Tag: reviews (96)

(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)