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My name is Logan Barrett, and this is my personal website.
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Latest Posts
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Why I Won't Play a Game Solo
Aug 21, 2026
I own three games with dedicated solo modes and I've never once played any of them by myself, and I finally sat down to work out why.
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Candide
Aug 20, 2026
A short, brutal, genuinely funny demolition of the idea that everything happens for a reason, and I read it in one sitting out of pure spite for the philosophy it's mocking.
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The Core of the Sun
Aug 19, 2026
A Finnish dystopia about selective breeding for femininity, told partly through fake government documents, and it's about chili peppers in a way I did not expect going in.
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The Library Branch on Coldwater Road
Jul 21, 2026
Most of what my book club reads comes from one specific branch, and the two women who run the request desk know my hold list better than I do.
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The Rating I Went Back and Changed
Jul 16, 2026
I gave Heat: Pedal to the Metal four stars the week I finished writing about it, then quietly agreed with myself a month later that it should have been a three.
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Jul 4, 2026
A collection of essays by an anthropologist, psychiatrist, and biologist all at once, tied together by metalogues I now reread on purpose.
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Scythe
Jun 24, 2026
An engine building game wearing area control's clothes, gorgeous on the table, and the faction abilities are noticeably uneven at different player counts.
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Forbidden Stars
Jun 18, 2026
Warhammer 40k dudes-on-a-map with an order-stacking system that punishes you slowly instead of all at once, which I like more than I expected to.
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Mechs vs. Minions
Jun 16, 2026
A programming co-op with a legacy streak, box production that's basically a marketing event unto itself, and mission difficulty that swings around more than I expected.
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Spirit Island
May 30, 2026
A cooperative game where the win condition is watching invaders slowly run out of places to stand, and the brain burn is completely earned.
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Dune
May 27, 2026
Winning a fight in this game is supposed to feel good and it usually doesn't, which sounds like a design flaw until you realize that's the entire point.
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Schild's Ladder
May 18, 2026
Greg Egan turns an entirely new universe with its own made-up physics into something like a game of life, and my math background wasn't quite enough to keep up.
Ongoing Projects
10 board game reviews · 10 book reviews · 10 personal essays — still adding to all three, roughly whenever I finish something worth writing up.