Category: My Favorite Games
My Favorite Games: No Man’s Sky
Just because I believe procedural generation is a dead-end for video games doesn’t mean I won’t still spend hundreds of hours playing it
My Favorite Games: BattleZone (1998)
A reinvention of one of the first first-person games, made in the age of real-time strategy, is the perfect example of 1990s game development optimism
My Favorite Games: Riddle of the Sphinx
The niche classic from 1982 was one of the only Atari 2600 games that were as evocative as the pictures on the box
My Favorite Games: Sam & Max Hit the Road
A game that was so obviously one of my favorites and most formative that even I forgot to include it
My Perfect Console
What I would choose if I were more famous. And surprisingly, it’s not just “the Sega Dreamcast.”
My Favorite Games: Half-Life 2
The video game that fundamentally changed how I think about video games
My Favorite Games: Subnautica
Subnautica seemed to come out of nowhere and quietly do everything right.
My Favorite Games: Device 6
A brilliant, Prisoner-inspired game for iOS from way back when iOS felt like it had limitless potential as an inventive gaming platform
My Favorite Games: Portal
Looking back on a masterpiece that lets you take a peek through the fourth wall but never breaks it
