The demo of Octopus City Blues is both Kafkaesque and charming
And filled with puns.
pixel art
Impressionism goes goth in the roguelike Children of Morta
Well, this is … unexpected. Just yesterday I wrote about the influx of absurdly, lushly animated dark-fantasy pixel-art games, and here comes Children of Morta, which is like the apotheosis of the form. Its two-minute trailer starts with something I’ve not really seen before: a landscape which seems
Gorge, a food-horror JRPG, gives videogames something to chew on
Food: apparently it’s more than just a health potion.
Rain World explodes with more slugcat .gifs
Rain World is part of an explosion over the past few years of games that express, through their pixel art, a very personal sort of fantasy. Along with Hyper Light Drifter, Witchmarsh, The Deer God, and Titan Souls, it sees pixel art not as cute but as ready for subversion, and an excuse to lavishly
This may be the best pixel art being made today
A life in dots.