capitalism primarily produces trauma.

this is everything i've ever wanted in a vr game.

john steinbeck's "depression quest"

It's unoptimised and buggy and a third of the achivements don't work and the creature AI is kind of the worst and the game is fantastic.

2020

if you liked riven: the sequel to myst you’ll love myst: the prequel to riven.

2022

read the >waypoint review< & the twitter thread linked therein, which lays it all out.

what could have been a really clever & well-scoped indie imsim, sabotaged by bad management & released essentially as an unpatchable beta.

i genuinely enjoy the game when it works, but i cannot recommend it unless you have a deep well of patience & an understanding of the material conditions under which it was made.

solidarity with the devs, & hoping Lady Luck sees them land on their feet ✊♥

straightforward & no frills, but a worthwhile exploration of the minigame. insightful historical contexts & analyses too; well worth the two hours & one minute of playtime.

really lovely little thing & i wish we'd see more of its kind.

a unique little experiment worthy of four hundred of your earth days.

2021

it's ghiblish in that there is nature & there are robots, & one of the robots might be a good robot, but it's missing the analysis of why those robots were built, by whom, under what material conditions, &c. &c.

why is nature good. is it really good? the crabs are cute but what is their agenda?

music's great.

i am literally begging you, if you're making a platformer, never gate progress behind a prolonged section where you invert controls, no matter how Meaningful it is.

more games should let you be a woke communist tbh.