Inkblood
A magnifying glass is the time machine in Inkblood
Hey Bird!'s occult detective game, coming from Critical Reflex in 2026, lets an Inquisitor watch the past replay through villagers' windows.
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Anat Efrati
Anat Efrati's point-and-click world looks molded by hand
The Tel Aviv animation director teases an unnamed adventure game with stop-motion's thumbprints all over it, built out of Blender.
Tukoni
Tukoni: Forest Keepers brings Oksana Bula's books to Steam
The illustrator behind the series stayed on as art director, and the wordless woodland fable plays in any language.
tiengiungtong
tiengiungtong's rabbit hole is lined with bodhisattvas
Another chorus of can-I-play-this for a dreamlike point-and-click that does not exist yet
Murlo
Murlo's Luddite rhythm games wrapped a run at Aviva Studios
Five minigames from the unreleased Something Beautiful played on Factory International's Media Wall, on a controller covered in the artist's 3D-printed sculptures.
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Upcoming point-and-click mystery brings a fresh vision to future Florida
As a college student, my professors are pretty important to me, and not just because they hold the future of my GPA in their hands. My professors have been endlessly patient with my classmates and me, providing us with guidance, insight, and even free dinner once or twice. If one of them went missin
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29 will tell a personal story through otherworldly dioramas
Something is off in a flat in South London. It’s not necessarily in the vegetables growing rot on the kitchen counter, or the new Guillermo Del Toro-inspired roomie, or the soft sounds of banging that seem to radiate through paper-thin walls. It might be a combination of those traits, the malaise of
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Queer Quest to be an adventure about self care in the LGBTQ community
The kidnapped girlfriend is a well-worn trope, sure. But Queer Quest: All in a Gay’s Work is an upcoming game that takes this cliché and does something fresh with it, exploring not only how it affects the main character, but the community at large. In the Kickstarter description for Queer Quest, it
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Growbot gets its adorable look from children’s books of the past
Children’s books used to have a more strange, haunting quality; think Wayne Anderson’s Ratsmagic (1976) and The Magic Circus (1978). Books had a sense of darkness, and not every tale was meant to be safe and moralizing. Growbot, an upcoming 2D point-and-click puzzle adventure, is a game that evokes
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Help sad fruit people overcome loneliness in a new game
Have you ever bought a piece of food and for whatever reason left it out or forgot about it? After some time it begins to rot, dry out, or expire. Most of us would simply throw it away, but Agata Nawrot did something different: instead of tossing the spoiled food away, she was inspired to create Kar
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Samorost 3’s fairy tale of microbiology is now on iPhone
Samorost 3 is a game that cares about the tiniest organisms on the planet. It’s made of them: curious bugs that harvest moss, fungi blown up to the size of three-story houses, tree knots as gargantuan as an abyss. It seems fitting then, that Samorost 3 is now available on iPhone and iPad; smaller sc
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Kentucky Route Zero: Act IV is an elegy
Michael Snow’s 1967 experimental film Wavelength is a 45-minute long zoom on an empty room. Outside the walls, and the camera’s frame, the insignificant dramas of human life play out in sad, abortive spirals. Men move furniture into the room; two friends drink and listen to the Beatles; in the end,