The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games is a collection of video games that well, don’t exist! Filled with reviews, previews and retrospectives on games from an alternate timeline, the book seeks to examine the strange online phenomenon of people making games that are not real.
This is such a brilliant love letter to a fascinating subgenre of art. I was happy to see some favorites immortalized in the pages, and I think the choice to present this meta textually as a game review magazine that doesn't exist was fun and nostalgic.
A super cool book! I absolutely loved the layout of the pages, the little pictures and screenshots of the 'games', to the point where it got me thinking, 'Damn, I wish these were real video games'. It was also cool seeing the fake video games I already knew about. I also loved the stickers I got with the book.
First finished read of 2026, and what a delightful read it was! If you're a fan of fake video games and/or Super Eyepatch Wolf's video essays over on Youtube, I highly recommend this!