Category: Critical Play

Shira Chess states several ways feminist ideals are pushed in video games, such as strong agency and player hegemony, especially playing as a female-identifying…

For this week’s Critical Play I played Super Smash Brother’s Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch – playing as the two characters Palutena and Peach…

Apples to apples, by Matthew Kirby, is a classic judging game. It targets a wide audience of teenagers and adults as the lighthearted, fun…

Playing With Those We Love Alive was a weird, uncomfortable, immersive, divergent, intimate, and hopeful experience. Playing it like a feminist meant, for me,…

  I played a couple different slots games on VegasSlotsOnline.com, as well as Roulette. I’ve passed through Nevada a few times and I often…

About the Game One Night, Hot Spring is a visual novel about how a transgender woman navigates her childhood best friend’s invitation to a…

I played the game “with those we love alive”. It is a Twine game developed by Porpentine. Twine is an open source tool used…

For this critical play, I played one night, hot springs, a short PC game by npckc. one night, hot springs is an interactive fiction game where you…

Bayonetta is a game targeted towards those that enjoy action-adventure games, especially that emphasize combat, character-centric narratives, fans of anime and this style of…

This week, I had the opportunity to play “with those we love alive,” an interactive text fiction game created by Porpentine. One of the…