Oops, was too busy to do one of these last week. Oh well, it’s not like there were a billion cool games that have come out in the last two weeks. If you enjoy the roundup this week, please give a few bucks to Rob. He’s made many things I’ve been a fan of for the last 20 or so years and is just all around a great guy.

I will also do a bit of self promo and point out this nice video essay that someone did about one of my ttrpgs. If you’re curious about the game, please take a free community copy from here.

The Games

The last two weeks have been kind of bananas because a lot of things I’m really into have been released. One of these has been the release of a new batch of Domino Club games on Itch.io. I’ve mentioned here before that I’m a huge Domino Club fan and all the experimental games they release and this is yet another fantastic group of games. Go check them out! They’re free!

Another ones of those things I’ve been very excited about is I, Robot (dev site) by Llamasoft. It’s a remake of the classic arcade game and I love everything by Llamasoft so of course I’m going to play that.

Promise Mascot Agency (dev site) is the newest game by the developers of Paradise Killer and yet another game I’ve been looking forward to for a while. It’s an open-world adventure game/mascot management sim and has been a total delight to play. The soundtrack by Ryo Koike and Alpha Chrome Yayo has been a highlight for me.

Tiny Garden (Steam) is a really cute sim game where you grow a garden inside something resembling a Polly Pocket toy.

Erenshor (Steam) is kind of like if you made a game like Everquest into a single player rpg, including the other players being represented as NPCs. I’ve watched the streamer BogusMeatFactory play this quite a bit and it seems really lovely. It even has a demo for you to try.

Do I even need to post about Blue Prince? I think everyone knows about it at this point. I’m on the fence if I will like it or not before I buy it. It sounds like an amazing game that may not for me. I love Myst-likes but don’t always gel with roguelikes. But it sounds great and even the developers of Myst are very into it, so consider checking it out. Feel free to argue with each other in the comments if I will like this or not. I’ll probably break down and buy it anyway.

I don’t know where it really falls on The Indie Scale (who cares, it’s my blog, I’ll do what I want) since it’s an Annapurna published game but Lushfoil Photography Sim (Steam) looks incredible. I’m pretty clueless about photography but this seems like it actually teaches you a little bit about taking photos as you play? At the very least it looks like a nice photography game.

The Electrifying Incident: A Monster Mini-Expedition (Steam) and Lab Rat (Steam) both seem like very solid puzzle games by developers I’m a fan of, and there’s even a Steam bundle that features both games.

She said, “You do plenty by experiencing trans joy” (Itch.io) is a short interactive fiction made in the hypercard-like tool Decker

Spider Land (Steam/Itch.io) is a short interactive fiction about a doomsday prepper and is available for free/pay-what-you-want.

Lunacid – Tears of the Moon (Steam) is a new, free game in the Lunacid series. It is completely bananas that this was made with the same tool that was used to make King’s Field.

Travel On, Pigeon! (Steam) looks like a really cute rhythm puzzle game.

I haven’t played it but I heard on the great adventure games podcast Quest Quest that Monaco 2 (Steam), which is not an adventure game, is a good time.

Brassheart (Steam/GOG) is a 2D point-and-click adventure in a Steampunk setting.

The Talos Principle: Reawakened (Steam) is a remake of the first game and adds the DLC and some new stuff with some snazzy new graphics. I’ve been a long time Croteam fan so it’s interesting to me darn it.

Frog Bard (Steam/Itch.io) is a short, poetic experience about finding inspiration in the world around you.

That’s it for this week! Feel free to let me know what you’ve been playing in the comments. I always enjoy getting those. Like and subscribe (add to your RSS feed reader).