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....
Expedition 29
Hello! And welcome back on board for another gentle descent into the world of games and game-adjacent things. There’s a storm on the horizon, but Florence...
Expedition 28
It’s the 28th week of Bathysphere! This week, Chris is getting a little too excited about levers in videogames. Elsewhere, Floss attends the Queer Games...
Expedition 27
Including the null motif, there are 27 distinct hypergraph motifs. Coincidentally, this week is the 27th expedition of the Bathysphere! Floss has played some...
Expedition 26
Happy Thursday Bathyspherers! This week, Florence delves into their archive of screenshots, Chris returns to a SEGA classic and an unclassifiable literary...
Expedition 25
Welcome back! Do close the hatch behind you! Today Chris is thinking about learning, and enjoying the work of the Lubells. Elsewhere, we get great...
Expedition 24
Yoho! Welcome back to The Bathysphere! Today, Chris is looking at knots and puzzling over a quote by T.H. White. Meanwhile, Florence gets entwined in a sci-...
Expedition 23
Greetings fellow travellers! On this, the 23rd submergence, we have all sorts of fine things to share with you. Chris delves into the creative mode of Mini...
Expedition 22
Welcome back for our next decent! Floss has spent the past week pretending to be someone else. Chris ponders games that pick a direction and messes around...
Expedition 21
Can you count to 21? as Cooper once asked. Somehow this is our 21st dive! Welcome aboard as ever. In our main essay Chris has returned from Greece where he...
Expedition 20
Hello and welcome to the 20th expedition of The Bathysphere. There’s no essay this week due to some technical issues, but instead we have a list of...
Expedition 19
Welcome aboard the 19th expedition of the Bathysphere! This week, Florence watches NPCs fight each other, Christian plays with the universe and Keith gets...