The Imaginary Engine Review
An online journal of games criticism. We publish writing on independent, obscure, and/or retro games by the margins, for the margins.
- Created by Grace Benfell and Phoenix Simms
- Located in United States / Canada
- June 2024
- Free + Paid tiers
Recent posts
June 26, 2026
A lot of CAVYHOUSE's satirical clicker game Forget-Me-Not: My Organic Garden hinges on the concept of the shadow price. In accountant and poet Farah Ghafoor's debut poetry collection, titled after this term, she explores the concept of "estimated value for something that is not usually bought and…
May 13, 2026
Hello readers, First up, we have a couple quick announcements. Our next issue, releasing over the few weeks, will be on the satrical clicker Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden from developer CAVYHOUSE. Afterwards, we'll be tackling our next theme issue… This will be a BIG issue, featuring writing…
April 16, 2026
Artists and filmmakers Sonya Mwambu and Nada El-Omari started collaborating back in 2015. Their latest and ongoing project is +1-home , a hybrid art installation and digital exhibition from 2021. The project uses the motif of the calling card to share not just the memories of their various homes…
