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A greyscale drawing of a small boy asleep in a four-poster bed, moonlight shining through the window.

Negative Spatial Awareness

By Phoenix Simms • December 9th, 2025

Environmental storytelling and puzzles are at their best when they’re kept simple and almost subliminal.

Monsters

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 8th, 2025

Just what is a monster?

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Control shows Jesse floating in a long hallway that spirals impossibly around her.

Control Explores Theology in the Multiverse

By Elijah Beahm • December 5th, 2025

In CONTROL, faith is a fundamental force like gravity.

Here Be Monsters
In a screenshot from Resident Evil 4, Leon considers a gigantic knife.

Hear Me Out: On the Pitfalls of Resident Evil 4

By Emma Kostopolus • December 4th, 2025

Try as I might, I simply cannot overcome my animosity towards this game, this most lauded and vaunted of the Evils which Reside.

Mind Palaces
Clea Duvall and Natasha Lyonne gaze at each other in a dance club in this still from But I’m a Cheerleader!.

Does This Dress Make Me Look Straight

By Maddi Chilton • December 3rd, 2025

Walking away from the practice of homogenous heterosexual cohesion is just as legitimate as walking towards it.

Past Presence
A screenshot from Blue Prince shows a view through an open door, which looks into a room with another open door, which looks into a room with another open door that has the silhouette of a man standing just inside the frame.

Big/House

By Dr. Emily Price • December 2nd, 2025

Why is it now that we’re spending so much time in-game wandering through houses?

Exploits Feature

A Muppet Family Christmas

By Sara Clemens • December 1st, 2025

A Christmas special to make the heart hurt.

Run It Back
A stone bridge across a blue river.

1964

By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 26th, 2025

Even though Hemingway doesn’t quite know what to do with them, each woman present in this book (whether in the text or its making) is undeniably influential on him and his work.

Feature Excerpt

Ryuichi Sakamoto and the Heart and Soul of Lack of Love

By James Tocchio • November 25th, 2025

Peace and environmentalism in a Dreamcast-exclusive evolutionary life-sim.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – November 2025

By David Shimomura • November 21st, 2025

The long dark season is upon us and we’ve one fewer light.

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