Curate.Games

Sword of the Sea

A Beautiful, If Lonely World

Sep 8 • 

Stuart Urback

August 2025

You Should Play More Short Games

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

Aug 19 • 

Stuart Urback

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Bite-Sized Brilliance

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

Aug 14 • 

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 • 

Stuart Urback

July 2025

A Cipher Zero Puzzler Review

Or, The Tactile Satisfaction of Clicking on Squares

Jul 29 • 

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 • 

Stuart Urback

Am I inside Over the Garden Wall?

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

Jul 8 • 

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 • 

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 • 

Stuart Urback

June 2025

Lost in Random: The Eternal Die

Thoughts on my favorite Hades-like of 2025

Jun 28 • 

Stuart Urback

April 2025

The Spellers

How Boggle helped me appreciate and understand family

Apr 15 • 

Stuart Urback

On the Edge of Eternal (Decks)

A combinatorially complex game with a simple ruleset delivers a metal experience from start to finish

Apr 10 • 

Stuart Urback