strange gaming diaries
this is a series of journaling exercises where I'll be talking about and quasi-reviewing all of the games I've completed. I want this to be an encouragement to play more games, to play weirder games, and to be thoughtful about the games you play!
after I beat a game, I'll write a couple paragraphs of my thoughts about it. what kind of thoughts, you may ask? I dunno! this is a very unstructured, very freeform series of rambles about Feelings I Feel About Stuff. but hopefully I'll do the games justice, and maybe I'll convince you, dear reader, to try some new stuff out!
with that said, welcome to the masterpost! this will be where I put links to all of the individual diary entries I've written. have a seat and take a browse, why don'tcha?
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust (Analgesic Productions)
become born into a strange new world in need of saving from a foul entropic plague. ignore all the signs that something might be wrong.
A NIGHTMARE'S TRIP (SKY HOUR WORKS)
enjoy the quirky vacation of a nightmare brought to life, and maybe commit a gay crime or two along the way
Far from Noise (George Batchelor)
dangle on the edge of death and have a chat about reality and all the things that make it with a friendly stag
OneShot (Future Cat)
become best friends with the cutest cat-person you've ever seen, and learn to love a dying world
The Magic Circle (Question)
veterans of the triple-a video game industry make a game about development hell, with various commentaries on celebrity culture, confrontations between creator and audience, and many many more
Bastion (Supergiant Games)
it turns out, supergiant games has been putting out visually stylish isometric hack-and-slashes for as exactly long as they've been in the business in the first place!
Smile for Me (LimboLane)
defeat the looming specter of institutionalization with the power of friendship and also this boxing glove you found
Dreaming Sarah & Wishing Sarah (Asteristic Game Studio)
puzzle-platformer (and its gameboy styled walkabout-y mini-sequel) with a story and setting heavily inspired by yume nikki! but what happens when you try to emulate one of the most infamously Like That games of all time?
2000:1: A Space Felony (National Insecurities)
bumble around a space station/crime scene and destroy an artificial intelligence with facts and logic
OMORI (OMOCAT)
you probably know about this one, it's the quirky and terrifying rpg maker horror game that took the internet by storm! what you probably didn't know is that I have Takes.
Boa Retina (Jennifer Raye)
look through the troubled thoughts and feelings of a young trans woman. I had a lot of very jumbled up feelings about this one
Serre (insertdisc5)
sugary sweet little sapphic visual novel about two girls not being very good at things but trying their best, also one of them is a giant bee woman sent to conquer earth
THE ENIGMA MACHINE (ENIGMA STUDIO)
do you want to peer inside the mind of an artificial intelligence? this game gives you a chance to do just that! (no but like, seriously, are you REALLY sure you want to do that...?)
The Hex (Daniel Mullins Games)
from the maker of other games you've probably heard about comes an eccentric and experimental thing about game development and the perils thereof. even better than its sibling games in a regard or two, daring I may be to say it!