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Unwinnable Monthly – November 2025

By David Shimomura • November 21st, 2025

The long dark season is upon us and we’ve one fewer light.

A screenshot from Henry Halfhead where Henry is sitting on a blue bench under a tree with orange leaves and a white landscape and sky

Subjectivity and Exploitation: On the “Right Degree” of Alienation in Henry Halfhead

By Christopher Spina • November 17th, 2025

Henry does not succumb to this vicious cycle forever.

The Spark Devil and Other Horrors

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 17th, 2025

It’s another one of them there pot-pour-ee episodes.

An image from Devil May Cry with the title of the game on the left and the character Dante on the right sitting while holding a gun and resting his hands on his sword and peeking through his white hair all mysterious like

Cool As Hell: The Excellence of The Original Devil May Cry

By Vincent Dilworth • November 14th, 2025

A cool, calm and collected, red-coat-wearing badass who executes demons on behalf of his slain mother and brother.

Here's the Thing
A skeleton stands, jaw agape, amongst several tombstones in a screenshot from Shadow Tower.

I’m Having a Bad Time (and Loving it)

By Rob Rich • November 13th, 2025

While on a “classic Fromsoft” binge of the King’s Field series, Rob finally returns to Shadow Tower’s exceptionally hostile halls – and having a great bad time.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A photograph of Yokai Quest with a Tengu warrior with a glowing katana standing next to a board arrayed with many dice and cards and minis and boxes

See You in the Next Adventure: The Familiarity of Yokai Quest

By Orrin Grey • November 12th, 2025

There are skeletal hone bushi, classic yurei, old-fashioned oni, and much more – including some sinister ninjas, of course.

Forms in Light
Two members of the Yiga Clan crouch menacingly in this screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Strangers on the Road

By Justin Reeve • November 12th, 2025

They’ll suddenly turn on you mid-conversation, revealing themselves to be a secret assassin in disguise, dedicated to your demise.

A screenshot from the game Harvester, the title screen with the text in black and white and written as if in blood

Harvester and the American Reaper

By J.M. Henson • November 10th, 2025

To be a proud American is to constantly condone the legacies of violence and bloodshed that still haunt us. 

Area of Effect
A screenshot from Herdling shows herders and herd traversing a mountain slope, even taller peaks rising tall in the distance.

Forward to Where?

By Jay Castello • November 7th, 2025

If Herdling wants to make a point about humans being an integral part of the ecosystem, it needs both humans and ecosystems.

Rookie of the Year
A photograph of two pairs of small hands drawing on either side of a large pad of paper, a Monopoly game board set off to the side.

Marronopoly

By Matt Marrone • November 6th, 2025

The activity that has best defined the outsized influence Monopoly now has over our lives happened on a recent Saturday.

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