June 9, 2020
During this here quarantine I’ve been video gaming like it’s my erstwhile commute. Which is to say, daily and multiple times a day. Throughout my time in isolation, I’ve made it a point to stick to things I find comforting and calming. In gaming terms, this would be Dragon Age: Inquisition, which I have in fact been playing quite a…
April 15, 2020
Hi, dear Chicers! I hope you’re all staying safe and healthy. We are truly blessed/cursed to live in interesting times, aren’t we? Thanks to social distancing, the Internet has become a more important place than ever, especially since it allows us to get up close and personal without ever leaving home. Speaking of which, I had the amazing opportunity to…
March 28, 2020
Welcome back to another episode of Weekly Roundup! I’m your host, Kristina, coming to you live from the Land of the Rising Sun on the ancient island of Kyushu. What sort of speculative adventures can you expect this week? We’ve got reviews, recommendations, special guests, and more to appeal to your every genre taste and love. So without further ado,…
December 30, 2019
Every year, we invite our contributors to challenge themselves with the Resolution Project — a special event where our writers sift through all things speculative and settle on something worthy of personal conquest. The sky’s the limit when it comes to choices, whether it’s knocking through a back catalog, revisiting a popular franchise, or embarking on something totally new; whether…
June 11, 2019
I don’t know at what point I stop being a new gamer and just become a gamer. I keep wanting to start these reviews with “well I’m a new gamer, but….” In case you’ve missed my previous reviews, I first moved beyond Sonic and Mario-style platforming games in 2014, when I’d moved up to Austin and had a lot of…
May 15, 2019
At the end of March, I moved. I quit my corporate, soul-sucking job and moved to the countryside, to a small, run-down farm that my grandfather left me in his will. Since then, I have spent most of my waking hours at this new life, cultivating the farm, getting married, having some slightly creepy children, and fighting monsters in mysterious…
April 17, 2019
For this post, I tackle three games from my Steam backlog: Gris, Cultist Simulator, and Subsurface Circular. One is about a lost young woman, another is about finding your way through the seedy streets of Jazz-Age London, and the last is about riding the subway while looking for the truth. Let’s dive in, shall we? (No spoilers, I promise!)
February 20, 2019
I mentioned my resolution for 2019 here, but the long and short of it is, I have a huge backlog of games waiting to be played on Steam—I tend to binge on their quarterly sales—and I’m finally going to play ’em. First on the docket… What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) Developer: Giant Sparrow Publisher: Annapurna Interactive Written and directed…
November 9, 2018
Without getting in too deep, the last few years have been tough on a lot of us for a variety of reasons. Many things haven’t exactly gone the way that we would like them to. People are even throwing around the term “the darkest timeline” in reference to the way the world is going. When we find something that makes…
October 10, 2018
Title: Graveyard Keeper Published: Aug. 15, 2018 Developer: Lazy Bear Games Why I Chose It: This game has been billed as similar to Stardew Valley, which is one of my favorite video games ever. Add in the fact that it’s all about managing a graveyard, and I was 100% sold and ready to go. A gothic farming simulator? I was ready to…