Its the 1st of February and this might already be my GOTY

wonderful climbing sim

Lovely narrative adventure game about helping out at a geriatric wing of a hospital. The mundaneity, humanity and independence of these characters from the player are wonderful to see

Kino platformer/run and gun

Banger game, an accessible take on the rhythm + action hybrid

Lovely Atmospheric Exploration game/survival sim about the grieving process

Replay, originally played the base edition. I dont quite like the farewell edition as much, but its still great

Whats the VN equivalent of page turner? Dialogue Box Clicker?

Cool little historical sewing sim

Funny short wario ware like thing about cooking dinner for vietnamese new year

Timeless classic cooked up by Apple's own Steve Wozniak

It might not work for you, but by god it worked for me

Really cool existential beat em up, very bold design decisions, which is to say 50/50 on whether or not youll enjoy or despise this game

Replay. A stylish open world mystery

Normalize games with a cool core mechanic being over and done with in an hour or two

Great stuff

Really enjoyed it, very clever

Rough in places, but overall a smart engaging minimalistic sim.

Charming and cozy

An interesting evolution of Cosmo D, slightly infuriating at times but funny and cool

Cool shmup

Lovely medical/epidemiological detective game which is tragically riddled with bugs

Really cool 0 tutorialisation roguelike

Great character focused farm sim

I love Imperialism!

A charming, energetic adventure game adaptation of the boris vian novel of the same name

For all my gripes I still enjoy this game too much to put it any lower

Quite like these Bitsy games. I like how even though the map loops, the yachts are on the "higher" area doing fine and the struggling people are on the "lower" area

Heartbreaking

A very fun, tonal mess of a disaster sim

Lovely

Good vibes, a personal story about nostalgia, growing apart from your friends and our expectations for our own lives told in 30 mins through a minimalistic retro inspired bus simulator, its akin to an indie short film

Pretty cool VN about a taxi driver in Chapinero, Bogotá

The First 15/20 hours of this game would be on my top3 of the year, regrettably the game continues past this point

Lovely, charming, funny and short

Addicting Urban fantasy jrpg. A bit samey and the plot is nothing but I like the combat and thats enough for me

Kicks Ass

Pretty good adv game, even if it falls off a bit

Pretty cool, but kind of a mixed bag

Pretty cool diving sim

Again feels odd ranking this. It was a cool experiment

Again feels odd to rank, but here I guess. Its a short experimental and deeply personal interactive music album about bipolar disorder

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I didnt rate this, and I kinda feel bad even ranking it, but I guess Ill put it here near the top

So far my favourite pentiment inspiration game. A cool story about a found family which combines mundane interpersonal drama with supernatural magic stuff

good

Replay. Every time I play demon souls I love it and hate it even more than last time

I feel, conflicted about it

Its pretty good, but padded and didnt really strike much of a chord with me personally

Cute

In truth I really did enjoy it, but that ending among other things keep me from putting it any higher

It was cool, a reverse detective game

Pretty Cool 3D Platformer, if you like the grinding sections in 3D sonic games this is probably the game for you. Short and cheap

Adventure Game/Walk Sim about a cult, gripping

Charming Solarpunk platformer

Pretty cool game, reminds me of Deus Ex, unfortunately its strong first impression kind of dribbles away into slightly uninteresting stuff, it makes its most potent statements in the first hour.

Pretty cool but jesus christ if I am required to wall jump one more time I will uninstall the game when it comes out

He just like me fr

Cool

Charmingly amateurish photography sim

This is absolutely insanely ambitious for Atari 2600 and disproves my intuition that no 2600 would be all that complex to require a guide. Insane. Also dope cover art

Stare out da window

A game too good for its own...good

Where the hell do I even rank this? I liked it I guess but didnt rate it cause why

Mostly compelling, but let down by subpar translation, transparent branching and a shit ending

Cool little cartography game

Yeah, trash that record store!

Controls have a learning curve, but classic

Thought it would be a shitpost but its surprisingly sincere. I can't really be mad

Couple of gags

Im being pretty generous here. Beyond being based and the sheer funny novelty of "palestinian max payne" the original is undercooked and the remake is basically in early access. Thankfully you get both bundled into one for the same price but just bear in mind its quite rough around the edges. Fun though

Golden Boy, Born To Love and Live For Joy, I'm a Golden Boy

Its fine... Basically an adventure game/vn set in a sort of choose your own adventure creation myth underwater. Its alright

Couldnt stick the landing unfortunately

Cool but outstays its welcome

Kind of cool

Good stuff

An okay enough adventure game, a shame it didnt live up to its potential

Interactive Fiction piece about fictional disease in industrial environment

Short, sweet and kind of freaky

Its alright but so grindy and padded, I just cannot be assed

I liked Ringo a lot better

I simultaneously respect Kane And Lynch for what its trying to do, kinda, whilst also never wanting to put myself through 3 hours of dull cover shooting

As we say in Spain : "pasó sin pena ni gloria"

Burns brighter but shorter than most pokemon games. 12 hours and I was done

Ok I guess

the definition of mid

Outstayed its welcome

Its fine

Good vibes

Its okay, but its length and almost hobbesian view of humanity just didnt sit right for me. It just feels closer to a zombie apocalypse and human suffering for its own sake rather than how wars of this kind actually go. idk

Charming and funny, but gets old real fast and this is a long ass game. 10 hours was enough for me, thanks

That sure is another purate warriors game!

Alas, most of this game's innovations were really taken from German Expressionist game design

Very ambitious, I think its the first game to have horizontal scrolling? Whatever the case it was definitely the one to popularize the concept

Its just a PSA basically, a bit corny but inoffensive

Look, I'll probably play it again at some point, cause I quite liked the first few hours I played, but its so fucking buggy man. Like my ass got trapped at the explosion on the warehouse mission cause a door just wouldnt let me go through even though it was open? There was no way through, it showed a locked icon but the door was open and there were npcs shooting at me. Idk that just really soured me, and I didnt want to start that generally annoying mission all over again

Its good but man does the difficulty spike

Its a budget No Man's Sky, harmless if not too amazing

Its so disappointing man, starts off as a cute little historical sailing RPG but it just cant sustain itself, the game becomes grindy and shit and the questionable portrayals get more egregious