Moving Stories

Early on in Prey, I accidentally killed a main character. The game let me keep playing until I lost my nerve and…

Some of the people who make Pokémon fan games are scared, if not a bit angry. They’ve been crafting amazing Pokémon…

What Remains of Edith Finch is a story about family, the nature of life, and the unknowability of mortality. In the…

Three Kotaku staffers have finished the new PlayStation 4 game Horizon Zero Dawn, so it feels like time to talk it…

Just going by the title “Mr Shifty,” you might expect something cute. Little Mr. Shifty. He sounds adorable, right?…

I thought I was done with roguelikes, but Streets of Rogue pulled me back in. The game sprinkles gobs of Deus Ex DNA…

Early in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I discovered a puzzle shrine containing a small maze. Inside that…

When news hit that Disney subsidiary Maker Studios was dropping support for over 59,000 YouTubers, the mood for many…

“What does one life matter?” is the question at the heart of Torment: Tides of Numenera. Initially shapeless, the…

Depending who you are, you’ll either want to hang out with Night in the Woods’ characters all the time or tell them…