Five New Video Games to Play This Month

Artribune's monthly video game review column covers five new releases. Mini Maker: Make a Thing by Casa Rara is a digital sculpture game for PC where players build sculptures from randomly selected objects with imprecise tools, embracing errors as part of the creative process. Moss: Book 2 by Polyarc continues Quill the mouse's VR adventure, now available for Meta Quest 2, offering a traditional gaming experience in virtual reality. Mothmen 1966 by LCB Game Studio and Chorus Worldwide Games is a pixel pulp horror interactive story set during the 1966 Leonid meteor shower, available on PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X. Stray by BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive lets players control a cat in a post-human cyberpunk city based on Kowloon Walled City, available on PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. Witch Strandings by Strange Scaffold and Modern Wolf is a PC game where the mouse cursor is the avatar, emphasizing physical effort and recontextualizing the mouse peripheral.