I haven’t been thinking much on gaming over the past week, but you reminded me that a couple weeks ago I started up the old classic for Windows 3.11…
Castle of the Winds
I’ve got it in a savestate in a virtual machine right now. Despite the game looking like it was drawn by a 5 year old and not having any audio whatsoever, it’s actually a pretty good game for 1993 when it was made and released.
I’m replaying Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War for the first time since they released. They make absolutely no sense from a wider lore standpoint, but they’re some incredibly stupid fun games, so imo it balances out. I’m playing on PC, and I actually got a trainer for each one so I could have an easier time playing them. I only really use infinite focus and arrows though.
Similarly, I’m playing the 2013 Devil May Cry. I’m not attached to the story and the gameplay is pretty great.
Started Horizon Zero Dawn a while ago but suffering of all kinds of gaming burnout; mainly the weather atm.
Raft with my buddy is kind of on hold for similar reasons :(
Animal Well is great, it’s a 2d puzzle platformer. I’ve beaten the base game, it took me about eleven hours because I was trying to explore thoroughly, but I get the feeling I’m still not anywhere close to uncovering everything.
There’s not even an attempt at a narrative, but that allows the game freedom to be extremely nonlinear. You’re dropped into the game and you start exploring. You pick up on things you can think of as objectives, but there’s no motivation beyond your curiosity as a player to see what will happen if you complete them.
The gameplay is designed extremely well, but the real selling point is the creepy (yet somewhat cute) atmosphere. The pixel art is amazing.
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