There's something comforting about games that mirror the everyday rituals of departure and return, the rhythms of our real lives.

Playing a Porpentine game often feels like stepping into a poem, or sitting downstream in a river as strange images float by like beautiful, twisted debris. She's primarily known for… Read the rest of the article: Find an antidote for your poisoned sister in an alien sea

Ecco the Dolphin was undoubtedly one of the trippiest games to emerge from the early '90s, a psychedelic ocean adventure about Atlantis, time machines and giant crystals whose gameplay was… Read the rest of the article: Ecco the Dolphin swims in a sea of animated glitches

Once upon a time, clock towers were a sort of public utility, a shared temporal reference point that synchronized communities where personal timepieces were often a rarity. Although we hardly… Read the rest of the article: Fix a clock tower on a mysterious island, you dashing horologist

Remember back in the heady days of the mid-1990s, when playing computer games felt like running around in a endless maze of cardboard walls? Relive it today in Payroll, a… Read the rest of the article: Relive the thrill of using Windows 95 in this office simulator

What if you could learn how to play chess simply by looking at the pieces?

I watched the Bob Ross marathon on Twitch recently, where a whole new generation got to discover the magic that emerges from his brushes: how you can turn away for… Read the rest of the article: Help a blind girl find her cat in a world where you see without eyes

Subway systems are circulatory systems, moving the lifeblood of a city from place to place beneath its skin. In the game Mini Metro, you get to be the engineer who… Read the rest of the article: Design a new subway system for your favorite city

Mirror Lake will make a procedurally generated bowl for you. Sometimes the bowl is empty, which sounds like a parable, but mostly it is just a bowl. Sometimes it is… Read the rest of the article: These procedurally generated space bowls are killer

Gardening games tend to be soothing cycles of repetition: You plant, you water, you harvest, and then you do it again. You play them to relax, which is probably why… Read the rest of the article: Grow plants to support your country in this wartime gardening game

"My grandfather's plane was reported lost in 1960 during the Algeria Independence War, days before the birth of his first child," writes Armel Gibson, in the introduction for his game,… Read the rest of the article: A gorgeous flight game made for a loved one in a lost plane

The holidays are nigh, and with them, the annual pilgrimages made by millions back to their hometowns. For some, this is an opportunity to bask in the warm glow that… Read the rest of the article: Going back to your hometown is hard when it's a 1986 computer game

Matthew Ritter's interest in epitaphs began in junior high, when a history book displayed the haunting message on the grave of an ancient Roman: "What I am you soon shall… Read the rest of the article: Try this graveyard simulator and imagine your own epitaph

The less said about The Room 3 before you play it the better: and yet I will say things now. The award-winning puzzle series from Fireproof Games has returned for… Read the rest of the article: Return to the creepy thrills and intriguing puzzles of The Room

You're supposed to be a bird in Trills, a two-player jousting game by Crudepixel, but for some reason when you collide with another bird, it sounds like two swords clashing.… Read the rest of the article: Divebomb your friends in this elegant bird-jousting game

Vigilante superhero tales tend to revolve around seeking justice outside of a failed system, and the idea that one man or woman can cause real change within that system by… Read the rest of the article: Become a vigilante superhero in this interactive tale about wealth inequality

In the charming platform game Crowtel, you're a crow running a seedy hotel, and you're not very good at it. Well, really you're just lazy—not living up to your potential,… Read the rest of the article: This game about a lazy crow running a seedy hotel is really delightful

Regina, or 1995Regi, as she calls herself on Instagram, is a Polish girl who likes selfies, science fiction, and Drake. She's also the creation of artist Katarzyna Witerscheim, who dreamed… Read the rest of the article: This webcomic about a Polish girl is actually an Instagram account

The space exploration game Sun Dogs comes with a promising description: "Sun Dogs is about exploring our inner solar system, altering your body, and embracing death." After playing, I deem… Read the rest of the article: Explore the solar system in an immortal transhumanist body

Cat collectors rejoice: the cult favorite mobile game Neko Atsume has finally made its way to Android—and soon, to iOS—in English under the name Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector.