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The prince of Hades rests a large blade across his shoulder while showing off his well-muscled chest.

The Prince of Hades Laughs with a Mouthful of Blood

By Phoenix Simms • December 8th, 2022

Zagreus is definitely a liminal figure trapped in a purgatorial space – and this metaphor extends to the entire setting of Hades.

Collision Detection
A screenshot from Bad Writer showing the pixellated protagonist staring at a blank computer screen.

Better Living, Better Writing

By Ben Sailer • December 7th, 2022

Bad Writer shows how becoming a more interesting writer starts with living a more interesting life and there’s nothing interesting about joyless overwork.

Mind Palaces
A still from the movie Barbarian shows a woman with long curly hair standing on a porch gazing off into the night.

Go In Blind

By Maddi Chilton • December 6th, 2022

There’s a very simple reason why you have to go into Barbarian blind: because the big twist makes no sense.

Here Be Monsters
In a screenshot from the videogame Resident Evil, the player character gazes down at a spookily lit desk, upon which is an old typewriter, some files, and a book on castles.

Limited Inventory and Staggered Saves

By Emma Kostopolus • December 5th, 2022

The rhetoric of classic survival horror.

Down in the Dungeon

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 5th, 2022

Down, down, down.

This Mortal Coyle

On Organizing My Skyrim Library and Living in a Human Body

By Deirdre Coyle • December 2nd, 2022

Organizing books makes me not care that I’m a decaying meat-coated skeleton living by the light of a dying star. I love skeletons! I love stars! Who cares, just let me read!

Exploits Feature

My Least Favorite C-Word

By M. Shaw • December 1st, 2022

Every brush I’ve had with actually celebrating Christmas has been a complete horror show.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
The covers for Bardsung and Myth placed next to each other. Bardsung has a cloaked character with horns, or maybe a jester hat, grinning and holding a lute. Myth has an elfin warrior with a bow standing against a horde of point-eared orcs while magical fire flies in the background

Versus Mode: Myth x Bardsung

By Orrin Grey • November 30th, 2022

Both Bardsung and Myth are dungeon-crawl games at the high end of the complexity scale, but that’s where the surface similarities end.

Self-Insert
The full cover art from the dust jacket of the American release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, featuring Harry, Ron and Hermione being carried to safety from a dungeon by Fawkes the phoenix.

Elevating Trash

By Amanda Hudgins • November 30th, 2022

If you, dear reader, are someone who loves Harry Potter, do yourself the service of rereading the series as an adult. Interrogate it. Be prepared to actually know what you’re talking about.

Exploits Feature

Elden Ring

By Connor Queen • November 30th, 2022

Love and monsters.

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