This is.. so good.
You play as the inhabitant of a (very small) solar system, trying to figure out what the hell is going on. And that’s all I can say without spoilers.
The game has a knowledge-based progression system, so you need to piece the fact together based on what you learn, with locations usually providing hints on how to deal with other locations, in a way that it doesn’t really matter in which order you go which places.

I highly recommend playing it, and to go in there with as little prior knowledge as you humanly can. (And if you’re getting stuck, the subreddit is very good at giving hints instead of solutions.)

I am now diving into the Echoes of the Eye-expansion, so… let’s see how that goes.

The second book of the Silo trilogy is just as much of a page-turner as the first one.

It starts in more-or-less current times and expands along several locations and timeslines on the background of the setting, detailing why the situation is the way it is, and just *how* fucked everything is.
It does this very well, it ups the stakes, it provides a ton of background lore, and really has me looking forward for the endgame in Dust.

The world is a giant underground silo. The outside is toxic. The order of society must be preserved at all costs, lest humanities last outpost crumbles to dust. Of course nothing goes ever wrong.
The story, or maybe rather “the collection of novellas”, follows the events of said Silo, beginning with the old sheriff volunteering to go outside to clean the cameras, and all that unravels from it.

I have devoured this book, and I highly recommend it for anyone up for some… rather dark apocalyptic fiction.

I was also not at all surprised to learn that this was one of the inspirations for Tales: Inside.

I’ve decided to read this one after the good people of Poltergeist announced a larp based on it and a lot of people were very excited, and now I do see why.

It is the story of a house made out of endless rooms, filled with statues, the lower level flooded, the upper full of rainclouds, and of a man exploring the house, and of the Other, his friend, and the people of the house’s past and present and future.

Being less cryptic would mean spoiling the fun, so give it a read!

I think someone recommended this w40k audio horror story to me, at some point? Anyway, I’ve finally managed to listen, and it’s a solid story with excellent production design, about two Upstanding Imperial Citizens and an Absolutely Harmless Warp Entity That Only Wants To Be Friends. Absolutely nothing bad happens, of course.

I don’t think longer audio things will be A Thing within my media consumption, but that’s an attention economy thing.

A collection of four dystopian novellas that’s been on my list for ages, and they’ve not aged a day since release. Especially the titular radicalized, about an armed uprising against the US healthcare system…

As usual, Doctorow has a very keen eye on How Things Will Get Worse Under Capitalism, and it’s a good read that can be tackled one-by-one.