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Past Presence
A moody shot of a thatch-roofed tiki bar called The Rum Colony from the videogame Kentucky Route Zero.

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
Detective Kim Kitsuragi leangs against his blue police lorry reading a newspaper while his partner Detective Harry Du Boi sits in the cab holding a sword and the painterly white of the Pale looms behind them

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
The Disco Elysium detective standing shirtless with his hand to his head in pain, in a crowded and gross room.

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

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.

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