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Welcome to Buttonhook: 4
The influential loneliness of Myst: 6
Supergiant’s golden formula is player agency: 8
Funny games, and the clowns who play them: 10
Final Fantasy XIV is wrong to mock this fish bread: 12
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet convinced me to transition: 16
A brief introduction to text-based roleplaying: 18
The beauty of FMV: 20
Microsoft's Just Press Play was dead on arrival: 22
Signs of the Sojourner took me out of the fun: 24
Everything's a mess, and the vibes are immaculate: 26
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a living world where you can ask for help: 28
Pokemon Go must decide how accessible it wants to be: 30
In the Boktai series, you rage against the dying of the light — and win: 32
Waiting doesn’t have to be the hardest part: 34
Maybe: 36
The meditative power of speedrunning: 38
Art makes us human: 40
This candid hero admits it’s all a ruse: 42
Big Berry is Ted Lasso, Big Berry is Jupiter: 44
Wytchwood buries the lede under frog slimes and forest herbs: 46
Contributors: 54