I'm just scribbling these down as I beat the games.

[Hub world is kinda annoying]

Sato Wonderland
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This is ok. A bit close to other AI themed horror I've seen before, and far too close to Five Nights at Freddies stuff. (God, fuck FNAF. Piece of shit rotted mind culture infecting everything. I will not buy the toys, stop showing this to children.)


Soul Waste
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Plays like an N64 platformer where every surface is ice. Had to plug in a controller just to get any consistency from the movement. Nothing to write home about here. Big empty world, rotten combat and hit detection. Another one I finished and just went "ok".


[Really need the hub world folk to shut up]


Bete Grise
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Cool wee isometric thing where you work the nightshift at a hotel. Fixing vending machines and tidying rooms. There also might be something sinister going on. The visuals are likely doing the lifting here, but that's fine.


Disparity of the Dead
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This is my big favourite so far. It's got a great aesthetic to it. Extremely chill exploration of a dream-like afterlife looking for clues as to why dead people aren't arriving.


[Please be quiet]


Nice Screams at Funfair
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Extremely short simple ice cream salesman sim that feels like it has horror themes tacked on to absolutely no benefit.


Reactor
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Cool wee thing made in 10 days. However the scale made me think there would be more to do before things devolved into tired space horror shit. Oh is something going to happen to the friendly AI? Aaaaa I'm so scared and creeped out!


Matter Over Mind
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I don't know how to explain exactly what I mean by this, but it's an XBLA game.


[This is some 2005 patter and you need to stop]


Submission
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A decent wee subversion of the bait and switch you usually see with this kinda thing. Got excited when I saw a folded clothes asset I immediately recognised from Paradise Killer and I did the Leo point.


Chip's Tips
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This is just a nice fun time. No shite in there. https://twitter.com/NightmareModeGo/status/1527031098479353856


[I do not care about the hub plot. It is so shite. Pure modern internet parlance that everyone's adopted]


Bubbo: Adventure on Geralds Island
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No. No more of this saccharine cuteness with the gradually creeping horror beneath. Sick of it. It is not scary, or interesting, or new. Fuckin' babby's first frighten. Grow up.


[The hub was my favourite part of the last Dread X Collection. This one is my most hated. I kill it]


Eden: Garden of the Faultless
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Angel Rancher


Spookware @ The Video Store
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A brilliant wee WarioWare clone with a gorgeous style. Three skeleton brothers doing a movie marathon, and each movie is the minigame. God I wish it was longer.


[SHUT THE FUCK UP]

Reviewed on May 23, 2022


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