How The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood uses player-crafted tarot cards to better connect them to the story
The IGF (Independent Games Festival) aims to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize independent game developers advancing the medium. Every year, Game Developer sits down with the finalists for the IGF ahead of GDC to explore the themes, design decisions, and tools…
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…
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood Review – Everything Is Not What It Seems
As someone who got their first tarot deck when they were 14, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood immediately called to me, but be warned, this game isn’t just about reading cards. It sports the pixelated aesthetic of Coffee Talk in earth…
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood review: pure tarot deck building magic
Fate is funny, isn’t it? There’s no certainty — of fate or free will — and yet humans have spent our existence debating deterministic beliefs. Throughout history and culture, in art and literature, we’ve imagined worlds determined by destiny. What…
Review: The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
It may be easy to dismiss the art of fortune telling as a lot of baloney, but there’s a genuine art to it, not to mention the various cultures and mythologies behind each method that can help provide a rich…
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood review: a wonderfully witchy fable told through player-created Tarot
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood review A splendid, engrossing blend of visual novel and card creation game, where the cards you create are the means of navigating dialogue and pursuing a story about outcast witches, their griefs, lusts and more destructive…