Pneuma has things to say. Don’t listen to them.
I babble, therefore I am
Puzzle
Tough Love Machine: a puzzle of 8-bit companionship
Like relationships themselves, representing the struggles of love in a digital format can be difficult. Andrew Morrish does just that in his newest game, Tough Love Machine.Tough Love Machine offers up a simple premise: unite two hearts. Like so many puzzle games before it, in execution this becomes
Feast your eyes on the lovely low-poly art of Traces of Light
“She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable—this interminable life.” – Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Sometimes, a vi
Road to Gehenna is the harrowing of an online hell
It’s the New Testament to The Talos Principle’s Old Testament.
Specimen wants to give you the color perception skills of a veteran painter
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Specimen (iOS) BY PepRally If your passion involves mixing paint to attain specific tones, then Specimen should come easy to you. The game involves picking out the floating blob of color (in
Cultivate a meditative bonsai garden in your pocket with Prune
We have a lot to thank trees for. Aside from—you know—letting us breathe and all, science also tells us that cultivating plant life can actually boost your serotonin (like an antidepressant) and your immune system. Permaculturists call it the “harvest high,” known to both quell anxiety and build a s
Profiles of the Forgotten is "a videogame within a movie"
“Have you ever loved someone so much, that you could step out of time?” These are the words that introduce Profiles of the Forgotten, a project that lies somewhere between a traditional game and a film. The first project by Los Angeles developer Pablo Leon-Luna, Profiles of the Forgotten is describe
This week’s Playlist pick is the abstract, spectral Sylvio
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. SYLVIO (PC, MAC) BY APOSTROPHE Were you someone who watched The Conjuring and wished you could be a badass ghost hunter like the Warrens? Well, they made a horror game for you (and your poor
Induction is like a gorgeous, time-warping trip through Monument Valley
This mind-bending pastel world defies language.
Word puzzle game Alphabear looks adorable but it has a filthy mouth
Alphabear is a fun little mobile game. Combining word search puzzles with Neko Atsume’s pet collection mechanic, it draws you in with such adorable characters as Pirate Bear and Golfing Bear, who each possess their own set of unique bear powers—along with a themed outfit, of course. Designed by Bren
Forget Jurassic World, here’s a game with a badass red-headed dino hunter
As we’ve seen in Jurassic Park, and now Jurassic World, the unstoppable force of a hungry dino can only be thwarted by one thing: cool, overly confident badassary. Whether its Sam Neill battling a car and a raptor at the same time, or Chris Pratt’s motorcycle sequence, the more outlandish your survi
Be intimidated by this lo-fi computer-programming game, or discover its secrets
Several lines of command-line text fade into the left side of your monitor. The sounds of primitive processor clicking and ancient operating system chimes remind you of the birth of the PC. The opposite of the clean and intuitive UI designs that we’ve all grown accustomed to jumps out at you, in an
Bloxels charts a course between physical and virtual game-making
The act of prototyping a game is a game in its own right. It involves the conceptualizing of space and the solving of puzzles. So why not just turn prototyping into a game? the best of both worlds Bloxels, which is currently halfway to its fundraising goal on Kickstarter, takes this thought to its
Give evolution the middle finger with Snakebird
It slithers and squawks.
Broken Age and the adventure of growing up
There is a subversive message behind Double Fine’s gorgeous parable.
After two long years, the enigmatic spaces of Relativity are locking into place
For Willy Chyr, everything is locking into place all at once. There’s probably a click echoing through the cosmos in his name right now. Don’t listen for it, but know that if it exists, it’s satisfying in the way cracking your joints is, or crunching into that first thick-cut potato chip. For the pa
Kirby creators try a new shape in BoxBoy
Along the way, they evoke Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times.
AUX B makes a puzzle out of our electric wire-infested lives
Behind my television is a snake nest of electronic cables. I put it there. These coiling black and gray wires feeding the sockets in my wall, powering the appliances deemed necessary in my life; an unkempt pile of synergized technology. Likewise, the innards of my PC that I precariously clasped and
Bloodborne’s Chalice Dungeons hide the game’s greatest challenges and weirdest joke
Behold: the Bloodborne engagement ring.
The ghostly, luminescent worlds of A Light in Chorus can’t arrive soon enough
Undeniably beautiful, tantalizingly mysterious.
Kawiteros to bring Mexico’s iconic Huichol art and shamanism to videogames
An evolution in native Mexican art.
Take a seat for Last Voyage’s beautiful synthesizer space opera
There is no mystery. That is not a problem.
This week’s Playlist pick: TouchTone
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. TOUCHTONE (iOS) BY MIKENGREG Greg Wohlwend and Mike Boxleiter are outraged at the erosion of privacy in the post-Snowden era. But rather than stepping up to a soapbox to rant about it, they
Parallax hopes you’re into binary code
A case of minimalism gone astray.
TouchTone holds a mirror to our post-Snowden surveillance state
“If you solve something, say something.”