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A screenshot from Rain World, featuring a white slugcat in between two enormous black rabbits with tendril horns, all caught in a noisy junk-filled world

Making Peace in the Toothy Maw of Rain World

By Hayes Geldmacher • July 2nd, 2024

After experiencing Rain World’s unforgiving cycle of death and punishment, it is not only understandable but anticipated that players would get fed up with the abuse and walk away to games that welcome their time and attention with any amount of appreciation. Why, then, do some players stay?

Earthshaker!

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 1st, 2024

Tarrasque? Pfft, that’s nothing.

Funeral Rites

The Capricious Gifts Found in Portents of a Dying God

By Noah Springer • June 27th, 2024

Soul-crushing realities are something that MÖRK BORG tends to revel in, so it’s nice to see that Matt Johnson’s newest deck offers the same type of disastrous opportunities.

A screenshot from Fallout 4 in the sterile white walled Institute lab with a synth trooper in white armor getting shot by a laser

Fallout 4: The Railroad Has a Short Track

By Joshua M. Henson • June 24th, 2024

The questions of Civil Rights and self-determination that the Railroad are attempting to posit to the broader Commonwealth are rendered secondary (at best) to secret-agent roleplaying.

The Filming of Conan the Barbarian

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 24th, 2024

What is best in life? More Conan talk!

I Played It, Like, Twice...

A crop of the cover of the rulebook for Dreadfleet with a pirate with a mossy back and horned red pirate hat and golden chin

Blood and Plunder: Finding Lost Treasure (Though Maybe Not the Kind You Want) in Dreadfleet

By Orrin Grey • June 21st, 2024

Just as Dreadfleet is one of the last games released before Warhammer’s “Old World” became the “Mortal Realms” of Age of Sigmar, it is also one of the last gasps of an aesthetic style that had once defined the brand but was already on the way out.

Letter from the Editor