Started up a 'spooky', but so far not actually spooky, game
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Meanwhile for #RandomBoardGameSaturday my shelves dispense Sun Tzu. A friend introduced me to this 2-player area majority game. I don't remember exactly how it plays but I do remember that I immediately bought my own copy, so it must be good.
For #RandomGameSaturday we pull The Orange Box! As I understand it, the draw was meant to be the Half-Life 2 chapter included, but by the time I bought it a year or two later this mini-collection was already known primarily for being the way to access surprise hit Portal
OK so in Steam's autumn sale you can pick up the amazing Monster Hunter Rise ~and~ its expansion pack for comfortably less than a tenner! It's a great place to start (or dive back in) :D store.steampowered.com/sub/692569/
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Some games I'm considering playing in October
I mentioned this somewhere online recently, and stumbled across it again just now. Wacky events in the board game Duel of Ages II
🎃 Aaarrgh! It's the Halloween branded food thread 2026!! 🎃
The new Resident Evil film is pretty good, surprisingly
Years ago I experimented to see if you can write a serious short story entirely as limericks. So each scene, I suppose, would be a limerick. Conclusion: you can but it soon becomes a chore to write, and probably worse than that to read.
The art of photoplay and capturing game screenshots in the 80s. Game mags had various ways of taking screenshot, from hooded cones to block light to early hardware capture devices. Sometimes though, you just had to have a friend hold up the TV at *just* the right angle. 📖: Your Sinclair, Dec '87
So the thing is, and I say this as a fan of traditional roguelikes, not every game needs to be 'runs'
So tempted to start annoying people by pronouncing 'genre' with a hard g
Meanwhile #RandomBoardGameSaturday brings us Burano Set in Venice, Burano uses these big chunky cubes for everything. You make a pyramid of them to select your actions, and you put them on the board to make houses. Novel idea but turned out to be not very colourblind-friendly
It's #RandomGameSaturday and we draw Super Smash TV on the Master System The 'super' amuses me here because it's so associated with SNES games. I don't think I've played this version but I assume it uses the same notorious two-controller setup as the NES
"Use just two buttons to climb a colossal pinball table spanning the history of western philosophy" Quite a pitch 😆 store.steampowered.com/app/3989550/...
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Use just two buttons to climb a colossal pinball table spanning the history of western philosophy. Fallosophy is a minimalist game that turns pinball into a quiet struggle against gravity. No score. N...
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Additionally, the best game in the unjustly maligned Lords of Shadow branch is a mere £1.99 on Steam right now store.steampowered.com/app/282530/C...
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This sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow reveals the story of the Belmonts as they battle destiny across generations to discover their true fate. Trevor Belmont, knight of the Brotherhood of Light,...
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Kimimi🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · last wk.It's "just" Castlevania, but seeing as it costs nothing and in my short time with it displays no ads, I'd say it's worth downloading. apps.apple.com/gb/app/castl...
It's "just" Castlevania, but seeing as it costs nothing and in my short time with it displays no ads, I'd say it's worth downloading. apps.apple.com/gb/app/castl...
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Played this board game tonight and I was highly amused that in place of the usual cubic resources like wood and stone we had lemons and pancakes. It wasn't even a humorous game; we were becoming pancake barons with straight faces
No rest for the people who haven't started resting yet
Imagine how alarming it must be to wander in from the next room and see a wolf the size of a small horse sucking a stream of blood out of someone's face from 8 feet away
This is one of the more bullshit sections of Blood Omen
This is one of the more bullshit sections of Blood Omen
Until I saw it written down, I was puzzled as to why Kain kept shouting "yay, Victor!" all the time
Imagine how alarming it must be to wander in from the next room and see a wolf the size of a small horse sucking a stream of blood out of someone's face from 8 feet away
It isn't October yet, but close enough I think
