Beaten and completed

It’s been so long I almost forgot how to make these.. I’ve been feeling guilty for both not playing and not posting, but life finally decided that it officially hates me so I’ve had 0% energy to do.. pretty much anything. Then I began writing this and it’s been sitting as a draft for literal weeks even though I barely have anything to say about these games since 5/6 out of them are super short (and also free if I remember well). I just want to start finishing a bunch of these super short games to reduce my backlog and it’s the only way I can slowly reset my rhythm and get back to other ones.

Anyway, let me get into it; The Monster Inside has an interesting short story with a few choices along the way; nothing too complicated - the art style is simple and there’s not much gameplay to it, it’s just there to tell a story, but for the 10 minutes it takes to complete it, I do recommend it. However, I didn’t like The Old Tree as much because although the art style was nice (even though it’s not among my favorites), well, nothing much happened.

Pointless had an old school vibe and was a bit more my thing, but out of all of the ones in this batch, this is the one I’d say deserved to be longer. The upgrades/weapons/whatever could’ve easily been switched up a little to give it more time to complete and most importantly, better gameplay.

I kinda liked Lines Free but it’s basically a game that everyone knows under a different name. Still, it’s all right if you’re looking for a simple puzzle game. There’s also a paid version of this which I just recently bought, but I haven’t played it yet so I’m not sure if there are just different levels or if there are other extra things as well. At the time I started writing this, there were only 20 levels and 100 achievements I believe, but in the meantime they added some more and there is now an achievement with my username (which I didn’t get yet because I was too lazy to go back in ;-;), so that’s pretty cool I guess.

Luxor Evolved was hands down my favorite from this batch; I only recently started enjoying this type of game and it’s the first one I’ve finished so far. It was a great proper introduction to it for me because it has that modern/electro theme to it and it works really well. I’ll definitely try to get the whole Luxor and Zuma collections and others in the same genre (I do have Marble Duel that I have yet to finish though) but I still think it’s going to be my all-time favorite since the others all have a nature/outdoor theme to them.

I can’t say much about Killbox because it’s one of those go-play-it-without-reading-too-much-about-it games. However, if you already played it, I honestly think it wasn’t that great. I feel like it tried too hard to be deep and I get that it’s sending a message but.. meh.

I usually have some games under “up next” in my posts but I’d rather push this update through than go into detail because that’ll just take my lazy, unmotivated ass more time to put this up :/