cute cat girls, do I need to say more?

cute anime girls, need I say more?

im starting to see a theme this month of cute anime girls

are you?

deja vu

and the story continues!

this was an interesting experience

nice 2D zelda like game, you can even get married :)

after playing this one I don't think I ever played this one in the past… just 2 and 3. Was fun, I played on Delta difficulty mostly because I couldn't help laughing that enemies speaking korean was part of the difficulty modifiers, made for a fun challenge. only had to do a few more things to 100% after beating it… so I did.

neat little mix of auto battler + city builder with roguelite RNG involved(building rolling, relic choices)

theres 3 races, humans are the simplest, demons are interesting… and I have no idea how to play the 3rd properly

I am not really a horror person but this one seemed like it might be interesting, wasn't really my type of game.

an interesting take on the genre with the egg stuff(deciding to activate(within limited numbers) for a bigger stat buff or mechanic change or devour things for permanent buffs in a run(although usually alot lower than the equip effects).

my main issue is how extremely important the meta progression is, generally games like this the meta progression helps shape builds or push you over a hurdly a certain difficulty might have but its still doable without it… this one I don't think it is…. also pickup radius is a negative stat because of one of the tarot card events… since it can drop positive or negative money things… pickup radius makes it harder to avoid the negative ones.

solid game, I did have to use a guide quite a few times throughout, but got 3 endings(all levels, all stars, and in the dlc stuff to)

Spiderman is a menace!
throws peoples off buildings, webs them up then throws them into the ocean, climbs a building above a gunfight to get a backpack, then takes a picture of a nearby building, jumps behind someone right as someone else starts shooting at him so the other guy gets hit.

also wishlisted miles morales

the puzzles themselves are enjoyable… the game has some very annoying bugs, especially in the tutorial section(and outside of it…. just not as bad)… those bugs make it hard to recommend to pick it up.

was completely unsure what to expect from this looking at the steam page when I won it, it was enjoyable… but the humor just fell flat for me. Was fairly easy as well… I played on what would be considered the normal difficulty, probably should have played on a higher difficulty. 7/10

I can't call it bad… but its definitely lacking the extra charms other games of the genre it has.

gameplay loop being fairly solid and a nice graphical style alone can't carry every game.

managed a win on my 3rd? 4th? attempt, at the start you get to pick one of a bunch of weapons and a few come with a free upgrade, the winning run was chain lightning… its biggest benefit is no manual aiming required. helped carry me… on top of all the random healing dropped/buyable from shop(on top of shop being a free safe room every run!).

there is definitely more to be done in the game(mostly higher difficulties)… I just don't feel interested enough to do it.

The game definitely has potential to be great if the dev would put more work into it.

solid metroidvania game, its KBM required, don't bother if you only play with a controller

from family share, technically beaten(1st run was a win, my total had letters in the number)
probably won't play much more of it, not my kind of game was just somewhat interested because the attention it was getting

also has my biggest complaint with games like this… RNG becomes to big of an issue after the first run because it gives you a bunch of unlocks making it harder to get a synergy going, but since the first run has so little at the start you go fairly far(and unlock better synergy throughout the run)

I had a great time with it… however hazard 5 is rough and I feel like I need to get another legendary piece of gear or 2 to really push further into it… other than the weekly(or is it bi-weekly) challenge run getting legendary gear items is just complete RNG(and then it not being useful >>)

calling it here, I'm happy with my purchase

its a nice mix of vampire survivors and risk of rain 2… but I feel like I have watched to many runs on YT pushing me to try and go for high score runs breaking my enjoyment(since those runs rely on RNG some and very specific setups… so more failures)

Supergiant games is worth supporting at full price.

100%d out of respect for a great game.

was probably wrong to play this directly after hades 2, probably better than I felt it was… but how do you go from playing a great game to something in a similar genre that is only a good game.

interesting game overall, the art style was the most appealing thing to me.

cute, enjoyable story, way to easy.

nice little auto battler, I loved the demo so I got it hour 1(basically cost me a choice headliner!)

nice and pretty puzzle game

decent overall, was more interested in it since it was a short choice game for MiaM(only so many of them out there), otherwise I would have completely ignored its existence.

was interesting, but not great, mostly the same as Tacoma feeling wise(and that it was a short game for MiaM.

I didn't vibe with this one like the first, I won't come back to this(still plan to do more in the first… someday)

nice free action roguelite.
still messing around in it some, its definitely worth giving it a try.

neat little puzzle platformer

great game overall…
I did have some crashes in the final parts of the game(after I left the planet)… seemed to be related to the save system(maybe because I made a TON of saves because there were multiple soft locks possible in the earlier parts of the game(mostly the fire doors that close when an explosive is set off)
Was not a fan of how the final boss was designed
kind of disappointed that the difference between the 2 endings in minimal.

short metroidvania game, I found it enjoyable.

I also feel like I am getting lazier and lazier on these reviews

I couldn't sleep, so loaded up loaded up an incremental game, once you pass prestige 3 you can let it play itself(albeit it does it inefficiently)

getting to lazy to write reviews out of 10

I suck at this… or there is just to much RNG around getting things to get RNG to work better.
I have cleared ascension 3…. which means I have won 4 times total…. in closer to 50 attempts.

I will stick to physical deckbuilders or…. monster train for now.

this was fun, its fairly short, meta progression isn't scarce and animations for all sorts of things!

and another vampire survivors like game this month.

this is pretty good, the start is fairly slow as the game really doesn't give you much currency for meta progression, once you can start doing ruin and completing multiple challenges at once you will start earning a respectable amount of currency to get the meta progression.

a few of the achievements were tough, the no hits went faster than I thought they would

not sure what I was expecting, but I found it to easy.

meow

decent one, enter the gungeon is definitely far better(and harder)

similar to the first one, this one I felt was darker and sometimes it was hard to see the empty spaces(maybe this was a setting I forgot to change on this one, idk)

the final level gives you no super easy to place pieces to start with, didn't add much of a challenge(tbh I would like that on all of them)

and that is #3, I liked this one the most, it got rid of the world UI that could make it a little more difficult to find the puzzles you still need to do, it also introduced new cuts for the pieces(or well…. at least defaulted to having them show up, can't be bothered to see if 1/2 had a choice I never noticed)

We all know why I played this.

getting the last achievement for using one of the skills 50 times… was not worth it… like 1/3 the playtime was just getting it after everything else was done, was not worth it.

at least I get to keep the weeb card

didn't excite me, didn't bore me

I originally started this in 2017, unsure why I paused it… was I working alot of overtime then a Path of Exile league drew me in or???

had a great time… with exception to the bugs I encountered… especially in the challenge tombs where things just weren't working as they were supposed to

now to acquire the next game in the series…

inserts batham theme song

I am getting lazy on comments here

Its free, its fairly short, and its well reviewed, probably worth your time

reality is… I probably didn't sleep a good 6 nights this month

I definitely added this because cute anime girls published by Nekoworks… I failed to look at the type of game it is…
its just an idle game… with some spicy(supposedly short) scenes… I didn't have it in me to deal with the idle game portion to get to the fun stuff.

free to add game, removed from account, gotta improve the blaeo stats somehow

this was from family share, I enjoy the physical version of the game… the digital version just feels… lacking in comparison.

this definitely felt like someone played peglin and wanted to make something similar… theres something here for someone, just not me.

and more from family share…

while the overall gameplay loop is somewhat enjoyable, the runs I have access to are very short and fairly easy, I know cooler things get unlocked later… but I don't have it in me to do the town portion(biggest negative of the game for me) to get there.

simply put… I made my choice and found no way to speed up the timer… when a good portion of my time was spent waiting on the timer my ADHD wanted to get away from it after a few choices.

its a good game… just makes head hurt with its puzzles… I just don't think the way this game needs me to, I gave up.

you might say I like it

overall I enjoy this, I have MAJOR problems with the highest difficulty boss design, I will argue its the worst boss design of the genre.

its a HOG, not much to say.

neat little game… shorter than I thought it would be, not interesting enough to do another playthrough… achievements were broken when I played(/sigh)

2 horny kitsune, a horny snek and a horny elf "kidnap" a dude via employment for pleasure.

very very horny, my screenshots are fairly tame compared to the stuff that happens in this

can't decide if Snek or kitsune are best.

I really really really sucked at manual combat in this, fortunately the game had an auto quick fight option which played significantly better than me… downside… the progress bars on the achievements… are lacking.

quite a bit different from the first one, I personally found the open world to big… sure it was beautiful at most places… but when you could be running for minutes with nothing to do in between… bleh.

also fox character editor…. and a village of foxes.

big bad was disappointing…. I also got lost… ALOT

I was in an auto battler mood one day this month, this one is interesting and has alot to do, just isn't for me.

I didn't think I would enjoy this when I had a key so I didn't keep it, it happened to be in family share so I gave it a shot… I just feel like its to dependent on RNG(as expected). Its technically beaten so I am done with it

enjoyed it a bit more than I thought I would(was slightly worried with it being a "dating sim" with reptilian characters, but the writing was very enjoyable, ending 1 the bad end was not that enjoyable with both characters being shitty, endings 2 and 3 are more neutral ends and enjoyable since the characters felt like they were trying, and ending 4 was the best and is the true end, epilogue is very short nice ending to the story.

do recommend if you are interested

more cute cat girls!

Fraise and the sister join the harem… so some probably won't enjoy this because of that. To note this isn't canon, its a what if story.

decent nonogram game… however it gives you to much information at times… making it easy to know if there is no cells needing to be filled on a side.

a nice walking sim, I may go back to this and 100% it later.

has some issues like every point and click does, but this was interesting.

great tactical game, also has some amazing QOL features… like letting you skip the levels that are to hard for you without penalty(… outside of related achievements for that particular level, I did have to skip a couple myself)

not much to say… its extremely short(an anime episode is longer)

my brain was releasing steam… im to dumb for this game.

for some reason this game did not launch with english text as a default… I had to navigate some runes to set to english.

Its my 2nd God of War game… I played the original only(in fact its one of the 2 games I have beaten on the PS3… my least played console that I own)

no QTE's(yay!), slower pace though, still a great game, I wishlisted the next title to.

great story, gameplay is a little slow… controls are overly complicated for no good reason…. controls are one of the big reasons it took me so long to finish it

honestly… I would label this for robocop fans only, was rather boring for me.

this is a game that had my interest… since it was in kickstarter, never picked it up myself but got it in 2023's begging thread(shame it took me this long to get to it).

much shorter than the HLTB time makes you believe(I probably would have it done in around 15hrs if I didn't force myself to go extra side stuff)… all those 80hr no note submissions

I thought the turn based update for this had come already, but apparently that was for the sequel and its in the works for this so I played on how can you fail mode(lowest difficulty)

this was nice, might have enjoyed it more if I didn't force myself into 100%ing it for POP(have to 100% at least 1!)

normally don't like stealth games at all, but this is more of a puzzler using stealth as the puzzle and I really enjoyed this, great game.

was alright, next one is supposedly alot better.

this was enjoyable… I am getting lazy with reviews again.

neat game, fairly short.

< 22 min speed run cheevo which I am not bothering to get.

decent overall… had a few annoyances I had to mod out(things like lockpicks not being plentiful enough and such)

7/10 game, not bad… not didn't love it, story was decent.

I played this solo, it was decent, definitely feels like a game where you get a group of people in and its great.

this was great… do wish the map was better for the main area… but at least it was thematic for what the game is.

combat in this was simpler than expected, more of a souls-lite instead of a souls-like :P
did love the art style
don't think I will do the other characters campaign, just 1 is enough for me on this.

professional click to exterminate bee gamer here.

really good game that took the vampire survivors formula and changed it quite a bit, the meta progression is slow but is fairly impactful. I did the earliest part very early so I don't recall the slowest parts but I was getting multiple points worth in the tree every run… took 40ish hours with my demo progress porting over just to max that meta progression tree and leveling all the characters to 10… fortunately here you don't have to play each character while they are weak, just farm a little with your leveled characters to get a general xp pool to level whoever you want(which is good because the fortune cat at least is pretty mediocre compared to the others until its level is maxed).

I don't want to think how long it would take me to 100% this… could probably

story was to silly for me to enjoy
but puzzles were enjoyable enough.

see notes on first game… I screwed up 1 puzzle by mistake and can't 100% it in a single playthrough
flips a table

I was considering committing blasphemy here and renaming all the characters to their golden sun inspirations… but I am getting lazy

This was great, I knew I would probably love it because I loved Golden Sun and I kept hearing comparisons to the two… and guess what I loved it

main thing I disliked was needing to get all the rainbow conchs(at least there is a tracker for it!) to get true ending.

supposedly a dlc is coming soon so I will be watching out for it.

absolutely wonderful VN… and ofc Key does its thing and makes you cry near the end.

I like this conceptually… but it doesn't have the long term viability other survivor games have for me, part of being all the attacks are directional… you know the worst kind of attacks in survivor like games… admittedly you don't have a few hundred enemies swarming you every second either.

I wasn't expecting the supernatural stuff, just the female romance.
was great

its decent, I feel alot of the orbs don't get enough bounce… and some of the level layouts while neat looking aren't really great for a peggle like experience as it causes the orbs to just ultimately fall to the bottom. The 1st area is by far the worst… but you eventually get some relics and special orbs that make things interesting.

final boss can have some hilarious results based off your relic combos.

probably won't play much more after making this review.

simply game, try to find earth!
now I can move onto the sequels

Absolutely everything is a puzzle
getting around the zones? half of it is a puzzle(sure theres basic paths… but the rest)
want to use a key in a dungeon? its a puzzle
want to visit everything in a town? puzzle
just wish there was more unlockable shortcuts… as some of the world platforming for chests spans multiple screens

great game overall… I suck at dodging/perfect guarding… so I took full advantage of the enemy damage slider option, did tick down puzzle speed a few times but for most part that stayed at 100% speed.

would consider 100%ing but 2+ cheevos are missable and would require another playthrough, don't have it in me atm but I may reconsider.

I won't call it bad… but was a disappointment for me.
generally to easy, never really had to guess what to do… only really missed 1 cheevo so I grabbed a guide to locate it and 100%.
everything that was meant to be a threat never felt like a threat

the feeling of intentionally killing yourself in a game felt wrong the entire game

bit more enjoyable than Bayonetta was for me, played on normal.

neat little game that really tests your memory.

its got the right vibe… but the first part of the game you feel the gold pressure… the later half its running back and forth since you weren't aware you needed to level the friendship of basically everyone to beat the game.

no real challenge in the game, just a bunch of grinding and running back and forth, I definitely didn't love it.

neat little short platformer, apparently each character has a different "quest"… the one I ended up picking was uncover all the fog… which tbh was probably the hardest one, another character was to grab balls… not bothering with other characters as honestly the map was to easy… I was expecting some tough precision platforming… not just simple jumps with occasional hazards to avoid.

achievements do seem to have all the letters and numbers for those wanting to use them for their profile.

its pokemon 3v3s with metroidvania elements

solid game, the battles in the end were a little tough… the attack team I used most of the game suddenly became to weak as enemies started 1turn KOing when they focuses on my physical beaters… fortunately the mage team was far far tankier somehow… final battle I had to swap out 1 of the mage team for the starting lion since they had units that were weak to physical attacks and resistant to magical… also it could take a few hits :P

great game

thought I had watched a full playthrough before, but apparently it was only the first part

simple death game, will need decent mouse speed to be able to beat it though… had to swap from wireless KB on TV for the last little combat.

only did 1 route, not good enough to do others… without text skipping option at least(if it had one I would do the other endings)

I will let my review on steam speak for itself

https://steamcommunity.com/id/carenard/recommended/2602450?snr=159__402

enjoyable but a little dated… the humor went significantly darker than expected.

nonograms!

had to farm gold to go broke

this was neat, just wish it didn't flash bang me as much

Act 3 finally dropped, the $7 I spent on this game… has gotten me plenty of hours
getting 50-70 per big update, and its one of my favorite games of all time to boot.

I definitely didn't skip a few meals because I was so addicted to pushing difficulty, managed to clear difficulty 90… max is 100 but that means turning down healing… and good lord I don't want to do that(on top… higher enemy scaling >>)

This was an interesting one, thought it was going to be all political with religious undertones… but suddenly demons

have you ever been so down you would sacrifice your entire reality to kiss an eldritch babe?

Estir's routes were the best.
Surprising that I didn't pick the catgirl right

a family share game, but its a nice little turn brain off and click things game.

a great sequel!
those who played first pretty much know what to expect, but this time we get a chapter select and alternate narrator for those who want to 100% and go back to get whatever you missed, 1 you had to get all in 1 playthrough with no ability to go back.

had a little to much fun in photo mode.

I enjoyed it… but its definitely a product of its time, think I will stay away from the rest of the older Mysts for now, the newest one though ill keep entering for… and get if it shows up cheap enough in a bundle

I am entering this universe… thought I needed Act 2 to do friendism/pesterquest… but apparently act 2 is after all that.

this was neat

a point and click with no text!
was short and enjoyable

This was really nice, the music made me tired for some reason though.

seems the homestuck webcomic(which is the epilogue)… serves out HTTP error 503's :/
I moved onto pesterquest without reading it.

decent game overall…

I do feel I said enough in my review, I won't be playing this game again for sure.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/carenard/recommended/1434540?snr=159__402

I would try reading the homestuck webcomic before playing this… would probably enjoy it more if I did… not sure.

its done, I will avoid future homestuck universe stuff that isn't hiveswap so I don't feel required to finding the webcomic again… and ignoring it again… then feeling somewhat lost because I skipped some content that should have been done.

and a weird one, took me a bit to get used to it

nice digital version of the game, the last few boards in the "campaign" are tough since the AI actually doesn't play dumb in them…

the AI on the easy/normal ones… is incredibly dumb…. like dumber than a brand new player to the game who is new to board gaming in general levels of dumb. they would play better if you removed their ability to use favor tokens… since they completely waste them in the lower difficulty parts.

this was neat… but didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would

another great entry in the series, looking forward to future ones if there ever are any

weaker part of the franchise if you ask me, the oz stuff was neat… being able to ground slam was fun and all… but gearbox also gave enemies jetpacks that seemed to have no limit where you could only get a little boost and that is it… made tracking some of the enemies annoying… and definitely made them buggier… watching them jetpack through floors.

didn't like the gunship boss fight near the end at all, until near the end… of my fifth attempt… it never came close enough to get blasted with a shotgun or rocket launcher(my favorites for slaying bosses)… the final boss though… decided at the end it would go big… and make a giant face target for the ice lady with tons of extra crit damage… to hit its weak point(the face) with. Needless to say… the boss got absolutely melted.

Story is… ok, not something I would recommend.
has some great CG art, backgrounds and 2D models are of varying quality.

its kind of difficult to read due to UI choices, it doesn't have a text box, or tell you who is speaking… just put a transparent background over the images and start throwing text at you.

I enjoyed this, however this is not a happy VN… your not supposed to like most of the characters in it.
am glad I picked this is up before it got delisted since the creator doesn't like it, sad I failed to grab it on sale… oh well only lost 30 cents or so of wallet funds extra.