Craymen Edge

Hob is free tomorrow on the Epic game store.

Overwatch's April Fools thing this year is to give everyone googly eyes, in menus and in game. Even Hanzo's dragon ultimate has them.

Monument Valley 2 is currently free on the Google Play store.

I hated fighting those guys, then playing through a second time years later I picked up the weapon off one of those shambala guardians after killing him, and it was so much more effective against them.

Last Day Of June (PC) Lair Of The Clockwork God (PC) Mutazione (PC) Horace (PC) A recent Epic Store freebie. I didn't know much about it before playing it, I'm glad I gave it a go. It's excellent.

Horace is a narrative platform adventure about a robot butler that's absolutely full of charm and wit. It's very British in character with tonnes of jokes and references to old computer games and 80's and 90's pop culture. The story is told through cutscenes in a pixel art style narrated in the robotic voice of Horace, and really goes places. Just when you think it's going to be a tale of robotic domestic bliss, everything changes. The game itself has some pretty fiendish platforming with metroidvania style uprgades and is really fun to play. The levels and and what you need to do in them show a lot of imagination and variation. Death comes regularly, but infinite lives and and instant respawns help alleviate frustrations. My only criticism is that it's maybe a little long, but I had a blast with it.

I think mine's just Craymen

I don't really care about Half Life any more, I'll be happy watching a playthrough of this.

The videos and reviews I've seen remind me a little of the situation with Singularity on 360/PS3. A competent low-ish budget game that doesn't try to do too much, but does it well, and had barely any marketing so went fairly unnoticed.

Last Day Of June (PC) Lair Of The Clockwork God (PC) Mutazione (PC) One of this week's Epic store freebies. It's a lovely, gentle game about nature and community and loss and guilt. I liked it a lot.

Mutazione is a narrative game following a 15 year old girl who sets off to a distant town to visit her estranged grandfather, having received news he's on death's door. The titular town was once a busy place until several decades ago it was destroyed by a meteor, and which slowly mutated the people animal and plant life left. The game itself mostly involves talking to the townspeople and getting to know this community and their lives, planting musical gardens, and solving the mystery of the giant tree in the middle of the town which sustains the island. It's gentle, slow-paced and relaxing stuff, lasting about 5-6 hours. I had a lovely time with it.

This has been released on game pass for both Xbox and PC this week. It's a fun little experience, well worth a go.

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There are some really funny and inventive puzzles in this game, a couple of them are quite meta. The solution to one of them is hinted at by the game's patch notes. Realising that was really satisfying .

Last Day Of June (PC) Lair Of The Clockwork God (PC) A really fun point & click/platformer. It works well as an idea, and was also very imaginative and funny. Also completed 'Devil's Kiss', which is a short silly visual novel which came free with the game and only exists to deliver one joke/puzzle solution for the main game, but you don't know this if you play it first.