Samantha Nelson, Author at The Escapist

Opinion

Baldur’s Gate III Brings Illithids Out of the Dark

Larian Studios, the developers behind Divinity: Original Sin, dropped a teaser trailer for Baldur’s Gate III Wednesday that’s equal parts exciting and horrifying. ...

By Samantha NelsonJune 6, 2019

Reviews

Review: Persona Q2

A cultural era came to a close with an ambitious crossover that brought together an enormous number of popular characters for a heaping ...

By Samantha NelsonJune 5, 2019

Column

I Went Undercover at Chicago’s Spy-Themed SafeHouse

SafeHouse is one of several spots in Chicago’s bustling River North neighborhood that doesn’t have a sign. Prohibition’s legacy still looms large in ...

By Samantha NelsonJune 3, 2019

Reviews

Review: Observation

Early in No Code’s space thriller puzzle game Observation, Dr. Emma Fisher analyzes her space station’s AI and finds it in dire straits. ...

By Samantha NelsonMay 21, 2019

Column

Ascension: Deliverance Comes from Years of Deckbuilding Refinement

I used to love playing Dominion. The game about building a successful kingdom invented the concept of a deckbuilding game that wasn’t also ...

By Samantha NelsonMay 20, 2019

Books

Disaster Accelerates the Space Race in The Calculating Stars

There’s so much genre fiction released every year that we’re not sure how to cover it. Consider this review a test run. We ...

By Samantha NelsonMay 14, 2019

Column

Unstable Unicorns Kills with Cuteness

I was sold on Unstable Unicorns as soon as I saw the Basic Unicorn cards. Statistically, they’re called basic because they don’t have ...

By Samantha NelsonMay 13, 2019

Column

Build the Best Fantasy Character in Call to Adventure

Fantasy is a genre of archetypes and it sometimes seems you can build characters just by stitching them together. There’s the farmer trained ...

By Samantha NelsonMay 6, 2019

Column

Iron Man Is an Asshole and it Made Him a Hero

This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. Iron Man shouldn’t have worked. The star actor was a scandal-ridden has been, the director was ...

By Samantha NelsonMay 3, 2019

Reviews

Review: SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech

About two-thirds of the way through SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech, its party of misfit robot heroes thinks they’re on the verge of ...

By Samantha NelsonApril 30, 2019

Column

Samurai Gardener Tests Your Speed and Spatial Reasoning

I did my friends a favor and took off my rings before we started playing Samurai Gardener. As the dealer laid out four ...

By Samantha NelsonApril 29, 2019

Tabletop

Bad Luck will Haunt You in Ghostbusters: The Card Game

Both Mattel and Cryptozoic Entertainment have released Ghostbusters games that have players embrace the titular group’s camaraderie and team up to fight ghosts ...

By Samantha NelsonApril 22, 2019

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