« Umurangi Generation is a photography game about being young and punk at the end of the world. »

« Unlike its inspiration, here we can’t be wholly insulated. Our ironic detachment breaks every time we miss a beat, thrust back into consciousness and the glow of our monitor. »

« This is the part that lingers with me. Not the particulars of mechanics, design, the allegories invoked and implied. I just remember what it feels like to hold the camera. To momentarily feel safe. »

« As a transitional piece, Even the Ocean is one of the best modern examples we have of thematic development across games, made more interesting through Anodyne 2's parallels. »

« Lucah understands form is the message, that violence is messy and contradictory, and that games cannot simply adopt the language of film and literature and achieve the same ends. »

« The Last Survey is about coming up against the forces that could change things and being met with disinterest and justifications. »

« Games of the Decade #5 I want to put this title through a shredder and reassemble it as a ransom note for whoever’s in charge of Sega’s branding department. Then I want to play more of the game. »

« Games of the Decade #10 Alien: Isolation shouldn’t exist - who signed off on this? - but here it is, unconcerned with modern tastes, completely committed to its retro ethos. »

« Games of the Decade #17 If codex entries are reading a biology textbook, Outer Wilds is getting lost in the woods. »