Johnny Game Over aka JGOEverdeep Aurora (2025) (Adventure Metroidvania) (Nintendo Switch) [GAMEPLAY] [FR] [HD]
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Everdeep Aurora (2025) (Adventure Metroidvania) (Nintendo Switch) [GAMEPLAY] [FR] [HD]
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Everdeep Aurora (2025) (Adventure Metroidvania) (Nintendo Switch) [GAMEPLAY] [FR] [HD]
Unoriginal and Uncreative【Game Log: Mid-July 2025】
Back from a trip visiting family. I played quite a few games, and even enjoyed a few of them. And hated a number of mediocre puzzle games.
Major Timesinks and Finished Games
Everdeep Aurora is a mystery filled platformer where you play a cat who has lost her mother and has to dig underground with a drill to avoid a meteor shower. Underneath there are all sorts of set-pieces, weird NPCs, and hidden secrets. A lot of fun and great atmosphere. Looking forward to more of this.
Many Nights a Whisper is the most recent Deconstructeam game. A very short game about an individual who has to train and prepare for a one-off ritual with the potential to grant wishes. Whily stylistically interesting, and with the occasional touching moment. I generally found it meaningless and hollow. I mentally checked out when the game decided to lecture the protagonist for planning to grant love wishes, after I made the conscious choice to accept all but those wishing for the love of others. Also one of the weird games where controllers get inverted Y axis but mouse and keyboard players don't.
Sultan's Game is an RPG based around a fictional sin-themed card game. It is a world of inventory/"card" and diceroll based set pieces. The game has quite a variety of incidents, though they all seem to happen in the same order every game. Similarly the tutorial where you play as the titular sultan is quite spectacular with lots of "Wow! they really went there" moments when one chooses non-standard options, but those become eye-rolling repetition when "they really went there" for the 62nd time. Overall a game that starts spectacularly, but is revealed to be a mile wide and inch deep.
I had a lot of fun with Paquerette Down the Bunburrows. A tile-based puzzle game where you have to corner your escaped pet bunnies to recapture them. The puzzles are hard without becoming too frustrating. Though the addition of extra mechanics that aren't covered in the tutorial seem to be inconsistent and unintuitive compared to the basic game.
Still playing a lot of Automobilista 2, including exploring the multiplayer. Still probably the best racing game of its kind on the PC. Though it has enough minor flaws to stop just short of all-time greatness.
Cipher Zero is the puzzles from the Witness, but without the open world, but with a purely aesthetic audio-visual treatment. The puzzles themselves can be quite challenging but the difficulty ramps up so slowly they get frustrating. The theme of the game is to discover mechanics that are never explicitly taught. But so far every mechanic has been extremely obvious after one puzzle, but still goes through the motions of a 10-20 puzzle ramp up in difficulty. Potentially amazing, but eats a lot of time.
Occlude is another "work out the rules" as you go game. In this case it purports to be a series of custom solitaires that you have to infer the rules too. In actuality it's one (perfectly decent) solitaire variant with a handholding tutorial, and an associate ritual with magic coins that requires solving. Unfortunately all but the last are incredibly simple, and almost all reduce to some "Ignore everything else this is the card" clue. The lore is decent and it has a good spooky soundtrack that swells into a tense variant when the ritual is partially complete (By the games lore a partially complete ritual is worse than a failed one), that would be effective if it weren't guaranteed you know the rules by that point.
Australian point and click adventure game The Drifter is the most unapologetically Australian game I've played. It's a fantastic horror point-and-click adventure set in the fictional Australian city of "Mawson". The game starts with a homeless protagonist "Mick" returning to his homecity via a traincart, who gains the ability to warp back in time before he "dies". The story gets more fantastical from there.
The art, music, and general mood of The Drifter are all top-notch. But the real highlights are the writing and voice-acting of the story. Australian dialect, often regionally specific, is used without further explanation. While often blunt and darkly comic, serious topics are treated with the sensitivity they deserve. Some of the longer sequences of puzzles can drag out a bit, or be dependent upon picking up a moderately obscure item, and that game is a little to reliant on "Something happens after the third time you speak to this person in a row" scripting. But these rarely go beyond "standard point and click nonsense" levels of obscure.
Edit: I left out Kaizen: A Factory Story out. It's the game by Coincidence Studios, made up of a lot of ex-Zachtronics people. This one involves designing machinery for factory assembly lines in Japan. I enjoyed this game just as much as the best Zachtronics games for about the first 3/4 of the game. At which points the clumsy UI, and limited options made some of the harder puzzles a bit more of a chore than a challenge. Still a good game, but disappointed with it.
Tried Out, Revisited Briefly, or Viscerally Hated
PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate is an updated version of a game that blew me away with it's combination of twin stick shooting and physics simulation on the Playstation 3. In 2025 on the personal computer it is clumsy, weirdly punitive and unresponsive. I don't know if its just this version or if it was always like this. I genuinely regret replaying it
I briefly got started on the classic adventure game Sanitarium, which is very cheesy but fun. I stopped playing to check out some new games, and realised after the fact I should have just played more Sanitarium.
A few rounds of Straftat, the lightning fast FPS where battles end in seconds. It's still great, I wish there were more people around to play.
Logic Bombs is a weird puzzle game that combines nonograms (picross) and bomberman. The game spells out its rules in verbose and confusing written descriptions in tutorial levels. It's a potentially interesting system, but every design decision seems ill-advised and makes the game impossible to play or understand.
Bioysque is a weird abstract art pseudoRPG about a boy warrior fighting an evil AI mother or something. Incredibly cryptic and abstract. Was enjoying it until I got stuck in a loop eternally reloading 2 seconds before unavoidable death.
Compressure is Pipe Dream but about Steam. The UI doesn't make sense and the goals are completely unintuitive.
More like Shapez 2 long for a tutorial. Quit in anger when discovering that the cutting tools have fixed rotation based on cardinal direction to ensure that a puzzle about rotating items can't be solved by rotating an item.
White Knuckle is a first person climbing game where you can grip or manipulate things in each of your hands. It has a challenging but intuitive system with a lot of potential, and seemingly a heavy design hand that violently prevents you using it for things you shouldn't. In the real world if I jumped for a target and was 1 degree off I would narrowly miss and fall to my death, White Knuckle interprets this as the player consciously choosing to avoid success and will often just violently shove you backwards in a direction unrelated to input.
All Games Played
OpenTTD: GREAT
Automobilista 2: Good
RAMP 2025: GREAT (Notable)
Everdeep Aurora: GREAT (Notable)
Many Nights A Whisper: OK
Sultan's Game: Good
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows: Good
Cipher Zero: Good
Occlude: OK
The Drifter: GREAT (Notable)
PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate: OK
Sanitarium: GREAT
Straftat: GREAT
Logic Bombs: Disappointing
Bioysque: OK
Compressure: Disappointing
Shapez 2: Disappointing
White Knuckle: OK
Kaizen - A Factory Story: Good
Back from a trip visiting family. I played quite a few games, and even enjoyed a few of them. And hated a number of mediocre puzzle games.
Major Timesinks and Finished Games
Everdeep Aurora is a mystery filled platformer where you play a cat who has lost her mother and has to dig underground with a drill to avoid a meteor shower. Underneath there are all sorts of set-pieces, weird NPCs, and hidden secrets. A lot of fun and great atmosphere. Looking forward to more of this.
Many Nights a Whisper is the most recent Deconstructeam game. A very short game about an individual who has to train and prepare for a one-off ritual with the potential to grant wishes. Whily stylistically interesting, and with the occasional touching moment. I generally found it meaningless and hollow. I mentally checked out when the game decided to lecture the protagonist for planning to grant love wishes, after I made the conscious choice to accept all but those wishing for the love of others. Also one of the weird games where controllers get inverted Y axis but mouse and keyboard players don't.
Sultan's Game is an RPG based around a fictional sin-themed card game. It is a world of inventory/"card" and diceroll based set pieces. The game has quite a variety of incidents, though they all seem to happen in the same order every game. Similarly the tutorial where you play as the titular sultan is quite spectacular with lots of "Wow! they really went there" moments when one chooses non-standard options, but those become eye-rolling repetition when "they really went there" for the 62nd time. Overall a game that starts spectacularly, but is revealed to be a mile wide and inch deep.
I had a lot of fun with Paquerette Down the Bunburrows. A tile-based puzzle game where you have to corner your escaped pet bunnies to recapture them. The puzzles are hard without becoming too frustrating. Though the addition of extra mechanics that aren't covered in the tutorial seem to be inconsistent and unintuitive compared to the basic game.
Still playing a lot of Automobilista 2, including exploring the multiplayer. Still probably the best racing game of its kind on the PC. Though it has enough minor flaws to stop just short of all-time greatness.
Cipher Zero is the puzzles from the Witness, but without the open world, but with a purely aesthetic audio-visual treatment. The puzzles themselves can be quite challenging but the difficulty ramps up so slowly they get frustrating. The theme of the game is to discover mechanics that are never explicitly taught. But so far every mechanic has been extremely obvious after one puzzle, but still goes through the motions of a 10-20 puzzle ramp up in difficulty. Potentially amazing, but eats a lot of time.
Occlude is another "work out the rules" as you go game. In this case it purports to be a series of custom solitaires that you have to infer the rules too. In actuality it's one (perfectly decent) solitaire variant with a handholding tutorial, and an associate ritual with magic coins that requires solving. Unfortunately all but the last are incredibly simple, and almost all reduce to some "Ignore everything else this is the card" clue. The lore is decent and it has a good spooky soundtrack that swells into a tense variant when the ritual is partially complete (By the games lore a partially complete ritual is worse than a failed one), that would be effective if it weren't guaranteed you know the rules by that point.
Australian point and click adventure game The Drifter is the most unapologetically Australian game I've played. It's a fantastic horror point-and-click adventure set in the fictional Australian city of "Mawson". The game starts with a homeless protagonist "Mick" returning to his homecity via a traincart, who gains the ability to warp back in time before he "dies". The story gets more fantastical from there.
The art, music, and general mood of The Drifter are all top-notch. But the real highlights are the writing and voice-acting of the story. Australian dialect, often regionally specific, is used without further explanation. While often blunt and darkly comic, serious topics are treated with the sensitivity they deserve. Some of the longer sequences of puzzles can drag out a bit, or be dependent upon picking up a moderately obscure item, and that game is a little to reliant on "Something happens after the third time you speak to this person in a row" scripting. But these rarely go beyond "standard point and click nonsense" levels of obscure.
Edit: I left out Kaizen: A Factory Story out. It's the game by Coincidence Studios, made up of a lot of ex-Zachtronics people. This one involves designing machinery for factory assembly lines in Japan. I enjoyed this game just as much as the best Zachtronics games for about the first 3/4 of the game. At which points the clumsy UI, and limited options made some of the harder puzzles a bit more of a chore than a challenge. Still a good game, but disappointed with it.
Tried Out, Revisited Briefly, or Viscerally Hated
PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate is an updated version of a game that blew me away with it's combination of twin stick shooting and physics simulation on the Playstation 3. In 2025 on the personal computer it is clumsy, weirdly punitive and unresponsive. I don't know if its just this version or if it was always like this. I genuinely regret replaying it
I briefly got started on the classic adventure game Sanitarium, which is very cheesy but fun. I stopped playing to check out some new games, and realised after the fact I should have just played more Sanitarium.
A few rounds of Straftat, the lightning fast FPS where battles end in seconds. It's still great, I wish there were more people around to play.
Logic Bombs is a weird puzzle game that combines nonograms (picross) and bomberman. The game spells out its rules in verbose and confusing written descriptions in tutorial levels. It's a potentially interesting system, but every design decision seems ill-advised and makes the game impossible to play or understand.
Bioysque is a weird abstract art pseudoRPG about a boy warrior fighting an evil AI mother or something. Incredibly cryptic and abstract. Was enjoying it until I got stuck in a loop eternally reloading 2 seconds before unavoidable death.
Compressure is Pipe Dream but about Steam. The UI doesn't make sense and the goals are completely unintuitive.
More like Shapez 2 long for a tutorial. Quit in anger when discovering that the cutting tools have fixed rotation based on cardinal direction to ensure that a puzzle about rotating items can't be solved by rotating an item.
White Knuckle is a first person climbing game where you can grip or manipulate things in each of your hands. It has a challenging but intuitive system with a lot of potential, and seemingly a heavy design hand that violently prevents you using it for things you shouldn't. In the real world if I jumped for a target and was 1 degree off I would narrowly miss and fall to my death, White Knuckle interprets this as the player consciously choosing to avoid success and will often just violently shove you backwards in a direction unrelated to input.
All Games Played
OpenTTD: GREAT
Automobilista 2: Good
RAMP 2025: GREAT (Notable)
Everdeep Aurora: GREAT (Notable)
Many Nights A Whisper: OK
Sultan's Game: Good
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows: Good
Cipher Zero: Good
Occlude: OK
The Drifter: GREAT (Notable)
PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate: OK
Sanitarium: GREAT
Straftat: GREAT
Logic Bombs: Disappointing
Bioysque: OK
Compressure: Disappointing
Shapez 2: Disappointing
White Knuckle: OK
Kaizen - A Factory Story: Good
NextN, ¡actualidad Nintendo!Análisis #EverdeepAurora - #NintendoSwitch. El debut del estudio indie español @Nautilus_dev nos lleva a un mundo de apariencia simple (y retro) pero repleto de profundidad y detalles. Así ha sido nuestra experiencia: https://www.nextn.es/2025/07/analisis-everdeep-aurora-nintendo-switch/
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JulieRWelp. I've started Everdeep Aurora, and there goes my time It is AMAZING. You play as a little lost kitty and you basically build your own platforming as you drill underground to locate things. There are side quests and treasures, and it's addictive af. I love it!
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