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Letter from the Editor
A selection from the cover art for Unwinnable Monthly #158, featuring several gremlins from the movie Gremlins grinning at the viewer.

Unwinnable Monthly – December 2022

By David Shimomura • December 15th, 2022

Welcome to the Gremlins issue! But before you dig in, there are some rules that you’ve got to follow…

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.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A close of up the box art of Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape, with a tentacled demon on the left wielding a spear in front of three heroes posing in front of a glowing door

2 Massive 2 Darkness: When Your Darkness is Maybe a Little Too Big

By Orrin Grey • November 2nd, 2022

As much as I love a good dungeon crawl game, much of the time they are too big for me.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
The eponymous leaders in the game Hidden Leaders: Axe Guy, Bowl Cut, Mace and Braids, Requisite Grizzled Soldier, Ponytail Thief, and Tired Druid

I Guess No One’s Coming: The Art and Arithmetic of Hidden Leaders

By Orrin Grey • August 15th, 2022

Hidden Leaders is one of those games that is deceptively basic but can grow strangely complex as you play.

I Played It Like Twice...
Five miniatures from Tiny Epic Dungeons stand at the ready, featuring skeleton, ghost, knight, spider in web, and fire elemental

Burning the Torch at Both Ends: Peril Comes in Small Packages in Tiny Epic Dungeons

By Orrin Grey • June 6th, 2022

These are minuscule board games that come in boxes about the size of the ones you used to get checkbooks in, back when anybody had checkbooks.

The Broken Sword

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 3rd, 2022

Heads pop off like bottle caps.

Revving the Engine
A Norse figure stands with axe and shield on top of a massive hammer.

Broken Helms, Shattered Shields

By Sara Clemens • August 19th, 2021

Videogame Vikings are having a moment.

Try Reading...
A bird, a ghost, and a girl travel together among falling leaves.

Magical Grieving

By Harry Rabinowitz • July 1st, 2021

Harry digs into some heavier topics via middle-grade graphic novels!

Another Look

Revisiting Destiny 2

By Yussef Cole • May 10th, 2021

Yussef returns to a world that’s moved beyond light and beyond him.

Feature Excerpt
An armor clad figure draws their sword to do battle with a dragon.

Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Middle Earth

By Jamie Redgate • April 29th, 2021

How does one go about making a modern fantasy touchstone?

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