Feature Excerpt The Butterfly Affect By Dayten Rose • September 26th, 2025 Themes that preoccupy the makers of games are magnetic to the image of the butterfly: spectacle, attention, illusion, mortality, autonomy.
Feature Story I Don’t Want to Be This Kind of Animal Anymore By Ashley Schofield • September 25th, 2025 You’re not crazy. You’re just different. You have a vast soul. This life is all you have, but it’s still something. You have to keep going.
Here's the Thing My Favorite Game I Never Played – Until Now By Rob Rich • September 18th, 2025 Rob can’t be the only one who’s championed and obsessed over a particular game for years without really getting to play much of it… right?
Casting Deep Meteo Beau Navire and the Returning Bloom By Levi Rubeck • September 17th, 2025 I keep thinking I’ve aged out of this madness, and in most ways I have, largely unwilling to ask a punk for directions anymore.
Totally Generic I’m So Bored, I Could Die By Natasha Ochshorn • September 16th, 2025 And Just Like That… is a show that often feels in my brain the same way scrolling on the internet does.
Rookie of the Year Nintendo Switch 2 vs. The Dadtendo By Matt Marrone • September 12th, 2025 In the spirit of good parenting, I’ve decided to pit the two devices against each other in a few select categories.
Interlinked Co-opting Co-op By Phoenix Simms • September 11th, 2025 The narratives of care that feel the most impactful are happening in game genres that aren’t explicitly labelling themselves as being “wholesome,” “cozy,” “lo-fi” or “chill.”
Don't Stop Believing Legion Reinvents… Jesus? By Elijah Beahm • September 10th, 2025 Rudi Berden’s Legion both is and isn’t a story of the apocalypse, and weaves a ton of different Biblical stories and apocrypha together.
Here Be Monsters Dead Wives’ Society: Male Guilt and the Horror Game By Emma Kostopolus • September 9th, 2025 The important things remain the same: there is a man, there are the horrors and there is the specter of the woman he loved and lost.
Mind Palaces Money Makes Kaso-Machi Go Round By Maddi Chilton • September 5th, 2025 The most important thing to take from this is that the question of the relationship between cozy games and capitalism is 1) interesting and 2) unresolved.
