The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games

The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games – weird essay volume

The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games is a large-format essay collection about video games that never actually existed. Written by Super Eyepatch Wolf and published by Hollow Press, the book gathers reviews, previews and retrospectives of titles from an alternate timeline, using the phenomenon of fake games to explore internet folklore, fandom and dark weird fantasy. Across 176 full-colour pages, The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games reads like a critic’s guidebook to an imaginary medium.

Printed in A4 format and weighing around 1.1 kg, the volume is produced with Hollow Press’s usual attention to material detail: luxury Onyx Pearl cover paper, holographic silver hot-foil printing, UV full-colour cover art by Plastiboo, silver ribbon bookmark and Magno Volume interior paper. Contributions on fake video games such as Apple Quest, Bird World, Ghostbleed, Valle Verde, Vermis and many more are accompanied by artwork from twenty-one different artists, creating a hybrid between essay collection, art book and Lore Game Book–adjacent world-building.

As the first entry in the U.D.W.F.G. essays series (underdarkweirdfantasygrounds), this edition of The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games positions itself between video game criticism, weird fiction and experimental illustration. It is aimed at readers interested in Super Eyepatch Wolf’s work, Hollow Press publications, fake video games, online myth-making and contemporary visual culture.