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

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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, the deep north. Looking forward to that one, it's probably the last, though.

Valheim website here

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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.

Couldn't find a site, here's the GOG page (Where I got it).

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