Reviews

Is Gateway 2: Homeworld the brilliant sci-fi banquet everyone forgot to RSVP to, or the crusty Tupperware lingering in interactive fiction’s communal fridge (complete with a passive-aggressive sticky note: “DO NOT microwave, Heechee radiation hazard!”)? Does it deserve an honored seat at the high table of early-’90 s adventure design, or is it wobbling atop an IKEA footstool […]

Is Strike Commander a bizarre one-off or a straight-laced classic? (Trick question: it’s somehow both, wearing a leather flight jacket over a three-piece business suit.) Is it chronically underrated or secretly overrated?, Yes, in alternate frames of the same animation. And is it essential or eminently skippable in an era when your Steam library bulges

Is Return to Zork a bizarre detour or a textbook classic? (Trick question: it’s a pork barrel full of both, equal parts vintage Infocom whimsy and early-’90s multimedia hubris, like strapping a jet engine to a typewriter just to ask, “Paper jam?”) Underrated or overrated?, Yes, simultaneously, depending on whether your first encounter came via a free AOL demo