• (2025-02-28) Type Help: design ruminations
• (2025-02-15) Timerkillers round two
• (2025-01-29) Recent timekillers
• (2025-01-16) 2025 IGF nominees, quick takes
• (2024-12-10) Winter mystery games
• (2024-12-07) The Thaumaturge: design ruminations
• (2024-10-10) Fall mystery games
• (2024-09-18) The Crimson Diamond: design ruminations
• (2024-08-03) Nobody Wants to Die: ruminations
• (2024-07-02) Replaying Riven
• (2024-06-15) Indika: ruminations
• (2024-06-08) Even more spring games
• (2024-06-06) Lorelei: ruminations
• (2024-04-14) Spring puzzle games
• (2024-03-04) Spring narrative games
• (2024-01-27) Winter puzzle games
• (2024-01-16) 2024 IGF nominees: the favorites
• (2024-01-14) 2024 IGF nominees: visual novels
• (2024-01-13) 2024 IGF nominees: weird stuff
• (2024-01-11) 2024 IGF nominees: normal stuff
• (2023-12-01) A few narrative game comments
• (2023-10-11) Summer game wowzers: ruminations
• (2023-09-10) Summer even more miscellaneous puzzle games
• (2023-07-31) Summer miscellanous puzzle and narrative games
• (2023-06-01) Firmament: design and business ruminations
• (2023-05-18) Narrative games that I wrote about but forgot to post
• (2023-01-31) 2023 IGF nominees: mind dot dot dot blown
• (2023-01-30) 2023 IGF nominees: wildly miscellaneous
• (2023-01-29) Colossal Cave (2023)
• (2023-01-28) 2023 IGF nominees: the personal
• (2023-01-27) 2023 IGF nominees: good old adventures
• (2023-01-26) 2023 IGF nominees: visual novels
• (2023-01-25) 2023 IGF nominees: the RPG bonanza
• (2022-11-29) A couple more recent puzzle games
• (2022-11-05) Recent narrative games: the old school
• (2022-10-08) Immortality
• (2022-10-04) Recent puzzly games: we love The Witness
• (2022-09-17) Recent narrative games: summer 2022 edition
• (2022-05-30) Recent puzzly games: summer 2022 edition
• (2022-03-15) Recent narrative games: winter 2021 edition
• (2022-01-10) 2022 IGF nominees: fireworks
• (2022-01-09) 2022 IGF nominees: miscellaneous
• (2022-01-08) 2022 IGF nominees: intimate and/or personal
• (2022-01-07) 2022 IGF nominees: on history
• (2021-11-19) Slice of Sea
• (2021-10-12) Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
• (2021-09-27) Recent narrative games: summer 2021 edition
• (2021-08-29) Myst (2020)
• (2021-08-08) Design ruminations: Subverting the ending
• (2021-06-30) Daedalian Depths
• (2021-06-25) Narrative structure for dogs
• (2021-05-13) 2021 IGF nominees: exploding with delight
• (2021-05-12) 2021 IGF nominees: tiny adventures
• (2021-05-11) 2021 IGF nominees: puzzle time
• (2021-05-10) 2021 IGF nominees: story devices
• (2021-05-09) 2021 IGF nominees: visual-novel-like-likes
• (2021-05-08) 2021 IGF nominees: cosmic horror and not-horror
• (2021-05-07) 2021 IGF nominees: stunning environments
• (2021-01-08) Four (or five) recent Lovecraftians
• (2020-11-24) Puzzle games of the year: my favorites
• (2020-11-23) A shut-in-year's worth of puzzle games
• (2020-05-24) Subcutanean and variations thereof
• (2020-02-06) Kentucky Route Zero: quick thoughts
• (2020-01-14) 2020 IGF nominees: adventure plus
• (2020-01-13) 2020 IGF nominees: interactive storybooks
• (2020-01-12) 2020 IGF nominees: topical games
• (2020-01-11) 2020 IGF nominees: puzzles
• (2020-01-09) 2020 IGF nominees: Shakespeare
• (2020-01-08) 2020 IGF nominees: hit and miss
• (2020-01-07) 2020 IGF nominees: a good mood
• (2019-11-30) The Adventure of the London Waterworks
• (2019-06-11) Notes on recent games: big narrative
• (2019-06-10) Notes on recent games: nifty little experiments
• (2019-05-23) Heaven's Vault: design ruminations
• (2019-01-15) 2019 IGF nominees: my favorites
• (2019-01-11) 2019 IGF nominees: mixed reactions
• (2019-01-05) 2019 IGF nominees: something notable
• (2018-11-19) System Syzygy
• (2018-03-14) A few recent narrative and adventure games
• (2018-01-21) My favorite games of 2017
• (2018-01-07) 2018 IGF nominees: fascinating experiments
• (2018-01-04) 2018 IGF nominees: real lives
• (2018-01-03) Tacoma: design ruminations
• (2017-09-10) Aporia: design ruminations
• (2017-06-19) Tough mobile puzzle games
• (2017-06-04) Rime: design ruminations
• (2017-02-12) Text in spaaaace: FTL, Out There, Voyageur
• (2017-01-11) More 2017 IGF nominees
• (2017-01-09) 2017 IGF nominees: my comments
• (2016-12-07) Quern: Undying Thoughts: design ruminations
• (2016-11-06) Even more very quick takes on recent games
• (2016-10-03) More very quick takes on recent games
• (2016-09-08) My Obduction nonreview
• (2016-08-13) Very quick takes on recent games
• (2016-07-27) Point-of-view in The Witness: design ruminations
• (2016-07-17) Soma: meanderings by a wuss
• (2016-03-05) Firewatch: afterthoughts
• (2016-01-07) IGF nominees: my comments
• (2015-11-11) The Room 3: design ruminations
• (2014-12-27) The Talos Principle: design ruminations
• (2014-12-07) Gone Home: design ruminations
• (2014-10-05) This month in planetary exploration
• (2014-04-27) Raetikon, Fract
• (2014-02-05) RealMyst Masterpiece Edition
• (2012-10-29) The Fool and His Money -- talking about the game now
• (2012-10-24) Kairo, quick comments
• (2012-09-17) Two notes on Darksiders 2
• (2012-05-18) Thoughts on Dear Esther
• (2012-03-01) Ico: Castle in the Mist (book review)
• (2011-09-03) The Night Circus
• (2011-06-24) Speaking of console games
• (2011-03-23) Life Flashes By
• (2010-09-20) Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7
• (2010-07-25) The Ultimate Alphabet: hidden objects kick your ass
• (2010-01-03) Games I played this holiday season
• (2009-04-01) Wallace and Sam and Gromit and Max: an eternal golden triangle
• (2009-02-20) This month in wacky little art games
• (2008-07-28) Quick links: Zarf reviews adventure games (and one more)