REVIEW: RIMWORLD
/Rimworld, through simplistic appearances, provides the challenge, consequence, and insane anecdotes that I crave in video-games -- without being stuffy or severe.
Read MoreRimworld, through simplistic appearances, provides the challenge, consequence, and insane anecdotes that I crave in video-games -- without being stuffy or severe.
Read MoreFar and away from the familiar world of money, duty, and words, so-called "Peace Games" are a growing genre in video-games that stick in your head after one brief playthrough.
Read MoreNo matter how many times I played through one particular chapter, it was never not terrifying to sprint down a root-whorled forest path from a pack of attack-dogs. The emotional power isn’t in the context or the so-called “Story” -- it’s in the fundamental look and feel of the scene itself.
Read MoreINSIDE bleakly pits individual freedom against collective efficiency at various orders of magnitude, manifesting in the minor epiphanies of the game's military-industrial obedience puzzles. All at once, the game unpacks tensions about the Holocaust, corporate expansion, class division, and free will in post-industrial society - all without uttering a word of language.
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