KRITIQAL
Kritiqal covers games as political instruments, artistic statements, and cultural objects. The site is maintained by Nathalie who created it in 2013 to write about small games in ways that were not being served by other publications. Kritiqal also hosts the podcast Kritiqal Care, and interview show about games and the humans who make them.
All inquiries can be sent to contact@kritiqal.com .
9 songs about love, trauma, and the end of the world
Words on games, politics, culture
Asides and feelings about Gubble 2
imagined genres for real games
Words on games, politics, culture
The stars watch and speak in archetypes. We align ourselves to them, and in doing so create stars of our own.
a little twine game about cooking pancakes with your partner
Visual Novel
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Featured on Kritiqal
Games I've written about for kritiqal.com, whether in reviews, impressions, or some combination there of.
What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself.
Interactive Fiction
Death Crown is a minimalistic RTS in 1bit style, where you will be Death sheself.
Strategy
A narrative action platformer about balancing the Light and Dark energies that hold the world together.
Adventure
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
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An action dungeon crawl in glorious 160x144 resolution.
Adventure
Games Crit Zines
Ebooks, zines, hypertext experiments, and other works of videogame criticism.
Serious writing taking adult games seriously.
A list about videogames and other things
Run in browser
(that's good)
an essay about criticism and culture
Digital Culture and its Discontents
Digital Culture and its Discontents
Digital Culture and its Discontents
It's a list of stuff
My submission for the Forgotten Games Essay Jam
For the Forgotten Games Essay Jam, an excavation of one corner of the '90s Girl Games boom.
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8-page zine for the forgotten games jam
real life haunted cartridges and 100 years in underwater file cabinets
A short text written as contribution to the "Forgotten games essay" jam
Thoughts on frustration, small business, and dress-up