• Year of the Backlog: Year Walk

    Year of the Backlog: Year Walk

    Year Walk is a bit of a gem of a game, a small but lovingly formed parcel of delicately aged delights. The quiet, crisp crunch of footsteps in the snow lends itself perfectly to the ominous ambience hanging over the landscape.

  • Year of the Backlog: Zen Bound 2

    Year of the Backlog: Zen Bound 2

    Zen Bound 2 is a delicate experience where ledges and corners are your friends and enemies.

  • 2024: Year of the Backlog?

    At some point I realised I probably didn’t actually need to buy any more games ever, and could realistically just play through the existing backlog until I pass on.

  • Not that we get old

    It is not that we get old, but that we simply and slowly come into alignment with the overarching eternity of the universe. We mistake the entropy that allows this eternity to exist for the inverse of the novelty of birth, and learn to fear it.

  • Playing Cards from Ukraine

    Playing Cards from Ukraine

    The deck is not a deck, but a focusing point for all of the fear and upset haunting the continent right now.

  • New season, new blog

    New season, new blog

    It’s cold and windy and sunny outside so it must be 21st century spring. Let’s go.