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Jon Biegalski 25 posts 0 comments
A non-binary ludomancy witch, Junior Game Designer for Mechanistry. Loves playing and creating indie games. Also enjoys Disc Golf, RPGs and KeyForge. They/Them.
Favourite game of the year: OlliOlli World
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I thought that Stikir would be an interesting experience, as it deals with a problem of a creative blocks in an incredibly meta way. A game about the making of itself is a novel idea after all.
Tangle Tower — Lakeful of mysteries
A giant, two-towered mansion stands on an island in a lake, a mansion, for some reason, called Tangle Tower. And inside, a body.
Untitled Goose Game & Friends: The freedom of being a jerk
People very much enjoy schadenfreude. Be it a friend slipping on a banana peel, a character on TV getting their comeuppance or an enemy dying in a hilarious fashion. And video games, as an interactive medium, allow us to be the harbingers…
Lonely Mountains: Downhill — Poetry in motion
In a very similar way to Celeste, Lonely Mountains: Downhill tells a story about persevering, only this time the way is down a mountain.
Flotsam — Whatever floats your town
In the city management genre we have the giant that is Cities: Skylines, and a few other interesting takes such as Frostpunk or Banished. But now Pajama Llama Games found a new way to make the genre work — the question is whether Flotsam…
Heave Ho — Heave huh
Devolver Digital are becoming connoisseurs of a specific type of character — a red blob with two appendages. Earlier this year we had the wonderful Pikuniku where the titular Piku had only two legs. Now we get Heave Ho where the character…
CROSSNIQ+ — Cross my heart
Now, like from an early 2000s time capsule arrives CROSSNIQ+ — a love letter to all things Y2K and Dreamcast.
Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble — Death by a thousand papercuts
Tactics games that allow you to produce new units are seemingly making a comeback. This summer, eleven years after the last Advance Wars game we get Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble.
Overcrowd — Running a station into the ground
There was a niche of the small scale transport. A niche now filled by Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up, which allows you to run your own London underground station.
Volcanoids — Clever Cogs
Over the last couple of years, the survival genre seems to have finally calmed down. People have stuck to what they like and it will be hard to get players out of their comfort zone. Can Volcanoids unearth them and accomplish what so many…