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#10DeadDoves! We've gotten to experience a ton of incredible low-poly indie horror games as of late, and this one looks to be another solid game to add to the list. Thanks goes to
#Lurkit for hooking us up with a review key :D
【Weekly Game Log: 2024-12-23】
An incredibly lazy week, playing basically nothing new.
Most of my gameplay this week was a ton of Caves of Qud, I have a ~10 hour run going using the "Praetorian Prime" preset build the game provides as one of its suggestions. It is the most survivable and least complicated early build. Despite this my character has slowly evolved from an armour-clad centurion, into a swimsuit wearing sword-twink who wields a crab as a shield and carries a bee hive on their back. Sadly, I gained and lost the aid of centaur and goatman wardens as allies, until they died at the hands of some racists. It's very definitely the best game of the year, even if you're only considering new stuff added in version 1.0.
I played a bit more of 10 Dead Doves. Much as with last time, I played about 5 minutes and got so annoyed with the controls I was about to quit. Then the story hooked me again and I played an hour or so before I actually stopped. Still a weird combo of awkward and profound.
I resolved my technical issues with Judero and resumed my game. I didn't get much further in it, but I did converse with a mermaid about her family slaughtering habits. I plan to finish this in the next couple of days.
I also returned to UFO 50 and Utopia Must Fall. Still solid games without being outstanding. I thought I was overly harsh on Utopia Must Fall for a while, then I had a run end because a one hit kill enemy spawned from nothing on my city and blew it up, and thought "oh, right. that."
All Games Played
Deadlock: Good
Caves of Qud: GREAT (Notable)
Judero: GREAT
10 Dead Doves: Good
UFO 50: Good
Utopia Must Fall: Good
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【Weekly Game Log: 2024-12-16】
My workplace has decided to do the "We need to work hard for the final X weeks to avoid working hard for the first X weeks next year" thing. Fortunately this upcoming week is my last one for the year. Despite this I played quite a few new and old games, mostly out of pure spite from the revolting Game Awards apologetics.
The free FPS Rose (with optional paid support DLC) decided to include y-axis inversion recently. So I decided to give it another try. Unfortunately I found it confusing both in terms of goals, and in terms of which of the things that move around and shoot me are enemies and which are just scenery. The view wobbling and narrow FOV are very disorienting and it has a double jump that sometimes doesn't work for no apparent reason.
LOK Digital is a puzzle game where you have to black out a grid of letter tiles. This is achieved by locating one of many "words" to erase, then performing a single mandatory action based on that word, and repeating until the entire puzzle is blacked out. This is really satisfying, and the "dictionary" of words provides a wide variety of puzzles, and (very) subtle clues to explain your failure. I have mostly really enjoyed this. But it's also a game where the "bonus" puzzles in each world are basically mandatory if you don't want the overwhelming majority of your time spent on pseudo-tutorial levels. I also don't think learning by doing works so well if there's constant text everywhere saying "HAY GUYS LEARNING BY DOING OVER HERE!" Also this game is apparently based on a book, but I can't possibly imagine solving this sort of puzzle in a book would be at all pleasant.
I made time to pick up my Judero game again, and the game continues to be incredible. The combat is still a tad awkward, but the music, aesthetics, and myriad crazy storylines and characters more than make up for it. Unfortunately I hit a constant crash bug at the end of the 2nd area that means I cannot complete the game until it is fixed.
I'm still playing a ton of Caves of Qud. Not much new to say, except that the game is as good as ever. And I'm still seeing both new content, and random improvements from version 1.0.
Cow Life Sim RPG is a bizarre game seemingly made in MSPaint. You play as a cow arriving via (tutorial) boat to their land inhabited entirely by queer (be it gay, lesbian, transgender, NB, or Italian) animals. While their you level up skills like walking around, scavenging, looking at things, juicing things (into juice of juice), and arson. Occasionally you trade things or do a quest. The dialogue here is both incredible and hilarious. "Arson Alligator" is one of the best new characters this year.
Another of the Kickstarter games I backed also released recently. 10 Dead Doves is a third person horror/adventure game, with tank controls, fixed camera angles, and humans with bizarre uncanny valley texture-map faces. You play as Marcus, searching with your friend Sean for a thing called "The Ant Farm" in the Appalachian mountains. I've found the mechanical act of playing this game awkward and borderline painful with a wrist-breaking (mandatory) keyboard binding or clumsy controller setup. But the actual story and vibe of the game is impeccable. A very mixed bag so far, but I look forward to seeing more of it.
All Games Played
Deadlock: Good
Caves of Qud: GREAT (Notable)
Rose: Disappointing
LOK Digital: Good
Judero: GREAT
Cow Life Sim RPG: GREAT (Notable)
10 Dead Doves: Good
10 Dead Doves Is Gearing Up To Release In December To Give Us Some Horror
We have a release date for 10 Dead Doves so we can experience some horror out there in December with 10 Dead Doves
Svelata la finestra di lancio di 10 Dead Doves - Gamernews.it
10 Dead Doves uscirà a dicembre
We already said 10 Dead Doves was great a few years back, but it’s really great so I’m saying it again
10 Dead Doves is a brilliantly creative 'Dovecraftian' horror with a demo, and it's out this December.
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