it's new year's eve, here are the games i played and loved in 2016
Firewatch, PS4
I put the winter duvet back into the duvet cover on my bed. It was too warm in summer, even the light sheet. With each button, I thought about how drastically different I am as a person from the one who took the duvet out.
Quadrilateral Cowboy, PC
I drew a series of different objects onto pieces of cardboard, and shuffled the deck. My friends took cards from the deck and divined their futures as they saw fit.
Viridi, iOS
I remember inching across the Potomac River as children after it had iced over, when Steven Herren threw a tantrum, and his foot fell through the ice. We had to make a chain with our hands to pull him back out again. I wrote about this in the weeks following the U.S. general election, and two weeks later I learned that Steven had died. When I was fifteen, I caught sight of him briefly in a hallway in my high school, but I quickly turned down another corridor. That’s the last time I saw him.
Oxenfree, PC
I spoke to my brother on the phone for three minutes (cumulative) in 2016. He bought me presents for Christmas, he did not know I wasn’t coming home for the holidays. In late spring, he and I teased my father in a series of haikus on a family-wide e-mail chain.
Watch Dogs 2, PS4
“Sometimes it is nice to walk around in a big, colourful world.”
“Sometimes it is nice to walk around in a big, colourful world.”
honourable mentions:
ladykiller in a bind
overcooked
dark souls 3
hitman
inside