Acquisitions
- Strawberry Vinegar
- One Small Fire At A Time
- This World Unknown
- Dead End Junction
- AIDol
- Cursed Sight
- Without Within 2
- 11-11 Memories Retold
Challenge Me!
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Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora
14.9 hours playtime
13 of 31 achievements
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Hatoful Boyfriend
23 hours playtime
16 of 16 achievements
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Pathologic Classic HD
35 hours playtime
16 of 42 achievements
Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora
Achievement Clean Up Detectives! Mystery! Murder! FFFFFUUUUUUU Kitty Cats Play a Game You Won on SteamGifts Won on SteamGifts
Playing Appreciated SteamGifts win. There were good times, and there were bad times. It was easy to get lost in the maze-like platforming sections, especially at the end. You get different bullet types that let you do different things, such as ones that set fires or reveal hidden objects. If you aim knockback rounds beneath you and shoot as you just into the air, you can keep shooting yourself upwards until the clip empties. I think I somehow broke the left stick of my controller in half during a difficult section that required you to be precise about it, though.
Hatoful Boyfriend
Detectives! Mystery! Murder! Dystopia - The World Gone Wrong Favorites Good Reads Japan LMAO Quirky
Challenge Me! game from March-April that fits the monthly theme. I don't know what to say without spoiling except that there is more to this than the rather short character routes. It's important to play the whole game. I previously played Purrfect Date, and I can see how that probably took some inspiration from Hatoful Boyfriend while taking it further. Now I think I have Aviary Attorney around here somewhere...
Pathologic Classic HD
Achievement Clean Up FFFFFUUUUUUU Halloween and Horror Quirky Won on SteamGifts
I won this from a BLAEO member in a Playing Matters giveaway. This game is crazy and hard. There are time limits. A plague. Prices soar. The street layout is infuriating and causes you to have to go a long way around because of fences. You have to deal with progressively more violence from a progressively larger number of sources while desperately becoming a night burglar so you can trade knives to children for ammo and sketchy drugs to keep the plague at bay. I think I have a generally good understanding of the overall story, yet most of the time I had no idea wtf the characters were talking about. At one point I managed to kill like 10 guys in a warehouse because (after many reloads) the game bugged and made it so they didn't detect me as I killed them somehow.
Typical view outside in Pathologic.
Your tags for Hatoful Boyfriend spoil… like… everything :/
Maybe if you already know the story it looks more like a spoiler than it is, but I put it in those lists before I even played half the character routes. All you have to do is collect 1 file or fail to do a route correctly (and get the bad ending) one time to realize it’s a dystopian setting. If not earlier depending on what you do. Or just the fact of the main character being the only human allowed in a prestigious bird school. Also, Mystery themes apply to like half of all story-based games.
The game description also “spoils” the existence of those themes in the game:
“Not everything is as it seems at St. PigeoNation’s Institute! Uncover dark conspiracies, unexpected twists, and hellish fiends bent on bringing on the apocalypse.”
Damn… even the game is spoiling itself on the store page? That’s mad, I didn’t notice that.
Honestly I did think about it before posting, but you kind of expect all kinds of different stories, including weird or bad ones, in this type of game. And also the structure of this game plays a trick–you don’t expect the final story to be what it is. But people who read that description will just think it refers to one route or something and brush it off, probably not feeling spoiled.