Science Fiction Archives - Unwinnable

Press art for Warhammer Quest Blackstone where a Knight in armor with a fancy sci fi monocle is flanked by floating skulls with lights and peering in the dark towards his enemies

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.

4K disc release art for Outland on the left and Red Planet on the right. Outland has a colorful painting of a space suited miner spiraling out, and red planet has a mostly red image of an astronaut's helmet reflecting the planet mars

No Place for Heroes: Surviving in Spaaaaaaace with Outland (1981) and Red Planet (2000)

By Orrin Grey • November 19th, 2025

Both look and sound probably about as good as their source material would ever allow them to, which honestly isn’t bad in either case.

A blizzard rages on a mostly white image but there are hints of a blue station in the snow, with a closed door, cables blowing in the wind, and a latter up to the roof

The White Vault: Enter A Ruthless Blizzard Where Mystery And Horror Collide

By Kevin Capon Goldszmidt • August 14th, 2025

A slow burn that unravels the mysteries of its universe.

Funeral Rites

An illustration of a blond woman unlocking her front door. Via a cross section of the house, we can see horrors have been wrought across her downstairs living room by a tentacled creature making its way upstairs.

No Magic, No Gods: Infinite Worlds & Infinite Horrors

By Emma Kostopolus • April 29th, 2025

“Create stories. Create art. Create music. Anything and everything you create yourself has value and the more of it exists, the better off we all are.”

I Played It, Like, Twice...

A promo picture of all the components of Warhammer 40 K Fireteam with a big urban map and many miniature marines and warriors as well as dice and cards scattered about

In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future There is Occasionally Very Small War: Fireteam and Warhammer Underworlds

By Orrin Grey • December 17th, 2024

Fireteam brings many of the elements that make Underworlds tick to the grimdark 40k universe, to varying effect.

A screenshot from The Substance with Demi Moore staring into a mirror with bold red lipstick and a red dress, gold earrings, and an intense look on her face

You Can’t Escape from Yourself: The Substance (2024)

By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2024

One of my pet peeves in modern horror films is when the central premise works only as metaphor, not as actual text.

I Played It, Like, Twice...

A picture of all the bits of Starquest Arcadia Build a Bot expansion, with some space pirate like minis with guns and computers as well as a red board and smaller space ship boards to move the minis around on

Space is the Place: Starcadia Quest and the Mystery of Aesthetics

By Orrin Grey • July 16th, 2024

It may be unsurprising to learn that Starcadia Quest is pretty much the exact same game as Arcadia Quest but in spaaaaaaaaaace!

A collage of images from The Cloven with the title in distressed type in the middle. Someone with short hair and no clothing is running through trees and red light, a hand is displayed, legs jumping, a face smiling in the dark, all drawn with brushstrokes to indicate action

Hoofing It With The Cloven’s Garth Stein and Matthew Southworth

By Elijah Beahm • May 30th, 2024

“Telling a story is all about a dialog between the presenter and the audience, right? The reader and the writer and and the readers trying to figure it out.”

A screenshot from The Bat Woman where a fishman is on underwater camera maybe or some other ancient monitoring device he's just swimming around loving life

Wrestling and Sex: Three Mexican Wrestling Films from Director Rene Cardona

By Orrin Grey • April 19th, 2024

While all three of the films that we’re discussing today may not have been released in alternate cuts with sexo in the title, all three are definitely films that are skirting Mexican censors of the late ‘60s and using sex appeal to help sell their stories of masked wrestlers, lycanthropes, mad science, swinging spies, and… lepers?

A crop of the cover and title text for The Cloven, with a lot of vegetation and action going on with some fuzzy goat legs in the mix all behind the text of the title

The Cloven Is A Conspiracy Thriller For Everyone Just Wanting To Exist

By Elijah Beahm • September 19th, 2023

This is a cohesive creative vision the likes of which most could only dream of.