Category: Critical Play

Walking, the Way Edith Finch Tells Its Story I’ll be honest: the first time I played What Remains of Edith Finch, I spent the…

On Monday I played a game called Journey by That Game Company and published by Annapurna Interactive. I played it via Steam, as it…

I played Ticket to Ride, a board game designed by Alan R. Moon for 2–5 players ages 8 and up. Players collect colored train…

What Papers, Please Taught Me About Building 404: Alignment Not Found When I first started playing Papers, Please, I honestly wanted to help everyone….

Pathlock (Brian Hamilton, Logic Puzzles Online, c. 2026) is a browser-based, zero-sum, perfect-information race game across a gridded board. As a digital implementation of…

Part 1: Perception In the modern era of superficiality and perfect Instagram posts, We’re Not Really Strangers (WNRS) feels like the perfect thing to…