Andreas Inderwildi

Why Fountainhead Palace is Sekiro’s best level

Something fishy going on

What videogame maps can tell us about their worlds

The silent cartographers

How Return of the Obra Dinn refreshes the nautical disaster tale

Taking the puzzle game by storm

The allure of Viking fantasies, and the games that cherry-pick them

Norse of a different colour

Kingdom Come Deliverance's quest for historical accuracy is a fool's errand

Reality is not what it seems

Of grimoires and glyphs: the history behind RPG magic

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Bizarre bestiaries and weird relics: what fantasy can learn from history

Holy foreskins and medicinal balls