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Coziness and Juiciness in Games: An Intersectional Comparison of World of Goo and Slime Rancher As a non competitive game enthusiast, playing games goes…

There is a “Cozy genre” of games, led by the likes of Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing, which are adorable little games with a soft, gentle, and…

Many times, games subvert our expectations about what a game is supposed to be. First-person shooters are often regarded as toxic, rage-inducing environments, and…

Faster Than Light is one of those games where the story doesn’t come from a script but from the systems. You don’t follow a…

Slime Rancher might be one of my favorite current games! When I first started playing it for RWP, I wasn’t expecting to grow so…

When I started playing ‘The Escapists’, I didn’t expect it to make me reflect on morality. My first thoughts on this pixelated prison escape…

Reading the phrase “intertextual knowledge to subvert the player’s expectations” didn’t really mean much to me, until I played Frog Fractions. Not only does…

Cookie Clicker, my first time playing an Idle game, ended up being a pleasantly delightful experience. To be completely honest, for the first few…

My first impression of Slime Rancher was that the game felt really whimsical, thanks to its design and the mechanic of vacuuming up smiley,…

By Diya Sabharwal I played cookie clicker for half a day and ended up with one cursor, four grandmas, 7 farms, 1 factory, two…

This week, we played Faster Than Light, a pixel-art, 2D roguelike where the player controls a spaceship fleeing rebels, trading with pirates, and navigating randomly…

I was hopeful going into this game, thinking that it may not be another horror game for us to play, but I was unfortunately…