I also praise @ghaoyuxin.bsky.social's "playable documentary" Out For Delivery, which still feels so fresh as a video game for including the lives of regular people:

In the article I talk of my love for System Shock's "bad" voice acting, performed mostly by the dev team:

STRAFTAT is suchcatnip...

Teruo Ishii's Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) still haunts me...

Northern Journey's one-of-a-kind artstyle is one of the most beautiful ever devised?

Dale and Dawson has something going for it: an Among Us-like set in a staitionery company's office. "Slackers" have to try to watch cat videos and sabotage the office without getting caught...
store.steampowered.com/app/2920570/...

Genuinely the most exciting thing to hear about a game:

I've had a lot of reasons to think about this insight from @foddy.net's Jiggly Zone review lately.