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The Narrator has been giving you instructions the entire time. First, you are denied being able to play the “real game,” and now you…

The experimenter wears a white lab coat. He is not unkind. When you turn to him—because the man in the next room has stopped…

As I began playing Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald, I eagerly waited in the lobby ready to begin my journey….

One of the main traps in Bastion is the Narrator’s voice. Rucks starts talking the minute you wake up, and you trust him immediately….

I had been playing Papers, Please long enough that I stopped seeing the people in line as people. Deep in rhythm, I’d check the…

Featured image: Ritual of the Moon screenshot. Are games just games? It is hard to ask the question without evoking the charged politics of…

Everything in our this day and age is documented and easily available. As John Green notes in his essay Googling Strangers, we live in…

At first glance, it’s quite easy to read Journey as a solitary pilgrimage. You begin alone, a small robed figure in an immense desert,…

There is a peculiar intimacy in not knowing someone. When connection is stripped of the biographical details that usually define a person, such as…

Scheffler’s lecture, The Afterlife, opens with a question: how would you react if the world ended 30 days after you died? Our reactions, Scheffler…

Imagine you’re wandering a foggy mountaintop and come across a stranger in a three-piece suit, looking out over the valley below. This is the…

In Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, a man stands alone on a rocky precipice, back turned, gazing into a white…

Finally, they were all free — the scarf creatures you’d spent the last ruin releasing from their columns and cages. Just before you continue…

For centuries, humans located the sublime in experiences that overwhelmed the limits of ordinary life. Romantic artists and writers turned toward vast mountains, storms,…