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.
Past Presence An Evening with Solitaire Mystery By Dr. Emily Price • September 4th, 2025 A Solitaire Mystery is not player-hostile, exactly, but player-neutral. Fitting, for a game about a game you play by yourself.