@eniko Platformers do terribly on YouTube. Traditional, metroidvania, puzzle, etc... all get minimal views and watchtime compared to other genres. Even on the rogue-like front they tend to underperform unless they do something really special.
It absolutely sucks, because I love Platformers and would like to play more, but it's so hard to justify tanking my metrics for them.
Obviously I'm just one data point, but I've heard similar things from my peers.
Spent the afternoon playing Clank: Catacombs today and had a blast. OG Clank was a ton of fun, but having to DIY the dungeon layout makes every run feel much more unique than playing with a static board.
Trying to escape with a full bag of loot was satisfyingly tense too. We almost didn't make it.
Playing Mythwind for bordgame night as the most angry/intense farmer in all of existence. Dude looks like he wrestles bears, but what he really does is cozy farm sim & town management.
Overall Mythwind's neat! A bit slow & low stakes, but a great way to cap off a stressful week!
Played a few rounds of Oceans tonight, and it's equal parts one of the most varied point-engine games in my library, and also the most adversarial.
The sheer depth (har) of fish customization in this game is really cool. My wife's kraken eating all my fish... less cool.
Swap day at the local boardgame store was "dangerous".
I swear we cleaned them out of pretty much every high quality co-op game available.
After years of writing & scrapping scripts, I finally have a game review that I'm happy enough with to post!
So for my first actual, proper game review, I'll be checking out COCOON, a game that's so intuitive that I barely remember playing it (in a good way)!
Tried out Set A Watch: Forsaken Isles for boardgame night. Definitely one of the more unique takes on cooperative card crawling I've seen so far, and it was a lot of fun skunking the enemy deck full of largely harmless rodents.
I killed a Kraken with a chipmunk that way!
