Category: Critical Play

This week, I played Her Story, an interactive mystery video game created by Sam Barlow and released in 2015 for PC, Mac, iOS, and…

Yesterday I played Virginia, a 2016 game by developer Variable State and published by 505 Games. I played it on Steam, where the game…

In Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery, a free game designed by Kiary Games and released for mobile platforms and PC, players step into the…

This week, I played Tiny Room Story: Town Mystery, a point-and-click mystery game developed and published by Kiary Games. The game is available on…

A detective receives a letter from his father and arrives to find the town of Redcliff emptied, every door and drawer locked with difficult…

Designing Doubt: How Her Story Turns Investigation into Gameplay When I first opened Her Story, I expected a detective game that would slowly reveal…

For this critical play, I enjoyed the free 25 level demo of Bart Bonte’s Factory Balls Forever to completion. Originally released named Factory Balls…