Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – December 2025 By David Shimomura • December 19th, 2025 “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” – Mary Shelley
Here's the Thing “But She’s Got a New Hat!” By Rob Rich • December 17th, 2025 It’s not a new pattern of behavior or anything, but Rob is… just… so sick and tired of seeing “company bad” one week and then “new thing from company!” the next.
Forms in Light Whispers of the Grove By Justin Reeve • December 17th, 2025 The forest in Japanese culture is more than just a landscape, having long been seen as a threshold between the realms of the human and the divine.
Casting Deep Meteo Now or Never or Over the Next Few Days at Least By Levi Rubeck • December 16th, 2025 The powers of various chat apps and virtual tabletops offered an opportunity to play-by-post with ducks and wolfkin and the rest.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Too Big to Succeed: Warhammer Quest and the Imposing Scope of Blackstone Fortress By Orrin Grey • December 12th, 2025 Blackstone Fortress is an elaborate, ambitious, impressive game, but it was also the first of the Warhammer Quest installments to become too intimidating for me.
Area of Effect Habitat Fragmentation By Jay Castello • December 11th, 2025 Pokémon and people do not live in harmony in Lumiose.
Alien: Rogue Incursion’s Evolved Edition Feels Like It Skipped A Few Evolutionary Steps By Elijah Beahm • December 10th, 2025 You literally interact with the world less than in VR, and that’s a shame.
Preparing for the Rain, Living Past the Rain By J.M. Henson • December 9th, 2025 It’s hard to think about the future when you’re laser-focused on today.
Interlinked Negative Spatial Awareness By Phoenix Simms • December 9th, 2025 Environmental storytelling and puzzles are at their best when they’re kept simple and almost subliminal.
Zarvot, Intimacy, & The Limits of Politeness By Christopher Spina • December 5th, 2025 Zarvot draws the player in with its sheen.
