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The Cave is a game that desperately tries to be something different, something else than what it is. The Cave wants to bend genres and create new ways of play. But the Cave fails. It’s exactly what it tries not to be, a traditional adventure game. This ends up hurting the game severely. Instead of being proved of its heritage, instead of playing to its gene pool and creates experience, it ignores it all. It fails at…
Don't Starves demands are simple but brutal. It wants you to give in, it wants you to live in its world. It wants you to get familiar with it. But no matter how much you seem to give it, no matter how many thoughts or how much time you poor into it, it’ll still kill you in an instant. Don't Starve do not care about you. The world of Don't Starve lives on. It barley acknowledge you. If you want to make it in the…
Starseed Pilgrim is a game about going to outer space. Through hard work and experimenting you discover the systems, the rules, and your own abilities. Through use of these you explore the world. And whenever you think you’re done, whenever you think you have uncovered it all, everything gets turned upside down, and you realize just how little you know. Playing Starseed Pilgrim I felt like I singlehandedly was NASA.…
Guacamelee is rich on mechanics, and it only gets richer as you play. It’s a game about learning buttons, proms, patterns in the environment and enemy attacks. It’s about twitch motions, fast precise combat and even faster platfoming. Guacamelee is not a game about deep system driven gameplay. It’s not about subtle storytelling or the bigger questions in life. And it’s definitely not ashamed of this. Gaining a new…
The most beautiful and fun spreadsheet on the PC. Not a god game, but a great, simple but deep puzzle game. I won't be going into detail with it's mechanics, setting and so on. But rather describe the game in broad strokes, and what make the standout. Computers are made for spreadsheets, but few spreadsheets, if any, are as good looking, and as much fun to play as Reus. Organizing your land, adding the right values,…
