What is Non-Trivial about? Non-Trivial is here to do three things: First, publish great games crit. Not games industry crit. Not reviews, not features. Great games criticism. We want every piece on ...

i can’t call myself an x-men fan, necessarily. i would be stealing valour from those who are more invested in these characters, these stories, to a degree i ...

Visions of labor in the Citizen Sleeper games

this is a site dedicated to games and the art of writing about them. it's not obvious, but there's a double negative tucked away inside our this website's name. to be trivial is to be unimportant, un...

This Month on Past Games: Act 1: The Making of Metroid Act 2: The Original Trilogy Creates a Genre Act 3: The Ups and Downs of Metroid Seque

Big Walk begins with a simple premise and promise. The player, taking the embodiment of some kind of ant thing, spawns into a room with prompts. You walk those hallowed halls and get an explanation as...

this is a site dedicated to games and the art of writing about them. it's not obvious, but there's a double negative tucked away inside our this website's name. to be trivial is to be unimportant, un...

Welcome to Non-Trivial.  Do you remember the first time you felt dissatisfied with a conversation about a game? Like, really grumpy about it. Did it stick with you through the day? Did you subtweet t...

Six months passed by in the blink of an eye, and I, AndresPlays, take the time to think about the video games that have impacted me the most so far this year.