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This is a game that I am SOOOOOOOO not going to play! EVER!! I would like to SLEEP at night, thank you! But I feel it should be talked about.
What is the game? If you ever had childhood horror memories of could had sworn you saw one of the robots from Chuckie Cheeses staring right at you with a creepy grin… this game will scare you.

It starts off of you playing as a guy named Mike, who’s strapped for cash and needs to find a Summertime job badly. He happens to find possibly the easiest job ever; being a security guard working the graveyard shift of some stupid kid-friendly pizza palace called Freddy Fazbear Pizza. Seriously, what could happen?! It’s the perfect job! … Or so you think.
What’s worse? … This place exists IRL, in Utah. Could this… be a game based on that place?! Heaven forbid if that’s true.

The first night of your job at 12am, you’re thinking “this is going to be so easy! Just watch the security cameras until 6 in the morning!”, and this is what a mysterious guy who claims to be the former security guard and you’re his replacement, tells you of leaving his message on the answering machine.
Yet he also warns you that these peaceful robotic things have been known to… walk around on their own at night. And if they catch you, they will stuff you in a Freddy bag. Which may not seem scary, except he tells you this bag has wires, servos, and electronics in it that… will probably kill you.

But you think to yourself.. nah. That can’t be true! You flick your security cameras. All the robot animals are in place. All of them; Freddy(the bear), Chickie(the duck), Bonnie(the rabbit), and Foxy(the fox). Time slowly moves. 1am. 2am. All seems quiet. Suddenly.. OH SHIT FREDDY MOVED!!! You frantically check all the cameras…you hear strange laughing through the quiet, blackened halls. Where the fuck are you Freddy?! You check the light to the left… HOLY FUCKING SHIT HE’S RIGHT OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR!!!!!!! *and before you have a chance to activate the door and seal him, the robot in Freddy screams in your face, and you die.. and possibly in real life due to a heart attack from a massive jump scare*

So, what’s worse? You have a limited amount of power, and it drains quickly if you close the security doors and look at the security cameras. You have to balance being able to watch them, and defending yourself. Because, it’s game over when the lights shut off.
Though you may have a saving grace if it becomes 6am before the robots get you. Or… you’ll be the next victim!

How long will you survive… Five Nights at Freddy’s?

So I bought this game at its full asking price($4.99). Mainly because… there’s been hardly any good games on Steam this year that will get my mind off of WoD until the– *someone breaks into the house* .. wait? What?!
Future Me: I’m you from the future! There’s no time to explain! You got to–*a shark breaks into the house and grabs the guy* AHHHHHH!!!! HELP!!!!
Ooookay… OOOOH! A plasma rifle!

And this is basically what No Time to Explain is about; teleportation, being somewhere in 20XX, rage-inducing spikes(the RAGE!!!!!), gun-toting dinosaurs riding on another dinosaur, UFO’s, giant crabs, sharks that can turn into squids, a powerful plasma rifle that can also be used as a jetpack, and… hats! Yes. Even hats(like you didn’t get enough in TF2). There is really.. no time to explain what the hell is going on!
When you start, you get dropped right into the game during the intro credits. There is no New Game button. Ok, what? .. Oh yeah. No time to explain!

So, your main weapon is this plasma beam. And as I said, is also used as a jetpack. There are no enemies, only puzzle bosses. The only real enemy… is your reflexes. As most puzzles require you to have quick reflexes to get through puzzles.
Thankfully, there is no health bar. No lives. You have infinite lives. Only problem is when you die to spikes, bombs, or falling into a pit, you get restarted at the beginning of the level.
Of course, with my inability to control my temper. ….Well. It means I dread buying this game as it seems I “love” to fail, and wish I could get my $5 back.

So. Papers Please. Where do I begin that hasn’t already said about this addictive game, where the slightest of discrepancies can screw you over if you don’t catch them in time?

The date is November in 1982. You’ve won in a lotto to work, as an immigrations officer in the glorious country of Arstotzka(one of the many alternate reality countries), which you also live in. You’re also raising your family in a crappy apartment. How well you do your job depends on their well-being. So, it can be seen as “Real Life, the game”.
To do your job, you must either Deny or Approve entry of several immigrants and citizens of a single day, each day with slightly increased difficulty.
All while having to beat the clock.

It starts off from not allowing people that aren’t in the country, and the ones that are have to have up-to-date info. All the way to taking bribes of allowing entry. It uses your own morals against you.
Like on Day 5, you have this husband and wife that are fleeing the country and looking for safe haven. You notice that he isn’t telling you why he’s here. Do you deny this, or do you allow it based on your morals?
And the wife, who doesn’t have the correct papers. This is a no no. Yet she begs you to let her be with her husband, saying they will kill her if she goes back. Again, mortal values, or having to stick to the book?

What burns my ass, is there seems to be an invisible second inspector that is always happy to print out the “UGH!!” pink citations… even the slightest little mistake (like the person’s passport issuing in a city with one letter….ONE LETTER off) can and will cost you.
The first two are just warnings. But the 3rd and on start to cost you in fines, and it grows the more you screw up. Fail enough times and you’ll eventually reach a point you can’t afford them, and then it’s game over.

So, don’t screw up. And glory to Arstotzka!

I’m not a fan of puzzle games. Mostly because, I fail at them and they make me ragequit. 😛
But if you do like them, you’ll like The Bridge. The game of physics and mind-fucking madness.
However, this game.. wow. It’s so amazingly done! It is a wonderful play on words, and the music is fantastic. You play the literally twisted reality, of the one that discovered gravity by falling asleep under a cherry tree, and having an apple hit him on the head; Sir Issac Newton.
Having just discovered gravity, you take Newton to his house where you do a series of physics tests(don’t question, just go with it). You can rotate the camera which changes the force of gravity in the level. You must help Newton to doors to escape these twisted realities.
Some doors require a key or two to enter, and you must manipulate gravity to get them.
If you screw up, you also have control of time itself and can rewind time to reverse your untimely death. So, there is no permadeath.

There’s also what Newton calls his “nemesis”, which is a living boulder with eyes. You soon learn that you need your enemy to assist you. If you lose it, you won’t have it to assist you. It’s like a Yin-Yang thing. Balance. One cannot live without the other. It’s the exact thing as I’ve said for most games that fall short, that “don’t have a point”.
What’s the point of being a hero, when there’s no evil villain to defeat? What’s the point of living, when there’s no risks in life? Every good thing must have a bad thing, or balance is out of whack. There can never be complete peace.
Yet, don’t tell me this when it comes to the beta server of WoD. 😛

Completing each chapter, gives you a famous quote from Newton in his own words.

So, that’s about it for this game. You should definitely try it out. It might question your own existence.

If you can dig it, you’ll like this side-scroller Minecraft-like digging game. It’s the future, and robots have taken over Earth. What’s left of the human race can be found deep underground in the ‘Old World’.
You play as Rusty, a robot heading to a dusty small town to meet his Uncle who’s the town miner and the only source of income for this town. However, he hasn’t been seen in months and When you arrive, the ground drops from under you.
When you recover, you realize you’re trapped. But then comes someone that’s willing to help you out. All you need to do is find a pickaxe.

You find your uncle… he’s unfortunately passed away, leaving you in charge of his mining legacy! So go, dig through the earth, sell goods, upgrade your pickaxe. Get powerups. … And discover a hidden civilization.
Gameplay, it’s a mixture of mining ore and selling what you got and upgrading, and problem-solving. There’s no day/night cycle. There are monsters of increasing difficulty the deeper you go.
There’s also an achievement that you can get for completing the game from the start, either exactly at or less than 2 hours and 30 minutes. Aka, a speedrun.
Speaking of which, is there freeplay after the main questline? Well… Yes and No. As in.. No, you can’t go back to mining after completing the game, but you can reload a save to before doing so and continue to mine. So, it’s kind of like the way Fallout New Vegas does its ending.

This also has a hilarious easter egg. In one area of the game, you see several skeletons next to what appears to be a video game store, waiting for what looks like the release of Half-Life 3 and showing Gordon Freeman’s crowbar, a picture of what I can assume to be Gaben(CEO of Valve) and there’s a thing on the sign that says “Soon…” LMAO! Wow. Amazing. Kudos to the devs for this!

There’s even another funny one. An achievement titled “Half-Life 8 confirmed!”
And so, that’s it for this game. I like it, and I like the Half-Life themed things.

Hammerwatch is quite an amazing game. It reminds me of most top-down arcade shooters. You pick your class(with the Ranger saying it’s the easiest for beginners) and difficulty, and play on two main areas.

Gameplay is simple. Run. Kill stuff before it kills you. Get powerups for your weapon and health. You have two lives from the start. You lose them, you fail. It’s like Splunky of having a permadeath. However, you don’t have to start from the beginning. You got save points that’ll allow you to keep playing.
And unlike Splunky, you can get extra lives to continue to play even longer. But the deeper you trek, the more enemies you’ll encounter; some even mini-bosses.

So… that’s basically it for this game. It’s just a shoot-em-up taking place in the dark ages. I like it, and you should get it.

This is one of the several games I got from the Humble Indie Bundle 12. So, what’s this game about? It’s a first person exploration game, back in the late 90’s. 1995 to be exact.
The time of VCRs, Cassette Tapes, Record Players, Typewriters, Nintendo, and Pen Pals. This was before the Internet and cell phones became famous. So yes, this was before our current time Digital Age. And wow does it make me feel OLD!

The game takes place in a large house in Colorado, on June 7th 1995… the month and year I “graduated” High School. You play as a 21ish year old girl named Katie, who has just came home from a year long trip in Europe.
Instead of being welcomed back by your parents and younger sister, you find the house strangely quiet for no reason. As in, you’re the only one here. You go to explore your house in search for clues. Especially why your little sister, Sam, doesn’t want you to find her, or tell anyone what she has done.

While you’re looking around, you keep hearing thunder and creaking in the wood, scaring you shitless. So far, it’s just the game trying to scare the crap out of me.. and it’s effective! No enemies, yet your own fear being controlled.

Playing through to its completion and not offering spoilers, I enjoyed the story. And since I’m good at lists, here’s two of what I like/dislike;

Like:
-No jump scares.
-No one dies in it.
-The story.
-Pieces of my childhood are in it.

Dislike:
-Why was this “Katie” involved in the story, when the main story was about Sam?
-Open a book, end the game. … What? We’re not playing Myst here.
-Why are all of the VCRs in the house, gone? No explanation.
-If you like Dear Ester, you’ll like this.

So there you have it. It’s not a total failure in my book. Others feel it’s a waste of money… I got it for free, and didn’t torrent it. 🙂 All I did was pay $10 for Prison Architect and got all the other games free.