Some short notes on five games I’ve dipped into over the last few months: Magic Research 2 A pleasant clicker game. Or clicker plus autobattler game, you’re building a magic school and exploring dungeons. I liked the first game, I like this one; on the “you’re almost always doing stuff” side of clicker games rather […]
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slay the spire: the board game
The original Slay the Spire is a great game. When the Kickstarter launched for a board game version of the game, it had been two or three years since I’d played the video game version; that was recent enough that I still remembered the game fondly but enough time had passed that I didn’t mind […]
dicey dungeons
Dicey Dungeons first caught my eye because it was a Terry Cavanagh game; ever since he released Super Hexagon, he’s been somebody whose work I am curious about. Though, to be sure, Dicey Dungeons seemed quite different from Super Hexagon! It’s clearly dice-focused; and the game blurb says that it’s a deckbuilding roguelike. All of […]
unsubscribing from apple arcade
If you like playing video games, you, up until fairly recently, had two choices of how to play them at home, a console or a PC. If you play them on console, then, basically, you can just stick in the game and it will work. But the downsides are that it will only work on […]
hades
It’s a little bit hard for me to write about Hades: there’s been so much talking / writing about the game that I have a hard time writing without feeling that I’m constantly reacting to what other people think? I mean, it’s not like I’m ever in a vacuum, but here that feels a bit […]
apple arcade games, round two
My PS4 bricked itself during a system update a couple of months ago, so I needed to take a break from playing Death Stranding. Which was bad timing: Sony’s repair centers were closed because of COVID. (They reopened this past week, so hopefully I’ll get it repaired soon…) I decided the next large game I’d […]
slay the spire
Slay the Spire is a deckbuilding roguelike. And it’s a pretty good deckbuilder game! But, unfortunately, it’s still a roguelike, and one of the things I’ve learned over the last couple of years: I don’t like roguelikes, or at least I haven’t yet found one that I like. Slay the Spire is the roguelike I’ve […]
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