Uppercut’s 2022 Letter Series hub

Another year has come and gone for video games, which means it’s time for our annual celebration of looking back on this year’s releases. We’ve commissioned 20 writers to help us put 2022 into perspective, and you can find all of them here, for your convenience .

Uppercut’s 2022 Letter Series

• The One Who Pulls the Sword Out Will Be Crowned King: An Allegory for My Issues With MMOs and Why I Liked it Anyways
• Forget Elden Ring — Tunic is the King of Less-Is-More Storytelling
• Sephonie: Diving Into the Body of the Earth
• Citizen Sleeper: Communities of Food
• Card Shark and Justifiable Identity
• Cult of the Lamb and Self-Help Groups
• Omori: Notes on Mourning
• AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative: A Conversation About Duology
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Choosing Each Other to Break the World
• Lost in Play: Don’t Stop Believin’
• Splatoon 3: THE GIRL FROM INKOPOLIS
• Betrayal At Club Low: Why Roll The Dice?
• Sonic Frontiers: Do It For Sonic
• Sonic Frontiers: Battle Cry
• Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: I Bet on Losing Dogs
• Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ Slow Burn Keeps the Lights on All the Way Through
• Unpapering The Past: Jewish History and the Cast of Pentiment
• Hardspace Shipbreaker: Seizing the Means

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