MouseWithBeer

Fourth week of June

I think we can say this week has been productive when it comes to video games? Could always be better, but I can’t complain about 5 games compared to what I managed to get done in the past few months. Also the games have been pretty decent.

Completed SG wins

Mazement
Playtime: 1.8 hours
Achievements: 6 of 6 (100%)
Review: It is an interesting physic game where you move the ground around for the ball to roll. I would actually like if it wouldn't be for the horrible mouse+kb controls. No idea if it is any better with controller but I would imagine so.

Other completed games

Endless Fables 3: Dark Moor
Playtime: 4 hours
Achievements: 31 of 31 (100%)
Review: It is an OK Artifex Mundi HOG, not much more to say about it. I did notice a typo in one of the HOS that I don't know nobody spotted it before ("paper plane" was called "paper plain" so I was confused for a bit what the hell the game wanted me to find). Works fine on Linux.
Summer in Mara
Playtime: 27.2 hours
Achievements: 51 of 51 (100%)
Review: Well this game is not what I expected it to be. I thought it was going to be a farming game, but it turned out to be a fetch quest game where everyone is either a huge asshole or they have swallowed a self help book. Other than that the game has some pop-in issues and other game mechanic issues but in general it was ok-ish. Works fine with Proton other than the cutscenes just being black (you can skip them).
Romeow: in the cracked world
Playtime: 34 minutes
Achievements: 7 of 7 (100%)
Review: This game was way too short :( It is basically a maze game where you need to find your way to a wall ball and bring it back to your cat bed. It is not hard at all but a few levels get a bit confusing. There is 40 levels in total that took me less than 30 minutes to finish. But I guess I can't complain too much about something I paid 0,47€ for. Works fine with Proton.
Bunny Park
Playtime: 4.4 hours
Achievements: 0 of 0
Review: There is not a hell of a lot to this game. You have a park you can edit and collect 25 bunnies that appear as you put more work into the park. Works fine with Proton.
skanda

turned out to be a fetch quest game where everyone is either a huge asshole or they have swallowed a self help book.

Just started playing this, seems like I’ve made a mistake. :D

MouseWithBeer

Well maybe you will end up liking it (and I hope you will), who knows. Most reviews are positive which is honestly surprising to me. This review explains my feelings about the game in more detail except I disagree on all the points under “Anything else nice about the game?” as I found the letters cringe (some of them were not even in English), I disliked the character you play as well and sadly I didn’t get to see the cut scenes (but that one is not the games fault).

skanda

I read the review, oh no. Tbh I don’t research games that much before playing them because I just want to have a rough idea about the basic premise(s) and not have the rest spoiled. But I really should have looked into this more before buying it, oops. Seems like it’s nothing like Stardew at all. :I I didn’t expect a clone, but I did expect more resemblance than this. Didn’t know it was all fetch quests. Heck.

MouseWithBeer

Nope, its literally nothing like Stardew sadly :( Dunno whey you bought it but you might still be able to refund it if less than 14 days.

skanda

Nah, got it in the Humble Earth bundle. I’ll give it a few more hours, hopefully I’ll be at least okay-ish with what it is, it just seems that’s probably not going to be the case. :) I only just got to the first island, read some stupid crab messages and went up to the lighthouse.

MouseWithBeer

Ahhh I didn’t realize it got bundled, I got it as a Christmas preset from a friend.

Well I hope you beat the odds and will end up enjoying it more than me then. Sadly takes quite a long time before you upgrade your boat and get more islands unlocked as both boat upgrades you still have to do are locked behind the main quest. But exploring those islands is probably the best part of it.