Unravel may stumble on its way towards saying something meaningful, it never wavers on what it wants you to hear. That while the past is not a place to escape into, it is worth holding onto. Maybe only in bits and pieces, but held onto all the same.
Read MorePast Gears games have focused on the connection between squadmates, but wherein Gears 1-3 were an ode to brothers in arms, Gears 4 is bluntly subdued. The people you are fighting with are not only your family, they are all that is left of humanity.
Read MoreDance Central might not have taught me to dance, but it definitely taught me how to enjoy dancing.
Read MorePlaying Lovers with S. was more than just a chance to play together, it required trust.
Read MoreBaby Driver makes a tremendous argument that anything and everything is better with music.
Read MoreWhat A Normal Lost Phone also demonstrates, apart from its messy handling of LGBTQ themes, is how banal most text messages are. Games such as Gone Home work because the diary entries used to tell its story are at once convincing and engaging to read. As we transition into digital forms of communication, however, the ease at which information is shared causes each individual message to become less and less significant.
Read MoreUnassuming and pleasantly warm, Bart Bonte’s SEO-unfriendly mobile puzzler, yellow (2017), finds joy in simplicity.
Read MoreMake friends with the narrator, search for your life's purpose while wearing a poncho, wade through a depression blizzard, and remind yourself to tell someone you love them.
Read MoreWe can kill the alien, destroy the nest, leave the accursed necropolis behind entirely – but we cannot escape ourselves
Read More“This is what life looks like.”
Read MoreDropsy is a game about making people happy, but it is also one meant to make you happy.
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Killing Time at Lightspeed is ostensibly a game about social media, but in truth, it’s a game about losing touch with the people you care about.
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BUY2BILLIONFOLLOWE is not just what is in the game itself; it’s also what you bring to it.
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Four Sided Fantasy’s genius lies not in understanding how it works but in realizing, as the game progresses, how little you actually do understand.
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Absolute Drift may see drifting as an elevated form of racing, but there is a reason the sport has only ever garnered a niche audience.
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What Animal Crossing excels at so entirely that it is barely discernible, is allowing the player to live their life how they imagined it might be as a child.
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Perhaps it was the secrecy of the demo or that I was starved for new games, but I immediately fell hard for this blue raccoon and his gang of misfit, would-be Robin Hoods.
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Stikbold is the buddy-cop dodgeball epic I didn’t know I needed.
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Dimensions Evolved’s biggest strength is serving as a reminder to what an amazing series Geometry Wars has always been, and providing a reason for people who long ago boxed up their 360 to jump back in and reclaim their spot on the leaderboard.
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Expand is in turns far too subtle for its own good, as what screenshots fail to convey is the elegance and creativity that guides each screen and level of a game that in many ways closer approximates a digital dance.
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