Nidhogg (2014)

you've already started it in your head. may as well finish it on paper.

Having your own website means you can review a 2-year-old game you love on the flimsiest excuse.

Jank now includes Nic Reuben. Here's his debut piece about extraction shooters for people who hate multiplayer.

Episode 33: Wee Butt Mode | Total Playtime Podcast Get more from Total Playtime Podcast on Patreon

Distract yourself from Bluesky glitches with a new public episode! Proven-wrong guesses about the GTA-leak, almost0-certainly-wrong guesses about Epic's Disney shooter, and discussions of three actual videogames. Find it on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts: www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

I'm sorry Polygon but you forgot a number of exquisite bangers: www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-12-most-...

This is some neat-sounding bullshit I wrote because Idols Of Ash is actually about being scared by a giant centipede so you press W too hard and fall down a hole

The best singleplayer levels in first-person PC games Let me level with you

Last week we chose the best multiplayer maps. Now we turn our crooked gaze to singleplayer levels.

www.jank.cool/the-best-sin...

i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video

it was on the list until i deleted it because i was tired

shit i forgot to put Hang 'Em High in this

Murder Dog IV: Trial Of The Murder Dog by thecatamites Available for Windows, macOS

incidentally, for no reason in particular, i think it's time for us all to play this game in this trying time:
thecatamites.itch.io/murder-dog-i...

Hunt: Showdown walked (quietly into a swamp) so that Marathon could run (headfirst into discourse)

I can break this game in ways you'll never understand

Not openly at the minute, sorry!

I also had these bedsheets 🥲

Jank I guess I could read about PC games.

Everything I linked above has been FREE. If you’d like us to keep doing this, please think about chucking us some quids. A full year’s subscription costs less than some blockbuster games at full-price. Janks very much.

www.jank.cool

Look at all this! This is a functioning PC gaming blog! By a handful of people! Without ads, bullshit, AI fuckos, or any suits from corporate telling us to pivot to florps.

Esoteric Ebb review A smart, funny puzzle game in RPG clothing

Other writers – we have been able to commission Sin Vega and Alice Bell as freelancers to write stuff like a piece on the writing in Heart Of The Machine, and this Esoteric Ebb review.

You will see more names you like.

www.jank.cool/esoteric-ebb...

Finally, a car mechanic sim where your mates do all the work Jonty and Brendy "team up" in Car Service Together

Hijinks – Speaking of Jonty, did you know he was once a car mechanic? He let me apprentice for him in a co-op car mechanic simulator. It went well. It went great.

www.jank.cool/its-a-car-me...

Newsletter - Jank I guess I could read about PC games.

Jank Mail – Once a week Jonty sends a newsletter to your cybermailbox. It is full of gossip and fire. He also tells you what we’ve been working on all week. He wisely redacts our secret meetings about eXpAnDiNg ThE jAnK bRaNd.

www.jank.cool/tag/newslett...

Total Playtime: The Trials of Anubis Dead reckoning

Total Playtime – It’s the podcast! With lots of news and, uh, “analysis” from Alice and Nate and Jonty and I and whoever else Nate can summon with an unsettling voice filter. We also went through the 12 gates of the Egyptian underworld (subscribers only, dirtbag).

www.jank.cool/total-playti...

What is your fondest memory of jank? 14 game devs tell us A celebration of unintentional comedy in games

Big features – We began with our favourite games of the decade so far. Then we asked a heap of developers for their favourite examples of "jank" in games. We’re working on another big ‘un right now.

www.jank.cool/what-is-your...

The Lie-In Our weekly roundup of links worth reading

The Lie-In – Every Sunday we line up the best writing about videogames from the past week. And when I say “we” I mean Graham because he spent a decade doing this for RPS and is fully institutionalised. If he doesn’t do this he begins to shake.

www.jank.cool/the-lie-in-9/

Bits - Jank Short articles for when you can't be arsed.

Bits – We came up with “bits” as a shorthand for small posts for games we’ve only played a little, but we still have thoughts about. We’ve written like 30 bits so far.

www.jank.cool/tag/bits/

Lost And Found Co. review (of the YouTube videos I watched alongside it) It could have lost the plot, and maybe I have

Reviews – We’ve published 8 reviews, from lavish car advertisement Resident Evil Requiem to anime racing game Screamer. My favourite is Graham’s review of the YouTube videos he watched while playing Lost And Found Co.

www.jank.cool/lost-and-fou...

Jank has been going for 2 months. In that time we’ve published over 100 articles. We are not fuckin around. Here's a rundown of our work so far.

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The lost wonder of Minecraft comes back in Lucid Blocks It's Notch your usual crafting game

Here's a game that darkly simulates the sense of wonder from your first steps in Minecraft.

www.jank.cool/lucid-blocks...

This is like a Twitch stream but you read it.

here's all the ones we rejected:
The Sim-pilled Life
Saturday Sim
Perfect simmetry
Simping for sims
Seven Deadly Sims
Cardinal sims
Venal sims
Living In Sim
For my sims
Ugly as sim
A multitude of sims
The sim bin
Falling into sim
The sims of the father
Sim of omission