Hollow Knight, Silksong, and Notions of a Working-Class Underworld By J.M. Henson • October 6th, 2025 I too have been navigating the gauntlet of Pharloom.
The Incredible Light Shining Through Holy Frit By Elijah Beahm • November 4th, 2024 Holy Frit is a story of creativity, courage, and learning fast on your feet.
A New Testament: How Wonder Woman Breaks Down Modern Western Religion By Elijah Beahm • February 7th, 2019 Wonder Woman doesn’t pretend that science, religion, lawfulness, or anything else defines you as good or evil; everyone in this world is broken, and nothing can change that.
Tomb Raider and the Problematic Messiah By Elijah Beahm • April 6th, 2018 Religion in games is something you rarely see. It’s even stranger to imagine it utilized as a key aspect of any AAA project. See Crystal Dynamics’ Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Rain World’s Brutal Metaphysics By Sam Zucchi • February 27th, 2018 The circle of life is not a metaphor for the operation of an ecosystem, but a lived reality; sometimes you are prey and sometimes you are predator—but you will remember either way.
Feature Excerpt Gods & Astronauts – An Excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly 96 By Oliver Milne • November 1st, 2017 If space is the final frontier for science, how come so many scientists and science fiction writers use the language of religion to describe it?
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – October 2017 By Stu Horvath • October 16th, 2017 The October issue of Unwinnable Monthly is out now! Whatever could be inside?
Letters from the Rapture By Reid McCarter and Jed Pressgrove • September 29th, 2015 “Do you think the failure to engage with Rapture as a work regarding spirituality is borne of fear? Or intellectual laziness?”
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…”
Feudal Pakistan By Shahryar Rizvi • August 17th, 2015 Shahryar Rizvi connects the history of past and present Pakistani politics to forging his own dynasty in Crusader Kings II.
