Game Reviews5.5/10
How Blindness Became a Gameplay Hook in Beyond Eyes
A quiet tale of a blind girl named Rae who seeks her lost cat Nani through touch and sound alone.
CLAY TRIBUNE / THE ARCHIVE
Tag: walking simulator
Game Reviews7.5/10
Davey Wreden Made a Game About a Friend’s Unreleased Games, Then Had to Live With What That Meant
A look back at The Beginner's Guide, Davey Wreden's 2015 metafictional follow-up to The Stanley Parable, and what its narration gives and takes.
Game Reviews7.9/10
The English village where nothing is left to do but listen
A review of The Chinese Room's 2015 adventure game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture: an empty Shropshire village, a strange light, and a story you must walk.
Game Reviews7.4/10
The Empty House in Gone Home Still Says More Than Any Jump Scare
Gone Home review: Fullbright's 1995-set exploration game sends Katie Greenbriar through an empty house to find her sister Sam. Score: 7.4/10.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Tacoma’s space station disaster is reconstructed from recorded crew movements
Tacoma strands you on a 2088 space station to reconstruct a disaster from crew recordings. Fullbright's slow sci-fi mystery, reviewed at 7.8/10.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Firewatch: Two Voices Across a Valley, and the Ending That Divides
Firewatch review: Campo Santo's 2016 walking simulator about Henry, Delilah, and a Wyoming summer. Great dialogue, divisive ending. Score: 7.9/10.