Video games? That's kids stuff. I'm only interested in video JOBS!
Kicking things off with one of those games where... I guess there's an untapped market for it, because I can't think of a second example, we have Hundred Days. Which is a city building game, but for a winery. Vineyard Tycoon! Sim Sideways! It advertises that "Winemaking could be your best adventure!" and I dispute that claim because I don't see even ONE skeleton boss in these screenshots.
One hundred percent of my knowledge of winemaking comes from knowing that Champagne has to come from France or else it's a DAMN LIE and also it being used as a metaphor for the nature of the alien incursion in one of the Southern Reach books.
Now, if you're in the mood for a grim post-apocalyptic adventure games where humanity has long since been wiped out, and dying robots rule the decaying ruins, we have two completely unrelated ones! That's... that's a WILD coincidence. One is Primordia, and that's a pixely point and click style one, and The Uncertain is a polygonny one where you're a robot on the run from the ROBOCOPS looking to bust you for being a big ol' snoop about whycome all the peeps ain't there.
I bet they're all planning on throwing you a surprise party!
Triangle Strategy is far and away the big draw this week, and indeed one of the big draws for this month; it's from the same peeps as what made Octopath Traveller, but it's an SRPG in the style of Tactics Ogre as opposed to a JRPG in the style of FF6 (but with a squidge of Megaten for combat); and it definitely looks to be leaning harder on TOs complicated multi-stage morality than the likes of Fire Emblem (where everyone is ither a Bad King or a Bandit) or FFT, where it's still pretty easy to say which side is good and which is bad (the one with the satans on their side are the bad ones)
Also, as may be expected from a sequel to Octopath, the sheer amount of lensflare and lightbloom in this game is NUTS; your entire party will have permanent retinal damage before the midway point.
What Lies in the Multivers3 is a puzzlatformer where the whole gimmick is that you can swap between multiple, similar but distinct parallel universes to get from one point to another. It's also the only game of its type, that three is because the logo was mirroring the E; you don't need to worry about having missed a What L1es 1n the Mult1verse or a What Lies in the Mutwoverse. No no, this is the only one you need to fully grasp the plot.
Enjoy wearing a scarf and also weirding up the landscape so there's a hole where a floor should be that lets you explore spooky murder forests and the like!
Gunborg: Dark Matters is a 2d platformer where you're a cyber lady with a dog and a cool jacket and a big hankerin' to use the power of violence to smack alien robots around.
Looks fine; not a lot else to talk about there.
And finally, we have Quest for Infamy which looks pretty similar to Quest for Glory, except it's designed for everyone who wishes that series had more rude humor and violence and you had no choice but to be a jerk. Be a jackass fighter, a thieving scoundral or a wizard a-hole and use bespoke abilities to get around obstacles and kill things what bother you.
I mean... I'd have been happy to have just gotten some ports of Quest for Glory itself, never played them and they looked fun; but I guess "Quest for Glory, except you suck" is an alternative.
OKAY THAT'S ALL TUESDAY MORNING OCTO KNOWS ABOUT!
Kicking things off with one of those games where... I guess there's an untapped market for it, because I can't think of a second example, we have Hundred Days. Which is a city building game, but for a winery. Vineyard Tycoon! Sim Sideways! It advertises that "Winemaking could be your best adventure!" and I dispute that claim because I don't see even ONE skeleton boss in these screenshots.
One hundred percent of my knowledge of winemaking comes from knowing that Champagne has to come from France or else it's a DAMN LIE and also it being used as a metaphor for the nature of the alien incursion in one of the Southern Reach books.
Now, if you're in the mood for a grim post-apocalyptic adventure games where humanity has long since been wiped out, and dying robots rule the decaying ruins, we have two completely unrelated ones! That's... that's a WILD coincidence. One is Primordia, and that's a pixely point and click style one, and The Uncertain is a polygonny one where you're a robot on the run from the ROBOCOPS looking to bust you for being a big ol' snoop about whycome all the peeps ain't there.
I bet they're all planning on throwing you a surprise party!
Triangle Strategy is far and away the big draw this week, and indeed one of the big draws for this month; it's from the same peeps as what made Octopath Traveller, but it's an SRPG in the style of Tactics Ogre as opposed to a JRPG in the style of FF6 (but with a squidge of Megaten for combat); and it definitely looks to be leaning harder on TOs complicated multi-stage morality than the likes of Fire Emblem (where everyone is ither a Bad King or a Bandit) or FFT, where it's still pretty easy to say which side is good and which is bad (the one with the satans on their side are the bad ones)
Also, as may be expected from a sequel to Octopath, the sheer amount of lensflare and lightbloom in this game is NUTS; your entire party will have permanent retinal damage before the midway point.
What Lies in the Multivers3 is a puzzlatformer where the whole gimmick is that you can swap between multiple, similar but distinct parallel universes to get from one point to another. It's also the only game of its type, that three is because the logo was mirroring the E; you don't need to worry about having missed a What L1es 1n the Mult1verse or a What Lies in the Mutwoverse. No no, this is the only one you need to fully grasp the plot.
Enjoy wearing a scarf and also weirding up the landscape so there's a hole where a floor should be that lets you explore spooky murder forests and the like!
Gunborg: Dark Matters is a 2d platformer where you're a cyber lady with a dog and a cool jacket and a big hankerin' to use the power of violence to smack alien robots around.
Looks fine; not a lot else to talk about there.
And finally, we have Quest for Infamy which looks pretty similar to Quest for Glory, except it's designed for everyone who wishes that series had more rude humor and violence and you had no choice but to be a jerk. Be a jackass fighter, a thieving scoundral or a wizard a-hole and use bespoke abilities to get around obstacles and kill things what bother you.
I mean... I'd have been happy to have just gotten some ports of Quest for Glory itself, never played them and they looked fun; but I guess "Quest for Glory, except you suck" is an alternative.
OKAY THAT'S ALL TUESDAY MORNING OCTO KNOWS ABOUT!
