Make no mistake, every one of these last ten games was a total banger. I did put the last two in C-tier, but honestly they are still bangers, there was just something about both of them that made them not for me personally.
1.Mutropolis - I just love pointing and clicking :) This game is obtuse and ridiculous and that’s exactly what I want out of this genre.
2.Unpacking - Truly beautiful storytelling. Like, I can’t stop thinking about the protagonist’s pet beetle and how that one item tells you all you need to know about her friendship with her bug-loving first roommate.
3.Going Under - This game was such an emotional roller coaster for me, from boredom to sadness to fun to frustration to sadness again. I really adored it but the personal low points made it so I can’t truly say that my experience with this game was better than my experience with Unpacking.
4.Golf Peaks - A satisfying puzzle experience!
5.Before Your Eyes - The more I think about it, the more I’m like “Yeah, this didn’t totally live up to the hype.” The story is nice but nothing really special, and the controls, though unique as they claim, are a bit janky.
6.Dead Cells - I guess if anything is going to finally make me admit to myself that I just don’t enjoy metroidvanias, it would be a genre fusion where an excellent roguelike is bogged down by having to collect movement upgrades.
7.The Tail Makes the Fox - There’s some anime grossness to this one. The writing is really fun, though, and having partially replayed the game in English I can confirm that’s not just me thinking everything written in Spanish is literary gold.
8.Starseed Pilgrim - At the end of the day I really have no idea what this game was or even if I was playing it right, but I thoroughly enjoyed playing it nonetheless.
9.Bit Rat: Singularity - The themes of technology and AI made my eyes glaze over a little bit and made it kind of hard for the solid puzzles to hold my interest but, again. The puzzles are solid.
10.Rym 9000 - Crashes often and takes your progress with it. But this isn’t a bad game, not at all.
