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Another week, another incremental game. So, first things first, this is only about £4 at full price, so don't go in expecting hours and hours of deep content. It's a single-player, low-budget, small-team indie title. Your role, as the shelldiving turtle in question, is to repair your hammock for a nice, comfortable rest on your island home. You do this by plunging into the ocean depths and harvesting both jellyfish and materials, then selling said jellyfish to earn money, and using both your cash and materials to upgrade your turtle with atti-tide. As you progress, the bubble gun you use to capture jellyfish increases in strength, and your oxygen tank gets bigger, meaning you can head to deeper and deeper environments. Other upgrades have other effects, but the end goal is to absolutely work towards that lovely little hammock snooze. It's a basic incremental wrapped up in absolutely charming, SNES-era visuals, and I adored the 7 or so hours it took me to get through it. Available on Game Pass at the minute, too. So it didn't even cost. Was tons of brainless fun, though.

It was one of Rosie's games this week, so definitely PS5 too.

Honestly, I'll give you full credit for once. But fuck you too!

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but this looks interesting. I reckon it's a bit of @Nag

It took me far too long to click onto the joke you were making here. I'm a dumbass sometimes.

I don't care what the story for that bit is. I'm just specifically calling out the shouting, the yellow all around her and the sparks. Does her helmet inexplicably get longer if she becomes Super Samus 3?

This looks super cool, but why's she going super saiyan? (it's a paused screenshot, not a video. Don't click the play button)

Berry Bury Berry... Honestly, words probably won't do the description of this game justice. I'll start with the trailer. So, it's a first-person incremental game set in a saccharine sweet, incredibly bright game world. Berries are generated from the plant in the area near you, and you're tasked with popping said berries into the bottomless pit in the ground. Your character's name is Berry. So Berry buries berries. Hence the name. Anyway, each cycle is timed, and you get around 70 seconds to stuff as many berries as you can into said pit. After the timer ends, the lights go off, and you go to bed. Before starting the next day, you get an upgrade screen. So far, so incremental. As you progress, you gain access to Berry Buddies, which are little plant pots that toddle about popping off berries from time to time. There is a story attached, but to say anything on that would render most of the game pointless. I've seen two YouTubers play it from start to finish, so I already knew the story, but what's there is really cool in my opinion. It's all revealed via cassette tapes around the world, which add to context to the wider concept. So you get this drip, drip, drip of information that pulls things along beautifully. It didn't hamper my experience, though, because I knew what I wanted to play this for, for ages. Numbers go up. Back to incremental stuff. It has all the usual suspects. Rebirth/Rewinds make progress significantly easier. The hole gets bigger the more you shove in there. You can eventually escape the confines of the starting area to discover what's scattered about. It's not a huge game, I managed to get the Platinum in about 12 hours, but if you want to switch your brain off for a few hours and discover a story that's slowly revealed as you get more power-ups, it's definitely worth a look.

That's a fair shout. Didn't think of the wider scale, I was just focused on the gaming industry side.

I think all of the platform holders have their own issues where you could justify not buying from any of them at the minute. Microsoft are picking up studios and then dropping them like the "I don't wanna play with you anymore" scene in Toy Story as soon as they get bored. Sony are aggressively anti-consumer with the dropping discs thing they've got going on. Oh and apparently they've quietly updated their terms to state that buying a license doesn't mean you own the game. (could probably lump 2k/R* in with that one, too, considering the no disc stuff with GTA VI) Nintendo are shits who stomp on anyone who even mutters 'Mario' under their breath. Even Steam are being accused of being anti-consumer: https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/11/dutch-gamers-file-eu220-million-claim-valve-operator-game-platform-steam Unfortunately, all it comes down to at the minute is which flavour of bastard you prefer. Because capitalism. Slight digression from being purely Microsoft, sorry.

Spoilered my answer so those who don't want anything ruined don't see the context.

I haven't even loaded it up yet. I plan to. But only to kick my kid's ass at it. I don't wanna pick on somebody my own size. I will. But I'll complain about it.

I never said I had good taste in games. I play to make brain go brrr. Pirate make brain go brrrr.

Undersell for corporate expectations, or undersell as in they never break even/turn a profit? The two are different things don't forget, and I'm too lazy to Google the answer.

I think the fact it's so shallow in the deep waters is why I like Black Flag so much. Assassin's Creed I outright disliked, the Ezio trilogy had promise but still didn't quite get there, and 3 was a step back for me. Then 4 came along, gave me brainless pirating, sea shanties, and a fucking ridiculous modern day first-person section. I knew what I was getting into every time I started it up, and it hits my brain in a similar way to Powerwash Simulator. Thing is, I don't even disagree with your criticisms. I actively dislike boarding a ship because climbing up to take their flag down then becomes a puzzle of not falling to your doom. Stealth sucks. The assassin thread was just there because it had to be. The parkour is more than a bit shit, and you're as likely to run in a straight line as you are to dive off the nearest roof. Or repeatedly run into a tree you can't climb. But there's a sense of comfort in it. And I think there's something to be said for that.