The third and final of these games that I have. Just your standard little puzzle game. Some real challenging levels and I’ll admit to using the guide for some, but usually a bit of persistence pays off.

Got this game for free basically, because it was in a pack with Wolfenstein Youngblood for less than the price of Youngblood by itself, so why not? It is split into two chapters, and I loved the first chapter. It’s a tense ‘get of jail’ scenario, with lots of stealth and action interspersed. Then the second chapter came and reminded me why I don’t like zombie games. Anyway, it was still fun enough, and I enjoyed the combat challenges. Worth checking out if you enjoyed the new order, as this serves as a prequel to the events in that game.

A fun little distraction with easy achievements. It’s a multiplayer racing game essentially, where you have to be the one to cross the line with the prize. It’s very one note, so you won’t be playing it for too long, but I had fun with the kids for a while.

Just cause 4 and I have had a bit of a history. I love Just Cause 2 and 3 and think they are some of the most fun open world out there, with silly physics and crazy weapons. They are also one of the few ‘grown up’ games I can let my kids play, as asides from the occasional swear word, the rest is fine. So once 4 released, I knew I wanted to get it, and waited for the right price point to come around. That happened in the winter sale last year. But upon installing it, I had to refund almost right away, as the game just wouldn’t get past a few minutes into the opening level. Then the game was given away on the Epic store, and for the first time ever I installed and attempted to play an Epic games game. This didn’t work out either however, as it turns out I really needed to move to windows 10. I had been putting the move off, because the automated update didn’t work for my file system and I knew it would mean down time for work, so I spent a weekend sorting out the update. And hooray it finally worked. But of course, Epic doesn’t have achievements or anything, so I waited until the steam summer sale to buy it again, and finally got to play the game I wanted. So was it worth it? Eh.

Look it’s still mostly pretty fun, but they seemed to take out some of the things that made 3 fun and added in things that were less fun. I know people complained about the challenges in JC3, but I love them, and was disappointed to see they were replaced with a whole bunch of 10 second challenges instead. And the map capture in 3 felt a lot better. Oh I know they like to market the ‘chaos’ aspect of their systems, but this 4th game is a bit ridiculous. Just touch a bad guy and within seconds you have 3 or 4 attack helicopters and tanks hounding you. I kind of wanted to be able to just cruise around without being forced to fight all the time.

Anyway, I guess the curse of sequels is to be compared to their predecessors and if the game had no history I would think it was great. I do just hope they bring back some of the more fun aspects of the previous games.

A simple little puzzle game with levels that were mostly logical with a sprinkling of more difficult ones. A great coffee-time, time waster.

This game is not trying too hard to pretend it’s not borrowing the idea from hidden folks, but being as I enjoyed hidden folks, this was a competent addition to the genre and I enjoyed playing through it. It also has a level creator and as a result you have endless user created content to keep you going after the initial play through. Seems like they will continue to support it with new content via DLC, so might be worth looking at if you like ‘wheres wally’.

Yup, it’s another short puzzle game. This one is quite fun. Basically you have to deduce what numbers go in each hexagon, with clues given to you as to the totals of rows, or other different rules. The difficulty never really gets too bad, and it’s nice bit of brain exercise when you feel like relaxing.