Time and death

Death as Procedure: Sacred Language and Undead Labour in Graveyard Keeper

Baykar Demir October 6, 2026 9Comments

The most revealing word in Graveyard Keeper may be “resurrection.” In Christian thought, resurrection evokes judgement, salvation, and the restoration of the body. In the game, however, resurrection names a…

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Possible Medieval Pandemics? How A Plague Tale Constructs a Playable Apocalypse

Ron Heckler October 6, 2026 2Comments

Pandemics are usually imagined as future catastrophes. A Plague Tale: Innocence (2019) and A Plague Tale: Requiem (2022), however, relocate the apocalypse to fourteenth-century France. Their world evokes the Black…

Time and death

Death as Procedure: Sacred Language and Undead Labour in Graveyard Keeper

Possible Medieval Pandemics? How A Plague Tale Constructs a Playable Apocalypse

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