There were a few games last year that we didn't have time to review, so before 2025 gets too crazy we're playing review catch-up and rectifying some of these omissions.
So if you're reading this and wondering if you've slipped through a wormhole back into 2024, don't worry, you've not become unfastened from time.
We're just running late. I played Mouthwashing entirely in one sitting back in October and had to lie down for a while afterward to recover.
I felt vile, unsettled at what I'd seen over the previous three hours. Mouthwashing is about as classic a «walking simulator» as you can get mechanically, and while its stabs at more intensive gameplay fell a little flat for me, its narrative, vision, and atmosphere made it one of 2024's standouts, a people's champion of indie horror for very good reason.
Mouthwashing is one of those games where, if you're recommending it to a friend, you go all, «No dude, don't look up anything about it, just play it, trust me, promise you'll play it?