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Overcome Your Fears: Caretaker <\/strong>(PC) – Yet another Fears to Fathom clone, and not even a good one, combining the simplicity of Home Alone with the padding of Carson House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scarlet Skips<\/strong> (PC) – This isn’t a game you can beat, per se, it’s just a high score chaser. But I got my fill of it and that’s about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serve or Die<\/strong> (PC) – “Routine job horror” where you manage a sandwich shop and spooooky things start to happen. It was honestly starting to lose me, but then the ending went bananas and was funny enough that I’d give it a pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Signalis<\/strong> (PS4) – A top-down, sci-fi survival horror that unabashedly wants to be just like Silent Hill 2. I say that, but it definitely has its very own -and very weird- identity. I thought that the puzzles were the highlight, some of them being really devious, and I’m happy to say that I solved each and every one with my own brain and nothing more. Really good game, would play again. But maybe not on the Hard difficulty next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Talos Principle Reawakened<\/strong> (PS5) – It was real nice to revisit this game, which retains its place one of my all-time favourites<\/a>. Now that I’ve played it again, I think the sequel is actually better in most ways, but that’s not to say there’s anything wrong with this one. The puzzles are great, the secret<\/em> puzzles can be downright evil, and the story is simple but very (ironically?) human. I very much look forward to tackling the two additional campaigns in November probably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sagebrush<\/strong> (PC) – I found this by looking up games that are similar to Paratopic<\/a>, and this was a result. It’s actually nothing<\/em> like Paratopic outside of the fact that it’s a first-person walking simulator. Sagebrush is actually a very grounded story about a woman reconciling her feelings about having participated in a death cult. It’s disturbing and raw and very, very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secret of Mana<\/strong> (PS4) – I think I’ve said enough about this already.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heartworm<\/strong> (PC) – Yet another survival horror (I should have saved these for October?), but this one is a little more traditional than Signalis. You play as a young woman who somehow ends up in some kind of mixed-up otherworld, using her camera to defeat foes. It was a fine game, but not nearly as good as Signalis, and it’s a huge missed opportunity that the camera never factored into puzzles or exploration (aside from being a bad flashlight alternative) at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown<\/strong> (Switch) – I thought this looked pretty good when it came out, but never got around to trying it. Then Nintendo let me have a free week-long rental so I buckled down and burned through it. Amazing<\/em> game. Like, holy crap, everything about this PoP is golden. Great combat, smooth movement, excellent puzzles, creative power-ups, a massive map… Literally everything you could ask for from a Metroidvania. Why doesn’t Ubisoft make more games like this????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Resident Evil 4<\/strong> (Quest) – Halfway through chapter 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Death Road to Canada<\/strong> (PC) – A handful of unsuccessful runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/strong> (Switch2) – Just pokopin’ around<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pok\u00e9mon Fire Red<\/strong> (Switch) – Slogging through Victory Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lost Sphear<\/strong> (Switch) – Mistral Gorge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitness Boxing 3<\/strong> (Switch2) – Made it up to Gold I again… could have powered through to the next tier except I got shingles, which made exercise a little harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silksong<\/strong> (PC) – Cleared (first?) Lace boss fight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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