Capy Castaway: A Cozy, Dreamlike Love Letter to Toronto and Friendship
Capy Castaway is the Toronto-centric game that uses an oversized gerbil and a sarcastic, self-centred crow to teach us about friendship.
Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his)
Sachin Hingoo is a Toronto-based writer whose work currently appears on Biff Bam Pop! and The Cultural Gutter. You can find all his writing at https://authory.com/shingoo
Willow Nightingale, The Babe With The Power, and A Gentlewoman of Asskickery
It has been, in my opinion, much too long since we here at the Gutter inducted anyone into the illustrious pantheon of Gentlemen and Ladies of Asskickery. This has not been for a lack of candidates and in fact there were a number of worthy inductees to choose […]
Still Keeping It Cozy: The Coziest Upcoming Games of 2026 and Beyond
Other than the crappy, ad-infused word game that I keep on my phone to occupy my brain on my commute (and which I will not promote here because of said ads), I haven’t been playing too many video games lately and certainly not making ample use of the […]
Don’t Sleep on Simon Glassman’s ‘Buffet Infinity’ (2025)
I’ve always been a bad sleeper. Even as a kid, I’d find myself waking up at the hours of the night that no child should ever see and lying awake for what seemed like forever. As I got a bit older I’d sneak from my downstairs bedroom to […]
Fish Out of (Pasta) Water in Gabriele Mainetti’s ‘The Forbidden City’ (2025)
This is probably not sufficient to convince you that Gabriele Mainetti’s The Forbidden City is one of my favourite movies of the year, but I’m just going to start with a non-exhaustive list of items used as weapons in the film’s spectacular, and spectacularly brutal, action sequences: If […]
Madeline Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s ‘Honey Bunch’ Tries and Tries Again
Madeline Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s ‘Honey Bunch’ reminds us of the lengths we’ll go to in order to save and preserve our loved ones.
The Cultural Gutter 