Archive - Curate.Games

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 •

Memory Games Can Be Surprisingly Fun

A slate of recent games that play with memorization introduce fun in unexpected places

Mar 12 •

A Review of Steam Next Fest

It's a Scholastic Book Fair, but for Game Nerds

Mar 6 •

February 2025

Why I've Never Played Exploding Kittens

Games out now are better, the discourse is worse, let's talk about why

Feb 22 •

How many memories about games do we actually have?

The relationship between games and memory is fluid and weird

Feb 14 •

January 2025

What makes a genre defining game?

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors reinvigorates a new(ish) formula

Jan 31 •

Great Mobile Games are Like Digital Haiku

Excellent game design is available on your phone, you just have to know where to look for it

Jan 24 •

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