quillex_
2019
A calming, heartwarming game about repairing broken objects and mending relationships in the process. Beautiful art and relaxing gameplay meet a catchy soundtrack to create a very vibey experience.
Bees go brrrr. Beautiful art, but the music felt a little at odds with the art styles sometimes.
2022
A neat little co-op game to play with a friend. You play as a character in the past, or as one in the future, with the other player taking on the role you didn't choose. You have to work together to help solves the puzzles in the two timelines, with the usual Rusty Lake weirdness smacking you in the face on the way. Took about four and a half hours to master the game, with three playthroughs in total. It can be done in two - I just missed a couple achievements the first time I played as the Past.
A beautiful hidden object game, with different art styles every level. Very cute.
2023
A weird little point and click about loneliness. Very atmospheric and calming.
2009
My first Amanita title, Machinarium drew me in with beautiful artwork, an eclectic cast of characters and even stranger music. The puzzles are not too difficult but still pose a fun thought exercise.
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Rarely will a game make me cry, and Spiritfarer is one of them. An emotional, heartwarming, sensitive tale about coping with loss, Spiritfarer is a cozy management game with platforming levels that requires you to run your ship, ferrying souls to the afterlife. Highly recommend.
2023
A weird yet cute little hidden object game. Took me about forty five minutes to complete, and features melancholic music and beautiful level design.
2022
Sudoku, but with cats instead of numbers. Do I need to say more?
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A whacky adventure about a sentient turnip committing tax evasion. Beneath its ridiculous surface lies a dark, surprisingly depressing undercurrent of nuclear fallout and disaster.
2021
There is no wrong way to unpack. There's just you and the boxes, and things to put away. A cozy game that follows the story of the main character as you unpack their things into new homes and living spaces.
A remarkably strange game about Sigmund Freud. Knocking off points because one of the events took utterly forever to show up, and required me to restart multiple times until it finally showed up.
2022
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A bear-y cute management game about a bear running hotels. While I enjoyed the main gameplay loop of doing quests, setting up my resorts and gathering resources, towards the endgame the balancing was very out of whack - resources took absolutely forever to gather for late-game furniture and decorations, which took about as much time as it did to reach the late-game phase in the first place. On the whole though, the game has an immaculately cozy vibe with an undercurrent of something darker.
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An utterly ridiculous point and click adventure about a blood-thirsty knight on a quest to murder. You have to do two playthroughs to see all the endings - one more rewarding than the other, really. Blatantly irreverent and full of slapstick, dark humour, this short game kept me engaged throughout my playthrough.
A sweet game about a young child who does her best to protect the wildlife of her grandparents' home. A good way to introduce children to the concept of nature and wildlife preservation.