Rhianne Ward
she/they
@thereisnosleep.bsky.social
Hi! I'm Rhianne, and I spend way too much time playing and thinking about video games. This blog is basically just my way of making all that time investment feel productive!
I tend to gravitate towards games with compelling stories, most notably RPGs and adventure games, but I have been known to dabble in the odd action title if the mood arises. I just love video games, man, it's truly that simple.
My Favourite Games!
- Disco Elysium
- Outer Wilds
- Celeste
- NieR Automata
- The Last Guardian
Rhianne's Contributions
- Eddington, and abject misery
- Our favourite games of 2025 so far!
- South of Midnight REVIEW - gothic goodness
- Wanderstop REVIEW - you have so much time
- Monster Hunter Wilds REVIEW - big, dumb, stupid, fun
- Avowed REVIEW - to live or survive
- Onimusha Warlords is the samurai Resident Evil I never knew I needed [CATCH-UP CORNER]
- Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 1 REVIEW - you'll fit in well
- Eternal Strands REVIEW - teamwork makes the dream work
- Monster Hunter Wilds is a gateway drug [INITIAL VIBE]
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector REVIEW - the process of becoming
- Things Too Ugly REVIEW - clock in, clock out
- The Games I'm Most Excited to Play in 2025!
- 1000xResist: my 2024 Game Of The Year
- My Top 11-2 Favourite Games of 2024!
- My Top 27-12 Favourite Games of 2024!
- Silent Hill 2 is Silent Hill 2
- Metaphor ReFantazio is Persona in new clothes, and I love it [INITIAL VIBE]
- The best, worst, and everything in between from the September ’24 State of Play
- Core Keeper is a survival game I actually like
- 10 Cool Indie Games from 2024 you need to try
- Clickolding: fear, isolation, and god [REVIEW]
- The Best and Worst of the Summer 2024 Anime Lineup [Part 2]
- The Best and Worst of the Summer 2024 Anime Lineup [Part 1]
- Shadow of the Erdtree, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bullshit
- The Until Dawn remaster reveals a decade of technical stagnation
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and artistic sincerity
- What I Played in April 2024
- Journeying through Far Lone Sails & Changing Tides
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes INITIAL VIBE – war is easier with 100 friends
- Open Roads REVIEW - mothers, memories, and making peace
- Dragon's Dogma 2 REVIEW - a subversive fantasy masterpiece
- What I Played in March 2024
- The best HUDs in gaming
- What I Played in February 2024
- Lil Guardsman REVIEW – papers and friendship, please!
- Atlas Wept REVIEW – hope, at the end of the world
- What I Played in January 2024
- The Cub REVIEW – promising, but messy
- Tomb Raider 2013's crippling identity crisis
- The Games I'm Excited About in 2024
- Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines REVIEW - terrible bosses & tasty burgers
- My Favourite Games of 2023!