I Played It, Like, Twice... Unexpected Joys in Small Packages in Warhammer Quest: Lost Relics By Orrin Grey • January 23rd, 2023 Lost Relics feels a bit more like a game of chess (albeit played against the board) than a standard dungeon crawl.
Feature Excerpt Hideo Kojima Hates You By Emma Kostopolus • January 23rd, 2023 A study in difficulty scaling.
Into the Odd By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 23rd, 2023 Ultra-lite RPGs in the vein of D&D, part one of three!
Feature Excerpt Time Loop of Trauma By Alma Roda-Gil • January 20th, 2023 There is no catharsis to be had at the end of Returnal’s time loop. It becomes clear, as the player finishes the story, that it will keep going.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – January 2023 By David Shimomura • January 19th, 2023 Welcome to 2023!
Fantasy Gamer’s Compendium By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 16th, 2023 Third party publishing, ’80s-style.
Insert Coin A Tale of Two Relics By Madison Butler • January 13th, 2023 Comparing and contrasting 2022’s The Case of the Golden Idol and 2018’s Return of the Obra Dinn.
Pentiment: Thirteen Ways to Look at a Murder By Francisco Dominguez • January 10th, 2023 Once you’ve dismantled religious conviction and the formative myths behind a place’s existence, what comes next?
Open World Two Deaths By Edward Smith • January 9th, 2023 What I see I guess in all this are microcosmic pictures, metaphors, illustrations of how goddamn unknowable everything seems nowadays.
Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 9th, 2023 The great revival? A natural progression? Or something in-between?
