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Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️ @floramerigold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...
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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming
Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gonna start writing short impressions of games I come across. store.steampowered.com/app/4562940/... First off Hope01 is a VERY impressive early access survival horror game with extraction elements. Every item has like a PARAGRAPH of lore text and everything just feels great. Lots to explore.
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HOPE 01 is a single player extraction survival RPG with multiple endings. Explore, Loot, and Fight your way through the dangerous enemies and bosses of the hab cluster and solve the mystery of the leg...
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Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Reskeeting with alt text But yeah this Ive had quite a few people ask me "wait you've never used it? Why not it's so fun" and I'm there like why would I want someoen else to do the thing I love for me? Its the same as when I say I don't want players to design my world thr making is what I love!
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As a writer who doesn't use Al, it's not like there is some temptation I am resisting.

I am a writer. I engage in the act of writing.

It's like asking if someone who loves to play tennis would prefer sitting on the sidelines and watching a robot play tennis. They'd be like, "No, man, it would just make me want to play tennis."

There's no temptation; the very idea is baffling.
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I will buy every rerelease of this game until the heat death of the universe
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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 14/05/2026
My memory of what it was like to browse the Xbox Live Indie Games store page in 2010
My artist’s impression (meaning not real, parody) of Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG) circa 2010. One is called "DEKIRU-KA" (Japanese for "Is it possible"), with colored geometric shapes, indicating it's maybe some kind of abstract puzzler. The other is called "Pirates vs Ninjas: Quest for the Epic Bacon" in a pixel font and with a pixelated picture of bacon.
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
safetyvalve.substack.com/p/sundered-d... I wrote some thoughts about Sundered, a game that I think deserves more attention.
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Sundered Doesn't Want You Here
and that's why I love it
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 24/03/2026
Hey, I decided to write up a review of Marathon. Here it is! (free post) jeff.zone/posts/marath...
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Marathon Review | Jeff Gerstmann
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Finally had a decent chunk of time to myself so I played Marathon with random squads for about four hours straight. My nerves are absolutely shot but I can't remember the last time I had this much fun in a multiplayer game. Loving just learning how to survive and uncover bits of lore.
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/safetyva... My top 10 games list for 2025, for those interested. 10. Skin Deep 9. Carimara 8. Absolum 7. Abiotic Factor 6. Silent Hill f 5. Keep Driving 4. Two Point Museum 3. Hades II 2. Blue Prince 1. Look Outside
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Top 10 Games of 2025
I can't really overstate just how amazing this year was for videogame fans.
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samantha @goblinsorcerer.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
that’s why we love you creeper you’re a real ass dude
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Kite Line @kiteline.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Huge thanks to everyone in the SOUP GROUP for their support, enthusiasm, and incredible patience with me on this project. SOUP ROOMS literally would not have been possible without them. More SOUP-like experiences will be arriving from us in the future. Stay tuned! kiteline.itch.io/soup-rooms
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SOUP ROOMS by Kite Line, KIRA
The latest in SOUP-like room tourism technology.
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Morning Song @aubade.itch.io · 11/11/2025
the infamous Daikatana ad, changed to read "John Romero's about to wish you well."
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t4trees @repinuj.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I painted ur dog
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Tomb Raider @tombraider.com · 01/10/2025
Lara Croft is pixelated perfection in this animation by RaiOuArt on X. View the original post here: x.com/RaiOuArt/status/1938766539018379372 #LaraCroft #TombRaider #BlockBench #LowPoly
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Game is getting some decent reviews so it picked it up. It's fun! But I'm shocked nobody is talking about the soundtrack. I'm only minutes in and I'm already blown away. Might be some of the best music to come out this year.
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 16/08/2025
Someone should do the street fighter 2 character select theme but with a banjo
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I love this game
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Note the amount of time between all five of these purchases. I'm pretty sure all I played was AudioSurf and UT.
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ScreamingMadden @trbucket.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If you haven’t played this game by now please do! It might be my favorite game ever! The flow of the game is super addictive autoserving foods and doing second steps and getting a gold medal in a level feels immaculate. Also a great progression system and an all timer OST!
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I am so unbelievably excited about this
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
store.steampowered.com/app/2738490/... Sol Cesto absolutely deserves your attention. Deceptively simple mechanics with a wild hand-drawn art style.
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Save 30% on Sol Cesto on Steam
Sol Cesto is a tactical and frantic roguelite where mastering your luck is key. Choose a hero, upgrade them using cursed teeth and magical items, and descend to the bottom of an ever-changing dungeon....
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/safetyva... I wrote an article about returning to Morrowind after 20 years or so
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Finding My Home in Vvardenfell: A Return to Morrowind
I take my first steps outside the Census and Excise Office in Seyda Neen as the morning sun peeks out from behind the nearby lighthouse.
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Nina Pasadena from Skin Deep is quickly joining the pantheon of badass female videogame protagonists
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
safetyvalve.substack.com/p/tomb-raide... I wrote a somewhat self-indulgent article about when Tomb Raider and Magic: The Gathering had a crossover and how I still can't stop thinking about it.
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Tomb Raider and Magic: The Gathering - An Analysis Nobody Wanted On a Crossover I Specifically Requested
I’m a big fan of Tomb Raider and Magic: The Gathering. They probably rank somewhere among my top 10 fictional universes, and are certainly some of my highest-magnitude hyperfixations since childhood. ...
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
After playing There Swings A Skull and Look Outside I'd love to find more abstract horror RPGMaker games that don't have a ridiculous amount of grind or super obtuse mechanics
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I don't really know why but the visuals at the very start of this mission in Slitterhead really interest me. It looks like the setup to a horror movie. Dirty guy with a burlap sack mask, hooded girl next to him, stalking outside a bright building. Except, that's you. You're the stranger here.
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
safetyvalve.bearblog.dev/abiotic-driv... I wrote a thing about Abiotic Factor and Keep Driving, two games I'm absolutely obsessed with
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Abiotic Factor and Keep Driving - My current obsession
Every once in a while a game comes along that completely clicks with me, and I entirely obsess over; a game that gives me a feeling early on that I'll be pla...
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aLec robBins @alecrobbins.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
the first time you play Katamari Damacy is a little like the first time you stick your arm out the window of a moving car and feel the wind on your fingers
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I purchased this and Abiotic Factor, a Half-Life 1 inspired imsim/survival game, within days of each other and they both fulfill completely different aspects of my gaming tastes completely. It makes me want to start writing again.
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safetyvalve.bsky.social @safetyvalve.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
open.substack.com/pub/safetyva... I wrote a thing about my favorite games this year
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Top Ten Games of 2023
2023 is winding up to be simultaneously one of the best years and also one of the most strangely disappointing years for video games in a long time. Alongside every universally-agreed new “must play...
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 02/10/2023
Everyone's going crazy for Astarion, but no one seems all that into MK1's Shang Tsung, which shocks me
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