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April 11, 2024 - Day 467 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 495Game: Coromon
Platform: Steam
Released: Apr 1, 2022
Installed: Apr 11, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 17mCoromon is a top-down pixel-art ... Pokemon clone. I'm sorry, it's a Pokemon clone, and I'm not even going to try and pretend it isn't.
Seventh game in the April Humble Bundle, and if I wanted to play Pokemon, I'd play Pokemon.
Which is the problem with this game, because I don't want to play Pokemon.
Can I get back the 17 minutes of my life I spent playing Coromon?
1: Nope
#Coromon #PixelArt #NotPokemon #HumbleChoice #Gaming #ProjectONG
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March 27, 2024 - Day 452 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 487Game: If Found...
Platform: Steam
Released: May 20, 2020
Installed: Jul 27, 2022
Unplayed: 609d (1y8m)
Playtime: 24mIf Found... is a 2D hand-drawn visual novel, that's telling two seemingly disconnected stories.
One is the story of an astronaut, Cassiopeia, and her entry into a black hole.
The other is the story of Kasio, a young Irish trans woman in the 1990's, and the fallout of her coming out as trans.
The UI is unique in my experience; you only have an eraser. You move through the story, partly as presented in Kasio's journal, by erasing your way through Kasio's life, and experiencing different memories as you go.
Sci-fi? A trans woman's coming out story? It's very much right up my alley, thematically.
I just wish I enjoyed it. There's a story there I want to engage with, but I wonder if it's the autistic part of my brain that's just struggling to connect with the story of a early-20's trans woman in a queer share house in Dublin (I think?).
The metaphor inherent in the UI is lovely, but it starts to get frustrating after a while.
I appreciate the love that's gone into the story, but I just found myself struggling to remain engaged, and that's something I often experience with visual novel style games, so I found that particularly disappointing in this regard.
I wonder if it's the kind of game that I could play in a different context and would be more enjoyable (perhaps remote Steam on the iPad).
In the end, I would say that for me If Found... is:
3: OK
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March 26, 2024 - Day 451 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 486Game: The Forest Quartet
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 9, 2022
Installed: Mar 14, 2023
Unplayed: 378d (1y12d)
Playtime: 22mThe Forest Quartet is a third-person puzzle game that's part narrative adventure, part jazz-themed exploration of grief.
It tells the story of a quartet of jazz musicians whose lead vocalist, Nina, has passed away. You play as Nina, a spirit interacting with the physical world to reunite her former bandmates, and help them come to terms with her death.
It's a beautiful little game, and very moving.
The Forest Quartet is:
5: Excellent
#TheForestQuartet #3D #ThirdPerson #Puzzle #Narrative #Adventure #Gaming #ProjectONG
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March 14, 2024 - Day 439 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 474Game: Wylde Flowers
Platform: Steam
Released: Sep 21, 2022
Installed: Dec 17, 2023
Unplayed: 88d (2m26d)
Playtime: 51mWylde Flowers is a 2.5D farming and life sim with a touch of magic. Literally.
You play as Tara Wylde, a woman who, having spent her childhood in the town of Fairhaven and moved to "the city", is now returning home to look after her grandmother.
As you explore the town of Fairhaven after arriving at the dock, you'll find the only flag flying over the mayor's office is a pride flag, and you know this is a queer little game.
As you meet the fine folks of Fairhaven, more than one mystery starts to unfold, and one of these is the discovery that your grandmother is a witch... as are you.
I actually knew something about the game before I started it; I knew it was from a Melbourne-based dev team.
It's why I was a bit taken aback when the entire voice cast appears to be American. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it was just a little unexpected.
It was getting very late when I departed Fairhaven, and I'm looking forward to going back.
Wylde Flowers is:
4: Good
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February 26, 2024 - Day 422 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 458Game: Undying
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 7, 2023
Installed: Dec 20, 2023
Unplayed: 68d (2m6d)
Playtime: 30mUndying is an isometric zombie survival game, with a twist.
Undying is set in the immediate aftermath of a zombie outbreak. With survivors having been shepherded into safe zones, the survivors are being extracted, one safe zone at a time.
Anling and her son, Cody, are in one of these safe zones, which is overrun by zombies during the extraction. The extraction fails, and Anling and Cody make a run for their lives, finding a car, and returning to their home.
Their home becomes their survival base, with all of the standard trappings of any number of other survival games, just with extra zombies.
With one catch - Anling was bitten by a zombie while escaping, and needs to teach Cody how to survive before she turns.
This adds a somewhat melancholic layer to the game, knowing that (playing as Anling), you're on borrowed time, and as a parent, this affected me quite deeply.
As you go through each step of building and repairing items, you encourage Cody to observe, which levels *him* up, allowing him to do more of these things himself.
Undying is:
4: Good
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February 8, 2024 - Day 404 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 440Game: Scorn
Platform: Steam
Released: Nov 4, 2021
Installed: Feb 8, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 17mRating: 1 - Nope
Scorn is a first person horror survival adventure puzzle game. It's the second game in February's Humble Choice bundle.
This was in my "never playing that" list, and seeing it show up in the bundle was a moment of "suck it up, princess."
However, for day 404, it was definitely a case of fun not found.
The game is viscerally disturbing, with the environment being all flesh, bone, and metal; a Gigeresque fusion that just had my brain screaming "GET OUT, QUIT, NOW!"
After exploring the tunnels of the first level, and sticking my avatar's hand into far too many squelching control interfaces, I was glad when my 15 minutes were up.
Scorn is an absolute:
1: Nope
#Scorn #FirstPerson #Horror #Survival #Adventure #Puzzle #HumbleChoice #Gaming #ProjectONG
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January 19, 2024 - Day 384 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 420Game: Suzerain
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 5, 2020
Installed: Jan 19, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 18mRating: 0 - Nope
Suzerain is part visual novel, part political simulator, and very quickly demonstrated to me that I want nothing to do with politics.
I've started trying to hack down my list of unredeemed keys, a piece of mental load that I've decided to try and get rid of.
I recognised the name of the game, but nothing else, so I had no idea what the game was about, or what I was getting myself into.
You play as Anton Rayne, the newly democratically elected President of a country that's moved from a kingdom around the time of your birth, through a civil war as you reached adulthood, to a nation in crisis as a democracy in the 1950's.
If politics is something you do enjoy, this might be the game for you, but turns out it's really not my cup of tea.
The further I got into the game, the less I wanted to play; deciding the fate of a nation was hard enough, but the political machinations required were painful.
Suzerain seems like a well developed game, but for me it's a big:
1: Nope
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January 16, 2024 - Day 381 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 417Game: Legend of Keepers
Platform: Steam
Released: Apr 30, 2021
Installed: Aug 9, 2023
Unplayed: 160d (5m7d)
Playtime: 19mRating: 3 - OK
Legend of Keepers is part management sim, part turn-based strategy, part roguelite.
Turns out that all those dungeons that gamers raid are managed by the "Dungeons Company".
As a newly hired Dungeon Manager, it's your job to place mobs, hazards, and occasional spells between those so-called "adventurers" and the treasure at the end of the dungeon.
I started out figuring I'd be bored, and was kind of into it by the second round. I'm not sure if it quite hits my "good" level, but it comes close, so Legend of Keepers is (for now):
3: OK
#Clustertruck #FirstPerson #Physics #Platformer #Gaming #ProjectONG
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January 15, 2024 - Day 380 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 416Game: Clustertruck
Platform: Steam
Released: Sep 27, 2016
Installed: Aug 4, 2022
Unplayed: 529d (1y5m11d)
Playtime: 17mRating: 1 - Nope
I was going to describe Clustertruck as a first-person game of "The Floor is Lava" while jumping between moving trucks, and then discovered that's exactly how the devs describe this physics-based platformer.
You start each level on top of a moving truck and you need to get to the goal at the end of the convoy as fast as possible without touching anything that's not a truck.
It requires pinpoint timing and coordination, two things I am lacking.
Unfortunately, while it's well executed, I did not enjoy Clustertruck; it's a:
1: Nope
#Clustertruck #FirstPerson #Physics #Platformer #Gaming #ProjectONG
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January 8, 2024 - Day 373 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 408Game: Hell Pie
Platform: Steam
Released: Jul 22, 2022
Installed: Jan 8, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 24mRating: 1 - Nope
Hell Pie is a cartoonish 3D platformer set in hell, and is the seventh game in the January Humble Bundle.
You play as Nate, a low-level demon, who has been tasked with collecting the ingredients for Satan's birthday pie.
Hell is a muzak-filled cross between a corporate office and hell, which is somewhat tautological.
The game relies on gross-out humour, and it didn't work for me with Ren & Stimpy, and nothing has changed since then.
I found the controls frustrating on both keyboard/mouse and controller, and with the gross-out humour, I had no motivation to try and improve.
Hell Pie is a:
1: Nope
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January 8, 2024 - Day 373 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 408Game: Hell Pie
Platform: Steam
Released: Jul 22, 2022
Installed: Jan 8, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 24mRating: 1 - Nope
Hell Pie is a cartoonish 3D platformer set in hell, and is the seventh game in the January Humble Bundle.
You play as Nate, a low-level demon, who has been tasked with collecting the ingredients for Satan's birthday pie.
Hell is a muzak-filled cross between a corporate office and hell, which is somewhat tautological.
The game relies on gross-out humour, and it didn't work for me with Ren & Stimpy, and nothing has changed since then.
I found the controls frustrating on both keyboard/mouse and controller, and with the gross-out humour, I had no motivation to try and improve.
Hell Pie is a:
1: Nope
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January 8, 2024 - Day 373 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 408Game: Hell Pie
Platform: Steam
Released: Jul 22, 2022
Installed: Jan 8, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 24mRating: 1 - Nope
Hell Pie is a cartoonish 3D platformer set in hell, and is the seventh game in the January Humble Bundle.
You play as Nate, a low-level demon, who has been tasked with collecting the ingredients for Satan's birthday pie.
Hell is a muzak-filled cross between a corporate office and hell, which is somewhat tautological.
The game relies on gross-out humour, and it didn't work for me with Ren & Stimpy, and nothing has changed since then.
I found the controls frustrating on both keyboard/mouse and controller, and with the gross-out humour, I had no motivation to try and improve.
Hell Pie is a:
1: Nope
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January 8, 2024 - Day 373 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 408Game: Hell Pie
Platform: Steam
Released: Jul 22, 2022
Installed: Jan 8, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 24mRating: 1 - Nope
Hell Pie is a cartoonish 3D platformer set in hell, and is the seventh game in the January Humble Bundle.
You play as Nate, a low-level demon, who has been tasked with collecting the ingredients for Satan's birthday pie.
Hell is a muzak-filled cross between a corporate office and hell, which is somewhat tautological.
The game relies on gross-out humour, and it didn't work for me with Ren & Stimpy, and nothing has changed since then.
I found the controls frustrating on both keyboard/mouse and controller, and with the gross-out humour, I had no motivation to try and improve.
Hell Pie is a:
1: Nope
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January 8, 2024 - Day 373 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 408Game: Hell Pie
Platform: Steam
Released: Jul 22, 2022
Installed: Jan 8, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 24mRating: 1 - Nope
Hell Pie is a cartoonish 3D platformer set in hell, and is the seventh game in the January Humble Bundle.
You play as Nate, a low-level demon, who has been tasked with collecting the ingredients for Satan's birthday pie.
Hell is a muzak-filled cross between a corporate office and hell, which is somewhat tautological.
The game relies on gross-out humour, and it didn't work for me with Ren & Stimpy, and nothing has changed since then.
I found the controls frustrating on both keyboard/mouse and controller, and with the gross-out humour, I had no motivation to try and improve.
Hell Pie is a:
1: Nope
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January 3, 2024 - Day 368 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 403Game: Two Point Campus
Platform: Steam
Released: Aug 9, 2022
Installed: Jan 3, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 60mRating: 3 - OK
Two Point Campus is an isometric business management sim, with a cartoon vibe.
January's Humble Choice bundle dropped this morning, and this is the second game, because (unsurprisingly), I've already got the first.
I'll come to that tomorrow.
In the meantime, Two Point Campus has a kind of goofy outer layer covering a business management sim.
It's the kind of thing that could probably suck me in when I'm in the right frame of mind, but I already own the predecessor to this (Two Point Hospital), and after a couple of hours it lost me, and I haven't been back since.
Two Point Campus is OK.
#TwoPointCampus #Isometric #ManagementSim #HumbleBundle #Gaming #ProjectONG