

Game review essayist
Video essays about why games feel the way they do
I’m Casper. I make long video essays that review games the slow way, and I sell writing templates, a play journal and two video courses.
Videos
Which video to watch next
The channel as a map: three videos to start with, three ways on, and a course where they meet.
Worlds
Places, maps and the long walks between
Branches from The first hour is a promise · Rejoins at How to Write a Game Review Essay
Endings
How games finish, with nothing given away
Branches from The first hour is a promise · Rejoins at How to Write a Game Review Essay
Making
How the videos are written and cut
Branches from The first hour is a promise · Rejoins at How to Write a Game Review Essay

How to Write a Game Review Essay
8 lessons · all three routes meet
Downloads, a course and merch
Shop
Downloads arrive by email. Merch is printed to order and shipped by Printful.
Online course
My course


Video course · 8 lessons
How to Write a Game Review Essay
From a page of notes to a finished essay, one idea at a time, with no scores and no plot summary.
- Knowing what you think
- Playing with a notebook
- The first hour
- Finding your one argument
- The middle, without a plot summary
- Writing an ending
- Reading it aloud
- Editing it down
Newsletter
Second Playthrough
A short letter every Sunday from my living room: what I watched, what I played and what I am writing about next.

About
Hello, I’m Casper
I have played games since I was small and written about them since I was twenty. A few years ago I stopped writing short scores and started making long videos, because a game is easier to talk about when you can show it. Most of what I make is about how games begin, how they end and what happens when you walk between the two.
I record in my living room with a microphone in the corner and the curtains drawn. The shelf behind me is full of plain cases, and I walk down to the harbour when a script is stuck. I do not give scores and I do not tell you what to buy. I say what a game did to me, and why.
What I sell are the things I use to make the videos: outline cards, a play journal, a script template and two video courses, one on writing a review essay and one on making a video from it. The videos are free. The rest is there to help you make your own.











