Well, it took me a bit under 2 hours to finish the whole thing. My 9-year-old son was definitely moving through each level a bit more slowly, but he played it after me so he was able to just do the levels “à la carte” and skip the dialog etc. (too bad because it’s pretty funny at times), and he got through the darn…

Ah, Pyre. Great game. Do linger over the dialogue if you’ve got the inclination— I found that both the wordy bits and the mystical basketball bits were very compelling (though the Rites took longer to get used to...) and pretty well-balanced too. And yeah, I also lost my first rite on the one where it was Pamitha’s…

Right, thanks. I think I have a lot more to play in that game, even in the main part, as mentioned in my post. Always cool to have something to go back to (which reminds me, I still have never played the Fallout: New Vegas DLC...)

Oh my gosh, I had no idea I was disrupting your whole comment flow! Thanks for your thoughts on these games, especially (given my interests) Bound. Too bad it didn’t work out, but hey, a few “nice try, but not quite” experiences are part of being a fan of the video-game medium (as we all obviously know here), and at…

Ha, I believe it! The previous owner was renting the place out, and although the tenants treated it pretty well, the owner was neglecting some basic maintenance (bug and rodent damage, paint, gutters, trimming the many trees that surround the house and overhang the deck in spots, etc. etc.), so we have a ton of stuff…

Thank you! And thanks also for reminding me of The Sexy Brutale. I think. How am I supposed to make any progress on my backlog when there are so many interesting games out there?!

Busy weekend with kids, family visitors, and the whole “unpacking our boxes after moving” thing, but I’ve been making a fair amount of time for gaming recently and I don’t think this weekend/week will be an exception. Let’s see:

What Have You Finished This Week?

I played through Donut County right when it came out as well, and I echo all of your sentiments above. It’s really too expensive for PC (US $12 for 2 horus of play...), but get it on sale or for a touchscreen device and it is well worth it. I do wish that the game had gone farther with more complex puzzles and…

I’m not able to spend too much time on games this week because my family and I are (finally!!) moving into our new house in mid-week, but I can feel that I am coming up to a tipping point (as I did with Half-Life 2) where I am going to obsessively play this game for as long as I can, as often as I can, until it’s…

Yikes, sounds intense. So, a ghost run is where nobody ever sees you but you can still knock them out with the grab from behind, or is it where you never even knock anyone out?

Yes, I do intend to play them very soon (initiating download... now!), but I wanted to take a little break from that universe first. I see that my Steam library also contains HL2 spinoffs or whatever with the subtitles “Lost Coast” and “Deathmatch”, are those anything worth considering?

What Have You Finished This Week?

First and foremost, let me announce that nominations are now underway for the 61st edition of our Game Revue Club (“the book club for games!”) in the Gameological group on Steam. Here’s the web link, or just find the same page within the Steam app:

This is a huge post about a variety of games that I haven’t played yet, so I am just going to zoom in on your mention of Logan Cunningham as a voice actor in Unavowed and inform you that this was the final straw that pushed me (as a huge Supergiant fan and therefore Logan Cunningham fan as well) to buy the game…

Yes, there is definitely a distinct sense of “barely scraping by” at various points in the game, in terms of both ammo and (in my case especially) health. In my experience on Normal difficulty, though, I find that exploring the less-obvious paths makes up for that quite a bit: Most of the time, that little side…

I had to skip most of your post because I haven’t played Celeste yet and really want to do so (without spoilers, obviously), but I picked up enough enthusiasm that the game has just migrated a couple of spots higher on my mental “to-play” list.

I never noticed the cigarettes (or if I did, I didn’t assign any significance to it), but yes, the flyers are everywhere and she is clearly obsessed. As one can readily understand after playing Before the Storm, seeing the spell that Rachel cast on Chloe.

SPOILERS ABOUND (as one should expect at this point in the thread)

As for what I’m playing this weekend: It’s getting into a pretty busy time as the summer winds up and my family and I prepare to finalize our move into our first house (finally!), so games will be a bit limited in the coming week, but: