86maylin

Super duper late post again! Cuz I just didn't feel like posting. Also as you can probably see I finished a bunch of games at the start of the month and due to rl stuff and lack of motivation didn't play much for the rest of the month. lol I did make progress on A Hat in Time and managed to finish the main story at the start of this month tho~Still need to go back for more achievements. :3

2020 January update

Most Enjoyable

Most Looking Forward To

Cat Quest

9.3 hours of playtime, 7 of 12 achievements
Personal rating: 7/10, Date of finish: January/05
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👍Positive:

Cute art style. Simplistic yet enjoyable combat.

🤷Neutral:

Story kinda boring and cliche.

👎Negative:

Repetitive background music. Not much replayability yet achievements asked to replay the game 3 times.

Full review

This is a Monthly Theme and Challenge Me game. I'm writing this review a long while after finishing it cuz I decided not to go for the remaining achievements, so some things might be a bit fuzzy for me. :P

This game is pretty fine. A lot of cat related puns, which I got used to and just kinda started ignoring. lol Gameplay is quite straight forward and simplistic yet it's very addicting when you do get into the flow. Part of the reason why I finished the game in a single day. Story wise it's pretty boring standard hero stuff with a "twist" at the end which is just eh. Music is honestly a bit too repetitive for its length as it's just very short bits repeated over and over again. There's also not a whole lot of variety. Combine all that without the ability to skip dialogues is what made me give up on getting the remaining achievements. I just don't feel like playing the game over again 3 times.

So yeah, overall I'd say I enjoyed the game while it lasted. Though come to think of it I have no idea why I enjoyed it so much. lol

Reventure

8.9 hours of playtime, 100 of 100 achievements
Personal rating: 7/10, Date of finish: January/03
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👍Positive:

Really fun mechanics. Funny endings.

🤷Neutral:

Gets boring after a while.

👎Negative:

Too repetitive.

Full review

This is a Monthly Theme game of last month. Got it from chrono.gg coin shop.

In this game, you restart everytime you get an ending, and the world changes as you get more and more endings. Whether it's unlocking a shortcut or simply seeing the blood and corpse that you caused. At the start of the game it's really fun and cool to explore the world and get to know what you're working with and what combinations there is. I especially loved to carry around the hug bear and finding out what exactly I can hug. But ofc, passing the initial phase it becomes a bit repetitive and it gets especially annoying if you're aiming for an ending but triggered one you already got. I ended up using videos as guides to get the rest of the endings after getting half, but I have to says it gets very interesting for later endings. So overall I enjoyed the game.

Crush Crush

196.6 hours of playtime, 25 of 25 achievements
Personal rating: 6.5/10, Date of finish: January/07
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👍Positive:

Nice arts, some funny dialogues.

🤷Neutral:

Dialogues can be cringey sometimes.

👎Negative:

Too many clicks per reset(auto-clicker highly recommended). Wait time way too long at end game.

Full review

Holy crap I finally finished this game. It took a long while cuz of the absurdly long waiting time at the end game.

In this game you "crush" into all kinds of girls and will manage to date all of them by furiously clicking on them, talking to them so fast you can't even read what they replied, giving tens of thousands of gifts and taking them on tons of dates. The game is simple, the art is quite nice and some of the dialogues are interesting and funny while others are a bit cringey. There is a soft reset ofc, but that's my biggest problem with the game. You have to click wayy too much for each soft reset. Constantly clicking to gifts tab, get to the gift you have to gift and choose number. Sometimes the numbers aren't even rounded so when you don't have enough money you'll have to click multiple times of the same step to gift everything required. Dating is better since every date is on the same page but that's only cuz I have an auto-clicker. If not then the date amounts are annoying. Not to mention each stage you usually need one kind of date, making the early girls a chore to go through. They did come up with a "solution" that allows you to click on the requirements and instantly complete it if you have the stuffs, but that's hiding behind a pay wall so nope, your game is not good enough that I'll spend money on it. I generally don't buy in-game purchases. Also did I mention the absurd amount of time needed at end game for hobbies to level up? You need 10~15 days just to level up a single level. And that's with max prestige. What's up with that? Ain't nobody got time for that. lol

I'll probably still go on it daily just to get missions and potentially get new girls unlocked since the devs are doing that a lot lately, but it's been fun and I like the game.

Plankton

45 minutes of playtime, 4 of 4 achievements
Personal rating: 5.5/10, Date of finish: January/09
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👍Positive:

Visuals is nice. Relaxing game.

👎Negative:

Sound effects are a bit sharp at times.

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This game is pretty interesting. I finished Crush Crush so I was thinking about starting another clicker game. This time I want it to be short, and since the hltb time for this game is 45 minutes so I gave it a try. Btw steam's tag search system is kinda neat. :3

In this game everything is math generated presumably? At least according to the store page, and it basically simulates a plankton's life of evolution. The game alternates between plankton hunting for food itself and you feeding it depending on levels. Generally it's more of an idle game than a clicker game, especially when the plankton is moving on its own. You can nudge it to sprint forward but that won't help with eating the food. I saw it on the forum that a lot of people have problems with level 12, but I don't think it's that hard? It's just being patient I think. Overall the aesthetics of the game is nice, sound effects are pretty alright, although a bit too sharp at times. It's a relaxing game.

illie

30 minutes of playtime, 66 of 66 achievements
Personal rating: 5/10, Date of finish: January/10
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👍Positive:

Quick 100%. Multiple solutions to a puzzle.

👎Negative:

Not challenging. Gets bored after a while.

Full review

This is a pagywosg game. It's......ok I guess? A bit boring. Basically you have to move to the exit while going over all tiles once. Not really that innovative and there's several solutions to a puzzle which I actually like but it boils down to move in whichever direction you feel like while not leaving 1 space gaps(dead ends where you wouldn't be able to fill later) while not forgetting to fill out part by part to the exit. Not really that challenging. Only got stuck like 3 times and it all took less than 5 tries to pass. A nice quick 100% I suppose.

Hopefully I’ll be able to play/finish more games next month. It’s looking good cuz I just finished a game and got in the flow to write the review and this post which always feels nice. :D Also also, I got a new PC and was moving all my saves but I just couldn’t find the saves for Impulse! and The Window Box. I am pretty far in Impulse and honestly do not want to restart the game again cuz the writing and voice acting are both bad so I dropped it. I do have to give props to the devs for making it fully voice-acted, although it isn’t a that good of an idea if done poorly. :/ The Window Box is the game I just finished and thankfully it has a chapter select feature, although I still would replay it again if there isn’t cuz it’s just a lovely game. :3

Formidolosus

Hey it’s a fellow cat quest dissident. I know a lot of people love that game to bits, but I think it might be because of cat-appreciation bias. I also found it was ok and fine to play through, but very repetitive. There was a lot more they could have done with the mechanics. I wonder if Cat quest II improved it at all?
I debated getting reventure on Chrono gg as well but thought I’d save my points for the next time they drop something like dead cells, which so far hasn’t happened… :-(

86maylin

I don’t really understand why there’s a cat cult that seems to always be around. lol For me, I think the simplistic mechanic is just right for a single play through, but asking more from it would be too much. At mid to end stage I actually found myself to challenge over-leveled dungeons and mobs way often cuz it’s just more fun with the danger, as same level stuff gets demolished easily by spells. Though I did get frustrated at the game when it sometimes hits me when I feel like I’m not supposed to get hit.
The chance of them dropping another dead cell is very slim. xD And more than likely it’ll get sniped. Now I just treat chrono games as a means of getting some neat interesting games that I might enjoy, so I don’t hesitate to get games I want. :3

ninglor03

I guess once I’m done with Crush, Crush I shall remove it from my library. That’s way too many hours spent in it sob
But congrats on getting it done. Let’s just hope they won’t add new cheevos to it :D

86maylin

But wouldn’t that erase all the time and hard work that you put into it? :o And I hope so too, but I’m not certain cuz they added peanut and her achievement to the game. :/ That’s kinda why I’m still keeping the game, since they are regularly adding new girls.

ninglor03

The hard clicking work? Yeah, you are probably right :]