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You’ll never find The Hunt’s Elk King unless you click everywhere
For short, atmospheric-driven point-and-click adventure games, I try to go in blind. Maybe, at most, I’ll read a brief summary of what it is all about, but I’m probably already interested in playing based on either its zany title or … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, videogames
Tagged adventure, Arrow, browser, horror, Jay is Games, jump scares, pixel hunting, point and click, puzzles, Running Zombie, The Hunt, Thranduil
The future is full of cyborg diseases and neon adverts in Among Thorns
I am weak to small games with big ambition. Like Limbo, which was a perfunctory action-puzzle platformer that attempted to tell a story of loss and uncertainty with next to no words. Or Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, what with … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, videogames
Tagged AGS, Among Thorns, Blade Runner, MAGS, MAGS competition, Matt Frith, point and click, science fiction
Help elf people survive in Lost Lands: A Hidden Object Adventure
There’s a first for everything, and Lost Lands: A Hidden Object Adventure is my initial dip into a free-to-play hidden objects game. Y’know, that mega popular genre where you examine a scene and click on items to check them off a … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, impressions, musings, videogames
Tagged casual, elves, energy, F2P, free-to-play, hidden objects, Highlights, Lost Lands, Lost Lands: A Hidden Object Adventure, point and click, Steam
RIDICULOUS MARATHON HAS CANDY, TOFFEE, SWEETS, AND CONFETTI
If you have an eye for detail or are anal about words being in all capital letters when perhaps they have no reason to be, you might be wondering why this blog post about Ridiculous Marathon has such style elements … Continue reading
Matching pairs of tiles and rotating never felt so good
I’ve been a huge fan of all things mahjong since the good ol’ college days when I discovered some Flash-based version online that I could play in a resized browser while having AIM conversations next to it with friends and … Continue reading
Posted in achievements, entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, videogames
Tagged casual, casual gaming, Daily Challenges, mahjong, Microsoft Mahjong, puzzles, Taptiles, tiles
Help Craig escape his house and get back to making potions
First, let me clear something up: Craig is a black and white game/demo for a future game that takes place on two screens. I already used the first screen for my completed haiku review, which left me with the second … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, impressions, musings, videogames
Tagged adventure, Craig, fantasy, Pai, point and click, puzzles, RPGMaker
Smells Like Art’s grand idea to turn poop into portraits
Every now and then, I pop over to the Carmel Games website for two reasons. One, I honestly want to see how Dakota Winchester’s Adventures concludes and am patiently waiting for it to pop up when available. Not because the … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, videogames
Tagged adventure, Bosko, Carmel Games, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, point and click, puzzles, Smells Like Art
BEEP combines physics and platforming with cute robots
Remember when I went balls-out crazy over the summer during the Steam Summer Sale and spent an astounding $0.74 on a bundle of four games? And then I only played one of them, the cute yet challenging Out There (Somewhere)? … Continue reading
Posted in backlog, entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, videogames
Tagged action platformer, Beep, Big Fat Alien, indie, platformer, Steam summer sale
Time Clickers and the idle quest to destroy colored cubes
Well, here we are. After listening to Jeff Gerstmann speak feverishly and passionately about an idle clicking game called Time Clickers on the Giant Bombcast for the past two weeks, I decided to see what was what. The blasted thing … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, videogames
Tagged casual, Clickers, F2P, Fable II, free-to-play, Giant Bomb, idle games, money, Time Clickers
Five things make a post, and Suikoden III is an undeniable PlayStation 2 classic
Activity on Grinding Down has been sparse as of late, which is pretty much par for the course when it comes to the summer months. Truth be told, between moving from one state to another, working, burning the midnight oil, … Continue reading
