Past Presence Cheap Machines By Emily Price • May 31st, 2022 Using speculative genres, games propose a horror that lies within debt and the meaningless work meant to assuage it: that rather than being a neat system with a clear path to success, it is instead an unresolvable problem.
Friction Burns In Disco Elysium, Cops Aren’t Community By Ruth Cassidy • April 14th, 2022 No matter how kindly or redemptively you play Harry, and for all Kim speaks to his belief that the RCM are doing good, Disco Elysium itself recognises that cops are not social care.
Friction Burns How Disco Elysium’s Centrist Path Observes the Player By Ruth Cassidy • October 1st, 2021 “It isn’t about diplomacy, or pacifying all sides, but about absolute control.”
Checkpoint 2020 By Corey Milne • January 11th, 2020 Corey offers a year-end roundup, some quickfire crit on 2019’s best games and a farewell.
The Best Games of 2019 By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2019 “…an explosive geyser of truly brilliant games…”
Disco Elysium and Finding the Beauty in a Cynical World By Jeremy Signor • November 6th, 2019 Initially unbearably cynical and grim, Disco Elysium asks you to find beauty and redemption in your trash fire of a main character through true role playing.