Archive - Curate.Games

A Cipher Zero Puzzler Review

Or, The Tactile Satisfaction of Clicking on Squares

Jul 29 •

How I Would Redesign the Home Run Derby

Or, how to make watching big men launch baseballs into the stratosphere a marginally more fun watch

Jul 15 •

Am I inside Over the Garden Wall?

Reflections on the fresh and creative single-player autobattler: Become the Moon

Jul 8 •

Why Don't I play Sandbox games?

A quick excursion into the strange state of gaming, or as I like to call it: The Art is Better and the Discourse is Worse

Jul 6 •

Can a game be good?

My attempt to compare Racko and My City, two board games that have about as little to do with one another as you could possibly imagine

Jul 4 •

June 2025

Lost in Random: The Eternal Die

Thoughts on my favorite Hades-like of 2025

Jun 28 •

April 2025

March 2025

Complexity Challenges in Die in the Dungeon

Missing the Trees for the Branches

Mar 30 •

Roguelike Branches and Single Player Metagames

Some early thoughts on Die in the Dungeon and roguelike metagames

Mar 19 •

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