About this quarterly

Minor Titles Quarterly covers small PC games that almost nobody wrote about: short releases, projects by one or two people, and games whose total audience can be counted in hundreds. It exists because those games are reviewed nowhere and because several of them are better than the ones that are.

What counts as a minor title

There is no formal threshold, but in practice a game appears here if it received no coverage from established outlets, was made by a team small enough to name, and is short enough that a complete playthrough is a realistic condition of writing about it.

Length is not a virtue in itself and brevity is not the criterion. Several games in this issue are short because their makers had four hours of ideas and stopped, which is a different and better thing from a long game that ran out of ideas at hour four.

Why quarterly

Because finding these games takes longer than playing them. Most of an issue's preparation is spent looking rather than writing, and a monthly schedule would push the publication towards whatever happened to be easy to find. Issues appear when there are six games worth six reviews.

Who writes it

One person, with no professional relationship to the games industry and no involvement in game development. There is no staff, no contributor network and no editorial oversight beyond my own, which is a limitation stated here rather than concealed.

Funding

None. No advertising, no sponsorship, no affiliate links, no subscriptions and no donations. Every game reviewed was bought with my own money at the price anyone else pays. No developer, publisher or platform has supplied a code, a build or any other consideration, and no review has been shown to anybody before publication.

Correspondence and submissions

There is none. This site carries no address, no form and no submission facility of any kind, and that is deliberate rather than an omission. Developers cannot send games here, and the games covered are found the same way any player would find them.

Scores

There are none. Each review ends with a short passage describing where the game leaves me, which is as close to a summary judgement as this publication offers. A number would compress the only interesting part of a review about a game this small.

Corrections

Factual errors about what a game contains are corrected in place with a note recording the change. Playtimes are corrected if I have miscounted. Opinions are not revised because a developer or a reader objects, and no review is withdrawn on request.

Naming and images

Games discussed here are given descriptive titles in the text and are not linked to any storefront, because a link would make this a recommendation engine rather than a review publication. Every image on this site was made for it; none is a screenshot and none depicts an actual game.