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I really loved Animal Well. I feel no compulsion or even desire to go further, or to complete more.
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The world fucking sucks right now, and while escapism has never been something we at No Escape support (it’s in the name, I guess) sometimes it’s nice to take a moment with a meditative experience, take some deep breaths, and…
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I don’t know what I want out of UNBEATABLE (D-Cell Games, 2025) that it didn’t either promise or deliver on. I mostly liked the rhythm-action gameplay, and it’s been the way it is since I first played the White Label…
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This is my final post on Final Fantasy XIII! I’m finally, irrevocably moving on to its sequels. For real this time. I. I promise. As I’m sitting in the middle of the final dungeon before facing Barthandelus and Orphan at…
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It’s time for another run.
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We don’t have chicken fillet rolls in the US, but this game helps approximate what it would be like if we did.
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I was watching Patrick H. Willems’ latest video on the radical possibilities of letting shit end and I got hit with a brainwave that sent me back to the end of 2019 and my first “Game of” article for the site, which “rewarded” Kingdom…
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Hey so it turns out trying to play an old video game to write about while also thinking about and getting wrapped up in other discourses is really hard, but I wanted to do my due diligence with Saltsea Chronicles…
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Originally this post was going to be about Saltsea Chronicles, Die Gute Fabrik’s beautiful 2023 game about conversation and community after the end of the world, but instead everyone decided to be real fucking stupid about another video game: HORSES,…
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