We process what we absorbed from Sam Barlow's film fragment exploration game. In the next episode, we dive deeper.

We debate whether DVD menus are games.

In Space With Markiplier, part 1
In Space With Markiplier, part 2
Bloopers & Behind-the-scenes
Corridor Crew + Markiplier

Our favorite channels:

We turn the art dial on mental health to 11.

We fail to live up to Lucas Pope's hopes in his artsy and ambitious supernatural high seas detective followup to Papers Please.

We solve the mysteries of Perfect 25 to a soundtrack of divine Scottish citypop.

• Shall We Play a Game?, What's Good Games, Ólafur Arnalds

We traverse the United Cities of Iceland and reconnect America.

We discuss the emotional impacts of two large presences in our year of Covid, and attempt to process why the experience of playing these two games felt somehow transcendent in a year of isolation, loneliness, and a void of travel.

We talk about our perception of the themes and designers' intents in this labyrinthine surreal art of 5 acts, conceived and released over a decade in the wake of American recession.

Personal reflections: