Expedition 48
Welcome back aboard our leaky little craft! Today, Floss finds a new way to do fortune-telling. Chris, meanwhile, has a few quick game recommendations. The...
Expedition 47
Sincere apologies, but Donlan is the only crewmate aboard this week. Expect typos and much second-guessing. (Is crewmate one word or two? Should there be an...
Expedition 46
Welcome aboard! Mind the various hatches and cables. It’s Hatches and Cables Week! Luckily, it’s also Steam Demo Week - it may not actually be called that -...
Expedition 45
Hello! And welcome aboard. This week, Florence glitches again, but for longer, while Chris ponders the perfect Ollie. The Bathysphere crew Christian Donlan...
Expedition 44
44 times down to the sea in ships! Welcome aboard. This week, Chris gets the measure of Vholume - with an H - and celebrates brilliant friends. Meanwhile,...
Expedition 43
Slope downwards to thy depths, o sea! Welcome back onboard the Bathysphere. This week Floss considers becoming a moogle beautician, while Chris goes cleaning...
Expedition 42
42! A special number indeed. Welcome back aboard the creaking, slightly leaking, chill spaces of our underwater craft. This week, Chris falls in love with a...
Expedition 41
Good day intrepid explorers! This week Florence does a deep dive on a certain hockey show and why it’s a “Sportslike,” and Chris looks back on Paradise Marsh...
Expedition 40
Happy 40th expedition! As you heard from our emergency communication, we’re changing things up at The Bathysphere. From now on, the entire newsletter will be...
Emmergency communication
Happy new year, travellers! This is just a quick transmission to let everyone know we have decided to cancel paid subscriptions. We only managed to attract a...
Expedition 39
Hello and welcome back inside our spherical deep sea exploration craft! This week, Keith reveals his love for games with multiple simultaneous lead...
Expedition 38
Hello! And welcome back for another dive into the icy waters of things game-like and game adjacent. This week, Chris is pondering where games often can’t go....
Expedition 37
Welcome back! This week Chris is delirious with love for the twin-stick shooter Sektori, and also misses Tom Stoppard an awful lot. Elsewhere, Florence...
Expedition 36
Ahoy! This week, Florence discovers situationist football, Keith discovers trains and gothic horror, and Christian discovers a GTA-themed Tiktok travelogue....
Expedition 35
Welcome aboard once again! Off we drift! This week, Christian gets lost in the nostalgia forests, while Florence contemplates ruins under a dying sun. The...
Expedition 34
Hello and welcome to another expedition! This week Christian is looking at games about vans, Florence is spending time with the Picts and Keith has found an...
Expedition 33
Fittingly, given the essay below, there’s a great submarine, if not quite a bathysphere, in Thomas Pynchon’s new novel. It cruises under the ice and it turns...
Expedition 32
Happy Halloween! This week, Florence returns to a haunted house, Keith explores a haunted castle and Christian haunts a mortician. As far as we are aware,...
Expedition 31
Hello, and welcome back aboard! Make sure the hatch is firmly shut. This week Chris is taking us swimming, while Florence looks to the stars and Keith visits...
Expedition 30
Some days you pop the hatch of your bathysphere and realise you’re about to head off on your 30th dive! Thank you so much to everyone who’s come along....