It’s been a hot minute since we covered a title from John Clowdus, creator of Omen: A Reign of War, An Empty Throne, that historical trilogy from a couple years back, and so many others that listing them all would quickly make this sentence tiresome. Here’s the short version: almost nobody has been creating small-format games for as long or with such consistently impressive results as Clowdus.

His most recent game, Pariahs, is a perfect example. Set in an evocative pocket universe where future humans live in capsules and only occasionally grant permission for select members to carve their own path, Pariahs riffs on familiar ideas while being entirely unlike anything else out there. It’s small, it’s weird, it’s fantastic.

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