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Conversations about games, community, and the reasons we play.Kritiqal Care is a monthly interview show highlighting the breadth of the games community. Nathalie is joined by tabletop writers, video game designers, pixel artists, streamers, YouTube critics, and others from all corners of the medium to explore games as personal, creative, and political. These are rough times, but games can help us feel less alone through it all.
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Signup to Generate a PitchConversations about games, community, and the reasons we play. Kritiqal Care is a monthly interview show highlighting the breadth of the games community. Nathalie is joined by tabletop writers, video game designers, pixel artists, streamers, YouTube critics, and others from all corners of the medium to explore games as personal, creative, and political.
Kritiqal Care is hosted by KRITIQAL. The show has published 98 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 90: Will Uhl" (9 August 2025, 47 minutes), "Episode 89: q1" (6 July 2025, 32 minutes), and "Episode 88: Sandy Weisz" (7 June 2025, 47 minutes).
Kritiqal Care publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 98 episodes.
Booking probability for Kritiqal Care is 24%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Kritiqal Care requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Kritiqal Care's contact route on record: verified email.
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KRITIQAL hosts Kritiqal Care, a leisure podcast with 98 episodes published.
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Episode #90
Will Uhl (they/them) is a tabletop game designer whose work explores inter-player relationships, unconventional mechanics, and high drama. We discuss balancing narrative conflict and player safety, providing structure...
Episode #89
q1 (he/him) is a musician, writer, and game developer who makes playful and sometimes haunted tiny games. In this short and sweet episode we discuss the curious social experience of riding the subway, the beautiful...
Episode #88
Sandy Weisz (he/him) is a puzzle designer out of Chicago whose games focus on team-building, environmental clues, and wordplay. This year he began creating the daily puzzle game, RADDLE, and took some time to chat with...
Episode #87
Claire Morwood (she/her) is an indie game developer whose work explores multimedia interactivity, handmade assets, and introspective narratives. She joined me to discuss her most recent project, Asterism , an...
Episode #86
Terry Cavanagh (he/him) is an Irish indie developer know for games like Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons . He joined me on the show to discuss developing ideas out of game jams, being drawn to new tools and platforms...
Episode #85
Autumn Greenley (she/they) and Zaozoruzhna (he/him) are two members of the indie game studio, Mortally Moonstruck Games, who for the last few years they have been working on the mushroom girl cultivating game/RPG/visual...
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Content warning: brief mention of suicide around the 48-51 minute mark. 2024 has come and gone which means it’s time for our annual retrospective episode, where I ask former guests of the show to share their favorite...
Episode #84
Nevyn Holms (any/all) is one half of indie tabletop studio Dinoberry Press, whose games explore collaborative crafts, asymmetric mechanics, and genre adaptation. They joined me to break down what draws them to physical...
Episode #83
Ayu Koyama (she/her), aka sweetfish, is an interactive fiction writer and designer whose work explores religion, history, and digital play. In this episode we chat about what drew her to interactive fiction as a form...
Episode #82
Content warning: this episode briefly discusses suicidal ideation Kyou System (they/them) is an artist and game developer whose work explores the profound and incoherent world of dreams. We discuss the nocturnal origins...
Episode #81
Content warning: this episode briefly discusses blood imagery rileylessthannine (it/its) is a multimedia artist and game developer whose work explores the tension between abrasion and hope. In this episode we chat about...
Episode #80
Kasey Ozymy (he/him) is an indie RPG developer whose work draws from 16-bit classics and deep cuts. In this episode we chat about what interests him about RPGs, the design and writing philosophy behind modern classic...
Episode #79
Xiri (he/him) is the creator of the sublime BL visual novel series, HITME , among other games exploring queer relationships and the end of the world. He took some time away from the upcoming HITM3 to chat with me about...
Episode #78
Austin Ramsay (he/him) is a tabletop RPG designer best known for Beam Saber , a Forged in the Dark game about mech pilots fighting an endless war. He joined me on this episode to talk about going from writing...
Episode #77
Sylvie (she/her) is a prolific creator of challenging platformers, action RPGs, and games about cats. She sat down with me to discuss her design philosophy based in constraints, games as conversations, and her esoteric...
Episode #76
Meredith Gran (she/her) is a comics artist and game designer, best known for her webcomic, Octopus Pie and the adventure game Perfect Tides . She sat down with me to talk about her experience coming to games from a...
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For the first Kritiqal Care bonus episode, returning guests Colin (he/they) of melessthanthree and Kevin Wong (they/them) join me to discuss their recently released action RPG, Death of a Wish . A more aggressive sequel...
Episode #75
Cecile Richard (they/them) is a graphic designer, writer, and game developer known for their playful Bitsy projects and hypertext fiction. They joined me to discuss cyclical stories, the risk/reward of collaborating...
Episode #74
David Su (he/him) is a musician, audio programmer, and game designer who explores interactive music and performance art. He took some time off from his ballooning schedule to discuss how he got interested in making...
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It’s New Year’s Eve, which means 2023 has come and gone, bringing in closing our annual end of the year show. As is tradition, I reached out to past guests of the show to ask what their most impactful gaming memory was...
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