It really was, just a mess. That sort of story-driven puzzler has been done so much better so many times.
I played it on a 2012 Laptop at the time and the loadtimes while switching worlds was unbearable. It made late-game puzzles that required world hopping almost impossibly boring and laborious.
Even with my new laptop that is much faster and solid-state, the puzzles require too much “manipulate one thing and go look at it from over there” compared to Myst I-V, all of which were better than Obduction.
Epic games free games this week Defense grid: the awakening, and WWI: Verdun
Just came in to say Defense Grid: The Awakening.
I’m not a big tower defense fan, but I make an exception for this game. Super fun, I played it several years ago. Recommend.
Super dinky game RunnerDot is free for the next three days
Epics this week: Mothergunship and Train sim world 2, I wonder if I will finally find a train sim to fill the gap of Railroad Tycoon from the 90s. Railway empire failed on being too fiddly with track laying.
I grabbed this, it’s free so why not. This review seems promising:
The main draw for me is building custom guns. That seems a lot of fun.
I paid full price for Mothergunship and it’s pretty crazy and fun in places, but it’s a cruel mistress. Your relative success will be based on what random gun parts you can find along the way. You can improve your odds by taking a limited number of gun parts with you, but dying will mean you lose them, which can be painful.
But as I wrote for my Steam review: “build a quintuple gatling cannon with so much recoil you can fly.” Recoil-based flight is a useful strategy.
So… it’s a good simulation of what Randall Munroe laid out here?
Best quote from that essay is at the bottom: “…with a GSH-6-30, you could jump mountains.”
When I click your link it shows as “marked for removal”.
Train Sim World is nothing like Railroad Tycoon (loved that game).
It is just driving trains. Where they get you is on the endless and expensive DLC.
It’s not bad although I am still amazed at how low quality the graphics are. Seems like something made in 2015.
It’s not bad. Just very niche.
Oof. Developer drama. I guess the “developers” outsourced to some dude on Fiverr who came back with that game. They put it up for free as a promotional thing and then it turned out that the Fiverr guy had just swiped someone else’s game. So they were going to pull the whole thing and have it removed entirely, including from libraries (this was all after I had posted about it) but THEN it turned out that the game the Fiverr guy swiped was available for use if you added attribution. So the “dev”/publisher decided to request that the store page get pulled but anyone who had claimed the game could keep it and they would patch in the attribution. So, if anyone got it when it was free, it’s still yours in all its low rent $1.99 game glory.
During the “OMG we didn’t mean it” phase when the dev discovered it was a stolen game, they said they petitioned Steam to have it removed and changed everything in the store page to [marked for removal] and erased all the fields, hence the “null” for stuff, claims of no language support, etc.
If you have Amazon Prime, you can claim a free copy of Battlefield V. Just log in and claim and it will give you an EA Origin key.
I came in to post this. Guess I’ll take it for a test-drive. I played all the PC Battlefield games up 'til BF4, but I’m giving serious thought to jumping back in with BF2042. It’s looking pretty good to me, what I’ve read so far. I had a blast back in the BF2 days, and it would be nice to get a taste of that again.
I’m Dl’ing BFV now. It’s at 19% completed, but a message just popped up telling me that it was playable now. Pretty nice, the way they set up the DL so you can have some fun with less than 20% completed.
Battlefield V, a lot of people dislike it. I finally tried it, and other than a few nitpicks it’s a fun game. One thing I noticed is even though I’m decent at Battlefield 1, I was getting my ass kicked in Battlefield V. Like dying in .5 seconds after encountering an enemy. But I kept at it. The Assignments kept me interested, and by learning the maps/classes/weapons/equipment I’m a pretty decent player now. I think I still like Battlefield 1 more, but for some reason I’ve gotten into the habit of playing Battlefield V daily just to do the Daily Assignments. They challenge you to play certain classes or do things you might not otherwise do.
A plague tale : innocence This week, from 2019, and £35 normally, and Minit, much cheaper.
A Plague Tale looks really good - thanks for sharing
I tried “A Plague Tale” a few times and never could get more than 20 minutes into it before quitting.
I know it is well regarded. What am I missing?
I was very much looking forward to the game but it came out to middling reviews. So I waited (Focus Interactive games tend to go cheap quick) and it went on Game Pass so I played it there. After a few nights, I bounced off of it… as I remember, was just too slow paced and same-y feeling. The scenery was good and some of the ideas were good but the game play just felt tedious after a while and showed no signs of changing up.
Of course, for free, I’d recommend anyone grab it to try since they might find they really dig it. I have a few friends who thought it was great.
Can’t argue with free.
I grab every free game I see regardless if I think I will like it because; why not?
I imagine someday, in the old people’s home, I will be bored silly and I can start working through my library of games I didn’t feel like playing when my game-playing time was limited. 