It feels both depressing and miraculous to play a game like Judero, a small, beautiful piece of art that places its humanity front-and-center in a landscape of expensive products that are all somehow both the safest possible thing and also doomed to fail before they even release. I was drawn to the demo by the art style, but the writing is what made me want to buy it and the reason I'll be revisiting it again and again. Existing in this world, speaking with NPCs about their soulful, poetic, unsettling thoughts, and listening to the whimsical, melancholy soundtrack, has been such a welcome reminder of what games can be when they foreground their artistry, curiosity, and soul.