EcoGothic Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/ecogothic/ Stories about Culture Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:32:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg EcoGothic Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/ecogothic/ 32 32 Mending the Gardens of History https://unwinnable.com/2025/10/08/mending-the-gardens-of-history/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:03:38 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=101900 South of Midnight uses nature to underscore the ways that human care and legacies of hatred scar not just on a human-scale. We come from the dirt and eventually return to it.

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]]> Squall is Extradimensional https://unwinnable.com/2023/09/08/squall-is-extradimensional/ https://unwinnable.com/2023/09/08/squall-is-extradimensional/#comments Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:03:58 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=93053 When Laguna knew Squall and his allies were there but felt they were like faeries hovering in the ether unseen, wasn’t that what early encounters on forums and instant chat services felt like?

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]]> https://unwinnable.com/2023/09/08/squall-is-extradimensional/feed/ 1 Uprooting Time https://unwinnable.com/2023/08/04/uprooting-time/ https://unwinnable.com/2023/08/04/uprooting-time/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2023 04:03:26 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=92725 Déraciné is an interesting rumination on what makes game narratives convincing, but it’s also a game that effectively communicates EcoGothic fears of being at the mercy of nature.

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