Monica Phillips

Monica is a writer, artist, YouTuber, modder, musician, and general doer of all things related to video games. She’s a trans woman with a bit of experience and love for every game genre. From her first experience with Cave Story to loving Celeste and going through the life-changing Outer Wilds, indie games have become the core thing she’s grown to love and care about when it comes to video games. They’re all about finding new games to fall in love with, new genres to dive into thoroughly, and new experiences to attach to forever.

Astral Tracks Announced: Competitive Randomly-Generated Speedrunning

If you’ve ever played platformers with great movement, like A Hat in Time, and enjoyed competing with your friends for times, then Astral Tracks looks to be exactly the game for you. It features procedurally generated levels with wall-running, airdashing, and grappling hooks, all with 12-player cross-platform online battles. We’re given no release date yet, […]

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Terraria Calamity Mod Players are Making Wonderful Art Together

If you’ve been on the internet for a while now, you’ve probably heard of R/Place, an experiment done by Reddit every few years where everyone can place a pixel on a shared canvas once every few minutes. This leads to much collaboration and great art, and the Terraria Calamity Mod team has put together their

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Devolver Delayed Showcase Outlines Five Indie Delays

Devolver Digital started doing Nintendo Direct-style presentations in 2020, and I think they’re addicted, considering they just used a Devolver Direct to announce the delay of 5 previously announced games, lovingly titled Devolver Delayed. This Devolver Delayed presentation briefly said that all these games are moving to 2024 and reviewed some games still coming in

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Promising Indie Souls-like Deathbound Announced

When you think of indie games, you probably think of cozy, wholesome adventures. Well, not all indies fall into that category. Certainly not upcoming souls-like Deathbound! Publisher Tate Media and developer Trialforge Studio have worked together on almost every game they’ve made, and announced today is a game that’s no different. While the studios have

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