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Games About Unpacking: Grief, Identity, and Abuse
Content note: this article discusses grief, depression, domestic abuse, and trauma. Fishbowl is a beautiful game. But it is also painfully domestic. It follows Alo, a young woman who moves to the city for a new job, only to find that her new life begins in the total isolation of a global pandemic. Her apartment…
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Mixtape: Can You Be Nostalgic for Someone Else’s Childhood?
It feels comfortable skating down long, winding roads beneath the soft glow of a golden-hour sunset. Satisfying to launch a softball out of the park and watch your friend trudge off to retrieve it. And exhilarating to attend one final house party before stepping into a world of endless promise. Mixtape, the new game from…
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Knowing The Future Wouldn’t Save Them
1 The Drifter was the scariest game I played last year. I don’t mean that as hyperbole – rolling credits left me with a creeping sense of unease that refuses to let go. The game is about one man, Mick Carter, who – within the first hour – has a bag put over his head,…
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How a Game Changed My Views On Life
Outer Wilds took exactly 22-minutes to change my views on life. If you have not played Outer Wilds, DO NOT READ THIS. SPOILERS AHEAD I am not easily scared. I’ve never feared spiders, snakes, heights, or anything else really. But I have always been deeply terrified of death. I don’t know what happens when we…
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1000 x RESIST: A Storytelling Masterpiece
1000x Resist is the first project from developer Sunset Visitor, working out of Vancouver. It boasts a compelling sci-fi narrative in which a mysterious alien race, known as the Occupants, arrive on Earth bringing a deadly disease that threatens to wipe out the population. If not for Iris, a young girl who emigrated from South…
Gaming Acuity 