May 2024

• Arcade Spirits: A Visual Novel - and one I really didn’t enjoy very much. Writing, story, characters, art weren’t bad, per se, but I didn’t find it particularly realistic/true/verisimilitudinous. In theory one would need to play much of it 8 times – even with strategic saves – for achievement completion, which sounds beyond grim to me.
• Balatro: I wish that BLAEO had an extra completion setting for marking games designed to be beaten multiple times; this is one of those. I got it because a lot of people loved it … but I ultimately didn’t. I had much the same reaction to Roll. Narrowing it down, I don’t think I particularly like abstract Roguelites - Binding of Isaac > Slay the Spire > Ring of Pain > Balatro > Roll
• Botanicula: Old-school (early 2000s Flash) point-and-click adventure from the folks who did Samorost. Quirky, charming, and mostly enjoyable apart from the maze-iness of Chapter ?5?.
• Machinika Museum: Adventure game where you rotate and fiddle with weird alien objects to get them to work. Enjoyable, and things build nicely to the final chapters.
• Supraland Six Inches Under: Pretty good exploration 3d metroidvania – I should go back and play the original.

• Arcade Spirits
  

  6.0 hours playtime

  11 of 21 achievements

• Balatro
  

  24.5 hours playtime

  11 of 31 achievements

• Botanicula
  

  5.0 hours playtime

  46 of 53 achievements

• Machinika Museum
  

  3.0 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Supraland Six Inches Under
  

  20 hours playtime

  49 of 53 achievements

  GAME
  PASS

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