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When I first started playing Dear Esther, I honestly had no idea what I was supposed to do. There were no objectives, no map,…

Kentucky Route Zero is mentioned again. Nicole Clark talks about it in her Salon article on walking simulator video games, and it reminded me…

Journey, thatgamecompany’s 2012 masterpiece directed by Jenova Chen (published by Sony), is the strongest rebuttal I’ve played to the “walking simulator” label–a genre defined,…

Walking simulators challenge the idea that games need action, combat, or clear objectives to be meaningful. Instead, they use movement, environment, and player experience…

The design of walking in the game Journey by ThatGameCompany serves to create an illusion of control that slowly breaks down over the course…

More Than Just Walking I spent about an hour and a half playing the first two stories of this game. This game is a…

This week I played A Short Hike on Steam, a game developed by Adam Robinson-Yu. The target audience for this game could be anyone who can…