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Articles, videos etc. about the genre:

Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation reviewed Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and did a side-by-side comparison of Firewatch and Layers of Fear, and discussed the genre in a column here.
Jimquisition created a video about the genre, which is available here.
{Errant Signal} has examined the genre on several occasions, including his review of Gone Home or his videos examining what constitutes a "real" video game or "The Debate That Never Took Place", which examines the artificial distinction between story and gameplay commonly seen in video game criticism (and on this wiki, in such tropes as Story to Gameplay Ratio or Story and Gameplay Segregation).
Super Bunnyhop has created several videos about the genre, including his review of Gone Home and his interview with its lead designer, Steve Gaynor.
An interesting article about the genre on Gamasutra.
An article about the term "walking simulator", taking in the perspectives of many creators, on Kill Screen Daily.
A discussion about the genre and the term "walking simulator" on the AV Club.
"Death of Walking Sims": Doc Burford discusses the decline of the genre's popularity, the reasons behind it, and evolution needed to bring it back to the heights it enjoyed in the early 2010s.