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The title screen for Kara Stone's Known Mysteries, a delightfully low fi design that hearkens back to the video graphics of the 90s.

Designing for Land and Body

By Phoenix Simms • June 4th, 2025

Kara Stone is one of the game designers to watch when it comes to designing in an eco-conscious manner.

A screenshot from Crescent Country featuring a colorful landscape and a road where a witch is riding a broom air bike around lush greenery to deliver a package

Press F to Play “Respect”

By Jonathan Fenn • June 3rd, 2025

These songs also carry with them a wealth of cultural context.

Don't Stop Believing
In key art from the first game, Bayonetta stands facing away from the viewer in front of the full moon, giant on the horizon.

Is Bayonetta More Than Sacrilegious Brawling?

By Elijah Beahm • June 3rd, 2025

She doesn’t want to rule. She just wants to live.

Here Be Monsters
Art from Cult of the Lamb shows a cloaked lamb levitating above a pentacle as several other woodland creatures gaze at the scene reverantly.

Feeding the Cartoon Gators: Cult of the Lamb and Moral Disengagement

By Emma Kostopolus • May 30th, 2025

Everybody has some angry, sad, anxious and ultimately violent shit they want to work out.

Past Presence
A person points their arms towards the sky as if they're aiming an arrow, but there's no bow in their hands.

Fear of Failure in Many Nights a Whisper

By Dr. Emily Price • May 29th, 2025

This is a game about desire. Wishes are made and accepted to be granted. If they’re not, by definition, you failed.

Feature Story

Solidarity Forever

By David Shimomura • May 28th, 2025

Each of us has to stay in this long enough to build the future for the writers and producers who will come after us.

A screenshot from 1000 times RESIST where two people stand in a blue hazy oceanic scene talking to each other, the Knower asking what the other makes of it all, who considers options like more to learn, she keeps secrets, and storytime is incomplete

Forgetting Won’t Drop The Weight

By Wallace Truesdale • May 27th, 2025

There are opportunities forever and unnecessarily lost by erasing the original perpetrator.

Feature Excerpt

What Does It Take to Appreciate Turbo Kid (2024)?

By Jay Weaver • May 27th, 2025

All art ought to be celebrated, and the Wasteland welcomes all.

a still image from the HBO Max adaptation of The Last of Us with Joel on his front porch at night holding the acoustic guitar he made for Ellie as she stands nearby with a stern look on her face

Games are More Than The Last of Us

By William Fox • May 23rd, 2025

The Last of Us gives the player no real agency.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – May 2025

By David Shimomura • May 22nd, 2025

Pour one out and one for yourselves.

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