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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.

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A screenshot from The Case of the Golden Idol, featuring a bell tower wreathed in climbing ivy, a surprised man in a wig and ascot, a woman in mourning with a lace veil, a pinheaded man with small John Lennon glasses, and an ominous gravestone that reads "Sebastian Cloudsley 1733 - 1786"

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. 

Screenshot from Pentiment, where a person in scholarly robes is standing by a destroyed building talking to a young villager, the scholar is saying "Good, good. Keep the faith."

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
A screenshot from Red Dead Redemption 2, where Arthur in his trademark black hat is firing a rifle in the distance while a lone lamp hangs overhead

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?

A screenshot from the trailer of Psychonauts, featuring the lead psychic investigator getting close with a brain in a room wallpapered with blueprints

Three Paths Towards Approaching Mental Illness in Videogames

By Kurt Grunsky • January 6th, 2023

These games differ greatly in their approaches, but each provides its own alternative to the more common portrayals and could be said to focus more on the broader theme of “living with mental illness.”

Cover images from the three big shooters of 2012, with Spec Ops Warrior on the left, Halo doing the superhero landing in the middle, and Nacho Varga pondering his two guns and a severed head on the right

2012: The Shooter’s Overlooked Apex

By Van Dennis • January 4th, 2023

While 2012 didn’t quite have one singular release that set the world on fire or dominated the discourse, it still stands out because of just how many gems it had that’ve aged incredibly well and continue to affect the medium and industry a decade later.

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