for Stephen Sexton’s mother, but an ekphrastic piece about the nature of play and memory.
Mind Palaces Lost in Translation By Maddi Chilton • April 2nd, 2024 I’m reading War and Peace for the first time, and probably the only time, and I’d like to do it right.
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?
Past Presence Octopia is a Sweet Farming Sim That Rewrites Eastward’s History By Emily Price • March 29th, 2024 Simple stories don’t have to overcomplicate themselves to be good.
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.
