The reason? It remains the best puzzle game I've ever played. Okay, it's fair to say I went on about Hexcells rather a lot in 2014. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Overall: This turned out to be an excuse to play variants of the default Windows casual games for a bunch of hours, though The Beginner's Guide got me to add The Stanley Parable to my wishlist.Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. I was sold on this bundle by the title of this game, to be honest, and in terms of absurdity, I wasn’t disappointed. Octodad: Dadliest Catch - "You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man, you're an octodad." This game takes deliberately poor controls (not unlike Ampu-Tea) and brings the ridiculousness level up to eleven: You're an octopus disguised as a man, and you must do normal human activities while flopping all over the place and speaking only in blurbles. The Beginner's Guide - I'd call this a "horror" game, but it's entirely psychological-there are no jumpscares, nothing to fight, and no way to die just a calm-voiced narrator explaining the history of a series of games and getting extremely meta. Regency Solitaire - Do you like playing a zillion games of Solitaire with a pretense of story? Do you like simplistic Regency era drama? Then this is for you! (Note that it's not Klondike Solitaire it's a variant more similar to Spit, and each area has a different layout and features like key-and-lock combos.) It seems simple, but I found it a pleasant little distraction-you can retry any given hand as much as you want, so it's not far off from playing a zillion games of Windows Solitaire, just a little more purposefully. Reminded me of Heroes of Loot, but I liked that better. Decent variety of weapons and powers, but not much else to it. Nuclear Throne - Top-down shooter where you fight through various wasteland areas and waves of enemies to try to reach the “nuclear throne”. Perhaps when ARR is a bit older and more capable on a controller it could be a family game. It's cute, but I think it really needs to be played co-op. Credit to them for offering a competent pet to assist you in one-player mode. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - Multiplayer shooter in which you must work together to restore love-or at least a generator powered by it-to its proper place in the galaxy. If you like multiplayer fighting games, I can see the appeal. Lethal League - This plays sort of like Smash Brothers, only instead of trying to hit the other players, you're trying to tag them with a ball that's bouncing around the arena. Also, they get huge credit for including both regenerating shields (so a single encounter doesn’t necessarily screw you for the entire level), and making touching the walls harmless (which is my problem with pretty much every other hard-to-control space sim ever). The controls are pretty decent-it tries to actually obey physics by giving you momentum-I'm just not very good at it. Galak-Z - A love letter to the original Atari game Asteroids with a plot, missions, and much more weapon variety. I see what they were trying to do, but I found it intensely irritating. Not so much my thing.Įxpand - A bizarrely-controlled puzzle game where your keys map to "in" and "out" on a rotating disk, rather than cardinal directions. Which means it has the parts I generally disliked about Replay and the parts I dislike about Trine combined into one game. Only this game is a shooter, so you have three characters with different weapons you need to get through each area with. Super Time Force Ultra - In the same vein as Replay - VHS is Not Dead or several other puzzle-platformers, you can rewind each level and add in more characters / versions of yourself. This is a cross between another expansion pack and a more definitive version of the game. It starts with beginner-level puzzles but the difficulty escalates very quickly. This time it adds both the ability to swap mouse buttons and an “infinite” mode that generates puzzles from random (or non-random) seeds. Hexcells Infinite - Another set of 36 puzzles. If the first game is a warm-up, this is the main event. These puzzles are larger and harder, and add more kukuro-esque elements and the ability to trace lines and mark off “completed” numbers. Six more levels three dozen more puzzles. Hexcells Plus - Effectively an expansion pack to the first game. I’ve wasted far too much time playing Minesweeper and doing Sudoku and Kakuro puzzles, so this was clearly up my alley. I mean, okay, the cells are hexes instead of squares, there’s some Sudoku-like variation in the later stages, each area is set rather than randomized, and the goddamn mouse buttons are flipped, but it’s essentially the same game. Though to be entirely honest, I bought this one because I wanted to know what Octodad was like. I’ve had pretty good luck with Humble Bundles in general.
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