Wayward is the latest show by comedian and Feel Good creator Mae Martin, a Netflix series about the darkness at the heart of the “troubled teen” industry. I watched it
Remember the whole dust-up about whether Balatro is gambling? Perhaps inspired by that situation, roguelike CloverPit also insists it’s not gambling. In the most basic sense it’s
Hello there, fans of city-builders and/or idyllic 19th-century Mediterranean getaways! You two very specific groups of people need to know that I spent the entire weekend playing
Q-UP (a game whose title I literally just got while typing this sentence, humiliatingly) is the latest from the folks behind numbers-go-up game Universal Paperclips. It’s
For all its melodramatic brilliance, the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series has long carried a recurring blemish—substories and mini-games that veer from campy charm into outright cringe, usually
Hollow Knight: Silksong is undoubtedly a labor of love, one full of strong, opinionated choices and intentional friction. Unfortunately, some of those choices are ambiently annoying to me personally, tiny little irritants in an otherwise unspeakably beautiful and once–in-a-generation platformer.
Gaming, at its core, is just a series of puzzles: some meditative, some maddening. I'm Not A Robot splits the difference, turning the mundane act of proving your
