Choices echo through time in this game Oxenfree is a narrative choice game where you play as Alex, a highschooler from a small town, going to an...
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RobotCop
Robot unemployment hits all-time high...Maybe it did TOO good a job? The town of Dublin, Ohio has fired a police officer. This particular officer...
Dark Crystal
The Dark Crystal got a somehow darker prequel In an era of increasingly rare practical effects, it’s a small miracle that Dark Crystal: Age of...
Gibbous, a Cthulhu Adventure
A light take on a dark universe Gibbous, A Cthulhu Adventure, it a point-and-click adventure revolving around the discovery of the Necronomicon and...
City-Cooling Bricks
Smart bricks for hot cities Cities get hotter than the surrounding countryside. Heat Islands are a long-known phenomenon, largely attributable to...
Watchmen
A look at the dark side of heroes Watchmen is a classic 1986 comic by the legendary Alan Moore that became a movie in 2009. Just as the...
Chrononauts
There’s a reason casual time travel isn’t possible Chrononauts is a game where you play as meddling time travelers, each with a secret agenda...
Universal Vaccines
Is this the end to mutation whack-a-mole? Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a universal coronavirus vaccine. That’s awesome....
Murder at the End of the World
In Murder at the End of the World, main character Darby Hart is a true-crime junkie who wrote a book about a cold case she helped crack....
Minds Beneath Us
A game for now and the future—Keep an open mind to subtext Minds Beneath Us is a narrative game where choices can get a little more...
Poll: Who creates the AI Singularity?
With AI on everyone's mind these days, it's as good a time as any to talk about the Singularity (the kind where the S is capitalized)....
Elio – a lighthearted sci-fi romp
Elio is a Pixar film that rigorously ticks all the boxes. Protagonist is an orphan? Yep. Found family? Check. A minor on a poorly supervised...
Blade Runner TTRPG
Do Androids Dream of Tabletop RPGs? Is roleplaying a replicant a step less human than being one? I'm trying something different this week. Rather...
Tangible holograms
Images you can move with your hands Did you ever watch Minority Report or any MCU movie and drool over the idea of having a computer...
Wheel of Time
There Are Neither Beginnings or Endings to the Turning of the Wheel of Time. But the show had to begin somewhere... Amazon Prime’s adaptation of...
Children of Silentown
…you’ll love this mysterious village Stay quiet. Do as you’re told. DON’T go into the forest. These are the rules for the Children of...
Tech-enhanced instruments
You don’t need a music teacher to get started When Guitar Hero came out in 2005, a lot of players caught flack for playing plastic guitars...
Resident Alien
He came in peace to leave us in pieces. Still a better doctor than the town had before. In Resident Alien, Alan Tudyk crashes on Earth and...
Solar Storm
The Ship is Falling Apart. Can You Escape? It's a race against time with an hourglass full of broken parts. Evacuating a starship is a common enough...
Phantom Chess
For the modern enthusiast with old world style. First They Had Chessboards, Then Computers, Now This. Chess is among the oldest games on Earth, and...
Onward – An Epic Road Trip to Self Discovery
I’m going to state right from the start, until the story itself told me otherwise, I had thought the main characters were trolls. That out of the...
Sleeping Gods Distant Skies
A game of decisions and destiny The original Sleeping Gods is a cooperative tabletop RPG with a storybook feel and an actual book of...
Nanoleaf
Lighting the way you want it I think most of us have had the experience of moving into your first apartment. Underfurnished. Underlit. Figuring out...
Andromeda Strain
The first real sci-fi virus movie Andromeda Strain is a 1971 classic and the forebear of all other sci-fi virus movies. And, as a pioneer, it...