Month: March 2014

Awake. Head throbbing. Vision blurry. A Dark Room takes you on a journey that starts small and slowly becomes much, much, more. It’s not an action game with graphics and fancy animations, it’s a seemingly basic storyline with deeper and darker meanings behind it. As you continue to play you uncover more and more mysteries… Continue reading A Dark Room – text-based game to get your imagination running

Papers, Please was one of 2013’s surprise indie game successes; Lucas Pope’s attempt at capturing the emotional toll of working as an immigration officer.  The challenge is to inspect immigration documents and determine whether they are in order. The game is set in the fictional dystopian nation of Arstotzka in 1982. The border security crossing has… Continue reading Papers, Please: The game of immigration