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A modern shooter that is styled after the kind of shooters made in the late 90s and early 2000s, Slayers X is a current-day nostalgic experience. There's stylistic presentation everywhere. The UI, enemy and weapon designs, even the word choice and occasional misspellings really sell the fact that it's the product of a teenager putting their passion into making a game by themself. There's also a few tie-ins to Hypnospace for people familiar with that. The entire arsenal of weapons feels satisfying and the levels have a good way of wrapping back around on themselves.

It's a little on the short side but there's some extra levels and of course the opportunities to play on higher difficulties or hunt for secrets.

3079 feels like it is a prototype more than a complete game. The procedural generation is serviceable until the two faction's buildings get placed feet from one another. The destructible environments are interesting until the map is a bomb-pecked ocean. Losing an item on death is a horrible punishment as it can strip away the best item in the inventory, meaning more time spent grinding quests or boxes to make enough credits. Improving stats by failing actions involving them is a terrible way to gain stats. It results in mindless grinding.

Wandersong is a whimsical, charming, delightful adventure game... that doesn't run well. Having to play at an extremely low resolution for the jumping physics to function properly means the beautiful art is muddied and gives me a headache. Worse is that at lower resolutions some of the text is borderline unreadable. This could so easily be a recommendation if the game could be played at a decent graphical quality.

A delightful murder mystery game. This is the kind of thing I'd recommend enjoying alongside a warm drink and some snacks. The static art, animation, voice acting, music, puzzles, and plot are all great. The only downside is that it is short but every moment is full of polish.

RAM is still in Early Access so elements of this review might become obsolete.

This game has the unique idea of playing a Rogue-like not having a set player character or loadout. Instead the player swaps between enemies in the level. This is the basis of a hectic and difficult Rogue-like. Points are awarded for kills, especially stylish ones. It encourages killing in nonstandard ways. When a run gets rolling, there's a feeling of power that comes from wiping out a room full of bots by jumping from one to another to exploit their weaknesses.

While I certainly can recommend the game there are a few criticisms to make. I hope (and suspect) that at least some of these will be addressed by the time of full release. The main one is that when the player must swap between different bots, it's imperative that all of the bots are roughly equally powered and all playable. Different bots have different learning curves and different upgrades has the potential to make some bots more powerful. Another issue regarding upgrades is that there are no bot upgrades that are primarily defensively oriented. Of course that is to encourage swapping but it can create the situation where a bot dies soon after swapping into it. A smaller issue is that the hub area doesn't seem complete. Two of the four bots don't have activities (at least with my playtime at the time of writing) and that's something I expect to be addressed in future updates.

Despite having no player character in the traditional sense, there are still central characters that are well written. I also want to praise the tutorials for having a good mix of humor and also clear gameplay information. The aesthetic elements are praiseworthy too. The pixel art is detailed and the music reminds me of soundtracks from very prominent indie games.

Right now RAM is incomplete but is still worth checking out if you want to see what is on the horizon for Rogue-likes.

The type of game that makes everyone think "Why didn't I think of that?", Balatro is single player poker with the twist of deck building elements. The deck building elements mostly come in the form of jokers that augment the points that are awarded by playing. There's a lot of random chance and it's very possible to be rolled by the luck of the deck or not having the items a run needs appear in the shop. Conversely, there's abundant opportunities to manipulate the deck in your favor as well. It is a fantastic time sink with plenty of genuine challenge if you want to go for completion.

This is the sequel to Lugaru. Like it's predecessor it is a single-player 3D fighting game. Overgrowth introduces a lot more platforming stages. Included is a remake of Lugaru's story with this game's mechanics and graphics. There are also two side stories set in an alternate universe. One of the downsides to all the modes are that with violence being the main form of interaction there are very few characters who survive and remain part of the story from level to level. It's janky in the way a lot of indie games can be but it is also quite ambitions and I'd recommend checking it out if you're into the aesthetics or the genre of gameplay.

The Metro series starts with this game. It's a bit rough around the edges from the viewpoint of more than a decade after release but it is still worth the time. It has a unique world of post-apocalyptic Russia and some of the interactions between individuals and factions is what I find most appealing. There's also monsters and spooky stuff if that's more your speed too.

An incredibly funny game worth your time. It's also incredibly well-animated! The setting of Alligator New York City feels both big but not sprawling in a very useful way.

That said there are a couple of issues. One issue is that there's no easy way to cancel a dialogue or skip ahead for one that you've already read. There's no way to give up on the minigames. Though you could always intentionally fail but that takes time. Another issue is that I experienced a game-breaking bug in the pinball minigame where the ball failed to respawn. It was fixed by restarting though.

While that paragraph of nitpicks is bigger than the praise, it's mostly cause I can't tell you much about the game's best feature, the writing, without spoiling jokes. That said, the central character Pat is incredibly funny. The other major feature is the animation and for that you can watch the trailer. While you're scrolled up there also buy the dang game!

Pizza Tower is a game that wares its inspirations on its sleeve. On this very store page, the developers say that they are inspired by the Wario Land series and it shows in the main character's moveset and level design. One of the places where I appreciate it most though is the music. There's also a fair amount of Sonic in this game's design philosophy. There's a lot of rewarding of maintaining momentum and memorizing the layout of levels. Pizza Tower is able to manage whatever tone it wants for any given moment: humor, panicked rushing, thoughtful puzzling, horror, are just some of the moods individual levels excel at. One other thing that I feel should be touched on is how referential the game is while also having a strong identity. While other Italians who can run and jump quite well, pizza restaurants, pizza mascots, and a few memes are all referenced alongside a crossover with an obscure PlayStation platformer, Pizza Tower remains its own world with its own lore and characters. I highly recommend for anyone even remotely interested in 2D platformers.