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Thousand Year Old Campfire

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 3rd, 2025

It belongs in a museum! Oh, wait, that doesn’t work here…

Exploits Feature

Andor

By Van Dennis • November 3rd, 2025

You are never safe from Imperial disposability.

Noah's Beat Box
A photograph of sunlight streaming through an extremely dense thicket of trees and vegetation.

The Strangling Fruit

By Noah Springer • October 31st, 2025

Grass grew, I mowed. Weeds sprouted, I pulled. Mosquitos multiplied, I swatted. And all that time, life pulsed.

Mind Palaces
A lonely, derelict house sits solemnly in a field of long grass.

All Houses Are Haunted (By Heterosexuality)

By Maddi Chilton • October 30th, 2025

In both Sarah Waters’ The Paying Guests and Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep, the lesbian main character keeps a neat, controlled house in lieu of a more traditional home life with a husband.

This Mortal Coyle
Art from The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow shows a close-up on an older woman holding her nose while a younger woman looks on from further behind.

Mildred Walker from The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow

By Deirdre Coyle • October 29th, 2025

Meet Mildred Walker, better known as Mother Mildred, the local wise woman considered by many to be a witch.

Past Presence
Hornet stands at the edge of a cliff of greenery, holding her pin sword.

Silksong is for Speedrunners

By Dr. Emily Price • October 28th, 2025

Through its moveset, level design and overall resource economy, Silksong teaches you, on your first journey through it, how to be a speedrunner.

Murder She Wrote: A Board Game of Strategy and Pursuit

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 27th, 2025

Send in the clones!

Feature Excerpt
A spread from Sepulcher featuring coffin-shaped playing cards with different parts of skeletons on them.

Grave Goods: Sepulchre and the Game as Object

By Orrin Grey • October 24th, 2025

There is the hobby of playing board games, and then there is the entirely separate hobby of buying board games.

Feature Story
A screenshot from myhouse.wad shows sunken living room rendered in the style of Doom II.

In The End, It Always Comes Back to the Old House

By J.M. Henson • October 23rd, 2025

No matter how far we wander, we always come back to that house, in the same way that in my restless dreams, I too revert to the embrace of my childhood home.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – October 2025

By David Shimomura • October 21st, 2025

Welcome to our generic spooptacular.

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