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Discussion: Afterparty (spoilers!)

Hello and welcome again to Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), a semi-regular series with a title so ingenious it needs absolutely no further explanation. Today’s game is Afterparty, an adventure game developed by Night School Studio and released in 2019. Our protagonists are Milo and Lola, two recent college graduates who unexpectedly find themselves detained in […]

Discussion: A Short Hike (spoilers!)

Hello and welcome to Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), a series that I could describe further, but probably needs very little effort to work out. [It’s not our fault you’ve boxed yourself in with these introductions – FFG reader]. Today’s game is A Short Hike, released by Adam Robinson-Yu in 2019, which is a narrative/open-world exploration […]

Discussion: Orwell (spoilers!)

Hi there and welcome along to Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), a series that I’m rapidly running out of different ways to describe. Today’s game is Orwell (also sometimes known as Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You, perhaps to distinguish it from its sequel), a game by Osmotic Studies and released in 2016. Your task is […]

Discussion: Emily Is Away <3 (spoilers!)

Hello! This is Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), our semi-regular discussion series in which Jo and I talk about our chosen indie title with lots of plot spoilers along the way. Today’s game is Emily Is Away <3 – the third Emily game by Kyle Seeley, released in 2021. We’ve covered the previous two already, and […]

Discussion: Emily Is Away Too (spoilers!)

Hi there. Welcome to Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), a series which should really have a generic introduction in italics at the top here but, for some reason, doesn’t. Today’s game is Emily Is Away Too, a 2017 follow-up to the previous game we covered. Yep, you’re back on Windows XP, exchanging IM messages with someone […]

Review: Gemini Rue

Hi there. We’re heading to the newer end of our normal reviewing territory today (so about 10-ish years ago), although there are plenty of echoes of older games here, in Wadjet Eye’s sci-fi adventure, Gemini Rue.

Discussion: Telling Lies (spoilers!)

Hello and welcome to the latest Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), a series which, I’ve just decided, needs no further explanation in the introduction. I’m sure you can work it out, readers, even if you’re new around here. Today’s game is Telling Lies, a spiritual sequel (of sorts) to the subject of our very first indie […]

Discussion: Oxenfree (spoilers!)

Hello once again and welcome to Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), a series with a title that should be self-explanatory but which still prompts me to attempt further elaboration at the top of each and every piece. If you like fairly rambling discussions about indie adventures with a story, you’re in the right place. Be careful, […]

Discussion: Neo Cab (spoilers!)

Hello again, and welcome to our latest instalment of Discussion: [indie game] (spoilers!), a series which usually involves a moderately lively back-and-forth on the topic of a relatively modern indie title. Having covered one particular type of game pretty much exclusively so far, we’ve drawn a line under walking sims for now, capping things off […]

Discussion: A Top 10 of Walking Sims (no spoilers!)

Hello everyone. As you may have noticed, the majority of games under consideration in our discussion series (with spoilers) have been so-called ‘walking simulators’, the arguably pejorative and dismissive term coined for first-person narrative adventures. That wasn’t necessarily always the intention, although after a certain point the prospect of catching up with a selection of […]