Games Archives

Deltarune continually distinguishes between an appointed end and the genuinely meaningful decisions made along the way. 

Want to know what questions haunt our society? Ask horror.

The game assumes the audience already understands the dangers built into the Bond archetype, and then it moves beyond them.

Supergiant’s acclaimed game serves as fertile ground on which to engage with the concept of the imago Dei, a historically misunderstood doctrine of Christianity.

Death is always brutal. Death is always violent. There is no glossing over this reality.

Godbreakers plays like a fever dream of our technological future, asking what happens when we forget that to be human is to be made of dust?

Returning to the books and movies and games that marked us in our younger years, we remember that who we are is still, in some way, who we were.

A flawed mother and daughter together illustrate that grace doesn’t erase the rap sheet—it reframes it.

Fashion bloggers, hyper-capitalist terraforming, JRPGs, and more.

These three unique takes on tribalism highlight the wide-ranging discourse that can be found in the modern gaming landscape.

Lucy is an idealist in search of a story, a believer desperately seeking something worthy of belief.

Stardew Valley‘s strength is how it captures the struggles of underserved rural communities and the ties that bind residents together.

The Lost Crown does not simply tell a story about defeating a villain; it tells a story about saving a soul.

The extent to which Tunic mirrors a Christian understanding of truth is remarkable and something worth paying attention to.

Octopath Traveler 2’s compassionate focus on Temenos’s doubt traces out the struggle of a man who has lost much through suffering, finding his path forward to the light.

The longing for restoration in Elden Ring rings out far clearer than in its predecessors.