Hyper Light Drifter
Hyper Light Drifter starts out loud—streams of stars, planet-sized eruptions, and a huge, electric soundtrack by Fez (2013) composer Diasterpeace. Then it fades into the near-silence of an open map and...
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The shot that started a revolution
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (PC, Mac) BY iNK Stories They say a picture is worth a thousand...
View ArticleStephen’s Sausage Roll
Sometimes, you look down at an item of food and wish it was twenty times bigger so you could enjoy more of that food. Other times, you play a game and wish it was twenty times harder so you could play...
View ArticleThe Pit and the Pendulum
Given that Edgar Allan Poe focused on sensation to communicate the terror of torture in his 1842 short story The Pit and the Pendulum, it would have been wise to further etch that out in the videogame...
View ArticleSoft Body
The words “bullet-hell” may not immediately call calm and tranquility to mind. But meditative app/game Soft Body is here to fix that. Combining the difficulty of Super Meat Boy (2010) with the serenity...
View ArticleQuadrilateral Cowboy
From the maker of Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving, Quadrilateral Cowboy (affectionately nicknamed Quad Cow by no one but us) is the latest vignette game from Brendon Chung of Blendo Games. A...
View ArticlePavilion
Ancient murals on the walls of Pavilion‘s labyrinth depict you as an all-seeing eye and a huge hand from the sky—you are both. Able to see the path through the maze and interact with certain objects,...
View ArticleDiaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Similar to how Viscera Cleanup Detail used the role of a janitor to make players question the presumptions of a violent space-faring hero, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor shows a different side to the...
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Sara is Missing
Films like Unfriended and the recent Blair Witch film have tried to bring the found footage genre into the digital age with varying success. But the attempt seems much more at home in Sara is Missing,...
View ArticleSHENZEN I/O
Some games and educational apps try to ease you into the art of writing code. SHENZEN I/O isn’t so soft. It’s a throwback to the 1980s, when there wasn’t much so media geared towards teaching people...
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