Roadwarden is a bleak game. You arrive on a harsh and hostile peninsula at the behest of your paymasters, the merchant’s guild of ...

Obsidian Entertainment’s Pentiment deftly avoids a problem in video games that has come into focus this year. Early this year the release of ...

This article contains full spoilers for Scorn, including its ending. Scorn is as repulsive as it is awe-inspiring. The clear influences from H. ...

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 ...