Three HOGs from monthly theme. AM games are.. AM games, if you played few you played in all of them. This update is "little" late, so I don't remember much about them, but this only shows that they are nor extremely bad or good.

Melissa K. was my first non-AM HOG, and even tho it has mixed reviews I enjoyed it. Most probably because it's not AM-like game and I'm little tired of them. It doesn't have so much of those annoying "swap balls into correct places" or "move objects around" puzzles, backgrounds of HO sequences have good quality, game difficulty affects how many stages puzzles have, you have special objects with which you interact in order to get needed items (like gecko on small holes or flashlight to illuminate area and find something). And you can replay HO sequences from main menu, so you don't have to replay whole game if you want to grab some achievements. But at the same time story is kinda meh (and predictable), voice acting of NPCs could be better and it suffers from "I have knife, why can't I use it to cut this open and have to look for scissors" syndrome.

The Room 2 is really good sequel to The Room 1. And if you didn't play in 1st start with it. Starting with 2nd part will emphasize shortcomings of 1st part. And it's not that 1st part is bad, it's only less polished. And has some annoying parts, like hard to see storage compartments.

The Room 2 has really good and think through puzzles, which create nice, full "story". This time we have to use whole room to solve puzzles (they are both on the walls and in the center of the room), not only central box (while walls were empty, or there were none at all). So you may need to redirect light beam from source through few prisms, guide flames to certain point or use object from one puzzle in other puzzle (like find battery, charge it, and use to power up other object). There is even one room where you play in psychic and "play" with ghosts. Tho it can be creepy at times. Later on I knew there are screamers-like images and was cool with it, but when I saw it 1st time I jumped a little. I don't like horrors D: Game is also super short, and there is 1 "chapter" that lasts for like 2 min. Shortest chapter ever xD But it's also super cheap (I payed 1,2€), so I won't complain.

This game is REALLY good. And most importantly it doesn't feel like Portal-variation or (like Turing Test or Project Temporality)

You don't shoot portals, energy balls or whatever from your gun. You create your clones which move simultaneously with you. There are few limitations: you can't have more than 4 of them, there is maximum distance they can be cast and there are areas with special light that prevents from certain actions (like you can't put new clones in blue areas and can't swap to existing clones in red areas). So: you stand near hole, put clone far right and move left. Wrong, you will die as you fell down; you will do the same, but before moving swap to clone on the right. Good, you will live as clone is "real you". Later on when game introduces complex puzzles with moving boxes, pressure plates and gravity swapping it can start to be confusing xD. You have to use clones to jump from high places (putting clone while mid-air above ground and swap to it). Past you will die horribly due to hitting ground waaaaaay too hard. But "new you" will land gracefully and run to other objective. You also use this technique to move upwards, only put clone above you and swap to it.

Plot is simple - you land on space station that orbits new planet, and have to learn what happened. It turns out that something went horribly wrong as scientists (that are pretty much all dead) brought Watchers on the station . But surprise - Watchers are stones (!!). So thankfully there are no aliens you have to run from. Are you asking how huge stones killed whole crew? Well it's up for you to discover. Game offers nice ethical/existential dilemma, and has 2 endings. They are affected only by decision in last few minutes of gameplay though. There are 10 achievements, and IMO they're only flaw of this game. As they're nor puzzle or story related. And are extremely hard to get, as devs didn't give any indication what they're about. I found first by accident and though "seriously??". Basically you have to look for hidden rooms, but (like in any other normal game with hidden rooms) there are no indicators that there is fake wall somewhere.