Mushroom 11 is a Darwinist B-movie
Cartoon blobs and nihilism.
Review
Transformers: Devastation is a Platinum-strength exercise in nostalgia
Look back in anger.
Fatal Frame for Wii U finally puts your selfie skills to use
Instagram of the Dead.
The #Victorian frame of mind: A review of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
With Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Ubisoft’s machinelike series finally finds its era.
Freefalling in love with Downwell, the tiniest roguelike
Spelunky has a furious little heir apparent in Downwell.
Jotun is awesome and awe-inspiring
Jotun is what we mean when we use the word “epic.”
Undertale’s not as peaceful as it pretends
At once charming and incoherent.
Armikrog and the unfulfilled promise of claymation videogames
There’s something uniquely pleasing about claymation videogames, but you won’t find it in Armikrog
All cyberpunk heads to Hong Kong eventually. Shadowrun does it right
Shadowrun Hong Kong’s Asian dystopia is no science fiction
The Beginner’s Guide to the art of videogames
Wreden on Wreden isn’t perfect, but it raises questions with a clarity few games have dared.
Design & punish: A review of Prison Architect
To punish less, but to punish better.
Super Mario Maker, and the problem of reviewing a community
Nintendo’s community is subverting and reinventing the platformer.
Lara Croft Go reminds us that Lara sometimes raids tombs
It just doesn’t want us to actually explore them
Sleep your way through the layered worlds of Dream
An amusing—if flawed—game about grief and self-exploration.
The Taken King is the weird, wandering sci-fi shooter Destiny dreamed of becoming
With The Taken King, Destiny remembers the power of narrative.
A love letter to Persona 4, and the hellish servitude of its protagonists
Hey, look, a game you can play on the Vita.
What is love in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime?
Running a wacky Rube Goldberg machine fueled by the power of love.
The disappointing conventions of Mad Max
Avalanche Studios fails to capture the spirit of George Miller’s films
SOMA finds the horror inherent in glitch art
The hell of malfunctioning machinery in SOMA
Stasis and the horror of the known
An adventure game that confronts death through its optional stories
Panoramical turns sound to magical color and back again
Making music, making motion, making magic.
Rememoried is a beguiling take on videogame dreams
Few games tackle dreams with the grace of Rememoried.
Everybody hates you (in Dropsy the Clown)
The trials and tribulations of a repulsive sweaty boneless clown-thing.
Corpse of Discovery is Franz Kafka for the twenty-second century
Corpse of Discovery recreates banal office life in deep space.
Turning down the volume on Volume
Mike Bithell’s game is primally fun, but preachy.