Gamefinds: Games Don’t Have To Be Good To Be Good

We love it when we find weird and unique indie games to tell you all about! Our alien friends to the left herald these occasions. sylvie’s Games Don’t Have To Be Good To Be Good is an interesting little browser game where the point is figuring out how to play, then what to do. It’s really short! You can probably finish it in five minutes. The description calls it a manifesto, and I can see that, and also agree with it. (And it’s an entry in Manifestø Jam 2026 too.) My belief about game worth is that there can be a hundred things wrong with a game, and everyone can agree that they’re wrong, but if there’s one really really good thing about it, just one powerful elemental spark of awesome, if it’s strong enough, it can make all the “wrong” things meaningless. It’s points to one of the great problems with game journalism as it’s currently practiced. The traditional lists of flaws, the reporting of how “smooth” it is, of how realistic the polygons are and the other excuses a reviewer…