Game Blog · Chippendale, Sydney
Games worth staying up for.
Long-form reviews, indie deep dives, speedrun theory and tabletop nights — written from a cramped studio above Abercrombie Street with the volume turned up.
The archive
Eight years, one couch, thousands of hours.
InfernoFireCitadel started as a group chat and turned into Sydney's most stubbornly independent games desk. Here's how the citadel got built.
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2017 — First post
A 4,000-word teardown of a forgotten PS2 RPG hit 12 readers. We were hooked on the format nobody else wanted to write.
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2019 — The indie beat
We committed to covering one unheard-of indie every week. Three of those studios later thanked us on their launch pages.
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2021 — Speedrun lab
Our route-analysis series brought frame data and community history together. It's still our most-linked work.
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2024 — Tabletop nights
We opened the studio doors on Thursdays for board-game sessions. The waitlist now runs three weeks deep.
What we publish
Four desks under one roof.
The library
Recent stories, sorted.
Where we're read
Trusted by the people who make and play.
Good to know
Questions from the inbox.
Say hello
Pitch, praise, or complaint.
Got a game we should cover or a Thursday tabletop seat to claim? Drop a line — we read everything, usually within a day.
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◷HoursMon–Fri 10am–6pm · Tabletop Thursdays till 10pm