Craymen Edge

Cat Quest II (PC - GOG) Oxenfree (PC - Itch.io) Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (PC - Game Pass) A Game About Digging A Hole (PC - Game Pass) Promise Mascot Agency (PC - Steam) Earth Must Die (PC - Steam) No Case Should Remain Unsolved (PC - Steam) Mika and the Witch's Mountain (PC - Steam) Darwin's Paradox (PC - Steam) Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PC - Steam) Forbidden Solitaire (PC - Steam) Mixtape (PC - Game Pass) Replaced (PC - Game Pass) inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories (PC - Game Pass) Viewfinder (PC - Epic) The Big Con (PC - Steam) Lil Gator Game: In The Dark DLC (PC - Steam) Junkster (PC - Steam) Dispatch (Amazon Luna) Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! (PC - Steam) Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince (PC - Steam) Tangle Tower (PC - Steam) The Ratline (PC - Steam) Detective game set in the 70's, you're a private detective tasked with finding former Nazis who changed their identities and fled to escape justice. A case basically boils down to searching through the evidence, and finding the last known alias, location and a photo of the wanted people. An interesting twist is that the people in the cases are all intertwined, so photos or transcripts from your archives from other cases might help clear up something in a later one. It's a fun, well made one of these.

Cat Quest II (PC - GOG) Oxenfree (PC - Itch.io) Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (PC - Game Pass) A Game About Digging A Hole (PC - Game Pass) Promise Mascot Agency (PC - Steam) Earth Must Die (PC - Steam) No Case Should Remain Unsolved (PC - Steam) Mika and the Witch's Mountain (PC - Steam) Darwin's Paradox (PC - Steam) Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PC - Steam) Forbidden Solitaire (PC - Steam) Mixtape (PC - Game Pass) Replaced (PC - Game Pass) inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories (PC - Game Pass) Viewfinder (PC - Epic) The Big Con (PC - Steam) Lil Gator Game: In The Dark DLC (PC - Steam) Junkster (PC - Steam) Dispatch (Amazon Luna) Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! (PC - Steam) Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince (PC - Steam) Tangle Tower (PC - Steam) The recent release of The Mermaid Mask prompted me to pick up this previous game in the series when it popped up on sale for £3. It's a point & click detective game with a really nice art style, animation and great voice acting. It's pretty chilled, giving you a lot of leeway to investigate all the locations/character in whatever order you want. The ending revelations maybe come a bit too many too fast, but otherwise it's charming and fun, I liked it a lot.

It kind of gives me the feeling of those weird japanese games we got at the start of the Xbox 360/PS3. I look at the trailers and can't tell if it's going to be shit, but it's going to be unhinged in some way and that's interesting to me.

Cat Quest II (PC - GOG) Oxenfree (PC - Itch.io) Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (PC - Game Pass) A Game About Digging A Hole (PC - Game Pass) Promise Mascot Agency (PC - Steam) Earth Must Die (PC - Steam) No Case Should Remain Unsolved (PC - Steam) Mika and the Witch's Mountain (PC - Steam) Darwin's Paradox (PC - Steam) Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PC - Steam) Forbidden Solitaire (PC - Steam) Mixtape (PC - Game Pass) Replaced (PC - Game Pass) inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories (PC - Game Pass) Viewfinder (PC - Epic) The Big Con (PC - Steam) Lil Gator Game: In The Dark DLC (PC - Steam) Junkster (PC - Steam) Dispatch (Amazon Luna) Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! (PC - Steam) Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince (PC - Steam) Cute 2D Zelda-like.

Cat Quest II (PC - GOG) Oxenfree (PC - Itch.io) Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (PC - Game Pass) A Game About Digging A Hole (PC - Game Pass) Promise Mascot Agency (PC - Steam) Earth Must Die (PC - Steam) No Case Should Remain Unsolved (PC - Steam) Mika and the Witch's Mountain (PC - Steam) Darwin's Paradox (PC - Steam) Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PC - Steam) Forbidden Solitaire (PC - Steam) Mixtape (PC - Game Pass) Replaced (PC - Game Pass) inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories (PC - Game Pass) Viewfinder (PC - Epic) The Big Con (PC - Steam) Lil Gator Game: In The Dark DLC (PC - Steam) Junkster (PC - Steam) Dispatch (Amazon Luna) Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! (PC - Steam) Someone fucked up a magical library, and it's your job to tidy all the books of magic into the right order on the right shelves. At first it's manually hunting through the piles of books all over the place, looking up the right section and shelving them correctly. Completing rows levels you up, and lets you unlock and level up magical abilities to make it easier and faster. A fun, relaxing 6-7 hours for just over a fiver.

Terratech Legion is one of those Bullet Heaven/Survivors type roguelites, where you're driving a little vehicle against hoards of robot enemies. It's the first one of these kind of games to really grab me since Vampire Survivors (and to a lesser extent Ball X Pit). I'm having a great time with it, I feel it's destined for my Steam top 20 most played quite soon at this rate. The hook is the vehicle building mechanic. You pick up parts crates by killing enemies carrying them, and each time you level up an upgrade station drops onto the map near you which you drive into to open your parts crates, and select a new weapon. The building part in fun and very flexible, you can strip everything down to the cab and rebuild your vehicle from scratch if you wanted to, and can end up with some really outlandish looking machines. As for content - there are 4 biomes with three difficulty levels and a survival mode for each, unlocked as you progress. There are 4 characters each with a different vehicle, which have different abilities. Each vehicle also has an individual upgrade tree, and some unique blocks in the parts crates. I think my favourite is the one which gets shields when you boost. One run I went all in on impact damage and turned it into a battering ram which killed the stage boss in less than 60 seconds.

Cat Quest II (PC - GOG) Oxenfree (PC - Itch.io) Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (PC - Game Pass) A Game About Digging A Hole (PC - Game Pass) Promise Mascot Agency (PC - Steam) Earth Must Die (PC - Steam) No Case Should Remain Unsolved (PC - Steam) Mika and the Witch's Mountain (PC - Steam) Darwin's Paradox (PC - Steam) Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PC - Steam) Forbidden Solitaire (PC - Steam) Mixtape (PC - Game Pass) Replaced (PC - Game Pass) inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories (PC - Game Pass) Viewfinder (PC - Epic) The Big Con (PC - Steam) Lil Gator Game: In The Dark DLC (PC - Steam) Junkster (PC - Steam) Dispatch (Amazon Luna) What a game, I absolutely loved it. Luna itself continues to be a massively underwhelming service for something they want to charge a monthly subscription for, but fortunately Dispatch was included with my prime sub.

It's beginning to sound like what they did towards the end of the 360 - shut down studios apart from the ones making the handful of big franchises, leading to the perception that Xbox One had no games and the start of the big studio acquisitions blitz. Ridiculous.

Cat Quest II (PC - GOG) Oxenfree (PC - Itch.io) Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (PC - Game Pass) A Game About Digging A Hole (PC - Game Pass) Promise Mascot Agency (PC - Steam) Earth Must Die (PC - Steam) No Case Should Remain Unsolved (PC - Steam) Mika and the Witch's Mountain (PC - Steam) Darwin's Paradox (PC - Steam) Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PC - Steam) Forbidden Solitaire (PC - Steam) Mixtape (PC - Game Pass) Replaced (PC - Game Pass) inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories (PC - Game Pass) Viewfinder (PC - Epic) The Big Con (PC - Steam) Lil Gator Game: In The Dark DLC (PC - Steam) Junkster (PC - Steam)

The game is a 3D puzzle platformer with collectathon elements, and a fun building mechanic. You play as a robot trying to collect the parts to repair his spaceship, each level is fairly contained and the point is to reach the box at the end containing the item you need. To do so you collect scrap lying around the level and build structures to help you solve the particular problem on that level. There are variations which require you to build a robot to either ride, or build a path to direct it to the correct end point. The build mechanic is simple, but enjoyable. Despite clearly being a low budget title, the style works well and it looks great. It reminds me of a PS2 or N64 game, or another recent game that knew it's scope and executed it really well - Tinykin. For £10, it's a bargain.

Escape From Ever After is a gorgeous looking Paper Mario style RPG adventure, came out about 6 months ago and I didn't notice. Currently going for £6.29 on Loaded. Junkster is a 3D action platformer with a fun looking building mechanic. It came out about 2 weeks ago and is only a tenner. I played the Dustborne demo a while ago and filed it under "try it when it's cheap", so I picked it up for £2.49 on Steam.

Cat Quest II (PC - GOG) Oxenfree (PC - Itch.io) Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (PC - Game Pass) A Game About Digging A Hole (PC - Game Pass) Promise Mascot Agency (PC - Steam) Earth Must Die (PC - Steam) No Case Should Remain Unsolved (PC - Steam) Mika and the Witch's Mountain (PC - Steam) Darwin's Paradox (PC - Steam) Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PC - Steam) Forbidden Solitaire (PC - Steam) Mixtape (PC - Game Pass) Replaced (PC - Game Pass) inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories (PC - Game Pass) Viewfinder (PC - Epic) The Big Con (PC - Steam) Lil Gator Game: In The Dark DLC (PC - Steam) Another cute, charming little experience, in a new area roughly the same size as the main game.

Nobody Speak pt2. I love the first one. listened 4 or 5 times today while working, Denzel Curry and TiaCorine killing it on this.

I liked the idea of the Hitman games more than playing them back then. PC control schemes really were all over the place in those days. I'm interested to see what they do to modernise them, but also I put in about 300 hours across the modern Hitman trilogy so I don't feel a need to jump in right away.

Half Life 3 would be big enough that an announcement could be its own thing. It doesn't need to be part of someone else's event. It's been so long, I kind of don't care about half life any more. Last time I played HL2, each section felt like it went on for too long. That said, I'd no doubt get caught up in the hype if HL3 ever comes out.