#freeware games

[twilighttrekkie]

Forgot about this oops

Forgot to share this here, but I made a silly little Goblet Grotto fan animation on my DS Lite!

Thecatamites games have an absolute grip on me, they're genuinely one of my favorite examples to use to counter people who say that video games aren't art. These games are absolutely beautiful to me, and are endlessly unique. (I really need to finish playing the Of The Killer games haha)

[legitimatesatanspawn]

Me when finally getting more of the overly specific you-solve-it-yourself mystery genre that I enjoyed with Type Help and Obra Dinn: clawing at the screen screaming I KNOW THE NEXT STEP HOW DO I GET TO THE NEXT STEP WHERE IS THE ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT COMPLETES THE PUZZLE

(so in other words I've fallen into a rabbit hole of "What Happened to the Crew?" and "The Red Pearls of Borneo" by Bushmonkey and many many demos.)

[legitimatesatanspawn]

Overly specific game genre I like: puzzle/adventure with a language barrier that you personally translate.

Lexico: very old freeware Verge engine adventure game where you find various glyphs as you explore the map and have to figure out what the words likely mean. The simplest example is the first "on/off" and "open/close" and "hot/cold", but god help you with some glyphs...

Tôtem: you load up locations where giant alien... entities are found and have to navigate dialogue trees with only your own assumptions of what the glyphs mean and the entity's reactions based on the two grid charts of Empathy/Apathy/Happiness/Sadness and Enraged/Contempt/Confusion/Knowledge.

Chants of Sennaar: puzzle adventure (with some stealth bits) where you have to work out from context clues what the words most likely are and how to talk to and exchange things with the NPCs.

Related but not quite the same:

Treasure of Rudra: JP-only SNES RPG where a language magic system is at play and the player can create their own magic spells by combining prefixes, suffixes, and core words.

[legitimatesatanspawn]

Apparently there's now Catlateral Damage: Dog Edition.

Now instead of being a little shit of a cat ruining everything around you, you're a little dog being a little shit and ruining everything around you.

Hello new stress reliever.

[legitimatesatanspawn]

I wish I was surprised to see a Steamboat Willie first person survival horror game.

I wish I was.

[legitimatesatanspawn]

Two things friends say that summon me like Shenron:

"There's nothing good on sale," no you either already have the good ones or the good stuff is buried under everything.

"All freeware games suck." Similar to this also are specific engines or genres because there's no inherently bad anything, just poor optimization or story/mechanics.

Or for maximum funny: "There's no good free games on Steam" and/or "The only free games on Steam are all mmos and mobas and shitty idlers".

[magicalgirlpropaganda]

anyone know any good itch.io horror games?

- no jumpscares, im a pussy

- no money, i don't have money

- i like them horror games that look like an old playstation game. not a fan of tank controls but ill get used to it

- rpg horror is good too :D