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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Panoramical (PC, Mac) BY FERNANDO RAMALLO & DAVID KANAGA Forget the “music visualizer” that has been spinning webs of geometry on your PC since the ’90s. Panoramical finally makes it as outda
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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Slam City Oracles (PC, Mac, Linux) BY Jane Friedhoff You know that feeling you get when you’re around your bestie? It’s like you’re invincible and could destroy or save the world together (de
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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Trawl (PC, Mac, Linux) BY House of Wire Environments affect creativity. And while the internet might help us collaborate on a more global scale, some see the digital age as the antithesis of
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Hoops were scored, trees were pruned and two hearts were united at the Ace Hotel last Tuesday night. If you missed Playlist, our monthly public arcade, here’s what we were playing: Prune Through minimalist design and a meditative soundscape, Prune builds an atmosphere for creation rather than compet
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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (PS4) BY The Chinese Room and SCE Sonta Monica Studio The reclaiming of the term “walking simulator” is a great example of a community turning something deroga
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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Barmark (Android) BY Stormhatt Studios The characters in Barmark are all damaged in some way. You can see this as they wander the rigidly-cut pastoral landscapes guided by your finger. They a
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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Prune (iOS) BY Polyculture Whether your thumbs are green or usually poised over a joystick, Prune will have something for you. As the virtual botanist/god of the universe, it’s up to you to h
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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Specimen (iOS) BY PepRally If your passion involves mixing paint to attain specific tones, then Specimen should come easy to you. The game involves picking out the floating blob of color (in
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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. STRAWBERRY CUBES (PC) BY LOREN SCHMIDT Strawberry Cubes is a platformer that gives you a toolset instead of a jump button. You already know too much. For this is a game that works by keeping
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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. TRIP (PC, Mac) BY AXEL SHOKK Originally released in 2012 without any fanfare, first-person “artware” game TRIP got a second chance recently with its arrival on Steam—a chance that its creator
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Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (PC, XBOX ONE) BY ACCESS GAMES Any argument in favor of the existence of cult videogame directors should probably start and end with SWERY. This excitable man from
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