Faster Than Light: Stories You Can’t Plan For June 2, 2025 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 Ranchers – RWP June 1, 2025 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…
The Escapists – RWP May 31, 2025 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…
Frog Fractions – RWP May 30, 2025 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 – RWP May 29, 2025 Cookie Clicker, my first time playing an Idle game, ended up being a pleasantly delightful experience. To be completely honest, for the first few…
Coziness in Slime Rancher May 22, 2025 My first impression of Slime Rancher was that the game felt really whimsical, thanks to its design and the mechanic of vacuuming up smiley,…
Cookie Clicker : RWP May 16, 2025 By Diya Sabharwal I played cookie clicker for half a day and ended up with one cursor, four grandmas, 7 farms, 1 factory, two…
Metafiction and The Stanley Parable – Justin May 5, 2025 Warning: Spoilers Ahead Like an onion, and like all good stories, The Stanley Parable has layers. On the surface, you have a walking simulator about a…
P1: Kitten Klimb April 25, 2025 Print & play Design Mockups Final Playtest YouTube Link Artist Statement: Kitten Klimb is a tower-building card game meant for 3 to 6 players. …
Permadeath and Faster Than Light – RWP Week 2 April 23, 2025 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…
RWP 2024 Final Paper — Slay the Author (If You Don’t, It Will Be The End of the Game): Interpretation as Truth in Slay the Princess (Jasmine Steele) June 14, 2024 [This article contains illustrated gore, body horror, and plot spoilers for Slay the Princess.] Chapter I: The Hero and the Princess Slay the Princess…
Slay the Princess: Review June 13, 2024 I was hopeful going into this game, thinking that it may not be another horror game for us to play, but I was unfortunately…
Inscryption Review June 13, 2024 Inscryption is a rougelike deck-building game developed by Daniel Mullins Games. However, it further blends turn-based strategy, escape room like puzzles, and an adventure-style…
Teamfight Tactics Review June 13, 2024 Teamfight Tactics (TFT) is an auto battler game created by Riot Games as part of the League of Legends franchise. Based on Dota Auto…
Slay the Princess Review June 13, 2024 Slay the Princess is a psychological horror visual novel developed by indie studio Black Tabby Games. The game’s premise plays on a cruel twist…
RWP Final Paper – Why Sandbox Games are so Successful June 13, 2024 Introduction Sandbox games have carved out a significant niche in the gaming industry, captivating millions of players worldwide. Their success can be attributed to…
Slay the Princess June 13, 2024 I only played the demo so Idk what was supposed to happen, but the demo was disappointing for me. The core loop was really…
Inscryption June 13, 2024 I watched Markiplier’s gameplay of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxW84qnvZEc The art style is really cool. The cards are dark and inky, minimal, and illustrative. The colors…
RWP 2024 — Hades (Jasmine Steele) June 13, 2024 Despite hearing its praises sung from every corner of my social circle the year it came out (and ever since), I avoided playing Hades…
RWP 2024 – Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (Jasmine Steele) June 13, 2024 At first, I was terrified to pick up Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising because I knew it was the sort of game you were supposed…
