Last week on Offworld, we chatted about creation tools, jam games where you're a monster, and we wandered around a dreamy subway full of alien shapes.

You are Jimi Hendrix, a detective. Officer Jimi Hendrix has called you to the scene of the crime. The victim? Jimi Hendrix.

I've heard VR users often say that inhabiting other bodies and other spaces is uniquely liberating, but my colleague Laura Kate Dale sheds light on the fact that embodiment may be complicated for some.

Home row on the raaaaange! I made that up myself. Here's a fun typing game about Western shootouts!

Papers, Please's Lucas Pope has us shuffling pen and paper again in the joyfully-bleak Unsolicited, a game about filling in and mailing form letters.

Read a beautiful essay on city-building, and the appeal of the eminently-watchable Cities: Skylines.

A new "tycoon"-style game offers a provocative look at the world of making people healthy for profit.

Jessica Curry's unforgettable compositions for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture would have topped the UK classical charts this week—but were removed for being an OST (Harry Potter music still allowed, though?). Appreciate this vivid, atmospheric soundtrack anyway.

The recently-released Death by Video Game is a a great read for serious fans of games, but also for people who don't really play them—it tackles all the fun questions about violence and obsession, and offers complicated answers.

The model who played the famous software typing tutor had "three-inch" fingernails in her real life, apparently.

You're a smuggler assessing asylum seekers who want to go to Europe. You'll be surprised at how quickly you become an arbiter of human life.

Last week we pastiched some nightmare dinosaurs, learned some Chinese vocabulary, and had a serious chat about piracy and poverty. Make Monday less dreary with wonderful memories of last week.

Anatomically Incorrect Dinosaurs is a new, vitally-weird project from the brilliant Nathalie Lawhead, part software-driven narrative experience, part horrific dinosaur re-assembly simulation.

"Half racing game, half interactive fiction, it tells the story of Lella, a restless woman driving on the roads of the western coast of Italy, the famous Via Aurelia."

A lively, accessible video lecture by Ashly Burch and Rosalyn Wiseman presents research into how games impact the social lives of young people, and how important representation is to boys versus girls.

Contributors like Terry Cavanagh, Devine Lu Linvega and Arnaud De Bock, as well as PICO-8 developer Zep, among others, have made the stylish, cute 48-page fanzine — free digitally — for users interested in learning more about the elegant little digital console.

"Twine horror games can act as catharsis for both creators and players by claiming ownership of fictionalized terror and fear," writes Carli Velocci in Bitch Magazine.

Want to know how to join the latest Ludum Dare jam? There are plenty of resources that can help.

We often lavish upon "interactivity" as a defining quality of games, but from Progress Quest and Adventure Capitalist to Cookie Clicker and beyond, there are many games about idleness, games that play themselves.

Aracnophobes can now play Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon as a tiny striped walrus. Find out how (it involves some candle rituals?)