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Chris Schilling
Journalist
Stir The Senses
Make You Think
https://bsky.app/profile/schillingc.bsky.social
Chris Schilling is Lost In Cult’s editorial director and former deputy editor of Edge. He likes games that stir the senses, and games that make you think — ideally, ones that do a bit of both.
Richard Marsh runs indie game YouTube channels including VideoGameiacs. He plays an unending stream of indie games from the dark corners of the internet.
Andy Kelly is a former journalist for the likes of Edge, PC Gamer, Vice, and The Guardian. He now writes books about video games and does PR for Devolver Digital. He likes mystery and detective games with deep vibes.
Simon Parkin is a British journalist, author of several award-winning books, and video game critic for The Observer newspaper. He has a keen interest in Strategy RPGs, classic shoot 'em ups, and experimental games, particularly those with a strong storytelling ambition.
20 Games
Likes Hard Games
Traversal
Narrative
Adventure
Jake Birkett
Game Maker
Indie-Twist
https://greyaliengames.com/
Jake Birkett has been an indie developer since 2005 and has worked on Forbidden Solitaire, Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire. He loves card game-likes with a retro twist or anything that reminds him of the C64 and Amiga.
Willem Hilhorst is a games-archivist at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision. He also works as a journalist focusing on colorful and thought provoking games. He likes indie games that execute a single idea with emotion and precision.
Game creator who's worked on LittleBigPlanet, Knights And Bikes and Tearaway. He likes games with rich worlds, strong presentation and full of personality. And sometimes with dice in them too apparently.
Andy is CEO of charity building apps and games that help people explore and express faith. He has a new project is The Serpent & The Seed. He loves games with strong stories that are told with mechanics as much as text.
Casey Explosion is streamer and YouTuber with a focus on horror games. Indie survival horror, retro FPS, point & click adventures, narrative focused games, the works.
Rachel Watts is a freelance journalist and critic specialising in indie games. She has written for Edge, PC Gamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and more. She loves narrative-driven games, and bonus points if there's a mystery to solve.
Ambrosia Sky (2025) is a cosmic-horror adventure where you traverse the remnants of a human space colony in the wake of its decimation by alien fungal contamination.
The Séance of Blake Manor (2025) is a puzzle adventure set in 1897 Ireland where you are summoned to a remote hotel to find the missing Evelyn Deane as mystics and socialites gather for a grand séance.
Consume Me (2025) is a narrative adventure that satirically explores the pressures of adolescence, self-image, and societal expectations through the lens of one high school senior’s final year.
RV There Yet? (2025) is an action-adventure where you and your friends must hustle a battered powered RV campervan across the lethal back roads of Mabutts Valley.
The Séance of Blake Manor (2025) is a puzzle adventure set in 1897 Ireland where you are summoned to a remote hotel to find the missing Evelyn Deane as mystics and socialites gather for a grand séance.
Confidential Killings (Coming Soon) is a point-and-click brain game where you play a detective piecing together the deaths of Hollywood's elite to reveal a sinister conspiracy.
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream (Coming Soon) is a social simulation game about building and nurturing a community on an island filled with customisable characters called Miis.
Return of the Obra Dinn (2018) is a narrative puzzle game where you play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have mysteriously died.
Fez (2012) is a dimension based puzzle game where you, as a small character called Gomez, can rotate between four 2D views of the 3D world (as four sides around a cube-like space).
Metaphor: ReFantazio (2024) is a role-play from the Persona team that takes the relationally-charged adventure in a fantasy direction as you work to lift the curse from the kingdom's lost prince.
The Roottrees Are Dead (2025) is a narrative game where you piece together a family tree from scraps of information you find during the early Internet era.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025) is a role-play adventure set in a fantasy version of France, where a mysterious enemy kills everyone of a certain age every year.
Metroid Dread (2021), the latest Metroid game, is a running, jumping, exploring and fighting game where you progress through levels, fight challenging bosses and uncover secrets.
Balatro (2024) is a card-battle game where you build poker hands using special cards that turbo-charge your chances to beat an increasing score target.
Return of the Obra Dinn (2018) is a narrative puzzle game where you play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have mysteriously died.
Fez (2012) is a dimension based puzzle game where you, as a small character called Gomez, can rotate between four 2D views of the 3D world (as four sides around a cube-like space).