Category: Puzzle

QuickRecs: Surgery Edition: Part 1

  10/22/2025       Act      4 Comments

I had the fortune to have to undergo a bilateral masectomy in June, so I’ve spent months barely able to do anything at all. I’ve played a lot of video games. Enjoy the forthcoming waves of game recs. Not a lot of pans though — the bad ones I played were mostly just boring and bland, not really bad in a way that was interesting (with one notable exception, which I may get to later). I may put up blurbs on the curator page later just to remind myself what they were. Anyway.

Also these got long and aren’t really “quick” anymore but whatever I’m not splitting them now.

Inside: Unholy Heights, Deiland, Wavetale, A Monster’s Expedition

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   Adventure, Farm Sim, Indie, Platformers, Precision Platformer, Puzzle, Recommendations, Sim, Sokoban, Tower Defense, Video Games      , , , ,

Detective Games, Pt 3: Lacuna

  12/21/2025       Act      11 Comments

Good detective fiction, as we’ve seen, can use the genre to make meaningful critique of the socially constructed nature of the law and the unstable identity of crime and the criminal.

Bad detective fiction is a vigorous defense of the status quo, a reification of the mandate that the Institution in every form must be protected at all costs.

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   Point-and-Click, Puzzle     

Detective Games, Pt 4

  12/28/2025       Act      Add Comment

Inside: Brok the Investigator, Song of Farca, Chicken Police: Paint It Red

CW for alcoholism and depression/suicide in the Chicken Police review — I talk a bit about how Chandler died, largely because I don’t like how the game treats drinking as a character quirk.

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   Action, Adventure, Point-and-Click, Puzzle, Video Games, Visual Novels      , ,