Reviews

Critical Hits: An Indie Gaming Anthology by Dámhín McKeown, Joe Griffin, Zoë Jellicoe, Holly Gramazio, Emilie Reed, Aidan Wall, Katherine Neil, Cate Meredith, Owen Harris, Leo Devlin, Austin Walker

kungtofu's review

informative

5.0

regalalgorithm's review

4.0

This is a short collection of 10 essays about indie games circa 2016, and one I mostly enjoyed. Though there are misses - I thought 2 of the essays were plainly bad, in argumentation as well as writing - most of the essays work and are informative, entertaining, or just interesting. A crowdfunded effort (one I backed), it skews far more towards simple to understand rather than academic-style essays, making it easily readable and quick to get through. Still, it does cover unexpected ground - even as a person who keeps up with indie games and games criticism, I discovered many new types of games and thoughts about games. For that, for its readability, for its good and varid selection of authors, and for its clearly-passion-project nature, this is worth a read.