I got Open Sorcery for cheap in a Steam sale a while back and just finished a playthrough today. It's a Twine text-based RPG about technology and magic in which you play as a firewall that is also, literally, a fire elemental, determined to keep your users safe ( Read more... )

Hooray, Into the Breach has finally released a Mac version. I know what I'm playing for the foreseeable future now! It's by the makers of FTL, which ate my life for a couple years. It is turn-based strategy with mechs, and the gimmick is that you know what every enemy is going to do next turn, so your goal is to knock them around the field so that ( Read more... )

When I manage to convince myself that it is okay to spend my free time engaging in activities other than writing all this fanfiction that I have signed up for, I have been playing the computer game Slay the Spire.
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I kept thinking how nice it would be to have a new computer, so that I could finally play games that wouldn't really run on my previous computer. Darkest Dungeon! Stardew Valley! I figured maybe I would take advantage of the Steam sale and buy some cheap shiny new games.
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Sometimes I like to watch people on the internet play video games I would never be able to play myself, but sometimes it is very hard to find people whose commentary on video games is not some variety of racist, sexist, ableist, or homophobic. And secondarily it can be difficult to find commentary by people who have nice soothing voices and don't ( Read more... )

If you have Steam and you like crossword puzzles and you have about $3, you should play Phrase Shift, which I am really enjoying ( Read more... )

So someone on Tumblr linked to a Buzzfeed article (I know, I know) about 12 insanely relaxing mobile games you can play on your phone. #1 was Viridi, which I know is very relaxing, so I decided to look at the rest.

And now I can't stop playing Zen Koi. Swim around! Eat things! Breed your koi with other koi and have new, different-colored koi! ( Read more... )

I understand that I am late to the party here, but I wish to recommend the Choose Your Own Adventure game Birdland. It is about girls at a summer camp and also birds. I would recommend it particularly to people who enjoy games like Gone Home or (so I hear, I haven't played it) Life Is Strange, if you get what I'm saying ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen the Genghis Khan music video yet, I highly recommend it; I may have watched it... uh... a lot. (Fandom being fandom, someone has of course already vidded it to Daniel Craig's Bond movies.)

In today's installment of Infrequent Video Game Recs, I would like to recommend Ironcast, whose name I can unfortunately never remember. (My ( Read more... )

Video game rec: HexcellsIf I don't finish my WIPs by their deadlines, I can already tell that it's going to be Hexcells' fault ( Read more... )