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very short game, pretty sure it took less than 20 minutes, not difficult, but very cute and had a good soundtrack

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a completely normal dating simulation that is definitely completely sweet, innocent and normal

look i probably won't ever play this again but i gave it a run-through (i dated emogaru) and honestly it reminded me a *lot* of the kind of dumb things my friends and i used to write to make each other laugh. solid nostalgia trip for me and i can imagine the people who made this had a lot of fun doing it

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a short hike:

this game was exactly as good as everyone said it was! ended up playing for an hour, got to the peak but have a lot to do still. loved every second of it

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adjacency:

played about half an hour, very pretty puzzle game. it took me a bit to grasp the concept (click on a color to have it fill in the adjacent shapes, the name probably should have tipped me off) and it seemed to ramp up in difficulty pretty quickly but i might just be bad at this kind of puzzle tbh. definitely a nice zen kind of game

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affinity:

straightforward puzzle game, i sort of wish there had been a help button or something to explain the concept at the start but i also could have like, read the game description. music was nice, another soothing game. i really appreciated that there was no time limit, no counting your number of moves, just you and the puzzles

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AIdol:

this is an aggressively pink virtual novel about programmed AI idols. i only put a half hour in but i'm already invested enough in the story to continue at some point. tbh i probably would have played longer but i have to stop for dinner. the MC has an actual personality which is nice, even if that personality is "being a shut-in who spends her time on idol forums." it's uhhh, relatable. and def better than the usual blank slate

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i'm finally back to this, with anodyne

cute zelda-esque game, so far i have a broom and i'm not afraid to use it. good variation in types of enemies too

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another lost phone: laura's story:

i played the first lost phone game on mobile and i definitely thing it works better in that format. i was really happy to see them add a "don't fucking do this to peoples' phones irl" warning at the beginning of the game (paraphrased). i could see where the story was going pretty much immediately because haha fuck men but it was still sad and interesting to unravel all the different pieces

cw on this game for emotional abuse and messing with medications

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arcade spirits:

holy shit i love this game so much why hadn't i heard of it before

very cute VN about working in an arcade. all the characters are great. MC is relatable but without being a total blank slate. i don't know what else to say really, i'm obsessed. i played a little under an hour and finished level 1, definitely gonna finish this one at some point

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as we know it:

another fun VN. not very eventful - i played about an hour and i feel like i'm just now starting to get into the story. the characters are great though and there's just a tiny dash of stat-raising. will definitely come back and finish at least one route (i'm going for jude right now)

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baba is you:

yes i know this isn't an itch bundle game, just one i have never gotten around to that was in my library. it's just as good as everyone said it was when it first came out! i'm not sure why i never bothered playing it before (lack of puzzle moods?) but it's really inventive and interesting. i love finding ways around the puzzles, and the less obvious solutions are always the most fun. also i love becoming a wall.

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