133 games played, 773 achievements and 57 new games

Top 5:
Dying Light 2
Borderlands 3
Barotrauma
Surviving the Aftermath
Halls of Torment

I can see from the timeline that I have been going through my bundles, though still 50% of the playtime was from games released this year. And now that I look at it, 27 of the games have either exited early access or released this year. Lot of indie, but it still counts.

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Quoting: neolithHas the Humble Choice website changed? There used to be lots of screenshots for every title you clicked on. :huh:

It looks different based on if you're logged in or not. You might have logged out by clearing cookies for example.

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Quoting: PhlebiacAlso curious about Crowns and Pawns; at one point the reviews seemed a bit mixed, although they look fairly solid now. How does it compare to something like the Broken Sword series?

It's definitely on the Broken Sword trajectory, but less dark in story I would say. "Grandfather died and left you his house" is also the start of Stardew Valley, after all. It has tank controls like OG Grim Fandango which takes a bit of getting used to, but the controller layout is pretty good.

I wasn't even aware of the tank controls as the traditional mouse controls work just fine. On regular adventure game scale it's somewhat below the classics. Some puzzles are bit tedious, but still in overall enjoyable game.

Should play the Broken Sword games at some point, but there's always something else to play first.

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My personal favorites from the list that I have played are A Short Hike, Superhot and Harmony's Odyssey. Not that much more to add to summaries in the article except Superhot is one of the few games that feel like being in an action movie (though Superhots plot is weirder than the average action movie).

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I also tried it and it seems that there's some strategy, but mostly it's luck.

Slay the Spire has option of skipping cards, which would give bit more depth to your choices. though it will make the game easier. There are some cards that have synergies, so if you would be able to keep the deck small, synergies would trigger more often.

Also one thing to note is that HP can go over the maximum, so you can get quite tanky. Only time I won the tournament, I had luck to get three HP generating trinkets and on top of one HP generating card that had synergy with one the trinkets.

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Did find time to play Robocop: Rogue City and I was positively surprised. It has been quite a while since I last saw Robocop, but it seemed that the game takes the source material somewhat seriously. There's violence (though most games do) and there's satirical tone. For example there's radio broadcast about sleeping pills that you give to your kids to keep them from asking questions.

I roleplayed police a bit and shoot the perpetrators in the leg. I'm not sure that they survive anyway though as leg most of the time is blown to bits. Rocobop is quite durable, though not invulnerable. And even in the demo, criminals get better prepared. Which you can compensate by investing your skill points in combat.

Game follows the trend of throwing lot of side quests at you, but at least they are quite well done. You can help people out and get yourself involved lot of different things. From demo it's hard to tell how repetitive the side quests will get, but will have to wait for the release and see the reviews.

Also already in the demo, there's at least one event that might have consequences based on your actions. You can also build good reputation, which should have impact on things.

There were few bugs. Gun might keep shooting and once I couldn't turn. Those issues weren't there most of the time though.

Demo has been available almost two weeks, so it probably not going to vanish right away.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyDorf! But is it romantik?

Thanks. I wondered why it sounded bit familiar.

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Had time for only FOUNDRY today, though in true Factorio fashion. time flies quite fast (looks like I played it eight hours or so). As it's in first person perspective, better comparison would be Satisfactory, but sadly I haven't played that yet. What seems to be setting FOUNDRY apart is Minecraft like terrain that can be modified as you like. It's missing some quality of life improvements, but it's more less in playable shape. I did fall through the terrain only once and dropped back to the world. Compared to Factorio, 3D has it's problems, though helps with immersion a lot.

Also respawn might be there for a reason. After a while, mining leaves a big hole in the ground and getting out of that will be hard. If you have researched ladders, stairs or jetpack, problem is not that big, but before any of those...

Like Factorio, there's not that much hand holding, but with some knowledge acquired from Factorio likes, you'll be having fun building tileable designs and enlarging the factory to meet the increasing demands of the factory. Worth a try.

Sadly, as the event is getting close to the end, I don't have too much time to explore the huge amount of games.

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I went through chunk of recommended demos and few that I spotted myself.

Give these a go

An Arcade Full of Cats

Simple hidden object game with some light puzzles. This time with arcade classics as backdrop.

Ghostrunner 2 First person runner inspired futuristic ninja game. I guess that's Ghostrunner in nutshell. Second one doesn't ease the difficulty (luckily autosaving is quite frequent and loading save is almost instant). As my skills weren't enough to finish the first game, I don't know if the motorcycle segment is new, but it wasn't easier than the regular ninja stuff. Worth trying out if you think games these days are too easy, but stay away if you want something relaxing.

Snufkin: Melody of Moomin Valley
If Ghostrunner is hard as nails, Snufkin is quite the opposite. It's mix of walking around and meeting interesting characters, light puzzles and stealth. Kids might enjoy it more, but it's not a bad game, so if you're Moomin fan, you might get something out of it. I guess only gripe is that it takes quite a while before there's any mental challenge, large part of the demo is practically a tutorial.

The Talos Principle 2
The first person puzzler is back. I played the tech demo of the original a while back and it seems to be more of the same, but with more plot and variety. I have love and hate relationship with puzzle games and I was bit more often irritated than happy. Few of of the puzzles seemed to require using something that felt bit more like a glitch.

Still lot of people liked the first one and second one seems to be solid.

Maybe not the best in the festival

IDUN

IDUN is bit of tower defense RTS hybrid. It's not horrible, I think I have only few bigger problems with it. Voice acting sounds like actors are bit bored. Also dialogue is not the best out there.

Otherwise there are some potential there. Once you get past tutorial hand holding, there's some learning curve to the game. Enemy waves are huge. Not sure if the difficulty spike is as drastic in the final game, sometimes demos skip ahead a bit in the content, otherwise demo is one big tutorial.

PS: seems to be inspired by Dune, there's no desert though

Hell Throne
Essentially voxel dungeon crawler with rogue lite elements. Controls seem little bit floaty and that affects combat somewhat too. Might something that's possible to get used to, though tight controls and good sound design is quite a must for these kind of games. Now takes a while to adjust to combat and it takes a moment to care about what's going on.

Also while the heavier sound track sounds nice, it feels bit like it's in a wrong game. Graphics are bit too simplistic to sell the hell theme properly.

Though if you stick with it for a while, there's demonic pacts that give penalties and bonuses at the same time and skills are somewhat interesting.

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Quoting: PoorPocketsMcNewHoldBought Dying Light Definitive Edition throught your affiliate link. Hope to like it, as i did with the original 2 first Dead Island game from the devs, once i end my week today.
(Btw, don't buy the "enhanced edition", this one just has only a couple of DLC's instead of the full deal, that the Definitive version has. Compare what it contain on Steam).

To be more exact, definitive edition is worth it only on Humble, price difference is quite small. In Steam the price difference is quite big, so there might be worth getting the enhanced edition. Both editions there contain the essentials. But at time of writing this, Steam has regular prices anyway, so might as well get the game from Humble.

If I have understood correctly definitive contains all the skin packs (they might contain sometimes bit too overpowered weapons), Hellraid (it's playable, but removes things that make Dying Light great without replacing it with anything better). I'm not sure if Cuisine and Cargo DLC is in both, but it's more of nice to have than absolute must.

Only thing that's really must is the only story expansion, The Following. The Following concludes the story in bit more satisfying way.

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