Finished in November (4, 5 ,6)

I played a few smaller games, just to clean my backlog

• The Mooseman
  

  3 hours playtime

  9 of 15 achievements

The Mooseman

7/10

There is a strange trend to make simple games which are teaching about culture or believs of certain ethnic group of people. I played Never Alone, Year Walk, and now this. Mooseman is about a mythology of Komi-Permyak people, a group who according to Wikipedia lives in Ural, mountains in Russia, between Europe and Asia. The gameplay is very simple - you are just walking from left to right and press space to change realms between reality and mistical. You are hiding from monsters behind rocks, pushing buttons, moving parts of enviroment to make a path - simple yet enjoyable. The myths are interesting - mostly things about creating the world and afterlife. You are unlocking them during your journey, and a lot of the time you see this “myth” yourself in game (for example you are reading about giant spider guarding underworld, and in the next minute you must defeat this spider). All in all enjoyable, short experience, but only if you are intrested in myths and legends from around the world.

• Runefall
  

  22 hours playtime

  35 of 39 achievements

Runefall

7/10

A simple, but nice match 3 game. You are presented with a bunch of levels, each of them is a huge map, on which you are moving by matching symbols in good old match 3 fashion. You are searching this map, colecting hidden stuff, and from time to time solving little puzzles to unlock paths. When you will find everything necessary - level done. There are two modes - with and without time limit. I was playing without time limit and there is no challenge at all. You are just clicking, searching, and moving through levels. But the game is really pretty and colorful, the main story is simple, but characters are enjoyable so I was playing 1-2 levels at the time, and I was just relaxing. It has this almost meditation value, where you are just clicking a let your mind fly away.

• Under Leaves
  

  68 minutes playtime

  28 of 29 achievements

Under Leaves

5/10

Just straight forward Hidden Object game. Simple but nice style of graphic, animals/nature theme. You have 28 levels, on every one of them you need to find X examples of simple shape (a particular leaf, a shell, this kind of stuff). Same backgrounds are used multiple time, so in fact there will be around 10 different pictures to look at. No story, no other mechanics, just a simple “where’s Waldo” if you want to waste and hour.