A Mind Forever Voyaging

Holmes wrote the book he wanted to read — a chronological argument about how games learned to tell stories, from Adventure to Heavy Rain — and self-published it because nobody else was going to. The judgements are sharp, the omissions are stranger than they need to be, and the whole thing reads like a long essay by a critic who’s been thinking about this for a while. The platonic curio: narrow, eccentric, worth the hunt.