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I’ve been keeping an eye on indie darling developer Arbitrary Metric since I first found Paratopic, back in 2018. That game’s bizarro world, disconnected plot, low-fi aesthetic, and incredible commitment to its glacial pace made for one of the most…

Horror games, as a genre, are always looking back. Not only are horror games uniquely likely to herald back to their predecessors and influences, but, in the indie scene, there are a lot of games that intentionally try to replicate…

I have a confession to make: I don’t really watch anime. Sure, I’ve seen some staples that appeared on American TV in the 2000s, like Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh (But not Naruto), I watched a lot of Studio Ghibli over the…

In the weeks leading up to PAX West 2024, I checked through the list on the PAX’s website to investigate every single booth that would be there, to determine which to reach out to (provided they don’t reach out to…

Nathan Fouts, the founder and lead developer of Mommy’s Best Games, has been making games for a long time. After cutting his teeth with Insomniac Games — working on titles like Postal 2 and several Ratchet & Clank games —…

It’s a fact of life, you can’t please everybody. It’s also a fact that the job of the critic is easier than the job of the artist. Well, I’m a critic, and I wasn’t very pleased with Dread Delusion. In…

After playing OMUT in a hotel suite off-site from PAX, one could say that I was tense. That game’s oppressive palette, brutal difficulty, and grim, folkloric inspirations all combined to leave me — while excited — also a bit exhausted.…

PAX is always filled with horror titles. Something about the indie scene that PAX fosters draws in the kind of creative minds that feel the pull to create something like oneway.exe or Mouthwashing. It’s glorious. But, at times, it can…