Lincoln started writing about games while convincing his college professors to accept his essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress, eventually leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte.
Our favourite roguelike of the year was deeply strange and absurdly deep. It's the impossibly inventive retrofuturist fantasy Caves of Qud. For more awards, check out ourIt's a roguelike's roguelike: A science-fantasy wasteland populated by a rich gnarl of combat systems and procedural world-state simulations that have no qualms about leveraging their brutality against you.
Qud's real treasure is its writing. Its NPCs have their own dialects, tics, and idioms reflecting their own histories in Qud's surreal world, granting a sense of humanity even to those that—to us—seem the most inhuman. Every item and creature, meanwhile, has a unique description in gorgeously arcane, purposefully excessive prose. Mutants are"vessels of the metamorphic numen"; old statues are"erosion-smoothed abstractions." In Qud, a chair isn't a chair.
After three years freelancing for PC Gamer, he joined on as a full-time News Writer in 2024, bringing an expertise in Caves of Qud bird diplomacy, getting sons killed in Crusader Kings, and hitting dinosaurs with hammers in Monster Hunter.
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