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The overworld map for World 1 of Super Mario World, featuring many paths for Mario to travel.

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
The cracked spine of The Modern Library paperback edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

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
A screenshot from Octopia shows the main character standing on a bridge overlooking a beautiful mountain valley.

Octopia is a Sweet Farming Sim That Rewrites Eastward’s History

By Dr. 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
Key art from The Last Guardian showing the player character offering a feather to the Trico, a large winged creature with the sweetest face.

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
An incomplete jigsaw puzzle featuring Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch.

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?

Mystic Punks, Part Two

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • March 18th, 2024

The squares still ain’t gonna save the day.

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