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Pretty cute cat game with some fun quests and progression gated by getting upgrades. Doesn't overstay its welcome but not much replay value unless you want to 100% (probably not that hard).

A spooky investigation game that rewards game knowledge and efficiency of execution.

We're now at end-of-life for Monster Hunter World + Iceborne, and there's no better time to get into the game if you like (or think you'd like) it.

The seasonal festivals will rotate every 2 weeks, giving access to almost all the event quests, which means you'll be able to just binge everything. The 2 siege monsters will rotate every two weeks, and the one released in Iceborne will even get solo/duo HP scaling (the one released in HR already has a scaling MR version.)

There are plenty of mods at the Nexus and even a rework mod in the works (ICE) when you "finish" Iceborne and want to play through the game in a different way, if you can't wait till Rise or won't grab a Switch just for it.

MHW and Iceborne has it's fair share of problems, but the bulk of the game is just pure git-gud-fun.

Helen's Mysterious Castle is a short, simple RPG that excels at what it does.

You play the titular Helen, a mute girl in a castle, which you'll eventually learn all about. The thing that got me into this game was the combat system; once you learn it, you can employ it to the best of your knowledge and nothing can stand in your way, maybe except the post-game bosses. Even so, it feels good.

It's cheap, story's decent, and if you really want to see if it's for you, go watch some combat gameplay, since you'll be doing a lot of that.

The Silent Age is a point-and-click adventure involving time travel. You're Joe, a janitor, and you end up having a device that lets you travel between two points in time, and you'll need it to solve puzzles and access places you otherwise couldn't in your current time and location. All to save the world.

It's one of those simpler games, no combining items in your inventory, no way to impede progress, and the puzzles are actually quite straightforward if you just think about it. None of those The-Longest-Journey-esque atrocities. That being said, you'll breeze by the game because you won't really get stuck, but that's a good thing for this one, because the story, while predictable for time travel buffs, is actually decent. It'll definitely scratch an itch.

You'll finish in one to two sessions, but it'll be a good one/two sessions.

Marlow Briggs (and the Mask of Death) is a spectacle fighter, a "God of War clone" if you will, and most of the time, it's a decent one at that. You're the titular Marlow Briggs, some dude on his vacation accompanying his girlfriend on a dig site. Things go wrong and you end up dead, and the story begins.

Nothing about the gameplay is unique, however, the execution is competent. Sometimes you'll end up doing some things outside of the genre, and it's surprising when you're thrown into it. The quick and dirty:

+ Smooth flowing combat
+ Combos
+ Weapons and magic
+ Random activities
+ Okay voice acting
+ Lots of explosions and jumping away from them
+ Runs all right (50-60 fps) on my Nvidia GT630M

- Awkward camera angles in places
- No graphics options
- Rough animation transitions
- Encountered bugs that did not let me progress (reloaded an autosave)

I got it for a dollar and expected nothing. I was pleasantly surprised. Try it!

Gunpoint is a sidescrolling stealth puzzle game. You are Richard Conway, freelance spy, and your main techniques are rewiring connections and jumping to and falling from great heights, so you can go about whatever sordid (or otherwise) business you're conducting.

Imagine hiding behind a door, in the dark, near a light switch you rigged to open the door away from you. The guard is suspicious why the lights went off and walks to the light switch. As he gets closer, you hit the switch. BAM. The door swings open right in his face. Now you go on and sidestep the sleeping guard, onwards to your goal.

That's one of the many ways you can rig stuff up in Gunpoint. Open a door from under someone? Yup. Set off an electric shock from a power outlet? Go ahead. Pounce on a guard by a window? Why not? From straightforward to convoluted, it's up to you how you choose to deal your damage (or not at all).