A planet-size eyeball blinks in celestial light before the hero in Ultros awakens on a spaceship amid alien shrubbery the color of an acid-dipped rainbow. Traipsing...
The narratively profuse mystery game Lost Records: Bloom and Rage is like living in a Bikini Kill song followed by a Phoebe Bridgers ballad. The four...
Most video games are power fantasies. You might have endless lives or be capable of shrugging off mortal wounds and clearing out dozens of bad guys...
You awaken on a hexagonal tile. It is the year 4,000 B.C. You can see just a few tiles beyond yours: to the north a desert;...
Fried memes and hysterical gibberish suffocate the internet nowadays. Every platform is thronged in digital chaos: psychedelic and surreal Instagram Reel art; X users cracking jokes...
Unhappiness is a dreaded condition in the Civilization game series. Unhappy citizens stop working, stop researching scientific pursuits and, worst of all, start rioting. In the...
Will Wright kindly requests that admirers stop describing him as a god. “I don’t think God would concern himself with taking out the trash and cleaning...
January traditionally lacks major video game releases, allowing players to catch up on game-of-the-year contenders and giving smaller games a window to stand out. Dice rolls...
The dice roll is the fundamental engine of numerous games. In a board game, it might determine what type of resources you receive or how far...
It wasn’t supposed to, but Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist made me snicker. This generally inventive, risk-taking game occurs below ground in the Land of...