2023 First Time Plays Ranked
Alright. Thats it. Roll credits. Interesting year in life for me rebuilding myself into an adult man. Not so interesting in games. Katamari was the highlight fr fr. Started getting into some crpgs, game passed on a whim, more indie games which were often mid, and game passed around.
Heres about three sentences about every game i played for the first time this year. There are some games floating around that I started or continued this year that I didn't feel confident in writing on yet so those will show up in a future list. Have a good year folks!
Heres about three sentences about every game i played for the first time this year. There are some games floating around that I started or continued this year that I didn't feel confident in writing on yet so those will show up in a future list. Have a good year folks!
106 Games
A game I was looking forward to a lot after playing the demo. Currently it needs a lot of tinkering (it's in early access), but I am disappointed by the single player adventure mode. While it sometimes shines with the challenges it really feels like there's a sequential order to the deck archetypes you unlock and there's no need for experimentation outside of the precons. It's a small team so let's see what this game looks like a year from now.
I'll put this back to back with SAP. Autobattles are so interesting to puzzle through and doing a single player one seemed like a perfect for me, someone who does not want to study league enough to competently play an autobattler. Still no matter what combos I create there's no direct feeling to any of it, I beat three runs in a row and I can't describe you how any were different from one another. I find myself coming back to this only to end up unsatisfied.
NISs danganronpa except kinda not. The focus of the writing is less teenagers' hope vs despair and more what the role and meaning of a detective is in detective stories. Aka it's fun, but not sauced up. Very short, also God what an awful ending lmao
Really cool potion making Recettear like with some of the best canned animations I've ever seen in a 3D game. Though it quickly turns into a stress simulator as you reload saves trying to figure out what you've done wrong. Tries to let you do a bit of everything then you realize you've done everything wrong and have to start over. A mixed bag
I think I love this game? Or I hate it? Sits in my mind rent free and makes we want to play through different builds and what not, buuuut it's also the most unsatisfactory run based game I've ever beaten. Moment to moment is great but as soon it's over I'm left feeling kinda empty. Hella ambivalent about this one
It's got the gameplay loop tm so you get what you get. Gets a bit frustrating once combat gets introduced but nothing like a nice simplistic city builder to vibe with for a few hours.
