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#LooksCoolDidntPlay (#LCDP), No. 149:
"Cloud Valley" ("Cozy, Stress-Free Exploration Game à la 'A Short Hike'")

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2600720/Cloudy_Valley/?curator_clanid=45124370

Follow my Steam curator for more cool games:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45124370/

#Games #VideoGames #PCGaming #SteamGames #Steam #Gaming #ShortGames #Exploration #CasualGames #CuteAnimals #AShortHike

#LooksCoolDidntPlay (#LCDP), No. 147:
"PROXIMATE" ("Short Narrative Game About Indirectly Exploring a Deep Sea Station Through a Minimal HUD")

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/PROXIMATE/?curator_clanid=45124370

(by @cmddx)

Follow my Steam curator for more cool games:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45124370/

#Games #VideoGames #PCGaming #SteamGames #Steam #Gaming #ShortGames #Atmospheric #Horror #PsychologicalHorror #NoMonster #NarrativeDesign

1D Pac-Man is the best game I’ve played in 2024 (so far) - Enlarge / I didn't write this story just to share that high score in th... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1993804 #one-dimensional #gamedesign #shortgames #pac-man #gaming #1d

After much work and several weeks of procrastinating, I'm proud to say I've finished my first full game! Made with GB Studio, it's a game boy platformer about a hungry little goat, with cute graphics and catchy tunes. Check it out on Itch.io and play it either in your browser or using your favorite Gameboy Emulator here:

https://thefrugalgamer.itch.io/henry-is-hungry

#gaming #gamedevelopment #videogames #gameboy #gbstudio #retrogaming #itchiogames #goats #cutegames #shortgames #indiegames #indiegaming

After much work and several weeks of procrastinating, I'm proud to say I've finished my first full game! Made with GB Studio, it's a game boy platformer about a hungry little goat, with cute graphics and catchy tunes. Check it out on Itch.io and play it either in your browser or using your favorite Gameboy Emulator here:

https://thefrugalgamer.itch.io/henry-is-hungry

#gaming #gamedevelopment #videogames #gameboy #gbstudio #retrogaming #itchiogames #goats #cutegames #shortgames #indiegames #indiegaming

After much work and several weeks of procrastinating, I'm proud to say I've finished my first full game! Made with GB Studio, it's a game boy platformer about a hungry little goat, with cute graphics and catchy tunes. Check it out on Itch.io and play it either in your browser or using your favorite Gameboy Emulator here:

https://thefrugalgamer.itch.io/henry-is-hungry

#gaming #gamedevelopment #videogames #gameboy #gbstudio #retrogaming #itchiogames #goats #cutegames #shortgames #indiegames #indiegaming

Haunted Owlbear's Halloween Games, 2022/10/16 - Marginalia (2017, Connor Sherlock & Cameron Kunzelman)

Set deep in the woods of the US state of New England, Marginalia is an elegant walking simulator that really does make you feel like you're lost in a forest.

At first, red lampposts mark out a forest trail, each conjuring a new, fully voiced, narrative snippet. As you start piecing together the nature of the forest and memories that you're exploring, both the glowing markers that guide you through the dark and the story of the narrator's missing boyfriend begin to take on a stranger, more otherworldly tenor with shades of cosmic horror.

There are no jump scares, and the mood is one of ominous mystery, rather than full-on terror as you explore the vast forest. The ambient soundtrack is excellent and, for me, brought to mind Cult of Luna's more synth-driven moments.

Marginalia takes just over half an hour to complete, and there are no alternate endings (unless, like me, you fall off a big cliff and end up accidentally exploring a ravine instead of the mountain peak that everything's leading to).

Either way, the story is the same. The narrative is static. Interaction and emergent gameplay elements here are all about how you explore the deep woods. I managed to get myself turned around in the darkness, a familiar experience to anyone who's taken a half-familiar road too late in the day.

Marginalia a one-shot with no saves and no restarts, bar Steam Deck's suspend. However, you'll probably want to play this one straight through without too many distractions.

I had a fun time with it on the Steam Deck while keeping someone else company, but it's much more absorbing on a big ultrawide display, or at least in a dimly lit room, all alone.

Buy it on itchio for $6: https://connor-sherlock.itch.io/marginalia (includes the fantastic OST and a Steam key, get this one!) If you bought the Bundle For Ukraine in March 2022, you already have a copy (sans Steam key).

Alternatively, buy it on Steam for 4.99€: https://store.steampowered.com/app/889280/Marginalia/

Housekeeping note: Review dates are now going to match publication date, rather than game-played date. I'm going to stop playing catch-up and put any currently-incomplete reviews on the forthcoming Haunted Games blog.

#Spooktober #HalloweenGames #Halloween #October #LinuxGaming #HorrorGames #WalkingSimulators #SteamDeck #LGBTQgames #ShortGames #HauntedGames