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Concise and honest reviews from a 25-year-veteran Game Designer; the best Indie games, roguelikes, Metroidvania platformers, strategy and tactics games, RPGs, simulations, and Japanese bullet hell shooters EVAR!

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$4.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"Blackwell Epiphany is the perfect ending for a consistently good point-and-click series; more square footage, puzzles, intrigue, and feels. Wadjet Eye goes out gracefully with the best of the bunch."

$19.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"Infernax is a misty-eyed return to the days of Zelda II and Castlevania II on the NES. If you played either of those games and you rue the day when games got all hand-holdy, this is the title for you."

$14.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"Last Command redefines the game Snake; you pilot around inside a computer memory bank, chatting with an Anime chic, and breaking through firewalls using dodge mechanics like Disc Doom. Indie as hell!"

$19.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"Rise of the Third Power comes from the crack team that brought us the wonderful SNES-style RPG, Ara Fell, and this almost hits that mark; 8-character party, weapon upgrade system, engaging characters."

$17.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"Gunvein is an excellent Bullet Hell SHMUP game, borrowing elements from Raizing's Battle Garegga and from CAVE's DoDonPachi series; frantic, but approachable, has a solid tutorial, and dope tracks."

$34.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"Dune: Spice Wars is an interesting, streamlined RTS/4x hybrid from Shiro Games, the makers of Northgard and WarTales. They did justice to the Dune universe, even winning over a die-hard Dune II nerd."

$44.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters is a Warhammer 40k turn-based strategy game that does a nice job of selectively creating an homage to XCOM and Gears Tactics, but with 40,000 times better lore."

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Designer Plays the Best of 2022

An ordered list of my Top-50 favorite games released on Steam in 2022, best first. Expanding from 30 this year, since my goal is simply to find moar g00d gamez for you. PRESS [View Full List]

$29.99

Empfohlen 13. Dezember 2022

"Distant Worlds 2 is my favorite 4x space game. It is hard SF. It is vast. It is incredibly complex. It is incredibly deep. It has a steep learning curve, but it also has automation. Such a great game."

$19.99

Empfohlen 9. Dezember 2022

"Citizen Sleeper is a tour de force; compelling storytelling, intriguing characters, interesting choices, and a clever dice system that moves it away from visual novel and firmly secures it as an RPG. "

$24.99

Empfohlen 9. Dezember 2022

"NORCO is a rich, character-based storytelling game about post-apocalyptic existence, self-reflection, and following mystery threads of your mom's death. Captivating story, dope pixel art, smoke music."

$29.99

Empfohlen 9. Dezember 2022

"Metal: Hellsinger just feels right; the music, the combat, the weapons, the speed of play, it's all fully metal. The innovation is in the creative combination of those elements to provide cohesion."

-40%

$24.99

$14.99

Empfohlen 9. Dezember 2022

"Neon White is an absolute banger! Not only due to the Machine Girl tracks, but because of the combination of great level design built for dual-purpose weapons, and the dope vibe. Speedrunner's dream. "

$59.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"Tactics Ogre: Reborn re-envisions one of my favorite tactical RPGS of all time, the original Tactics Ogre on Super Famicom. Changes for better and for worse, but new players won't care. Still Great."

$49.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"Gunvein is an excellent Bullet Hell SHMUP game, borrowing elements from Raizing's Battle Garegga and from CAVE's DoDonPachi series; frantic, but approachable, has a solid tutorial, and dope tracks."

-25%

$39.99

$29.99

Empfohlen 13. Dezember 2022

"Terra Invicta, by the XCOM Long War team, has unfathomable depth, secret societies, political intrigue, espionage, alien contact, and it is hard SF AF to play. Massive, innovative, ambitious, awesome."

-35%

$29.99

$19.49

Empfohlen 13. Dezember 2022

"Zorbus is an actual Roguelike; turn-based, procedurally-generated, permadeath. It is party-based, properly challenging, has some DCSS-style quality-of-life features, and I really enjoy the game. "

$10.99

Empfohlen 25. Dezember 2022

"PRODEUS is more DOOM, than DOOM."

-60%

$17.99

$7.19

Designer Plays the Best of 2021

An ordered list of my favorite games released on Steam in 2021, best first. Not entirely comprehensive this year, for reasons discussed elsewhere, but there are some good titles here.

$19.99

Empfohlen 24. Dezember 2021

"Death's Door is wonderful. It's from Acid Nerve, the Titans Souls devs, and it's like a mashup between that game and Zelda; dungeon-delving, puzzles, boss fights. Highly recommended!"

$14.99

Empfohlen 24. Dezember 2021

"WarTales is much like a more personal Battle Brothers, as you guide a small band of mercenaries around an open-world countryside being murderhobos, looting, crafting, and trading. Great 3D world."

$20.00

Empfohlen 24. Dezember 2021

"Inscryption is much more (twisted) than it seems, which makes sense, because it's from Daniel Mullins, the Pony Island dev. My advice would be to go in blind without reading reviews. Most excellent."

$24.99

Empfohlen 24. Dezember 2021

"OPUS: Echo of Starsong really demonstrates how far visual novels have progressed; the artwork is wonderfully understated, the story is cohesive and compelling, and Eda is a Lumen-sniffing war witch."

$24.99

Empfohlen 24. Dezember 2021

"Archvale is...dare I say...Zelda meets Enter the Gungeon. With a charming world to explore, items to loot or craft, and enemy combat influenced by Bullet Hell shooters, this game is perfect for me."

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Empfohlen 24. Dezember 2021

"Dominion is the progenitor of deck-building card games, one of the most popular genres on tabletop and on Steam. Easy to play, hard to master. Excellent game, good client, must-play."

$24.99

Empfohlen 24. Dezember 2021

"Eastward exudes an almost Ghibliesque charm in every facet of the game; pixel art, music, and story. This post-apocalyptic vision is unique and has characters that make you care. Very, very good."

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Designer Plays Metroidvania

I have put in my fair share of what game industry types refer to as "R&D" or "Research and Development", here meaning, playing your favorite Metroidvania games for hours and hours and calling it work.

$14.99

Designer Plays Roguelikes

True Roguelikes are turn-based, grid-based, procedurally generated, permadeath, dungeon crawls. Roguelikes are also one of my favorite genres. I just wish Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was on Steam.

$29.99

Empfohlen 13. Dezember 2022

"Zorbus is an actual Roguelike; turn-based, procedurally-generated, permadeath. It is party-based, properly challenging, has some DCSS-style quality-of-life features, and I really enjoy the game. "