The Kafkaesque Beginner's Guide
*Huge spoilers for Davey Wreden's The Beginner's Guide (2015) and also a lot of Kafka stories (but, come on, it's been like a hundred...
Meow Wolf and archival adventuring
I was recently in Albuquerque for a wedding (yay Liz and Tyler!) and was thrilled to be able to check out The House of Eternal Return,...
The Stanley Parable
Davey Wredon's The Stanley Parable floored critics and players alike when it came out in 2011, originally as a mod for Half-Life 2. The...
Firewatch, Precarious Manhood, and Walking Simulators
I recently read an article by Jennifer K. Bosson and Joseph A. Vandello in Current Directions in Psychological Science, titled...
Only If
Every game has to figure out some way to deal with the memory problem. If the game is, in good ludological Mario tradition, expected to...
Survival Horror (Resident Evil 7)
I didn't play Resident Evil 7. I watched a YouTuber play it (ChristopherOdd, who was fantastic). I heard great things about the Resident...
Dear Esther
This image does no justice to how beautiful Dear Esther is. If the point of walking sims is to immerse you in a gorgeous environment...
101. That Dragon, Cancer (2016)
That Dragon, Cancer, created by a small group called Numinous Games and categorized as a “walking simulator” on Steam, uses game...