This summer, I'm writing one essay about an indie video game each week. Who are you? It doesn't matter. Why do this? Because I want to write some e...
this game is beautiful and boring, and we need more like it There was a time in my life when I would’ve hated despelote . It wasn’t even that long ago; ten years, perhaps? Back then Assassin’s Creed II was my idea of ‘peak video game’ and I sunk hours every afternoon after school into Madden and FIFA . That version of me would’ve hated despelote . And the reason I would have hated despelote seems…
* * * The Séance of Blake Manor is not a detective game. Fine, it bills itself as a detective game on Steam. Reddit and Bluesky and Twitter are home to conversations like “—what’s a good detective game??? —oh you HAVE to play the seance of blake manor” . And perhaps they have a point. The setting is a dark and spooky mansion. You literally play a detective whose…