Let us all enjoy our 'Tendos this chilly day.
We're kicking things off this week with a video game that is actually a CARD game, that accrued some degree of positive buzz when it came out on computers a while ago; Cultist Simulator. Or at least I remember hearing about it before just now, which is FAR more awareness than I usually have when making these threads. This here is, as it suggests, a game that uses playing cards (with cool-down timers) to simulate the process of getting on the ground-floor of a start-up business; the worship and summoning of unspeakable space-horrors from the beyond the darkness of space.
Glyph is a platformer about a little ro-bug buddy bouncing all hither and yon across a desert, collecting little things that go "plink". Watching the trailer brought Jack Flash to mind, but that could be because I'm conditioned to think of one thing when the subject of "Games About Jumping Robot Varmints" is raised.
If you want your platform jumping people to be shaped like a hominid, perhaps Blue Fire is more to your speed. This one stars a little monster-boy traipsing through a Monster Castle chock-a-block with bottomless pits and ghostly monsters of all stripes. From the description it sounds like a Dark SOuls-y platformer, which is certainly interesting, but the trailer looks more like a regular ol' platformer that just happens to have a bunch of spooks and haints. I am earmarking this for Future Interest.
If you're in the mood for a story from everyone favorite octopus-fearing racist, Howie Loves, but don't want to actually read anything from a guy who was as scared of octopuses as he is intolerant of virtually every single human grouping, perhaps I could interest you in Conarium, it's a fanfiction sequel to The Mountains of Madness starring a bunch of OTHER scientists who wanted to see what happened to that first group a few years later. It's a walks-em-up but it's SPOOKY.
If you're scared of mushrooms and octopi, mainly.
And speaking of games that serve as fanfiction sequels to books in the public domain about the terrors of octopus kind, there's also Grey Skies, which is about The War of the Worlds. Instead f being a spooky walks game, this one is a sneaks-em-up about a lady trying to escape Martian-controlled London. Also, the Martians have zombies now, in case the giant robots full of lasers and poison gas weren't enough. And also to make the game feel more like The Last of Us, which I presume was the intent.c
Nuts is a video game about taking pictures of squirrels!
Haven is an RPG about a couple who decide to take their romancin' to an undiscovered planet and start a new life for themselves there, and also team-up to beat the ever-cussin' mustard out of every living thing on the planets surface that would otherwise try to pull them apart.
The strongest relationships are built on the broken backs of space-tyrannosaurs.
Finally, we have Skyforge, a free-to-play action MMO set in a crazy ol' mish-mash fantasy world full of monsters and aliens and such. The trailer was not preoccupied with showing off the game being played, so I can't comment on that, but since Warframe is already on the Switch, it has an uphill battle. Unless it's less daunting to comprehension than Warframe, in which case maybe it'll be a fair fight. I don't know.
And that's everything I know about. Go play outside.
We're kicking things off this week with a video game that is actually a CARD game, that accrued some degree of positive buzz when it came out on computers a while ago; Cultist Simulator. Or at least I remember hearing about it before just now, which is FAR more awareness than I usually have when making these threads. This here is, as it suggests, a game that uses playing cards (with cool-down timers) to simulate the process of getting on the ground-floor of a start-up business; the worship and summoning of unspeakable space-horrors from the beyond the darkness of space.
Glyph is a platformer about a little ro-bug buddy bouncing all hither and yon across a desert, collecting little things that go "plink". Watching the trailer brought Jack Flash to mind, but that could be because I'm conditioned to think of one thing when the subject of "Games About Jumping Robot Varmints" is raised.
If you want your platform jumping people to be shaped like a hominid, perhaps Blue Fire is more to your speed. This one stars a little monster-boy traipsing through a Monster Castle chock-a-block with bottomless pits and ghostly monsters of all stripes. From the description it sounds like a Dark SOuls-y platformer, which is certainly interesting, but the trailer looks more like a regular ol' platformer that just happens to have a bunch of spooks and haints. I am earmarking this for Future Interest.
If you're in the mood for a story from everyone favorite octopus-fearing racist, Howie Loves, but don't want to actually read anything from a guy who was as scared of octopuses as he is intolerant of virtually every single human grouping, perhaps I could interest you in Conarium, it's a fanfiction sequel to The Mountains of Madness starring a bunch of OTHER scientists who wanted to see what happened to that first group a few years later. It's a walks-em-up but it's SPOOKY.
If you're scared of mushrooms and octopi, mainly.
And speaking of games that serve as fanfiction sequels to books in the public domain about the terrors of octopus kind, there's also Grey Skies, which is about The War of the Worlds. Instead f being a spooky walks game, this one is a sneaks-em-up about a lady trying to escape Martian-controlled London. Also, the Martians have zombies now, in case the giant robots full of lasers and poison gas weren't enough. And also to make the game feel more like The Last of Us, which I presume was the intent.c
Nuts is a video game about taking pictures of squirrels!
Haven is an RPG about a couple who decide to take their romancin' to an undiscovered planet and start a new life for themselves there, and also team-up to beat the ever-cussin' mustard out of every living thing on the planets surface that would otherwise try to pull them apart.
The strongest relationships are built on the broken backs of space-tyrannosaurs.
Finally, we have Skyforge, a free-to-play action MMO set in a crazy ol' mish-mash fantasy world full of monsters and aliens and such. The trailer was not preoccupied with showing off the game being played, so I can't comment on that, but since Warframe is already on the Switch, it has an uphill battle. Unless it's less daunting to comprehension than Warframe, in which case maybe it'll be a fair fight. I don't know.
And that's everything I know about. Go play outside.
