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Biosys
On its face, Biosys hits all the clichés of a mystery first-person adventure game. You wake up with no memory. Something has gone disastrously wrong. The last survivors left clues and diaries that...
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Noir: A Shadowy Thriller
Alternate title screen from the demo for Noir: A Shadowy Thriller Private eye Jack Slayton kept a file on Charles Winthrop, a philanthropist with something to hide. Winthrop’s prize horse Pegasus died,...
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Sentient
When a solar flare hits the space station ICARUS, the entire place shakes. Your screen rattles back and forth. Alarms go off. Over the loudspeakers, a voice dispatches orders for the medical team....
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The Legend of Lotus Spring
The Legend of Lotus Spring has more in common with a poem than an adventure game. The big moments are intimate and quiet – feeding a fish, playing a musical instrument, finishing a piece of...
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Fact, fiction, and fear in Ghosts and Weird
Ghosts and Weird: Truth is Stranger than Fiction aren’t exactly educational games. They’re more like those sketchy shows on the History Channel. There’s plenty to learn in Ghosts and Weird, though not...
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Beyond the Wall of Stars
Beyond the Wall of Stars sends you on a voyage to the far reaches of space. You’ve joined a scientific mission aboard the CSS Starquest to the distant planet Tara, which may hold the key to saving...
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Obsidian
If you wanted to cut to the chase, you could say Obsidian is a game where a computer goes rogue and tries to destroy the world. There’s lots of stories like that, and technically, that’s where...
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L-ZONE
There’s no dialogue in L-ZONE, or any words for that matter. To the extent that this game has a narrative, it’s incredibly vague, like an impression of a story without any specific people or places. A...
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Read about Kyle Choi’s Comer in ROMChip!
Let’s end the year with something new and exciting: I’ve published an article in ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories! Over the summer, a reader sent me a rare physical copy of Comer, a spiritualist...
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The Book of Watermarks
There was a commercial that aired constantly on TV in the mid-late-90s for Pure Moods, a compilation album of new-age and world music, featuring artists like Enya and Enigma. The commercials promised...
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