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1) Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
2) I expect you to die (PC/VIVE)
3) We Were Here (PC)
4) We Were Here Too (PC)
5) Human: Fall Flat (PC)
6) Ratchet and Clank (PS4)
7) Persona 5 (PS4)
The Sexy Brutale (PC)
9) Genital Jousting (PC)
10) Painscreek Killings (PC)

You're a private dick.

Well, a journalist in that line of work anyway. Many people died x years ago, case unsolved and it's up to you to solve it (Or slack off, make some shit up and send that off) Observation skills required. Unfortunately, piecing together the evidence isn't quite as required, as it pretty much gives you the answer if you dick long enough and hard enough. This game has lots of bugs. But for £3.74, can't really complain.
(Oh, and the trailer contains spoils, so don't watch it)

Uncharted. Lost Legacy. It’s Uncharted but with Chloe and, um, I can’t remember her name. It looks great, the banter is ok and we aren’t dealing with the hand bitingly awful “grown up” portentous script of Uncharted 4. The gameplay is feeling like it needs a massive kick up the arse now though.

Might go back to Fallout 4 now.

23) PUBG (Mobile)

It’s quite pretty on my phone. Fiddly as shit and the UI is messy but it’s all here.

Are you counting a chicken dinner as completed?

Yup. I won the game; there’s nothing else to do but do it again. Although I won’t be doing it again because I don’t want to melt my phone.

Haha, I did the same thing I installed it, played one game won then uninstalled it and chalked it up to a win.

Amusingly there was a little cretin on the mic shouting something along the lines of "YEAH SECOND PLACE ON MY THIRD GAME SUCK IT NOOBS"

I came #2 on my first game on mobile, #1 on my first game on my iPad. Didn't bother playing it again.

I came #1 the first time I played. It’s since been deleted. It’s technically impressive but I prefer the console version.

51. Murdered: Soul Suspect
52. Faraway 3
53. Rayman Legends
54. Short Life
55. Beyond: Two Souls
56. Gorogoa: fucking wonderful puzzle game that's now out on iOs, Android, Windows and the Switch. It's really hard to describe--and harder again to describe without spoiling anything--but this paragraph from the Eurogamer's 'Essential' review is probably a good stab:



It's awesome and unlike anything you'll have played before. Just buy it.

24) Fruity Shooty (PSVR)

All levels complete. I’m missing about 15 stars for the 100% but I’ve had enough now and done all the levels. 5 hrs and 15 mins of groovy fun though. Well worth a tenner.

1) Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
2) I expect you to die (PC/VIVE)
3) We Were Here (PC)
4) We Were Here Too (PC)
5) Human: Fall Flat (PC)
6) Ratchet and Clank (PS4)
7) Persona 5 (PS4)
The Sexy Brutale (PC)
9) Genital Jousting (PC)
10) Painscreek Killings (PC)
11) Forgotton Anne (PC)

Well, if the makers of the game weren't at least partly inspired by studio ghibli, I would be very surprised. mainly a story wrapped in a platforming game.
Unfortunately, gameplay wise, it doesn't hold up so well. Platforming is rather hamstrung by the animation, and it could really use the ability to skip text. As it stands I don't want to find out what happens if other choices are made because SLOOOOOOOOW.

12) To the moon (PC)
Another thing that is basically a story.
I really rather liked this. Although it is a rather sad tale. Particularly if you think about what really happened.

51. Murdered: Soul Suspect
52. Faraway 3
53. Rayman Legends
54. Short Life
55. Beyond: Two Souls
56. Gorogoa
57. Unpuzzle: brilliant little puzzle game for Android that see yous taking a jigsaw puzzle apart. It starts off incredibly simply with just a few pieces to slide out from each other then steadily introduces new mechanics (pieces that are linked in various way, pieces that can only be taken apart in specific directions, pieces that spin, pieces that can be shifted around the board, etc) until you're at a point where someone looking at the board who hadn't played the game before would be utterly fucking baffled by the intricacy. Due to the smooth curve of new mechanics though you never notice this point arriving and it remains both interesting and captivating throughout. I was utterly, utterly addicted to this for the time it took to go through the generous number of levels and I'd highly recommend it.

ETA: huh, and it's also available as a browser game so anyone can have a go:

https://www.miniclip.com/games/unpuzzle/en/

25) The Surge (PS4)

Ever wanted to beat up a JCB digger? Then you’re a nutcase. But you’re also in luck because The Surge is Dark Souls where you fight robots and machines (and the odd guys in exo-suits). It’s not as good as your average Dark Souls or even a Nioh but it’s still a good time nonetheless. Especially since it doesn’t outstay it’s welcome and can be clocked in about 20/25 hours.

I didn’t like the UI much or the loot system but the combat was satisfactory and the graphics were very good. There’s some excellent dynamic lighting here and the presentation is, overall, lovely. It loads up pretty fast an’ all. The best bit of the lot however is the level design which has some groovy looping maps ala, you guessed it, Dark Souls. But also Nioh. But also they look great (although there’s far too many similar looking maintenance tunnels, but hey) and have some nice secrets that are cunningly dotted around in tricksy areas. And it has 4K or performance modes, which I approve of. Although it loads in “levels” like Nioh rather than having one continuous world like DS. Boo!

I say, it’s good. 6/10

26) The Surge DLC: A Walk in the Park

MOAR SURGE! This time in a theme park! It’s all set in the same game and accessible a certain way through the campaign. There’s a few of hours of play here fighting, get this, animatronic theme park mascots across rollercoasters and stuff. The unusual outdoor park looks really good in The Surge’s setting and it kinda made me a little sad that the main game wasn’t as adventurous as the DLC. It’s more of the same but in a more interesting setting.

If you like The Surge you’ll enjoy The Su...blah blah blah.

51. Murdered: Soul Suspect
52. Faraway 3
53. Rayman Legends
54. Short Life
55. Beyond: Two Souls
56. Gorogoa
57. Unpuzzle
58. Samsara Room: first game by the devs of the Rusty Lake series and something of a prototype for their house style. Which is to say bonkers but internally consistent and logical escape games with a macabre twist. It's playable in the browser, only about ten minutes long and a fitting intro to their stuff so well worth playing.

27) Life is Strange (PS4)

What a ride! Not the game, my thoughts on it.

Episode 1: I was bored! and annoyed at how the gaming aspects of these Telltale game-like games are so fucking awful. Slow, cumbersome, 30 FPS when there’s fuck all on screen, load screens between areas that are tiny, fuck all to do in the world beyond press X and listen to some awful dialogue, pick up a pen and put it down, inability to skip dialogue, etc etc.

Episode 2: I was engaged! but annoyed that the voice actors talking too fucking slow and like they have their own AMSR channels on YouTube

Episode 3: I was interested! but annoyed at the terrible facial animations and the lip syncing,

Episode 4: I was on the edge of my seat! but fucked off with the screen tearing.

Episode 5: I was fully prepared to yell how the story was really quite great at a point where it should have ended! then there was another hour or two of a fucking extended dream sequence. God I wish games would stop doing that shit. Perhaps they fucked up with the episodic design and needed to pad out that last episode? It sure felt like it.

A good story told “well” up to a point but hampered by steadfastly mimicking Telltale’s games, an awful game engine, not enough interactivity, terrible direction with the voice actors and a story that should have ended 2 hours sooner to maintain impact.

5/10

I didn't get very far into that before I got very bored with it or something.

With a 5/10, Don'tfeelany need to return

It seems to be a relatively polarising game. I don't disagree that the gameplay mechanics are lacking, but it's an interactive story so it's never going to be Dark Souls or whatever. Personally I enjoyed it enough to justify its existence, while being annoyed enough by some aspects that I wasn't mental about it. However, I know honestly loads of people who adored it's story and characters so I think it's worth giving a proper shake to.

28) The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit (PS4)

If you ain’t knowing, this is the free game the makers of Life is Strange gave away. It’s a (very) short stop gap before Life is Strange 2 with different characters. So let’s find out what they learned, aye:

The games engine is MUCH improved. 60 FPS and thank sodding Christ. It’s much smoother and more responsive. And the art style has improved too with some gentle and natural lighting. Life is Strange actually debuted on PS3/360 so presumably the PS4 version was a rough conversion of the earlier games engine. Maybe I was a bit mean on it above? No, if you convert something sort it out and make it better. That screen tearing was an abomination.

What else? Dialogue: no, still terrible. This old woman says “it’s good to see you outside playing like a real boy”. Maybe they don’t talk to people much. I didn’t like any of the voice actors here and didn’t think the voices matched the people apart from the kid.

Improved interactivity? Not much but some. You aim and shoot a snowball, if that counts. It has less interactivity than a David Cage game and is probably why these Telltale-esq games are so fucking boring: there’s too much dead space in scenes, in completing an action, in having a conversation etc etc. I was thinking how you’d make one particular tornado scene in LiS better and I had about 20 things I could have done to improve it. And just things that “normal” modern games do that would improve that sequence tenfold that didn’t involve just pushing forward on the left stick and walking very slowly or watching another bland conversation or, god forbid, a montage of some scenery. So, no, there’s still not enough interactivity in this game either and has just enough content that makes it every so slightly more than a walking simulator.

What about the story? There’s not much here but really it’s a teaser for Life is Strange 2. I really like that the themes here are death and substance and child abuse.

So they’ve learned very little then but you’ll probably get a nicer looking sequel to LiS out of this.

6/10 because of the graphics, UI, and engine are improved. Oh and it’s free. They didn’t have to make this thing but they did and they certainly didn’t have to give it away but they did. God bless their marketing department.

Glad to hear the engine is improved because that's something that's always annoyed me when done badly with these kind of games. Telltale are obviously the totally worst fucking offenders here; the performance of their games has always been a total shitshow which is baffling given how little is expected of them in terms of 'action'. I mean they're raking in the cash so they could've stopped at any point and just taken time to improve the tech. But no, let's crank out a story based game about fucking Minecraft because that's something the world really needs.

29) Assault Android Cactus (XB)

This is very, very good. It’s a twin stick arena shooter with some bullethell moments.

Things I didn’t like:
a) initially the twee graphics, but they grow on you;
b) sometimes in a large arena very occasionally the camera doesn’t pan out enough so I see behind me;
c) the music is a bit generic and meh; and,
d) there’s 5 zones but I wanted 6. I WANTED TO PLAY IT MOAR.

Things I liked:
a) everything else.
b) the arenas have some good variety. You ain’t just shooting shapes in a rectangle. I like the one with concentric treadmills.
c) the bosses. They’re not hard but they are fun. Especially the last boss which has about 8 different stages and took me over an hour to beat.
d) the main characters. There’s about 8 (I think) all with a good variety of primary and secondary guns so something for everyone.

8/10 cause it’s awesome.

Apparently it’s been on PS4 since 2016 so, y’know, have a look at it. Here’s a trailer.

30) Danmaku Unlimited 3 (Switch)

A proper hardcore bullethell shooter. The gimmick here is that you can overpower your guns by grinding against incoming projectiles. It’s a neat little game but a bit lacking in visuals and sound to compete with Treasures best offerings. The visuals do a good job of showing the bullets and you (as they fucking should in these games) but it’s all just metallic spaceships and the boss designs are bland as fuck. The soundtrack unfortunately largely comprises of some obnoxious rock guitar noise and can fuck right off too. But, where it counts, it has some excellent bullet patterns and feels good to play. It’s just lacking the sparkle of the Treasure games where you weave through a pattern of bullets and are, like, how the fuck did I do that!?

51. Murdered: Soul Suspect
52. Faraway 3
53. Rayman Legends
54. Short Life
55. Beyond: Two Souls
56. Gorogoa
57. Unpuzzle
58. Samsara Room
59. Dishonored 2: Macabre steampunk ninja strangles his way around two cities.

I'm not going to say much about this because I feel like everyone knows it's deal by now. Suffice to say it's more Dishonored--especially if you play as Korvo again as I did--and does everything you'd expect from a sequel to the first game.

I don't think I really take advantage of everything it offers because I get caught up in just pure Blink-stealthing my way around. For example, I got the slow-time and possess powers and, now I think about it, literally never used either of them even once. On the other hand, I enjoy the pureness of doing stuff that way so whatevs.

As well as the incredible fun that the basic game design comes with there are a couple of wildcard levels in the new game in the shape of 'The Clockwork Mansion' and 'A Crack in the Slab'. For all the ingenuity of the Clockwork Mansion I didn't enjoy it that much as a level because (a) each reconfiguration could really fuck with my stealth planning and potentially upend everything and (b) the clockwork soldiers are just fucking awful to take out. I say the latter mostly because I never learned how to actually deal with them in an effective manner so they just became massive, and massively perceptive, roadblocks for me. Which is fine when there's maybe only a couple of them as in later levels but given that the mansion is hoaching with the twats it was a nightmare and I was really fucking glad when it was done. A Crack in the Slab though was just fucking joyous from start to finished and definitely the highlight of the game for me. If anything it was a bit too easy because being able to skip between timelines meant an easy escape from any real trouble.

The only other thing worth mentioning is to maybe stick to the console versions if you're considering the game because I had a load of technical annoyances with it as mentioned in the dedicated thread. Of course, I've gone and bought Death of the Outsider for the PC so I'm obviously just a cheapskate glutton for punishment.

I might go back and do a high chaos Emily playthrough at some point, though my record of playing games through twice would predict that I never will. Either way, it's fucking glorious fun and just what I expected.

P.S. I did enjoy my experience of the final encounter.

P.P.S. After spending about an hour at work decoding the Jindosh riddle I was annoyed to find I'd fucked it up somehow. I tried my version of it again a few times after the game gave me the answer and was able to get the right heirloom to the right person but not get them in the correct position. Stupid bloody thing.

31) Dragon Blaze (Switch)

Finally bested this bullet hell SHUMP from Psikyo. It has a sexy guy called Ian.

10/10

32) Zero Gunner 2 (Switch)

I can’t remember who recommended this on Beex but you are wrong. This is a bit rubbish.

It commits the one cardinal sin of the SHUMP that you NEVER EVER EVER allow an enemy bullet to be hidden. Not only are the bullets not a great colour but some explosions and the power ups can actively hide them.

Also it’s a bit boring, the music is a bit crap, the polygonal models are outdated and they couldn’t be arsed to throw on a new texture to this aging Dreamcast game.

I couldn’t be bothered to even learn to 1CC the game so I used 2 continues, so fuck you. Ya boring.

It was the worst of those swiitch games, certainly.

I dunno, Streets of Red was utter shit.

You are a bunch of wrong uns.

Zero Gunner 2 is great!

Wasn't that the one with Ian ？

No, that was the Dragon one. The best game ever made. Apart from those other games with an Ian in it.

51. Murdered: Soul Suspect
52. Faraway 3
53. Rayman Legends
54. Short Life
55. Beyond: Two Souls
56. Gorogoa
57. Unpuzzle
58. Samsara Room
59. Dishonored 2
60. Alone With You: a sci-fi 'visual novel' that sees your protagonist as the last surviving member of an attempt to colonise an alien planet. A barely explained incident fucks everyone's shit up and you--plus the obligatory AI--are left attempting to fix up the single escape ship that's left. It bills itself as a 'romance' but that aspect's massively underplayed and the overall story that plays out ends up not really being all that interesting. The gameplay loop of exploring a different location each day for items/clues/puzzles is sometimes compelling but very often just boring, and the characters never say anything overly interesting. The graphics are purposely low-fi 8-bit styled but not in a way that particularly appealed to me (I think I read somewhere they were designed to ape the C64?); indeed they shaded over into ugly I'd say. There's certainly potential here, but the actual execution is unfortunately weak.

33) Cuphead (Xbox)

Absolutely brilliant. A couple of times I had to take a break as my hands were sweating on the pad or I’d been holding down LT too tight.

100%’ed all the bosses on normal difficulty.

Loved the penultimate boss so much. It was awesome. The whole game oozed quality.

61. Part Time UFO: incredibly good fun and well presented Android game which sees you as a small UFO with a claw attachment attempting various 'jobs' which generally involve picking stuff up and stacking it around the place; though that description doesn't come close to doing it justice. Each level is various flavours of weird (e.g. stack a load of sumo wrestling students, fix the 'artwork' someone broke in a museum, etc) and each one has different completion criteria that can be attempted in order to earn medals, which unlock later levels. You also get paid for your labours and that cash buys different outfits, most of which come with a buff of some sort. It's developed by HAL Laboratory who also make stuff like the Kirby and Smash Bros games so it's all polished to a ridiculously high sheen and is really fucking good fun. Except the Tetris levels which can get fucked. I still completed it with all the medals though so don't step to me if you can't manage that.

61. Part Time UFO
62. Hidden my game by mom 2: a very Japanese escape room style game wherein you need to find your DS after your mum confiscates it. You need to do this while also avoiding your mum, snakes, your grandfather (who you turn into a hockey-masked serial killer early in the game) and other level specific hazards. As that description probably implies, it's weird and silly and oftimes genuinely funny; all while being very logical and fun to play. There's not a massive amount of stuff going on in each level and once you get into the swing of it's house style it's pretty easy to bang through, but you're pulled along by the desire to see what kind of batshittery each level will throw at you.

61. Part Time UFO
62. Hidden my game by mom 2
63. Hidden my game by mom 3: see above.
64. The Fidelio Incident: Walking simulator sort of a thing which begins with the plane your and your wife are flying crashing into an island and separating the two of you. The meat of the game then is your character traversing the frozen island, and caverns underneath it, trying to find your wife while not freezing to death and performing light puzzle solving. The backstory is told through your internal dialogue and--of course--diary pages that you find lying around which unfold a tale, surprisingly, about the impact of terrorism during The Troubles. The game looks relatively nice, possibly because the key figure behind it was the art director of God of War 3 apparently, but there's very little variety so that dulls into the background after a while. There's nothing particularly wrong with it but it doesn't do much to stand out from the glut of such games that Steam is drowning in.
66. Stories Untold: horror anthology with an 80s aesthetic. It's difficult to dive into this without spoiling anything. The first of the four chapters has you sitting at a desk in front of an 80s Amstrad/C64 type of computer playing one of those old text based adventure games. This all starts off pretty normal then gets meta and weird as fuck and just generally all kinds of sinister; all without you seeing anything more more than the desk, TV and text on the screen. The later chapters expand the interactivity to certain degrees but the meat of the stories are communicated without a great deal in terms of traditional gameplay. The look and feel of the game is just lovely and almost worth the price of entry alone but it's the overall atmosphere that's the real star of the show. It's a short game so not a massive time sink and is just a lovely thing to experience; I highly recommend people just go into it completely blind. If I had a criticism it would be that the first episode is still the strongest by far--and the 'microfiche' level is perhaps a bit tedious in places--but it's all good stuff.

61. Part Time UFO
62. Hidden my game by mom 2
63. Hidden my game by mom 3
64. The Fidelio Incident
66. Stories Untold
67. The American Dream: heavy-handed VR gun-culture satire.

The American Dream presents you with a 'white picket fence and apple pie' version of the US using a cardboard cutout art style and asks you to shoot at all of it. Indeed, everything in the game is accomplished by shooting at it with your dual Move controllers. Want to attract your mother's attention when you're in your crib? Shoot at the door of your room until she comes to see to you. Want to eat dinner on your first proper teenage date? Shoot the food into your mouth using a selection of different size 'eating guns'. Want to open the beer you've just picked up? Shoot a hole in the can and guzzle it down; then shoot it out of your hand into the nearby bin when you're done.

You can see where this is going by now, the version of America it presents is so in love with it's gun culture that literally every action requires you to shoot a gun, and revel in the fact that you did because you're not some awful commie sonofabitch. From a gameplay perspective it's the usual VR setup of you being strapped into a roller coaster car sort of thing that moves you from one scene to the next, shooting as you go; though generally the action takes place when you're stationary as opposed to the Rush of Blood model. And also unlike Rush of Blood there's no real fail conditions or scoring, it's a story told through the medium of shooting at shit.

And it's all fine for what it is; for a while at least. It's a strong concept well presented and there's a lot of fun to be had in the earlier levels. But by God do they run the fucking thing into the ground. It stops introducing any really new ideas, or weapons, before even the halfway point but keep on going regardless. And on. And on. And fucking on. I was so ready for it to be done by the end that it had almost burned through all the goodwill it had earned in the my initial session. Something that's not helped by the fact that (a) the general amount of sitting around just listening to the 'host' Buddy Washington talk at you is fucking unbelievable and (b) the last few levels are just a total mess (mechanically and conceptually) of random bullshit chucked at the wall, none of which really sticks.

It's a weird thing to be complaining about a game having too much content but that's really where we're at here. Had it stopped halfway through I could've genuinely recommended it as something interesting, amusing and slightly different (for a VR game especially). As it stands though I can't imagine people really enjoying it; unless you can get it for super-cheap and are genuinely happy to stop playing it at the halfway mark.

34) Prey (Xbox)

Worth the tenner I paid for it.
20-30 hours to complete
Multiple endings
Interesting story
Bland combat
If you liked Deux Ex you’ll enjoy this
7/10

I tried the latest Deux Ex on PS+ and instantly hated it, by the way. This is better than that trash.

35) Rick & Morty: Virtual Rickality (PSVR)

I like Rick & Morty. I do not like Rick & Morty: Virtual Rickality.

I had high hopes going in that this would be disposable but hilarious but this is by far the worst VR experience thus far. It isn’t very funny, there’s not much fun stuff to do, playing Troy isn’t very good (when it could have been amazing) and the main missions aren’t very good either. Just a big ole fat bleh.

61. Part Time UFO
62. Hidden my game by mom 2
63. Hidden my game by mom 3
64. The Fidelio Incident
66. Stories Untold
67. The American Dream
68. Subsurface Circular: robot detective visual novel.

This is a 'narrative short' by Mike Bithell, the guy behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. It's set in a future where robots, colloquially called 'teks', perform many functions in society and all commute around the place via the titular Subsurface Circular subway. Your character is a detective tasked to investigate crimes by talking to the other teks that pass through the transit system and right at the beginning you're asked to begin investigating the disappearance of another robot.

The subsequent two hours are spent talking to the other teks that get on and off your carriage while trying to get to the bottom of the mystery. There's some light puzzle solving but the entire games plays out solely within the conversations you have with the other robots and, while you do have conversation options, it's essentially a linear story. The look of the thing and the rare character animations are very nice, which is appreciated given that that they're utterly unnecessary as your focus is always the textual conversation playing out in front of you.

The dialogue flows naturally and there's an impressive amount of world-building done between the lines of your conversation; it's also very dryly funny in a lot of places. The way it tied into Thomas Was Alone made me smile as well. The ending was a little bit disappointing in my opinion but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the story and for a few quid it was well worth it.

1) Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
2) I expect you to die (PC/VIVE)
3) We Were Here (PC)
4) We Were Here Too (PC)
5) Human: Fall Flat (PC)
6) Ratchet and Clank (PS4)
7) Persona 5 (PS4)
The Sexy Brutale (PC)
9) Genital Jousting (PC)
10) Painscreek Killings (PC)
11) Forgotton Anne (PC)
12) To the moon (PC)
13) Nine Doors Nine Persons Nine Hours (PC)

Puzzle em up ported from DS. S'puzzley.

36) Ruiner (PS4)

So it’s a twin stick shooter known for being balls hard and having moody emo visuals. The visuals and the art design are absolutely stunning but there’s not a lot of variety. And it’s not that hard either... Honestly, I don’t know what some reviewers were moaning about. The most I died during a single level was twice. The combat is nice with lots of dashing, slashing and pew pew but it gets a bit repetitive despite being less than 5 hours long.

I liked it and definitely enjoyed my time but it isn’t good enough to recommend. Hopefully a sequel will sort out some issues.

37) Rime (PS4)

That was a bit of a chore to get through in the end. Certainly no ICO.

3/10

Yeah, I played it for a couple of hours or so before getting utterly bored and never returning.

Still quite pretty though.

1) Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
2) I expect you to die (PC/VIVE)
3) We Were Here (PC)
4) We Were Here Too (PC)
5) Human: Fall Flat (PC)
6) Ratchet and Clank (PS4)
7) Persona 5 (PS4)
The Sexy Brutale (PC)
9) Genital Jousting (PC)
10) Painscreek Killings (PC)
11) Forgotton Anne (PC)
12) To the moon (PC)
13) Nine Doors Nine Persons Nine Hours (PC)
14) Zero Escape: Virtues last reward (PC)

Like 9 doors 9persons 9 hours... but sequelier. (And ends with an obvious set up to a sequel. which so far looks to be a bit bad)

1) Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
2) I expect you to die (PC/VIVE)
3) We Were Here (PC)
4) We Were Here Too (PC)
5) Human: Fall Flat (PC)
6) Ratchet and Clank (PS4)
7) Persona 5 (PS4)
The Sexy Brutale (PC)
9) Genital Jousting (PC)
10) Painscreek Killings (PC)
11) Forgotton Anne (PC)
12) To the moon (PC)
13) Nine Doors Nine Persons Nine Hours (PC)
14) Zero Escape: Virtues last reward (PC)
15) Zero Escape : Zero Time Dilemma (PC)

Like Zero Escape:Virtues Last Reward... but sequelier. (It was the sequel to the obvious set up to a sequel. It was a bit bad.)

I liked ZTD, but not as much as VLW to be fair. I loved the story that spans the two games.

I forgot to add ZTD (that Vita one) which I finished recently. Flipped a coin: won the game in 5 minutes. I am best.

I mainly got a bit annoyed with
- How damn slow it is - no ability to continue to the next line after you've read it
- How stilted it seemed. Given that you were basically forced to watch it as a film rather than read it like a book, it felt properly sub B movie. with dodgy animation and unnatural gaps between lines. Seriously, if character A is meant to be interrupting character B, you can't have a 2 second pause in between B finishing the line before A starts theirs. It just feels cheap. You can get away with this when it's the player controlling the advancement of the story, not so much when it's meant to play out like a film.
- The completely different characterisation of some of the recurring characters.
- I'll admit it's possible that by this point, I was a little burnt out on the puzzles, but they didn't seem anywhere near as fun as the previous two.

61. Part Time UFO
62. Hidden my game by mom 2
63. Hidden my game by mom 3
64. The Fidelio Incident
66. Stories Untold
67. The American Dream
68. Subsurface Circular
67. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider: more Dishonored goodness so is obviously brilliant fun; arguably even more than the main games because this stand-alone chapter is basically 'Dishonored with the brakes off'. Your void energy auto-replenishes so you don't need to fuck around worrying about elixirs; there's no real penalty for murdering instead of knocking out so if you do get into a fight it doesn't mean a sighing reload and the 'scouting and tagging' power is incredibly useful so the game moves at a higher pace.

All these changes suit my playstyle so this DLC totally grabbed me for the 15 or so hours it took to go through and I enjoyed every second of it. There's only five levels but picking them clean of stuff and learning your routes around is as much of a joy as it always was, especially once you get to grips with the advanced stuff that the combination of the scouting power + Billy's more tactical delayed teleport lets you do.

The side mission 'contracts' that you get are rarely more than busy work but they're an amusing diversion and give you a genuine reason to explore the levels fully. The level design is the usual masterclass in multiple routes and even quite far in I was still discovering new paths I hadn't noticed before. On the downside there, the first level gets revisited later on which sucks out the novelty a bit and one of the later levels is a trip back to something from Dishonored 2 but even at that things are changed up enough to stay interesting.

If I had any complaint it would be that the game is maybe a bit too easy. Not worrying about killing people plus the regenerating void powers tips things into your favour and there are no advanced enemy types like the teleporting witches or clockwork soldiers so taking people out doesn't get any harder than the very beginning. That's a small thing though and just blasting through was a fucking delight from start to finish.

Bonus amusing thing: at one point in the final level I got a bit confused about where I was going and fell off a great big fucking cliff. I survived the fall by the skin of my health bar only to realise that I'd then managed to accidentally skip like 90% of the intended trek back through the level (which is now filled with harder enemies) and was inches from the end! Lol.

61. Part Time UFO
62. Hidden my game by mom 2
63. Hidden my game by mom 3
64. The Fidelio Incident
65. Stories Untold
66. The American Dream
67. Subsurface Circular
68. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
69. The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit: Dontnod's free primer game for the upcoming Life is Strange sequel. It only takes an hour or so to bang though and the juxtaposition of childish fantasy with grim 'abusive alcoholic father' reality was pretty engaging for it's entire runtime.