Casual Gaming

Where I'm storing information about games I've played so I can suggest them to friends later. Feel free to interact or ignore at your leisure.

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Aven Colony

[ID: Aven Colony logo over a lush green mountain landscape with purple skyscrapers and small flying ships.]

Basics

Sci-fi city builder

Personally I thought it was very addictive to play despite the repetitive play style.

Theoretically there's an overarching story in the background, but I played with the sound off and it didn't have subtitles, so I have no clue what they were saying.

Chillness (4/5)

Not very hard, but you do have to try a bit.

Queerness (N/A)

It's a city builder.

Beauty (4/5)

For how city builders go, it was very pretty. It's neat and easy to rearrange. It's not going to blow your socks off, but considering most city-builders make me want to burn it all down because of their aesthetics, I upped its score a bit.

It does actually look like their pictures show.

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[ID: Title screen of Paradise Killer. Showing its name with the following characters behind the text. A man in a wide-brimmed hat and a long-sleeved shirt with a cut-out chest. A man with robotic arms and a pink mohawk. A woman with a gold headpiece resembling a halo. Woman pointing forward accusingly. A man made of gold with their arms outstretched. A woman with a streak of blue hair in a fun pose. A red skeleton wearing a white and gold blazer making a shocked face and holding sunglasses. There's also an island full of trees, and an ominous skull floating above it all.]

Basics

You wander around talking to people and finding clues.

You're investigating a murder! It's a closed-island mystery, so the suspects are limited

The characters are very distinct and enjoyable. Did you see that skeleton dude? He's cool as hell.

There were a couple of reveals that literally made me gasp, and even more that made me forget to breathe. It's so fun.

The world-building is so interesting and unique.

One of my favorite games of all time

Chillness (5/5)

No timers whatsoever

All I did was just walk everywhere and talk to everyone and I’m pretty sure I’ve got all there was to know

At the end you have to make a few choices that require you to draw your own conclusions, but I think it would be fine if you took wide gaps in between sessions because it takes good notes for you and it saves in checkpoints and is pretty obvious when you picked wrong

As far as I can tell there’s no consequences from saying literally anything to anyone. If you mess something up, you just start the conversation over again.

There's optional collectibles around where a couple of them needed careful platforming, but no actual clues needed any skill.

You might get a bit lost, but there's lots of landmarks.

Queerness (4/5)

You can be very gay. You can even flirt with a lady with a deer head!

Beauty (5/5)

It's a fun simple hyperwave style with 2-D NPCs that turn to face you in a slightly creepy way.

The character design is so cool; it made me want to keep staring at everyone forever.

I think if the textures were more detailed, it would be overwhelming. I wouldn't change a thing.

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Lake of Voices

[ID: A drawing of a woman with brown skin in armor floating upside down in a black abyss with soft light rays coming from the top. She has a blank expression. The words overlaid say, "LAKE OF VOICES"]

Basics

Visual Novel about trying to get to the other side of a monster-infected lake.

Free to play!

A true monster horror story that focuses on the relationships of the people involved (non-romantic)

God it’s really cool how it affects things subtly like if you bond with a character, then later on Kikka (the main character) will automatically include them in something, but if you don’t bond with them, you get to choose if you include them or not

The story is enthralling and it's just very fun to play

[ID: Art of a blonde man wearing armor and holding a lantern has his eyes closed in thought in front of a foggy textbox that says, "The lake - Sinnlos. Most try their best to avoid it all their lives. The hundreds who die attempting to cross its unearthly black water, dragged to death by the creatures lurking within, aren't secret" Behind them is a foggy, blue forest, centered on one huge tree.]

Chillness (4/5)

a few timed moments, but I never struggled to click one in time

People are going to die -- they just are. But it’s a visual novel so it’s easy to fix this or play all the routes pretty quickly because it's not a super long game

It doesn't punish you for not talking exclusively to one character

[ID: Art of a bonde man in armor with a sheathed sword holding a lantern stands in front of foggy, blue docks. Foggy-styled textboxes are in front of him, displaying 3 choices to pick. They are as follows: "You're quite informed, Margret." "I'm sure you are forgiven, Bemelle." Say nothing.]

Queerness (4/5)

Everyone only ever uses He or She pronouns

You can get especially close to various people but they never take it explicitly romantic even at the end which is nice, even though I wanted to marry Bellame

[ID: Art of a blonde man wearing armor and holding a lantern looks at you with a soft smile in front of a foggy textbox that displays that Bemelle says, "And I believe you." He stands in front of foggy, blue docks.]

Beauty (5/5)

beautiful art: both character and background. Often I would stop and just look at all the details in a drawing

the writing is gripping and makes your heart beat out of its chest

actually really wonderful voice acting -- all characters are voiced -- the narrations are not.

[ID: Art of a brown-skinned woman in armor that looks to the side with a determined expression as golden light peeks up from the bottom of the frame. A golden light outlines her silhouette and reflects off her eyes.]