Dragonfall is probably the greatest accomplishment in worldbuilding I’ve ever played in a videogame.

On my best run so far, my stats screen suddenly told me I had the Blue Rot. I did not know what it was, where it came from, or how it could be cured.

Joyful innovations in the science of inter-party bickering.

Ether One tugged at all of my heartstrings.

A game that focuses and operates at the individual citizen level, rather than at the overall city level.

While the wheel of fate turns ever forward, we cannot affect it, yet we can affect each other. The big things are out of our hands. Even for a princess.

The concept behind Crypt of the Necrodancer speaks to us on a level even beyond conscious choice, taps into something natural, inescapably primal.

The extent to which the studio has obsessed over the minutiae involved in making each seemingly disparate element of the game mesh is impressive.

Fract OSC embeds you in a world of music.

Broken Age could best be described as one of gaming’s future classic fairy tales.