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Saints Row: The Third is where the series really developed it's own identity besides being a "GTA clone", and many -me included- consider it the high point of the series. It has also given me various fetishes.

Sludge Life is a pure vibe game. And let me tell you, I'm getting those vibes, yo.

You know what's even better than orcs? Gay orcs. Simple as. It's a decent platformer, too.

A demonstration that multiplayer PvP games *can* be immersive. The combat is very impactful - maybe a little bit too impactful. Prepare to repeatedly get oneshot from people you didn't even see, at least until you acquire the proper amount of constant paranoia.

Despite a handful of honestly quite baffling design decisions, like completely removing inventory management, AMFP still presents a compelling world with interesting characters, and at least a few goosebump moments.

SOMA is one of the few games that managed to surpass it's high expectations. Frictional Game's magnum opus is dramatic, emotional, contemplative, and uniquely depressing. Rarely has a game gripped me from start to finish, and left me wanting for more.

While not quite as impactful as TDD, Rebirth is still a meaningful step forward for Frictional's formula. It certainly lives in the shadow of it's own name, and the mixed reviews reflect that, but make no mistake - Amnesia: Rebirth is still a top-notch horror experience.

While I do have a mild preference towards the Penumbra series, Amnesia: TDD still single-handedly revived one of my favorite genres, and did it so expertly that it rightfully deserves a spot in the video game hall of fame.

By playtime, Skyrim is my most played singleplayer game by a significant margin, and I probably spent an about equal amount of time modding it. If I had to pick one game to take with me onto a lonely island, Skyrim would certainly be a strong contender.

If you can forgive an in parts *extremely* sluggish progression, ATOM RPG is a genre-faithful wasteland adventure with surprising scale and depth. Get a mod that lets you control your followers to avoid frustration.

With it's unique (but overwhelming) combat system and stylish music and SFX, "Get in the Car, Loser!" manages to almost compensate for it's fairly amateurish writing.

A game that I love to hate and hate to love, Dota 2 requires a lot of tolerance against frustration -more than most, if not any other multiplayer title- and yet it keeps pulling me back.

AoM is a game that I went in with fairly low expectations, and still ended up being disappointed. While it has it's high points (it's high points being a maybe 5/10 third-person hero shooter), it's mostly annoying cast of characters, amateurish art and 2D animation, run-off-the-mills "good vs. comically evil" narrative, and repetitive minigames make this a title that at the end just feels entirely... unremarkable. Most of my ca. 40 hour play time was honestly just tedium. There's also an online-only achievement that can no longer be unlocked because the servers have shut down. It's like they never learn.

Guise of the Wolf truly squandered it's opportunity as an (at the time) quite highly anticipated werewolf-themed indie. The best way to describe it is "amateurish", from the outdated graphics, the stilted voice acting, to the uninspired narrative. Over ten years later, and we are still starved for good werewolf transformation games.

Tokyo Afterschool Summoners, or Housamo, is one of my favorite mobile games, and awardee of the rare "mobile games that are actually good" award. It has well-written characters, AMAZING art (loots of eye candy), and an actually fair and engaging gacha-style model that doesn't let you wait around or arbitrarily throttle your progress. The only downside is that the game's original language is Japanese, and some parts (especially seasonal events) are not yet fully translated. If you play on mobile or have an emulator, give this one a shot, it will be well worth your time.

This game could have been a decent dive into the mobile market for the Harry Potter franchise, but is ruined by greedy devs and quite literal paywalls. The initial impression was good for a free mobile game - solid style, good sound, the character creation is limited, but at least it's there, and there is SOME hint of player choice... then it spirals downwards into the abyss of the mobile industry. Once you run out of energy (which happens quickly, you cannot even complete a single mission in one go), you have to wait AGES for it to refill, and the game literally doesn't let you do anything other than wait in the meantime. Exploring the castle, or talking with people? Ha, you wish. This game makes you stare at a three-hour countdown going down (unless you want to pay, of course). The part of the actual gameplay is mostly tapping on buttons, observing okay-ish cutscenes and dialogues, and solving minigames that are fun, but get repetitive quickly. You can buy cosmetic items for your character, but the prices are so absurd that you basically have to pay money unless you want to farm for days for a bunch of colored pixels. It's a shame, because this game had potential, but in the end it has nothing of what people expected, and everything of what makes "mobile" rightfully a curse word these days.

This game has pretty much the best map design I've ever seen in a game, and it's completely free-to-play, what makes it even better. If you like rather slow and thoughtful puzzle games, this is the way to go!

A great game, maybe the best one of the Myst series so far. Beautiful graphics, intelligent, sophisticated puzzles and an awesome storyline. If you are an Adventure- or Puzzle-fan, this is a must-have!

A classic RPG with a lot of allusions to well-known RPGs like The Legend of Zelda, Diablo, Final Fantasy, The Elder Scrolls and more. If you know and played these games, you will have a lot of fun with this one. And even if you're not so much into nostalgia, it still leaves you with a solid RPG that has everything it needs.

One of the greatest 2D RPGs ever released! Still love playing it. Only costs 5$ on Steam, worth every penny twice! Both music and the graphic style are stunning, the story is really good and it just makes me feel nostalgic.

Spiral Knights is a very addictive game. Basically it is nothing more than a hack-and-slay game, but it has nice nostalgic influences like Zelda. It's a classical SEGA game and I can completely recommend this for players who like old school games. "I don't play anything that has a worse graphic than Crysis"-people should just don't even think about playing it. This is a game with classic gameplay and graphics like in the late 90's. I really enjoy wasting my time with it. The only thing I could criticise is the energy you need for visiting dungeons and upgrading your equipment. It gets low very fast and without it you can't do anything. The only possibility to get it is to buy it with the ingame currency (very expensive) or with real money (but the cash shop isn't that expensive, with spending about 10$ you should go well).