This discussion about the application of critical thinking to the game Immortality contains very minor spoilers. Sam Barlow’s and Half Mermaid’s Immortality is ...

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is often considered one of the first examples of immersive sims, games focused on player agency and complex ...

This article contains minor spoilers for Stray in its discussion of cats and finding hope in dystopian cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is inherently dystopian — ...

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey famously begins with what Arthur C. Clarke called the “longest flash forward in the history of movies,” ...

Frank Herbert’s original series of Dune novels is, amongst other things, a tale of cycles. The titular planet is transformed from desert to ...

These days most people remember the giant mushrooms. That memory might seem apt, given that The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was quite the ...

“The sky bleeds a color you knew as a child,” NORCO holds me transfixed with one of its many deceptively simple sentences. I’ve ...

The best climate fiction doesn’t preach a message; it simply shows what it might be like to live in a radically different environment. ...

This is a largely spoiler-free discussion of decadence, decay, and post-apocalypse in FromSoftware games, including Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden ...

This article contains spoilers for the prologue campaign in Total War: Warhammer III. Whatever things I might have expected from Total War: Warhammer ...

The 2018 “Choice and Consequence” trailer and E3 demo for Dying Light 2 promised complex decisions that dynamically shape the rest of the ...

I have a bad track record with plants. Amongst my shameful history of minor negligence is the slow and unintentionally torturous manslaughter of ...