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Open World
A cropped screenshot for Dead Trash in first person view where the player is in a dark and weathered urban wasteland holding a rusty hammer and facing off against two punks in welding helmets

Human Hand

By Edward Smith • May 19th, 2025

You can see this game was made by people.

Friction Burns
A screenshot from Against the Storm, showing a translucent magical powerline, a shimmering church, some thorny trees and mushrooms showing a lot of potential hostility

Against the Storm, Against Randomness, Against the Inevitable

By Ruth Cassidy • November 29th, 2022

An exploration of the tensions you play with, vs the tensions the game’s text shows you. It isn’t enough to survive against all odds – for the purpose of your task list, that’s simply assumed.

Game Over; Play Again?

By Riley MacLeod • November 19th, 2015

“So yeah, sometimes I wanted to get drunk and play videogames. You can’t work all the time, no matter how fulfilling that work is.”

Cassilda’s Songs

By Bill Coberly • September 17th, 2015

“…the keys of the piano, now transformed from their pedestrian black-and-white into a dozen nameless colors, spinning and dancing and laughing with me…”

Rage Quit

The Game Critic’s Lament

By Stu Horvath • June 14th, 2011

Stu Horvath is too busy to play videogames. Other people feel the need to quit them. Neither one is a good thing.

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