Year: 2023
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope detective game? Sign me up. You’re a surveyor for the East India Company who is investigating what happened on the Obra Dinn, which was declaired missing at sea in 1802, but after 5 years has drifted into port with no visible crew aboard. Your job is to figure out the identities and fates…
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Viewfinder
So this game released very recently, aaaand it’s fantastic. Very simple gimmick, find a photo, place a photo, explore the space inside the photo as it gets embedded in the world. And they take this one simple mechanic and absolutely run with it. It’s like exploring all the interactions with the Portal Gun, and even…
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NieR:Automata
The Dark Souls Of: Prepare to Cry Edition -And More Genre Switches- By Camellia Well uh, that happened. Anyways, welcome to open world story heavy game where you play as your new video game waifu and her boytoy/twink companion. You play as a giant fuck off mech-suit shooting robots out of the sky, as a…
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The Witness: Archipelago
Free mod for The Witness. For those unaware, Archipelago is a piece of randomiser software that includes randomisers for many different games, and allows for multiple people playing their own instance of the game to send and recieve items from other players in the pool. If you haven’t finished The Witness yet, and discovered it’s…
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Can of Wormholes
Yet another devilishly complex puzzle game with a simple premise and simple set of controls. Can of Wormholes is kind of a snake + Sokoban hybrid, a Snekoban if you will, where the goal is to get your snake into the hole. Your only controls are to move the head of the snake in one…
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Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
Off schedule post here because the game is currently like, 90% off on steam summer sale. Go play, you’ll like. Funky lil indie point and click puzzle game with a surprisingly charming aesthetic and voice acting, and a fun story that ends with sabotaging a submarine, which is…. impressively topical to say the least.
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House Flipper
It’s a very simple game: You start with a shithole, and you turn it into an actually cozy livable space before selling it to someone for a significant profit. Thats it, thats the whole game, and thats why I recommend waiting for it to go on sale.
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The Last Case of Benedict Fox
Sadly not about actual foxes, but a very compelling detective metroidvania nontheless! Though this game isn’t for the faint of heart, it’s not a horror game, but it is incredibly lovecraftian. Lots of creepy locales and tentacles amongst the stuff that wants to kill you, oh and if you’re arachnophobic, you might wanna hold off…
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Grow: Song of the Evertree
Another life sim, but this one is about gardening. You’re the last of the Everheart Alchemists, a young apprentice trying to figure out if it’s even possible to beat back the Withering that’s destroyed the precious Evertree and silenced the Song of Myora, and after many years of experementing with your trusty partners Book and…
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Dinkum
Animal Crossing meets Stardew Valley except its on an island in Australia. What more could you want to be honest. Move out of the city with a sweet old woman named Fletch to try and start your own little town on a tropical island, and invite new residents to expand your town during the course…
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Turing Complete
This game has consumed my entire life and has converted me into a hardware geek instead of a software one. Send help. Turing Complete is a surprisingly competent logic simulation model and game, where you start with nothing but a couple of basic gates, like NAND and NOR, and build your way up to a…
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Cracking The Cryptic
Sudoku. I’m surprised I haven’t posted any of these yet (other than Simon Tatham’s Puzzles, I suppose.) This is basically an almost complete mobile version of Sven’s SudokuPad (Steam, Web) and it does a really good job at all the stuff that you need to tackle really tricky puzzles. While this specific app doesn’t allow…