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Papers, Please makes you a cog in the machine
Lucas Pope’s immigration agent sim explains the mechanics of oppression
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Do videogame plumbers dream of electric pipes?
How Mario & Luigi: Dream Team connects humor and dream logic.
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Is Saints Row the most stupidly sublime game ever?
Volition’s latest is everything that is wrong with videogames. We mean that in a good way.
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Gone Home is an exercise in good housekeeping
The Fullbright Company has a new remedy for the suburban blues.
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Civilization 5: Brave New World further spreadsheetifies humanity
Sid Meier’s newest edition is numbers imitating art imitating life.
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Bloodmasque explores midnight in evil Paris
Square Enix’s new vampire app forces an unholy fusion.
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Dragon’s Crown is maximally silly and adolescently sexual
Vanillaware’s opus will make you feel like a child again. Unfortunately, children lack basic morality.
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Pikmin 3 is an adorable lesson on famine and death
With Pikmin 3, Nintendo survives another day.
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Is Shin Megami Tensei 4 gaming’s The Savage Detectives?
It’s been ten years since the last entry in Atlus’s flagship role-playing series. Luckily, Shin Megami Tensei 4 will keep you busy the next ten.
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Attack of the Friday Monsters!: A Tokyo Tale captures the joy and terror of a childhood day
Kaz Ayabe knows what it’s like to be a kid.
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The Walking Dead: 400 Days is a hallmark of narrative confidence
Has Telltale’s scattered, violent new story reinvigorated the series?
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We revisit LIMBO on iOS to find a warped but not unpleasant sense of joy
Playdead vamps and revamps in everyone’s macabre delight.