Free Lo-Fi Horror Games on Itchio, Spring 2023 Edition

I polished my reviews of the free lo-fi horror games I played on Itch.io this spring and posted them on my main blog. This is a list of links to the games and my reviews, organized according to how long it takes to finish each game.

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As a sidenote, An Autumn With You and There’s Nothing To Do In This Town are more “monster games” than “horror games,” and they’re both fairly wholesome. All of the games on this list are quite good, by the way. I played a handful of garbage games, but I didn’t write about them. Life is too short to waste on bad games, even if they’re free.

2023 Writing Log, Part Seventeen

I didn’t have much free time or privacy while visiting family during the past two weeks. Writing was impossible, and the only thing I could draw were marker sketches for people’s children to use as coloring pages. This is all I have to report:

- My essay about the shifting fan reception of The Wind Waker was published on Sidequest (here). Pitching this project resulted in nothing but solid rejections for four months straight. I’m glad it finally found a home.

- And lo and behold, my essay was featured on Critical Distance (here). I was so happy when I saw this that I literally cried.

- I played some free horror(ish) games on Itchio and wrote a handful of short reviews. I just posted a list of links to the games and my reviews (here on Dreamwidth).

- The artist I commissioned to illustrate my story (on AO3 here) about Varré and Mohg from Elden Ring finished the piece and posted it on Twitter (here). It’s absolutely phenomenal. The artist really didn’t have to go that hard, but I’m not complaining. I had a great experience working with them, and I can’t recommend them enough to anyone in the market for a(n affordable!) cover commission.

In case you missed it: Syria bombed Israel, Israel bombed Gaza, Gaza bombed Israel, and Jordan bombed Syria. Between one thing and another, I managed to make it out okay. It’s good to be alive.