I recommend this to anyone who wants a thought provoking visual novel but doesn't need much choice to enjoy a story of technological, corporate, ethical, and personal struggles. Everything is told from the story of a woman who reconnects with people from her past, tries conducting AI driven counseling, and tries to set a future course for her life. It took about 7 hours for me to play through the entire story, and then see all endings.

Do you want an online multiplayer variant of Solitare? Because Nerts is how you get multiplayer Solitare. It delivers on what it says it is, and I enjoy it.

The story was just the right length for me with just the right amount of challenge. Lots more cinematic action in the last third to fourth of the game. Completed 80%+ of the game, but many achievements are for collecting or multiplayer. A decent game to be one of the first to break in my RTX 3080 on.

Found 38 endings including good ones so I'm considering this one as beaten. Such an amusing game with an unusual amount of strategy around which items you pickup since usually picking up more items limits your jump height.

A fun story in this best in class stick figure RPG, which says a lot compared to Flash web based stick RPGs. DLC was alright, though figuring out how to defeat most ghosts without a fight is really tough to figure out. Works well for Steam Link Mobile.

Played every map and every mode against AI. They took the concepts of the 3 modes (multi nut CTF, 1 nut CTF, brawl) nearly as far as it will go and decently polished, but relies on multiplayer for extended fun or gameplay.

Just as big but higher quality than the first game. Tower defense (and attack) hasnt been this fun for me since Sanctum 2. Unlock rocks, weapons, stuff, and slots for stuff.

A baseball game with unique dice mechanics with just one or a few innings play per game, hence the game's title. Great for Steam Link mobile after optimizing resolution.

A decent great looking FPS so far, and just started moving around in a titan. The parkour elements took me a bit of getting used to.

Only the second Zachtronics game where I could get to or past the mid point. Love the "easy to learn" with challenging puzzles for applying programming concepts. It is difficult to master in the sense of decreasing lines of code or time it takes to complete something, which is optional if you want to do better compared to other players. It was satisfying in a hacker battle (where code length has a minor limit) where I could beat the NPC 100% and a Steam friend at 70% vs 30%. I recommend the game Gladiabots if you like that sort of thing, though that can get advanced pretty quickly with AI type commands.

Got to tier 10 of 11 of the campaign. Very happy with how far I got and the variety in tracks & modes.

A mall building sandbox with schedule and some resource management. The gameplay loop or gameplay variety isnt strong enough for me to call it a simulator first.

Its made for mobile and has okay variety but too complex for me to move past the first world with about 40 levels, and 6 other worlds. Great concept though.

Great RPG concept for the UI to be like a computer OS, but doesnt hold my interest past a few playthroughs. Simple mechanics, enemies, and gameplay.

Enjoyed getting more loot including finally getting res scrolls, some challenging battles got harder, got source collars off, escaped Fort Joy. I'm on a boat.

I haven't played this since the first DLC came out because I wanted to wait for the rest of the DLC to drop, and I finally got around to returning to it. I'm not restarting my campaign as I dont want to "lose" all the progress I've made. Its somewhat of a learning curve all over again, and after beating my first mission back with 3 restarts, I still had one pilot die, and they overhauled stats so I have to repick them and refigure out the tactics that come with that. I'm disappointed that no matter what the FPS is near (but not locked) to 60 FPS at 1440p regardless of graphics settings, but maybe that was just on my GTX 1060, which I've upgraded since.

It is a great space combat roguelite that I recommend to anyone who doesn't hate roguelites or 6DOF games (e.g. Descent, Overload). It even has a story unfolding with some characters and some questlines as you progress to and beyond your first complete playthrough of the 6 space sectors, each with multiple locations. I appreciate its visuals that run at high FPS on high (but not epic) settings at 1440p on GTX 1060, and very much look forward to its sequel.

A masterclass in PC platforming. So polished with great controls, a fun story, fun to collect stuff, and good bosses. The metro DLC is awesome plus Online Party, but Seal the Deal was weak as it starts with a 12 fragment hourglass (ugh!) and no checkplint even after 5 pieces. Also the hardcore-type badge/mode on StD was pointless for me because the base game was a substancial challenge.

I've only played a few rhythm games on PC, and this is my favorite thanks to the progressive challenge and somewhat unique maneuvering to the beat. The story of the ship pilot is okay but somewhat charming. I was only really into a few of the DJ's hits, but there wasnt a song from this game that I didnt like.

Rock of Ages: Roll a round rock down the hill to breach a castle gate, and build up defenses to slow down your opponent from doing the same to your castle. Amusing and entertaining through and through. Look forward to playing the sequel in the not too distant future, and hope to get the third one in a game bundle sometime.

Picked this up again now thay I have my RTX 3080, and I got unstuck from the firefight after gaining flaming arrows. I guess frames do in fact win games! Looks better than with my GTX 1060. Still enjoying this but I'm spending somewhat less time on getting collectibles. My guess is thar I'm half to two thirds of the way through the game.

Rock of Ages: Roll a round rock down the hill to breach a castle gate, and build up defenses to slow down your opponent from doing the same to your castle. Amusing and entertaining through and through. Look forward to playing the sequel in the not too distant future, and hope to get the third one in a game bundle sometime.

A game seemingly designed for mobile, but this one is a puzzle for rescuing sheep that you make hop around between islands. Am using Steam Link to play this one from my phone.

West of Loathing: Amusing US western themed 2D RPG with polish. May play this further on mobile. Feels like overkill playing it on my RTX 3080.

Played another new racing track that I enjoyed. Also tried getting a few new stuffed toys from the claw machine, only got one of them, and some repeats. A nightclub opened in the Plaza area which has a great media playlist mechanic and audio visualizations, and more importantly has billiards tables off to one side that I really enjoy playing.  I hope the billiards visually looks less janky though in upcoming hotfixes.

Finally picked this up again with my friend this weekend, who used this to break in his new 4K TV. We've come across another castle, but this one had puzzles outside. The battles are getting crazy, and we're having a tough time finding resurrection scrolls the further we venture away from the core of Fort Joy. We should probably head to a town to get (read: steal) some.

Interesting short narrative driven story game told entirely with robots on a subway. Easy to 100% without playing through the entire thing twice thanks to the ability to jump to chapters.

I stuck with the railroad through thick and thin, which evidently makes it not possible to be neutral with the Institute even if undercover. Overall it was worth playing through, as the world building stories were decent even if the main storyline wasn't grand. I wanted a vast post apocalyptic world to mindlessly collect & kill stuff in with some story, and I got just that. Its no F:NV story, and I encountered more bugs than that or FO:3, but they didn't screw over my overall experience.

The desire to make your slime farm better and find more slimes is a core gameplay loop that works great for me and oddly addicting, though the game might not be for people who are not at all into collecting creatures.   I rarely play or enjoy any kind of farming games, but this is the most enjoyable farming game since the original SimFarm.
My only minor gripes have to do with what is or is not shown on the map, and teleported.

The essential space combat roguelite. Great sense of progression within and between playthroughs. I've gotten to Sector 5 a few times but I've always come across a big armada type ship or a swarm of stuff I cant handle. The final sector after 5 is no exception. Just have to strategize better with different power ups. Thankfully each replay allows me to buy pilot or ship perks with $ as well.

Loved it when I played it, but got stuck. Guess my rhythm isn't great and only got me so far.

Got most of the way through the main story, and part of the way through DLC, but didn't want to look up anymore solutions.

Online fighting game with meh controls and meh single player mode.

2D story heavy ship shooter is unique but isn't my type of game. I'm having a lot more fun with space games like Everspace. 

Sentinels is supposed to be better and hopefully not as aged as this one was when I played it for a bit. 

Another rhythm game that's great on paper, but my rhythm can't keep up with it.

How to escape eludes me no matter what map except for one.  I'd rather play the sequel anyways.

Its an ameteur version of Volume with weaker story & narration.

Mad Max on rails with time manipulation seems cool on paper, but there's not enough about the gameplay that doesn't make it interesting for me beyond one "season".  The world's story is told through various text between hitting the road, but I wasn't familiar or into the Warhammer universe lore that its based on.

I'm not playing a mobile version/campaign on PC.

I'll play the sequel instead. 

The original was enough survival for me. Doing that along side other people is too much for me.

I'll play 2018 or 2019 instead.

I will play #2 or #3 instead.

I don't have VR, and I have a ton of other things I would prioritize over purchasing VR, like even having a GPU that could support it. Note that this is a separate game from the normal/original version.

I'll play Extreme edition instead.

I'm continuing my work with the Railroad but while infiltrating another faction its tough not to turn on the Railroad. So I'm going to have to try to find a way to warn the Railroad despite not getting a mission objective option that says so. Hope to "beat" the game in the coming month - Its been a fun romp in the wasteland.

The best kart racer I've played for PC. It's over 10 years old, so the graphics & Windows 10 compatibility could be better, but it has solid gameplay & variety. Vehicle types include land, air, and water with many different races and challenges.

I've enjoyed this action roguelite bullet hell-type for several playthroughs which has yielded one win on easy. I'm working on normal difficulty, but don't expect to beat it on hard. This is heavily praised for its co-op ability as well.

Well worth what I paid in a Fanatical sale for this space FPS roguelite - Decent story, fun & addictive gameplay, alright enemy & environment variety, and space is awesome. Makes me curious what this would be like with my sidewinder joystick if I dug it up. This makes me excited for the sequel.

Narrative driven game with mystery elements about robots in a human world. Kinda slow but interesting story. Only 1-2 parts of 6 remaining. Its getting interesting to play robots against each other in a way.

Great co op hacking game, but I'm playing it single player and its really tough for certain concurrent activities where both the stealth person and the hacker have to be at the same terminal at the same time.

I focused more on other games than this one for the month. I did join the Railroad faction though as a change of pace compared to typically siding with Brotherhood of Steel for their tech, and I started my journey of finding the Institute.  After installing MSI Afterburner, I learned that my CPU is bottlenecking my game almost as often as my GPU. At least the game usually stays well above 60fps @ 1440p as long as I'm not outside in the middle of a city.

I'm glad it released out of Early Access and they added with a tutorial and a single player mode with an AI companion. The AI bot is kinda dumb though, requiring your commands. The command/chat system is intuitive at least, otherwise I wouldnt have played multiple sessions before. When it comes to single player though it can be tough at first to think constantly for what the bot should be doing, so there's a learning curve there. However when playing with other gamers its easier because anyone who isn't playing the game for the very first time easily falls into a cooperative groove of what is most important to do to keep the train going and reach the next station. 

I enjoyed the first game, and I enjoyed this one just as much with its more varied mechanics. It does have similar self pretentiousness, but the modifiers you can gain and that affect enemies & levels change things up. It is interesting how the game deconstructs at the end similar to how it builds up at the beginning. Going through the "story" completes all achievements, and it only requires a subset of "levels" to be beaten reach the end of the game, though beating more levels can yield rewards in some cases.

The lack of engagement and narrative significance for me could not be overcome by some of the more unique mechanics and any meaning that could be derived from the game. The beginning acts almost anyone can appreciate as an introduction to the initial characters and the game world as I did. These and at least interludes between some episodes are available on the game's website or elsewhere as video. The middle acts will test the amount you are engaged in the characters and surrealism, which I failed. The final act will be the biggest test of how much wonder or significance you can squeeze out of this game, which I could no longer. This game was not for me.

A turn based RPG with board-game type elements and largely RNG actions & attacks influenced by character abilities and loot. I tried a playthrough a few times on the easiest difficulty using a variety of characters, but cant finish the first campaign, and have no idea how close I was to completing it. So I'm marking this one as stuck.

Great match-3 RPG hybrid that I got stuck on after getting a score of few million.  It was improved upon by its sequel, You Must Build a Boat.

Best butt scooting platformer racer, but I got stuck trying to get through the second half of 1 player mode.

A pretty Cryengine puzzle game, but an important puzzle glitched on me that I cannot complete and I do not want to restart the game.

Ride a unicycle through levels and don't fall over or down a pit.  Got the little gameplay I wanted out of it.  Best as a mobile game.

An accurate simulator of mundane cop life, including being crass.  I got the gameplay I wanted out of it.

A CCG-ish game with a lite story got too complicated for me in terms of deck building for me to get very far in the story or enjoy it in the mid-game.

Discovered this years ago when a Landfall dev was posting to /r/GamePhysics on reddit, and enjoyed it as a parkour-like platformer. Got most of the way through the levels but got repetitive for me when I got stuck.

ED…ehhh. Its a mindless 3rd person shooter that I'd recommend with friends shooting the breeze, but its not for me.

Got the gameplay I wanted out of this classic physics sandbox.

Gratuitous 2D upfront planning then watch the battle unfold battles. I like strategy games, but I guess I like turn based and RTS more than an up front commander-type strategy.

Got the gameplay I wanted out of the campaign.

Cute amusing game, but the mechanics seemed fairly simple to me and didn't engage me like the demo of the franchise's space game.  I rarely enjoy crafting anyways.

For me it crosses the threshold of challenging controls into unnecessarily frustrating, especially with camera angles in various places.

I guess I just suck at Zachtronics, as I'm now 0 for 2 with this and SpaceChem.  My hunch is that these are too complex and unlike any other puzzles for me to wrap my head around beyond the beginning of the game.  I hope the same can't be said of Exapunks and Eliza.

Got grindy in the mid to late game for building up levels or coins in order to be viable in the main storyline's dungeons.

Enjoyed the beginning of the platformer, but bosses got too hard. I'd rather spend time on other platformers.

Okay block matching game but I could only get part way through the fixed levels.

Neat courses, but simple graphics and meh story makes this less engaging than other games with golf including Tower Unite and others.

Fond memories of this as the first massively popular digital-only console indie self published game (at least on the Nintendo Wii).  I could only get half way through the puzzles, and that's okay

I'm approaching Level 50 and explored half the map. I've been focusing on side quests and exploration somewhat more than the main quest, but with some new legendary weapons, power armor, and a hazmat suit, I think I'm ready to go into what's supposed to be the deadliest part of the map for the main quest.

I played two new race tracks for Accelerate and they were decent, but it was disappointing that I couldn't get in a race with more than 4 people. Perhaps it was because of the time of day I was playing it. This is really the type of game that needs at least 8 players to capture the same chaos and competitiveness of Mario Kart. Very glad they added Accelerate as a new game world though!

I got 8 main missions in but got stuck on a tough level and got tired of retrying the same type of levels.
The core gameplay loop consists of selecting/buying weapon components to put together, fighting robot/alien enemies in procedural rooms, more buying & crafting between enemy rooms, complete the level to get a mission reward and keep all loot. If you die then you lose all loot you brought, earned, or bought but keep your XP and unspent coins.  Progression early to mid game took me about an hour per main mission level, alternating between retrying main mission, doing XP missions, and a few free/pre-equipped missions.  
If you love FPS bullet hell, gun building is appealing, want co-op, and are good with procedurally generated levels, then this is a must buy game on sale.  If you don't have friends with this game and you often get tired of procedurally generated levels, then think twice about buying this game outright.

The main story/levels are more elaborate with special abilities and multiple lives, but as you progress you unlock some familiar things like endless mode. Its just as engaging as the first game, but more challenging in the later levels, where I might be stuck. I've unlocked the last area, but not everything on the second to last area. My advice is to not take certain powerups if you don't think you can use them strategically. That way, you will get better choices on powerups between levels.  The storyline (if you can call it that) is just as pretentious as the first one, which is okay with me, though it is somewhat creepier.

There was simply too much crafting at first for me to get into this, and I don't think I'm just saying that because I happen to be playing action packed FPS with moar action. There are lots of other games i'd rather play first, and I've not been keen on survival games with heavy crafting elements unless they have really engaging gameplay or environments (e.g. Subnautica).

Its been fun so far reaching level 35, having explored just under half the map, starting enough of the main quest to know who took my character's son. I guess I'd describe my build as a dog loving stealthy VATS rifleman. I think I'm leaning toward joining the railroad since I've aligned with Brotherhood in a prior game and minutemen's emphasis on settlements doesn't appeal to me. I hope to get a better relationship with Piper, but her turn-ons werent what I thought they were and she seems easily pissed off by a few non-obvious actions.

So far there haven't been too many bugs, but there certainly are some where I had to do stuff like temporarily turn on no clip or revert to a save a couple of minutes ago.  Also, NPCs (companions or not) grabbing your power armor is annoying. Not sure if I can fix that without a mod that disable achievements or requires all the DLC that I don't have - The major "unofficial patch" requires the latter.

Finally picked it up again, beat up various magisters, and got some treasure. Very challenging but satisfying battles.  We need more res scrolls.

A branching story-driven game where a group of people get stranded on an island, needing to survive and find a way to get rescued. Its only a survival game in the sense there can be life & death choices impacting who survives being stranded.  It was worth playing once, but scripted dialog was so simplistic that it was kid friendly. So with that and my meh engagement in the game, I wasn't motivated to play through again.

Still my favorite roguelite I've played.  I've now completed more than half of the campaign, a few more endless games, and played but haven't completed one adventure.  Adventure seems to be a generally longer or deeper campaign. I had to pause it though because I won…

I was excited for this SG QGG group win on Steam. So I jumped back into the Fallout FPS RPG franchise that I've previously enjoyed, and so far its been good and worth playing. Its all very familiar, but with some enhanced visuals and a few new welcome features like more mods, reworked perks system, crafting, and settlements. So far it doesnt seem much more buggy than FO3 OR FNV, though the load times for going to the Commonwealth seem unusually long even with an SSD and 24GB of RAM.  Maybe loading stuff into VRAM of my GTX1060 is what's adding time?  The game does seem to use all 6GB of VRAM, and I haven't downloaded hi-res texture packs.I want to build up settlements later when and if I feel like it. Right now they're mostly a means to crafting, with Red Rocket being my base where I store stuff, because I want to focus on exploring and quests.As for alignment, I'm trying to avoid joining the minutemen because I don't want to have a bunch of "defend the settlement" quests, optional or mandatory.  I'm leaning toward joining Brotherhood because I've enjoyed that before, but I might go Railroad since that's more unique to FO4.  I do have a feeling that the story isn't going to be as elaborate as the other Fallout games I've played, but I haven't even gotten to Diamond City yet because I'm exploring and doing many side quests north of there.

There was a major patch, and things seem to be running more smoothly in game.  I played some more Arcade games, and am two thirds of the way to getting enough tickets for a rideable scooter.

This was a major update that added some cosmetic & emote capabilities including decoupling pets from specific characters and a new full anonymous mode on certain days.  I overhauled my buildings to stuff that is balanced between split multipliers and generating artifacts.  Having buildings that only generate artifacts was making grinding for gold painfully slow, whereas by getting buildings with split multipliers, I'm increasing my overall gold take per run because the coin take is basically Coin Multiplier times Split multiplier.

I got my tower to 5 stars & 100 floors, which I don't think I even did with Sim Tower.  I had to start a new tower in order to get achievements for purchasing land, since my first tower evidently started with all land pre-purchased.  The 400 or 500 day achievement was bugged, so I had to reload the game one or two dozen days prior to getting the achievement.

I built a video platform company big enough to buy another one and was able to retire a millionaire.  I recommend this management sim to anyone who is a fan of the genre and doesn't mind crunching numbers to ensure the right amounts of things get auto crafted. The core gameplay loop is to hire people that make "parts" of an online platform which increases the number of potential or actual users handled, attract new users through marketing, and make money through ads or charging for services. It does a great job of illustrating the complexity of building & scaling an online platform, but in the late game that doesn't translate to engaging gameplay.

I recommend this game on sale to anyone who enjoys interactive movies given its high production value, but there may not be enough here for people who like games that happen to have a bunch of FMV. This is still the best interactive video I have played so far and am so glad I got it in a Humble Monthly, though it is not perfect as I explain later. Late Shift is a crime thriller where you play a student who unwillingly becomes an accessory to a heist and has to figure out how to deal and resolve the evolving situation before, during, and most importantly after the heist.
Playthroughs are 1 to 1.5 hours straight (no save or skip functions!), with one significant diverging point between chapters in the beginning of the middle, up to 14 chapters to reveal, and 7 endings.

Probably my favorite roguelite I've played, as it improved on the first game in every way except action combat.  I've completed half of the campaign, several endless games, and haven't touched adventure which I presume are longer campaigns.  In some ways it has less RNG and elements of chance than most roguelites because you select most of the cards that go into your deck and gambits/tests have an element of skill (sometimes subtle though).  There's clear progression, things that can help with progression, and enough variation in cards or strategies available that it doesn't rely solely on "git gud".

I recommend this simple yet elegant pure stealth game to anyone who likes stealth, likes a challenge, or maybe likes puzzles. The object is to steal all the white drops, and get to the lit up exit without getting shot. I'm only ~30% of the way through the campaign but I feel like I've played enough to weigh in on the game. 

This is now 0 for 2 on playing through most of a Zachtronics game.  As a supply chain/builder puzzle I was more engaged with Infinifactory than Spacechem, but I only got through the first third of levels.  They just got too complex for me I guess.