....I hyperfocused on this game and played it for almost literally 24 hours straight without sleeping and gave myself tendonitis in my hand from gripping the evil little rectangles that are my joycons for so long.

I think it might be a pretty good game or something.

Listen, I know it's an absolute travesty that *I*, the fucking ARG person, have not played the O.G. reality-bending surprise-horror game. I KNOW OK. DON'T @ ME. I'LL GET TO IT

This is such an adorable and wholesome little puzzle game!! I really enjoyed playing this one, and I recommend it if you wanna kill a few hours with some casually-challenging puzzles and give your brain a nice little workout.

This is the game you can blame for the dozens of "ever growing hole" clone games. But none of those will ever be half as charming and silly as the original.
You play as a raccoon with a remote control hole, and you go around swallowing up the town you live in to serve the raccoon king. Eventually you learn some kind of lesson about, like, valuing your human friends or whatever. But what's important is that you're a raccoon, and you're very cute.

Listen to me.
Minecraft.
But vikings.
That's all you need to know.

An absolutely exemplary rhythm-action game. Constantly updated with new music (if you buy the big music pack), and the gameplay is incredibly fun, fast-paced, and challenging. Also the lil magical girl characters? Adorable.

Doesn't run great on my laptop, but it's ok because Uncle Death lives rent-free in my brain forever

Souls-like combat and shop management simulator don't seem like two genres that would fit together as seamlessly as they do in Moonlighter. The graphics are delightful, the gameplay loop is both challenging and satisfying, and the shop management portion of the game is legitimately fun! The trial-and-error of finding the right price for your items to maximize profit without turning away customers is surprisingly rewarding.

You wouldn't think a dice-based card game rpg would be as challenging and need as much strategy as this one does. Despite looking very cutesy, this game really brings the heat! If you enjoy any kind of turn-based fantasy combat, I highly recommend this as a nice casual-play addition to your library.

A masterpiece of a game, and also a great way to stress yourself out. Every time you lose a character (which happens often) it feels like a real blow to your team and makes you have to reevaluate your whole strategy.

This game is SO HARD. But it's also really fun and really engrossing, and an excellent way to accidentally lose like 5 hours of your day. I've only gotten one actual ending so far and HOO BOY it was a STRUGGLE! But by the time I finally won, I really felt like I'd accomplished something.

This is by far the most emotionally invested I have ever been in a text-based game. I don't want to spoil anything, and I feel like almost anything I could say would be a spoiler of some sort, so just take my word for it— you want to play this. Especially since there's a new FREE episode coming out very soon~

This game is so good??? I'm having such a great time with it so far, but it's also incredibly difficult. I always feel like I'm making forward progress, but it's definitely slow and methodical at times. There's so much strategy that goes into just surviving a normal day once you start getting into the Dawns. I'm terrified of what it's going to look like when I start dealing with Dusks as well!! O_O

If you haven't already decided whether or not Stardew Valley is for you, my review is not going to be what sways you.

That being said, it's a phenomenal game, made even more so by the fact that it was made entirely by one person. The modding community is RIDICULOUS, and has created several more entire games worth of content completely for free. If you enjoy farming sims, there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't already be playing this absolute masterpiece.

I
LOVE
THIS
GAME
SO
MUCH

Please, if you're reading this, play this game with me I am begging you