Sam Barlow 🔥

Also, theory: every good bit in a horror game in the last 20 years is basically Thief’s Return to the Cathedral. (Thief is the best horror game)

The environment art is (again) magnificent but Requiem does feel a bit like the Village template again? The fancy mansion routine also reminds me what a stunning fresh surprise RE4’s rural brown dream was. (Also fusebox puzzle 😱😱😱)

(Waiting on sous vide steak and trying to avoid warposting)

(Look at that Map, for StarQuake! Lush stuff)

Tried to do the 9 games for the games I played on my first games machine (Amstrad CPC) and so likely the most formative stuff; but don't love that weird box art for StarQuake (genius 8-bit open world metroidvania)

@unormal.bsky.social

JFC

Yes

It's 3rd person, not fixed camera, but feels like a decent implemetation. I don't resent it here as much as I did on RE:2 , I guess because I spent so much time walking aroud in FPS camera mode in the original games? Admittedly this does move it out of 'remaster' into 'remake' territory 😮‍💨

(Not used to screenshot button adding copyright text! Weird!)

As much as I violently disapprove of remakes, the Fatal Frame II one looks like it might get a pass like Metroid Prime did for being ‘if you’re going to do it, do it carefully and respectfully’ tier?

Damn, was ‘War (What is it good for?)’ too expensive?

At least they’re not spending it on avocado toast and coffee, that would be morally bad and worth shaming

Only last week was talking about its meta puzzle design in the context of a WIP! :)

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island - Spike Chunsoft

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
www.spike-chunsoft.com/games/shiren...

If definitely ticks a lot of boxes if you squint! First open world town, etc.

I love it so much
The possibility space with the tools
The play on videogame and mythic iconography in so few pixels
One of those examples that's like, "This is a cheapest verison of a thing, but also the best version"

No surprises here

I think this is fine but there should be a balancing effect whereby the last cutscene in the game runs extra slow to compensate

Still time to do a steam review
“4,322 hours played
Not for me”

Again and again “AI” is just a facilitator for ‘do bad thing at scale’ - doesn’t matter if the facts are true, if the art looks good, or who in particular you kill. I’m sure no one is going to be auditing how ‘smart’ and ‘precise’ these killings were

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Silent Hill 2
Riven
Earthbound

Hard to beat those

Good luck showing this video to your buddy Jesus when you hit the pearly gates you sick f**ks

The constituion, famously a document written for the government, for the purpose of listing the rights it has over its citizens!

lol the way she re-frames the 4th amendment as being a right of the government to search & seize 🫠

🌞 SOL CESTO - FULL ANIMATED TRAILER 🌞

Sol Cesto 1.0 finally has a release date! Dive into the final version of our weird roguelite on April 10, 2026.

We can’t wait for you to discover all the endings 👀
Please help us spread the word 🙌

Zed & Two Noughts is my favorite
And Prospero's Books is unlike anything else
Draughtsman is his first hit and the most 'accessible'? of his stuff, but more well behaved that what followed
Everything else is worth a watch but a lesser tier of banger

💙
You have a few more bangers to go too!