Critical Reflection
Critical Reflection is an artzine for those who believe games can be poetry and that they carry meaning. That a procedurally generated cave can hold the weight of myth. That a glitch can be a ghost. That getting lost is sometimes not only the point, but the adventure.
- Created by Thomas Grønvoll
- Located in Norway
- January 2024
- Free
Recent posts
September 12, 2025
The Division disguises authoritarian conditioning as tactical gameplay. Through mechanical complexity and dopamine-driven progression, it trains players to see state violence as skillful, necessary, and rewarding —while foreclosing moral alternatives and rendering community resilience invisible.…
August 22, 2025
How Unpacking transforms cardboard boxes into profound storytelling about identity, belonging, and queer love through wordless environmental narrative. Source
August 7, 2025
Somewhere between the pixel-perfect polish of AAA blockbusters and the raw sincerity of indie games lies a forgotten space — the middle space. It’s where ambition meets limitation, where games dare to be too strange, too sincere, too flawed to fit the mold. These are the B-games: beautiful…