The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood: A Tarot-Making Game That Explores Gender, Grief, and More
When I downloaded Devolver’s new deck-building game, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, to my Switch, I thought I was getting a spooky little vintage-looking Pokemon-style card-collecting game I could play with half my attention while I listened to podcasts. What I…
‘Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood’ Review – Tarot-Based Game Is a Bewitching Piece of Interactive Fiction
Aside from its depiction in popular fiction, I know very little about tarot. Despite being intrigued by its gorgeous imagery and symbolism, I’ve never really taken a dive into the history of the subject. When Deconstructeam, the team behind pixel…
In Brazil, A New Generation Of Tarot Readers Rethink The Ancient Game
In 1930, the surrealist painter Leonara Carrington came very close to synthesizing the symbolism of tarot cards, which date back at least several hundred years and are often used to divine the future: “Each arcana, being a mirror and not…