Tag: 2020 Release
Games released in 2020.
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Ato
Ninja cat metroidvania where you just want to find your kidnapped child and wife. With a whole story told without a single word in a large connected world of stunningly beautiful pixel art, this is definitely up there on the list of very good metroidvanias.
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The Outer Worlds
A 2019 space exploration game that’s super story heavy with some elements of mystery, and if you’re thinking of a certain other Outer game, you’d be thinking wrong. This one has guns! It’s one of the Obsidian RPGs, and I’m honestly surprised at how engaged I’ve been with this, since I’m not usually the kind…
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Lucifer Within Us
A short little point and click detective mystery game set in a sci-fi futuristic world. You play as a Digital Exorcist trying to solve three increasingly complicated murders. There aren’t any interrogation minigames, quick time events, or required decisions, leaving you with quite an open detective system based on listening to testimony, gathering evidence, and…
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Spirit of the North
Spirit of the North is a fox game in its purest form. You play as a fox, like, an actual fox, who can yip and wag their tail. Eventually you meet a friendly spirit fox who will help guide you on your adventure and try to explain to you what’s going on.
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Home Quest
The first game on the big list of stuff that passively just consumes my life, this is a pretty simple resource management idle game without too much complexity. It’s the sort of game that you kinda pick up for 5 minutes, queue up some stuff to do, then let it sit for a bit, so…
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I Love Hue Too
A very simple free to play puzzle game about sorting puzzle pieces by colour. You start seeing the end result of the puzzle, then it shuffles most of the pieces, and you have to move the pieces around again to put things back into colour order.
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Filament
This is a brutally hard puzzle game, where the main mechanic involves controlling a small robot to wrap wires around pylons to open the exit. There are a dozen or so puzzle mechanics, which are each isolated to one set of puzzles, and introduced at the start of the set. Solving puzzles gives you more…
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Creeper World
It’s not what it sounds like, this is actually a single-player real time strategy game where you play as a advanced military surviver, who builds infrastructure and weapons to fight off waves of alien goo that comes at you through tidle waves. While this review title technically pertains to the whole series, my recomendations are…
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Control
Oh boy, first Triple A game on this list. Anyways, have you ever heard of the SCP Foundation? This is basically that but with an actually coherent world and story, and less unkillable monsters. You play as a “parautilitarian”, someone who can control “paranatural” forces, and the new head of the Federal Bureau of Control,…
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One Step From Eden
If you’ve ever played a MegaMan Battle Network game and enjoyed the combat of it, then I implore you to pick this game up, as it’s just MMBN battles distilled into the perfect roguelike. Once you’ve picked a starting kit consisting of a weapon, a passive ability, and 4 spells, each battle lets you take…
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Manifold Garden
“In William Chyr’s Manifold Garden, the player’s world is not our own.” – Jacob Geller, 2020. Manifold garden is a game about infinity. Every ceiling a floor, Every direction stretching out in a looping manner, only terminated temporarily by the repeating floors, and in this game you get to navigate this infintite world to solve…
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Ikenfell
I have so many praises that I want to sing about this extremely cute and queer fun witch game! The story is incredible, the battles are surprisingly engaging and have some timing mechanics to add an extra bit of skill to the battles, and the world building and design is just wonderful.