Jay Castello
Jay is a freelance games writer specialising in intersectional feminist critique, how to improve games and use them to improve the world, and cute dogs. She loves inhabiting digital spaces in all their forms, and being constantly surprised by just how weird and wonderful games can be.
Weekindies: Wander the Forest in Arboreta
Do you ever just appreciate the concept of colour? I love those twitter bots that just tweet out swatches, or the clock that turns...
Weekindies: Share a Smoke in Got a Light?
I get the impression that every woman who’s into women has stories like the one that plays out in Got A Light? I know...
Weekindies: Sail the Seas in The Little Ship
The opening screen of The Little Ship has a poignant message: “Sometimes beautiful things can pause your journey.”
This is partly a tutorial – hitting...
Weekindies: Make a Cuppa in Tea for Two
In Tea for Two you play as a snail. It’s a very cute snail. With a unicorn horn and a teapot perched on its...
Weekindies: Exercise Your Fingers in Exit84
Exit84 is a typing-platformer.
Those aren’t necessarily genres that are usually mashed together, but somehow, it actually works. Filling out the letters on the screen...
Weekindies: Explore the Forest in Woodfarer
Woodfarer tasks you with exploring a beautiful, colourful woodland in search of three spirits.
These spirits are needed to open a shrine, a horse tells...
Weekindies: Build Your Own Platformer in Unfulfilled
If you've been itching to try your hand at game development, but lack the time or skills to dive in, Unfulfilled gives you the chance...
Weekindies: Get Your Fair Share in Lost Wage Rampage
International Women’s Day was this week. Time to stick it to the patriarchy with Lost Wage Rampage!
Sexism is infuriating. There’s only so many calm conversations...
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Review: Storytelling in the Heartland
In Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, stories live everywhere people do. They are clustered in towns, tucked into nooks in mountain ranges, and...
Weekindies: Explore Nature’s Ethics in Moving
In Moving, you control a parasitic plant.
By hopping into deer, you can move. That’s good news for a plant; as the game’s title suggests,...
Weekindies: Fly High with Hamilton and Baxter
Hamilton and Baxter are, presumably, this good bird and his wonderful snail friend. I’m not sure which is which, but personally I’d like to...
Moss Review: A Miniature Masterpiece
Moss is the single cutest game I have ever played.
I was not prepared for just how small Quill is. Yes, Moss’s protagonist is a...
Weekindies: Dance Along to CLOUD NINE
A few weeks ago I wrote about small, an interactive poem with a lower-case title that fit with its soft spoken attitude. CLOUD NINE,...
Weekindies: Take A Tranquil Walk in Snowday
Snowday captures that feeling of stepping into a fresh snowfall. It’s not just about the crunch underfoot. It's the way that a crisp, white...
Weekindies: Fly Through JetHack’s Neon City
JetHack is a game about soaring through the air and hacking corporate billboards.
If you haven’t run off to download it already – well, why...
Weekindies: Experience a Dream in Fresnel
Fresnel does a wonderful job of capturing the fragmented, half-remembered nature of dreams.
Every scattered vignette begins abruptly, introducing a space with its own rules,...