Death Mark: ghost stories, J-style
I enjoy a good horror game, but over the years it will surely not surprise you to learn that I’ve developed a particular taste for the distinctively Japanese take on the genre. That means while memey...
View ArticleNG: Holding grudges is No Good
One of the things I’ve come to really like about Experience as I play more of their games is how they can take the same basic concept and provide a completely different riff on it, rather than just...
View ArticleA new taxonomy of RPGs
I’ve been doing some thinking about things that don’t really matter — a welcome distraction from the unpleasant things that do matter in the world today — and one of the things that has come up in my...
View ArticleDeath Mark II: an exceptional conclusion to a brilliant series
< Previous The Spirit Hunter series from Experience is an absolutely fantastic trilogy of games that anyone interested in Japanese-style horror — specifically ghost stories — should immediately...
View ArticleThe Colonel’s Bequest: a bold experiment with the interactive mystery format
Roberta Williams is regarded as the First Lady of adventure games with very good reason: her King’s Quest series was instrumental in bringing the genre out of the purely text-based realm, and her...
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