Finished in September (3, 4, 5)

Continuing my theme “non-Steam games” with additional three - one from GOG and two from Epic. And I think I will finish this month with this. Unfortunately I had so much work at my job, that I couldn’t play more. I will see if October’s monthly theme will be for me, if not, I will propably continue cleaning my non steam libraries, because I didn’t even touch my Uplay account.

• Moonlighter
  

  Epic Store

Moonlighter

Dropped

This is a light RPG game, in which you are a shop owner. You are running through dungeon, collecting loot, which you are selling in shop, to buy better equipment and go for even better loot. I really liked the idea, but game started to be very repetitive very quickly. It’s basically a huge grind fest, to get enough money to buy better weapon or armor and go further. Shopping part of game it’s very simple and I didn’t enjoy it. You are just tweaking the prices based on simple algorithm - guy don’t want to buy thing - price down. Guy is too happy with buying - price up. Thats all, no bargain, no individual taste (or at least I didn’t see it) and in the end the customers will buy everything from you, if it will be cheap enough. I much more prefer Recetear, which has similar promise, but better mechanics. There are 5 dungeons in the game, I cleared the first one and I had enough.

• Abzu
  

  Epic Store

Abzu

8/10

What a beautiful, relaxing game. It’s a linnear Walking Swim (Sorry, my puns are terrible). You are playing as a diver, visiting old underwater city and discovering it’s secrets. It’s one of those games, which has plenty of mechanics, which are completely useless, but fun. You can catch a fish, and swim on it, you can meditate, and “become” one of underwater creatures, you can spawn more animals in specials places. For no reason at all besides it’s fun. The story is very vague, and I don’t think I understand all of it, but the game is so beatiful and full of life (there are plenty of sea creatures, and they are looking really good - stylistic, but I recognized most of them, even the bizarre ones) that it is definietely worth a ride. My only complain - I had a bit of problem with controlling my diver - something felt a bit off, but it didn’t prevent me from playing.

• Saboteur
  

  GOG

Saboteur

8/10

I heard about this game 10 years ago, thought that it sounds super fun, but wasn’t able to catch it until recently it appeared on GOG. It’s a mix between Assassin Creed and GTA, put inside Paris during Second World War. You are a part of the resistance and you are mostly running with explosives and sabotaging important military places, or killing important people. Beside heavy theme (Nazis, occupation, personal tragedies etc.) it’s super fun, and you are spending most of time blowing up stuff, shooting generals and generally making Nazis looks like idiots. The AI is stupid and very forgiving (at least on normal difficulty). but it’s a part of fun - many times I laught when a soldier didn’t see me placing a bomb almost on his back, or when I run into bunch of soldiers, killed the important guy, and run away before they even realised, what happened. You feel a bit like a super spy and I liked this. Also, a warning - if you are a completionist don’t buy this game. I think there is around thousand of collectables (in this case - things to blow) and it’s just too much. The worse case of “lets throw too much stuff into game” I have ever seen.