Curate.Games

Paper Computers

The joys of digital gaming can be captured in a permanent format

Oct 31, 2025 • Stuart Urback

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Rekindling New Magic

Opening up Once Upon a Galaxy's new set feels like the best parts of my early experiences Magic: The Gathering

Oct 24, 2025 • Stuart Urback

Playfulness and Painfulness

Disappointment is part of the art of games

Oct 21, 2025 • Stuart Urback

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September 2025

Sword of the Sea

A Beautiful, If Lonely World

Sep 8, 2025 • Stuart Urback

August 2025

You Should Play More Short Games

An Appreciation of Games that Don't Take Too Much Time

Aug 19, 2025 • Stuart Urback

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Bite-Sized Brilliance

Phone Games That Respect Your Time and Intelligence, Part 2 of (Infinite)

Aug 14, 2025 • Stuart Urback

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The Nuisance of Endless Novelty

Do we even want the statement "no two games are alike" to be true?

Aug 4, 2025 • Stuart Urback

July 2025

A Cipher Zero Puzzler Review

Or, The Tactile Satisfaction of Clicking on Squares

Jul 29, 2025 • Stuart Urback

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, 2025 • Stuart Urback

Am I inside Over the Garden Wall?

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

Jul 8, 2025 • Stuart Urback

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, 2025 • Stuart Urback

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, 2025 • Stuart Urback