Game Blog · Surry Hills, Australia
Carved words for games worth remembering.
Long-form reviews, boss-fight breakdowns, and indie discoveries — printed like woodblock, sharpened like a well-timed parry. New editions every week from a small studio in Surry Hills.
A note from the founder
We write about games the slow way.
I started DragonSteelQuest in a terrace-house study off Crown Street because the reviews I wanted to read didn't exist. Not scores rushed out on launch day — but writing that sits with a game for forty hours and tells you what it's really like to live inside it.
Every piece here is hand-edited, illustrated in a carved woodblock style, and free of sponsored scores. If it's on the site, we finished the game — usually twice.
— Marlow T., Founder & Editor
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| Discord editor Q&A nights | — | — | ✓ |
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- +61 2 9281 3945
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- 37 Little Buckingham Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
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- Editor hours
- Mon–Fri, 9:00–17:00 AEST