analysis

Her Story is obsessed with drawing parallels between reality and fantasy, most cleverly in the way it forges a mirror out of the player’s own computer screen. Every key pressed,…

Debt. Missed opportunities. Bears. Reclusive. Extroverted and eager. There’s something in the airwaves dragging me deeper in. I can’t help but regret certain decisions I’ve made. Who am I trying…

“To climb out of the pot, you’ll have to burn your hands.” (Mark Immortell) The end is the beginning is the end in Pathologic 2. Climbing out of coffins both…

It’s always a treat when a video game gets announced and released on the same day. With their Direct Mini presentation in late March, Nintendo did just that with Good…

The geometry is watching my every move. I am fumbling around in the dark, lost in a sea of greyscale. Remember what we are supposed to do when we are…

“It’s easier to talk when you aren’t looking at someone.” Cibele is immensely quiet. Silence defines a majority of the venture, interrupted only by the diegetic mouse clickings which, like…

Why does the landscape feel so warm and soothing to the touch as I graze across its valleys and rivers?

Space is such a frightening setting for a horror tale because it reinterprets social disillusionment through a celestial realm.

The city begs me to see her once again. I am lost in its mesmerizing lights, spoiled by its back-alley crypts which promise me sanctity from the ceaseless storms.

The fundamental mechanics behind gameplay all involve a rhythmic structure.