Release date: 2014

CW3 is from the rare genre of Tower Defense games. You fight a blue liquid named Creeper with various different turrets. I won't explain too much, since TD always works the same (more or less).

The game has a campagin mode, which lasts about 15 hours, however it has a very lackluster and uninspired story. It's not the point of TD games to have great stories, but I still think a little more effort could've been put into this aspect of the game.

The gameplay is very nice, smooth controls, many useful hotkeys. The campaign maps feature a wide variety of different challenges, which is nice -- the later 'skirmish' maps become stale pretty quickly though. I wouldn't hold that against the game however, since after the campaign you can simply stop playing once you're bored (unless you're interested in the achievements).

All in all I had a lot of fun playing the game, since this not a genre you find that often and on top of that, it is about the best implementation of TD I have seen yet.

Achievements: There are two kinds of achievements. Mission related ones, which require you to finish a specific mission a certain way and general achievements, which require you to defeat x enemies or build y buildings. The first kind can be challenging, but also rewarding, the second one is a huge huge grind. You can grind out most achievements with custom maps, but some (mostly the ones I'm still lacking) require playing on prebuild maps.

Verdict: I can wholeheartedly recommend the game.

Release date: 2018

A free game about chronic fatigue. I played the game after I read tsupertsundere's review. It sounded interesting and since I was looking for a short game to play after the 50+ hours I just put into Creeper World 3, I tried right away.

It's a lovely made game tackling a serious issue. You basically have to finish a variety of tasks but only have energy for too few of them. Based on which tasks you choose, you get different endings.

I think everyone can relate to that to a certain degree, since we all know the feeling that there is so much to do in so little time (looking at you, backlog). But I don't know…that's probably like saying I'm gluten intolerant because I get a tummy ache every time I eat a whole loaf of bread at once…It's just unfair to the ones really suffering from this condition (and maybe outright dangerous since noone takes them serious anymore).

So why only 3 stars? It left me a bit unsatisfied, I think the game is too short to really represent the condition adequatly, to really make you feel it.

Achievements: I shamefully have to admit that I couldn't figure out the last one myself. I never got the balance right :(

Verdict: It's a free and short game, play it.

Release date: 2013

Demonicon is a rather unknown Action-RPG, set in the world of the 'Dark Eye'. The Dark Eye is basically a german version of DnD.

The game is set in a harsh, evil part of this world, featuring demons, necromancy and sexual perversion (no nudity included). This could make for an interesting setup in theory, but…I'll make it short. The game is not good: Clunky controls, bad graphics, mediocre story-telling, bad world-building and so on. It's not utterly awful but that's not enough…

One positive thing though: I found crows (or ravens) for this month's theme.

Achievements: Very typical. Achievements for choices and playing through the game in highest difficulty. Beware: The drink 250 potions one has to be done in one playthrough, which is why I didn't get it.

Verdict: Unless you aim to play every Dark Eye video game like I do, there is no good reason to play the game in my opinion.