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It’s… it’s a roguelike? Challenge Accepted It took me a few tries before I got the hang of it. The first time, I got all the way to the last boss and had pretty good equipment, but couldn’t figure out how to damage him. It turns out the “concentrate” command is pretty crucial to your…

I’m running down to the last few games, and I’ve played a pretty big block of them in the, let’s say, “home stretch.” Bad pun intended, since this is a game about baseball. You play as a baseball fan, and the object of the game is to interfere with a real, historical Cubs game so that the…

This is a game about time travel. My review will contain swears this time! The story in this one is so bad-ass! It’s about this crazy conspiracy that’s happening in a time travel “company,” where people are involved using their own time-travel-created duplicates from the past and there’s murder and intrigue and you’re attacked by…

Untested and kind of messy. The loose plot of the game is that you have to escape from a library in which you are trapped. Sudden deaths can happen, so the game gives you “rescues” that will nullify one of them, though there is a limited amount. The game seems, by some text, to be…

OK, I’ll be honest: I’ve been putting this one off. I clicked on it three times, but every time I was confronted with that so-wacky opening graphic, and kind of stared at it.  Then I saw that the protagonist was another detective, but that the whole thing was going to be wacky monkey cheese antics,…

Sorry, this just isn’t doing it for me. Now apparently this has the same author as Blind, which I pretty much liked? Or else two authors just have the same name for some reason. This game seems to involve a meticulous recreation of the college the author went to. When I loaded up the Feelie…

I feel like this is a little big for a comp game, or maybe I’m just bad at it. I feel like I was progressing, but had no idea how far I was from the end before I hit my time limit. Other impressions after the jump. This is a game about the post-apocalypse. The…

Impossible to discuss without spoilering: I kind of assume that the name of this game, Keepsake, is play on the name “Memento,” which of course is a movie that told a story in the way similar to the way this game tells a story. I don’t actually intend to spoil Memento, since most people know…

I might be running out of steam for how to evaluate puzzle games in my reviews. There are a lot of games this year! This one was… okay! Although the theme of it is fairly well-worn, it had a nice little twist. The theme: solve puzzles based on the Seven Deadly Sins… the twist: …using…

A Christmas-themed puzzle game, this felt suitable for today, as it’s snowing like a winter wonderland outside in October. This is basically purely a puzzle exercise, but it’s very user-friendly. I particularly liked that exits were flagged with where they lead after you passed through them once, making traveling around the area easy. The puzzle content is…