Games I Played in June 2025

Games, Review
Entry hall in Blue Prince. | screenshot by me

Blue Prince (Dogubomb) is probably the best game I’ve ever played that ultimately is not for me. The game is wonderful in so many ways. It opens with an interesting story premise — a young man inherits a mansion, which will only become his if he can find the mysterious 46th room — and features beautiful illustrative-style art with muted undertones.

The gameplay is also quite fun, allowing the player to figure out how to play through the process of playing. As you enter the mansion, you are given a brief note and then open a door and are presented with a card draw of three rooms to build, and from that room (as long as it’s not a dead end), you build more and more rooms, constructing a path deeper into the home. You are able to continue building, exploring, and collecting supplies and zeroes until you run out of steps and are forced to take a rest, resetting the entire house to zero — creating a roguelike feel.

This is Not a Game: The Kid A Mnesia Exhibition

Games, Review
“Echo Chamber” in Kid A Mnesia Exhibition

Radiohead’s “Creep” is one of those classic ’90s grunge songs that fed my teenage years, allowing me to reflect on my own feelings of being a creep and weirdo. Over the subsequent years (and now decades), Radiohead has remained on my peripheral radar, drawing me in with their experimental soundscapes blending electronica and grungy undertones, with a mix of melancholy or moody vibes.

Recently, I’ve discovered a renewed interest in the band through the Kid A Mnesia Exhibition, a digital museum in which each room creates a unique audiovisual experience paired with specific songs from the band’s Kid A and Amnesiac albums. I find myself now immersing myself all over again in their work and even delving even more deeply into their albums, following this interactive experience.

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