trustworthym
2011
2018
2015
2016
i spent most of the time playing this making my own clothes in the editor and honestly i got so much delight out of that that it was all worth it. i normally sort of hate kitchen sink games which throw a thousand things at you and tell you to make your own fun - it feels like devs throwing money at the problem of not having a coherent vision - but this is the exception, i think, bc it's all so tied to that central theme of cosiness and warmth. plus it came out early in lockdown so i played it with all my friends and that's, yknow, thats what we really needed right then.
2000
one of the best games ever made and a perfect time capsule for everything that was Cool in the 90s. you can feel the developer ambition straining against the flimsy walls of the technology, and some of its best bits are when it actually sort of fails and fucks up a bit, breaks a little, doesn't quite execute what it was aiming for. that's the type of charming you just don't get on major games so much any more.
2005
2010
2015
2020
2016
2020
i don't mind bugs at all (bugs are cool) but Damn the writing in this is dogshit lmao. none of the characters are interesting or well-realised! i stopped playing pretty quickly when they killed off a guy with a big sad scene and a funeral and i realised i didnt give a shit at all and was actually glad he would now stop bugging me. a very bad sign for a video game.
2018