Things I Liked: July-September 2025

01 October 2025

Welcome to another issue of Things I Liked! Since last time, I've written about Uncertainty in Legacy Games, and all the events I’m doing right now. I also released Borrowers Dungeon Crawl for the One-Page RPG Jam, and Visitations, a solo game inspired by a Christmas Carol which is on sale for October! Design Diaries will be released for both of these eventually, but I've just started uni again so it’s pretty full-on at the moment!

Godkiller

Buy Godkiller: First Blood on Itch here!

I’ve been playing Godkiller by Connie Chang with my friend Val and I’ve been loving it! Its a 1-to-1 PBtA game set in a world of cannibalistic gods. One player is the Godkiller and the other is the GM, God.

The game oozes with theme and flavour. Each move is evocative and the outcomes always feel like they drive the story forward. I’m particularly fond of the diceless moves, where the Godkiller answers one question and the GM answers the other. I didn't think this is a wholly new development for PBtA games, but using them in the 1-to-1 format feels particularly effective.

It's also really made me appreciate 1-to-1 RPGs, and the intimacy of the format is only heightened by moves like Do As You're Told. I was completely enamoured by the Godkiller actual play that designer Chang and Godkiller’s dramaturge (and Chang's partner) Sea Thomas performed on the Transplanar YouTube channel. I’ve recommended it on a previous Things I Liked post, but check it out again if you missed it the first time. This was my introduction to the game and it hooked me immediately.

Currently the game is an ashcan release, but it’s already really gorgeous and pretty thorough contents-wise. I think the one thing I really want from the full release is a larger list of sample gospels, the personalities and philosophies you give to each NPC. When I have to come up with an NPC on the fly, I struggle to give them one, so I would really appreciate having a through list that I can pull from when I need to.

FlyKnight

Buy FlyKnight on Steam here!

FlyKnight is a short, first-person dungeon crawler video game that I played with my partner Jamie. You are humanoid flies on a quest to defeat the evil witch Lunamoth who cursed all flies to never grow wings.

The artstyle is great. It’s low-poly character models are very charming, and all of the animations feels very expressive. I was pleasently surprised by the combat, which became very tactical over time. As you fight enemies, you can cut their limbs off, reducing their damage or movement. The different weapons have different attack animations, meaning some are better for striking certain body parts over others. And the friendly fire meant we had to be careful when ganging up on the same enemy together.

Also, the game is only £4.99, a steal! I got 3.7 hours out of it across 2 sessions, which I think is definitely enough to justify that price. Check it out for a short, charming, old school dungeon experience!

Game Changer Season 7

Check it out on Dropout here!

The latest season of Game Changer absolutely crushed it. There’s so much to talk about but I’ll stick to some of my favourite episodes:

You-lympics sees Brennan Lee Mulligan, Ify Nwadiwe and Katie Marovitch completing a series of challenges and then trying to beat their previous attempts. This was one of those episodes that really leaned into the fact that the contestants don’t know what’s coming, because they only realise the gimmick halfway through recording the episode.

Crowd Control is a new all-timer for me, and Sam seemed to enjoy it so much that he commissioned a whole series of it before the episode even aired! It sees stand-up comedians Jeff Arcuri, Josh Johnson and Gianmarco Soresi do crowd work while the whole crowd are wearing t-shirts hinting at their interesting stories. As a big fan of stand-up, I really love this one! The full series will probably make it’s way onto next season’s post, but only two episodes are out right now.

The Drinking Game, Rulette, Who Wants to be Jacob Wysocki, and of course the bonus episode Samalamadingdong are all up there with new favourite episodes too. This season absolutely killed it!

GUDIYA

Watch Part I and Part II on YouTube!

GUDIYA is an actual play of Bluebeard’s Bride by Nameless Domain. Despite winning the Best of the Best award at the New Jersey Webfest in 2023, episode 1 sits at 1.7k views and episode 2 sits at under 400, everyone is sleeping on this thing!

I first encountered this two-part series when this Rascal article from last year came up on my feed. It describes the game as “the closest I’ve seen to an AP art film,” which immediately caught my interest, so I started the series without reading further.

Rowan points this out in the Rascal article, but the choice to play Bluebeard’s Bride with three PCs gives it this beautiful mythic feeling, with the three facets of femininity evoking the pagan triple goddess. The game’s Desi perspective also really makes it stand out to me, with the threat of colonisation added to the many threats that Bluebeard embodies in this game.

I also really loved the visual aesthetic of this series! It uses digital collage and similar techniques to represent Gudiya’s mentality visually, with her face shattering like porcelain and growing and shifting in body-horrific ways.

Everyone should watch this series. It’s massively underrated and I really loved it!

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