Perfect Tides
Did you sleep on Perfect Tides? You shouldn’t have. It’s one of this year’s best games, as staff writer Levi Winslow explained back in May. The point-and-click adventure from Three Bees documents the ups and downs of a teen internet junkie in the year 2000. Mara Whitefish expresses herself by writing online fanfiction in between navigating daily life on an island of rich peoples’ summer homes. Meredith Gran’s writing is both clever and scathing, providing an unflinching look back at our own lives in the process. As Levi wrote earlier this year, “Even if you didn’t grow up in the early 2000s, the complexity, compassion, and humanity with which Gran captures adolescence transcends its period setting, capturing something real and true about the excitement and anguish of growing up.”
