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Unwinnable Monthly – July 2025

By David Shimomura • July 18th, 2025

Time to go home.

A still from The Beaches of Agnes, a film by Agnes Varda, with a comic drawing of the director sitting on a very tall director chair in a red jumper staring at the water and a seagull

Does Taste Matter?

By Farouk Kannout • July 17th, 2025

Living human beings, unlike works of art, don’t have easily definable endings to encapsulate what they represent.

Nonhuman Meditations
A screenshot from Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo shows Kulebra perusing the wares of Rosa's Flower Shop.

On a Roll with Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo

By Alyssa Wejebe • July 17th, 2025

With empathy highlighted as a major theme in Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo, exploring it through a misunderstood animal like a snake adds weight and warmth.

A screenshot from The Hundred Line where a lady with a green tomato for a head consoles her samurai friend while both drink martinis with a pink-haired bartender

One of The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-‘s Queerest Storylines Comes From An Attempt At A Heterosexual One

By Hiero de Lima • July 16th, 2025

Kurara Oosuzuki feels gayer than ever when she’s trying to woo a man.

Here's the Thing
A screenshot from King's Field shows two frog-like adventurers exploring a dark tunnel, swords aloft.

A Return to From

By Rob Rich • July 16th, 2025

Like many folks, Rob loves him some FromSoft (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc). But he still misses the company’s much older approaches to the Action RPG genre.

Forms in Light
A screenshot from Breath of the Wild shows a wide-angle view of Gerudo Town with several palm trees and market stalls situated around a plaza.

Mastering the Desert

By Justin Reeve • July 15th, 2025

Gerudo Town is noticeably different from the surrounding desert, mostly on account of its urban grid, something which looks notably unnatural.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A photograph of two Conan board game boxes, both featuring the shirtless warrior, but one he's facing an army of enemies and the other he stands over their corpses as the sun sets

The Age of High Adventure: Conan on the Tabletop

By Orrin Grey • July 14th, 2025

For a long time, Conan was probably the second most recognizable fantasy property around.

Midnight of the Century

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 14th, 2025

An RPG inspired by the TV show Millennium? SIGN ME UP!

Open World
A screenshot from Anoxia Station without any user interface elements so you see a red isometric map of mushrooms, industry pipes and buildings, and a giant worm, all cozied up together

One of Those Nightmares Where You Can’t Move Your Arms

By Edward Smith • July 11th, 2025

The more you discover, the less you feel you understand.

Dialogue
Detail from Manet's The Funeral show a small group of mourners gathered under dark trees.

A Dialogue with Joshua Rivera

By Autumn Wright • July 11th, 2025

“I don’t bill myself as a games critic. It’s not good for my career prospects.”

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