Games I've played/want to keep track of in 2021.
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Balancing modules across three different game modes in Hades' Star is clearly not an easy task. So it's not really a surprise that the Hades' Star dev wanted to flesh out a separate game from Hades' Star that takes its most obvious cues from the Blue Star mode in Hades' Star (a short 5-minute PVP battle royale). There's a splash of Clash of Clans tossed in for good measure, as well as different types of battleships you can bring in to a match - each with its own special abilities. I've been participating in the open beta for a good chunk of the year and while I'm enjoying it, I'm not spending *too* much time with it, since there'll be a progress wipe when the game goes live. There's a lot of promise, though. Having gotten my top 50 Blue Star distinction in Hades' Star, I can see this game eating up some of the time I would traditionally devote to running Blue Stars in a given day.
Stripped down dungeon crawling at its absolute finest.
I'm absolutely astonished this game completely slipped past me when it was released on Steam last year. Yeah, it came out right as the pandemic was really starting to hit, so that probably didn't help. I didn't even realize it existed until I saw the trailer on the Nintendo Indie showcase and grabbed it that day. This sad and slow-moving idle/adventure game is so incredibly my shit that I can't stop thinking about it.
Big Vampire Lady.
Not quite as flashy as MHW, but as someone who was hankering for some more Monster Hunter last year, this is scratching that itch. It's cool to see some of the design and lessons from MHW make their way into a Switch version of the series. (It also still led to me reinstalling MHW so I could play more Iceborne.)
