I liked piecing together the ♥♥♥♥♥♥-up background of this strange opulence that surrounded me, the hideous machinations of the boss characters masking their deeply flawed humanity, and I liked Yi.

There was once a time when Ubisoft made games that weren't ♥♥♥♥. Believe it or not, there was once a time when they made quality artistically-driven single-player games, like this.

But that's all baby new potatoes compared to the butternut squash that is the fact that Plop Spludge Spiderhemorrhoid is a fun game.

Rife with unrealized potential: great music, setting, and characters, but it's like you're only glimpsing it through the holes in a pair of raggedy old underpants.

In Exo One, you play a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ball bearing rolling around a series of empty deserts, so conceptually, it's, like, one step up from a screensaver, but it completely sucked me in.

But for all that, there's enough to make me like Cryptmaster, hence my usage of the words "Cryptmaster is a game that I like", because most importantly, it's funny and clever and well-written.

Before Your Eyes was an experience that I very much enjoyed.

Yeah it's fine; now stop being fuss-pots and put the rest of it out. You don't benefit from cutting yourself into pieces and staggering out across a wide space; you're not a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ charcuterie board.

So that's where things are at with my game Starstruck Vagabond: It's out on Steam, it's had a few weeks of sweaty bug fixing and it's got some new features. Hope you like it!

It has that rare combination of being both expansively broad and dizzyingly deep; deep, rich, dark, and gooey, like how I like my chocolate brownies.