Some Recently Played GamesJust a mention of some of the better games I've played while I really should have been doing other things. |
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DREDGE: Just started with this one. You begin your new job as fisherman in Greater Marrow, catching and selling your
catch, and paying the mayor back for your boat, your previous one being dashed to bits at sea. All seems very calm and relaxed, and it is, until the
night-fishing starts, and you're fishing further out to sea, that's where the horror begins, and I don't want to use the term Lovecraftian, but there it goes.
Upgrades for your boat will become available, better engines, rods for catching new types of fish, lights and so on. Get a good engine before venturing
too far, that's my advice. Dredge website here Valheim: This is now my third hundred-hour survival game. For the few who don't already know, Valheim takes place on a voxel-based, destructible world with, in my view, a first-class building system. Crafting can be be bore in some of these type of games, Valheim seems to have nailed it though. Thanks to the excellent lighting, Valheim has a great moody atmosphere, I particularly like the lashing storms. The game is technically in early access, and usually I avoid these, but it's fully playable in seven biomes: Meadows, Black Forrest, Swamps, Plains, Mountains, Mistlands, and the Ocean, with two more to be added (Ashlands, and the Far North). I'm currently in the Mistlands, and not finding it so easy. Stamina! Edit (Aug 2025) We now have the Ashlands, and though it's definitely not a favourite biome of mine, there's some great upgrades. There's another new bit on the way, and then the last one, the deep north. Looking forward to that one. Valheim website here Guard Duty: Guard Duty, a quality point & click adventure. Though this game was published around 2019, it strongly reminds me of Simon the sorceror, while being absolutely its own game. Genuinely humorous dialogue, great voice acting, nice graphics, and an interesting plot with a twist I did NOT see coming. Definitely recommend. Doesn't seem to be a site, here's the GOG page (Where I got it). |
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Recommended Games by Other Developers
These are some reviews (sort of) of some games I've really enjoyed, no affiliations, I'm not getting paid by anyone
here, I just like these games, and maybe you will. I won't bother adding games like Skyrim and the Fallouts
(up to 4 anyway) all of which I spent much too much time playing, because I wouldn't know what
to add, other than try the survival mode on Fallout 4, made it a new game for me.
here, I just like these games, and maybe you will. I won't bother adding games like Skyrim and the Fallouts
(up to 4 anyway) all of which I spent much too much time playing, because I wouldn't know what
to add, other than try the survival mode on Fallout 4, made it a new game for me.
Mini Motorways - Dinosaur Polo Club (2021) |
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I've had this game for only about a week now, I've already played it more than I expected to, and I have a feeling it
will be one I keep picking up for quite a while. Mini Motorways is a traffic-themed puzzle game, um, and a management sim too? The basic premise is the businesses need visitors, which are supplied by the houses. The number of visitors required are shown as blips, and you'll need to supply visitors before maximum trips needed fills up and a timer starts, and a soon as the time's up, game over. At the end of each game week you will have the choice of two helpful items such as roundabouts, traffic lights, bridges, among others, as well as more road tiles. You can compare your scores against other players, and there's also daily and weekly challenges with some modifications to the rules, so maybe more roundabouts will be offered, or motorways are off the menu. Can you beat my score in Manila of 1746 trips? Yes, obviously you can. I can't get over a thousand on Munich, its the only one. I just can't do it. Edit (27-08-2021) Hah! it worked. I wrote that, and the the next day I got 1402 on Munich. 
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Don't Starve - Klei Entertainment (2013) |
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Don't Starve is a 2D, top-down game of surviving against the odds, which I found to be a really tricky bastard to get started at first, struggling to get
past eight days, though i'm sure that's my problem. I got the hang of it, so no worries. The game has a dark cartoony eldritch graphic style. Not new of course, released by Klei Entertainment in 2013, and there's not a lot that hasn't been said so I'll just leave a few hints and tips here for those arriving late to the Don't Starve party. These refer to the vanilla Don't Starve, I have all the DLCs, but I found the additions of poison, wetness and so on, a bit much if I'm honest. Basic hints for absolute beginners Edit (Aug 2025): I've since got better at the Reign of Giants DLC, and have got all the way through Maxwell's portal thing. When I thought wetness was the big problem, I couldn't have been more wrong. No, spring with all it's constant drenching, is a walk in the park compared to summer. Yes, summer is the true enemy in Reign of Giants, just as it is in real life. 
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The Secret Files/Lost Horizon - Animated Arts (2009 - 2015) |
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The Secret Files and Lost Horizon are point & click adventures, there are four games in the Secret Files series, and
two in Lost Horizons, which can be bought in one pack from GOG, which is what I did. Are these games for you? Well, if you're
like me, and approve of many nice looking, varied locations and with filling your inventory with objects for solving problems (I
know not everyone likes this in their adventures), you will. I read some reviews when I bought the games, where people complained about the voice acting, I think its OK though, maybe not the best, but I've heard a lot worse, its fine. The Secret Files You start the game in Berlin, playing the part of Nina Kalenkov, investigating the disappearance of her scientist father, and his connection to mysterious project involving Tunguska, and your journey will take you through many countries including Cuba, Ireland, Russia and the Antarctic. Most of the first three games are from the perspective of Nina, occasionaly switching to other characters, as you travel around the globe. Lost Horizon Set during WWII, the first of the series has you playing as Fenton Paddock, a former British officer tasked with finding his friend, apparently last seen in Tibet. Your adventures will take you to such places as China, India and Morocco. In Lost Horizon 2, you again join Fenton Paddock, this time during the (previous) Cold War. 
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