Zainabb Hull reviews Teacup, an “easy” narrative game, but finds the experience on Android more frustrating than cosy.

Nyasha Oliver reviews Bratz: Flaunt Your Fashion, and finds it to be an uninspired, mediocre use of the stylish franchise’s branding.

Honestly Games’ Lords and Villeins is an earnest city builder that doesn’t quite add up to more than the sum of its parts.

The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow mixes the mystery of point-and-click adventures with the uncanny chills of folk horror in a winning, eerie combo.

Elvie Mae Parian journeys to the Land of Screens where she finds an eye-catching narrative game but an ultimately hollow commentary.

Angharad Redden explores autistic representation in video games and how her own diagnosis changed her relationship with games.

Michelle Caldeira reminisces about cacophonous and cramped childhood Christmases, and the Dreamcast that changed everything.

Evelyn Grey explores the meta-narrative of Dark Souls, and why the game seems to resonate so much with transfeminine gamers.

Ennis Bashe examines how mobile game Choices: Stories You Play works to include queer and trans players… and what it could improve on.

This year’s PAX West was weird (McDonald’s made an appearance?) but still packed with intriguing games in a variety of genres.