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soccr@soccr· 18d

Shiver from Splatoon with the same frown as in the OG image.

soccr@soccr· 21d

Exiled (Steam Deck, 53 minutes): A simple cipher, and a word puzzle if you're quick enough. Simple and clean story about eldritch monsters. Good ending and bad ending. A nice relaxing time in the library.

an open book on a table with blackletter font. there is a large frowning toadish creature depicted on a page with the name Tsathoggua displayed beneath it.

soccr@soccr· 27d

Bura: The Way the Wind Blows (Steam Deck, 3 hours): A gorgeous Ghibli island with fascinating spirits and delightful colors. Explore and collect. Swimming feels good, but other mechanics feel sluggish or unresponsive. Very unpolished. The world is not very interactive. A little boring.

an old woman sits on a bench next to a tree. a young redheaded girl stands nearby. they look out over a cliff toward the sea. the sky is entirely covered with dark puffy clouds that look painted.

soccr@soccr· Jul 13

Isles of Sea and Sky (Steam Deck, 20 hours): Puzzles of pushing. An open world with ample room for experimentation. Percussion and flutes. Wordless storytelling. Rewards scattered everywhere with steady nonlinear progression. I was pleasantly confounded.

screenshot from the game. pixel graphics. each sprite exists within a square of a big grid. there is water, various pushable boxes, holes, arcane objects, and a couple of people.

soccr@soccr· Jul 10

I had this weird dream that half of a studio was laid off just as their latest project was released to critical acclaim.

screenshot of the IGN review of Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations. it's rated 9/10: Amazing.

soccr@soccr· Jul 4

Fail Fail Succeed (Steam Deck, 4.5 hours): A puzzle game where you have to fail, in just the right way, to progress. Effectively varied. Enough room for experimentation that it never feels static. There is also a very important dog.

screenshot from the game. pixel graphics. dark starry sky background. solids and platforms are textured a little like stone with bits of grass on top. there are a couple lasers. a blue robot guy with a square head stands in the center.

soccr@soccr· Jul 1

The Beginner's Guide (Steam Deck, 2 hrs): A short story about a series of games and the relationship between their player and their creator. It's one of those stories with an inversion such that one cannot help but revisit and recontextualize the experience.

a dark empty building with brick walls and rooms connected by a wide hall.

soccr@soccr· Jun 20

Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (PS5, 7 hrs): The artistry on display in these is the best case for a AAA budget. Acting superb, mo-cap astounding, music moving, writing and dialogue brilliant. Being privy to every stray thought and doubt in Senua's head offers unsurpassed intimacy with a character.

Screenshot from the game. Senua, a Pict warrior, stares out over a rocky vista where smoke billows over a mountain in an orange sunset.

soccr@soccr· Jun 19

Live footage of everyone in 33 Immortals except me when they see a Protettore Raro:

soccr@soccr· Jun 10

blue circles: Zelda, Splatoon, and Orbitals. green circles: StarFox and Deltarune. yellow circle: Pokopia.

soccr@soccr· Jun 10

Playing 33 Immortals.

Mean Girls "get in loser, we're going shopping" meme, but it says "we're going to kill god."

soccr@soccr· Jun 10

Monumentum (Steam Deck, 2 hours): A rage inducing momentum-based precision platformer. Miss a single button prompt and risk losing hard earned progress. But—damn, I have to say, once it clicks, it clicks.

screenshot from the game. pixel graphics. a bunch of gray platforms over a black background. all the darkness is notably contrasted with a device that glows purple.

soccr@soccr· Jun 8

Clarissa from Clarissa Explains It All being handed seven different plates full of pancakes while she tries to take a bite of just one.

soccr@soccr· Jun 6

Mina the Hollower (PS5, 29 hours): Brutal and retro, this game is so packed. I feel like I could play it 10 times and not see every corner or meet every bizarre character. Surprisingly punishing but unfailingly rewarding. Defined by limitless variety, customization, and surprises.

screenshot from the game. pixel graphics. mouse protagonist Mina talks to an orange fox-like person in front of a purple house. she says "Wow, Rhene, your quick broom work really helped out back there. Sorry you got, uh, swept up in all of this."

soccr@soccr· May 25

Forbidden Solitaire (Steam Deck, 6.5 hours): A linear 90s floppy disk-style horror adventure game with Golf Solitaire combat encounters. The campy audiovisual experience made me endlessly happy. Easy to pick up, put down, and look forward to playing.

screenshot from the game. old 90s PC graphics. there is a large heavy metal door set in a brick wall. playing cards are stacked and laid out on top of the interface.

soccr@soccr· May 13

Key Fairy (Steam Deck, 5 hours): Is it a game or a dance? Tether through the dark maze-like forest dodging projectiles and collecting keys. Minimal and dissonant presentation. Hard as hell boss combat with cathartic victory. Dreamlike dialogue—in fact, I'm not sure I didn't dream the whole thing.

screenshot from the game. hand drawn and monochromatic. it's a forest with some broken pillars and statues. a skull with a horned helmet hovers over a dialogue box that says "fear is not truth."

soccr@soccr· May 5

Raider Kid and the Ruby Chest (Steam Deck, 3.5 hours): Tiny pixel exploraformer with some great upgrades and some awful save points. Youthful spelunking adventure. Cheerful music. Zany cutscenes. Sudden difficulty spike at the end.

screenshot from the game. pixel graphics. a kid in a safari-ish outfit stands next to an open golden chest.

soccr@soccr· May 5

soccr@soccr· May 3

Henry Halfhead (Steam Deck, 2.5 hours): A silly game about the life of half a head. Possess objects and manipulate them. Learn the importance of being true to yourself. The gameplay drags some in the middle: a little sandboxy for my taste.

screenshot from the game. a little bald head, or the top half of one anyway, cut off just below the nose. he's floating in a kitchen sink filled with water. cartoony 3D style.

soccr@soccr· May 1

The above post and another post below it in my feed featuring garfield with an unnaturally large grin, standing on his hind legs, eyes wide, arms spread wide.

soccr@soccr· Apr 29

TR-49 (Steam Deck, 10 hours): An arcane machine—a web of archival secrets and textual puzzle pieces to assemble. Searching and analyzing are absorbing endeavors. Brush up on your leetspeak. Voiced dialogue is warm and effective but maybe too frequent. Reality is negotiable.

A round brown computer monitor with light tan text for display. It has a book excerpt on it and notes beneath. A rectangular analogue display with a lever sits on a table beside the monitor. The analog device displays "JS40."

soccr@soccr· Apr 21

A Bird Story (Steam Deck, 82 minutes): Isolated and dreamy, a boy grows a relationship with a bird. Minimal gameplay with gorgeously serene piano music. Beautiful. Simply sentimental, especially to one that has loved a non-human friend.

screenshot from the game. pixel graphics with a pre-rendered background of a city. a boy and a bird stand on a balcony looking out over the city.

soccr@soccr· Apr 20

This Game Will End in 205 Clicks (Steam Deck, 12 minutes): A meta monologue from a villain forced to do no evil for a day. There are no choices, or actions other than clicking, and the countdown gimmick does not tie in very strongly to the narrative. Kind of underbaked. Funny here and there.

screenshot from the game. text reads "Sidequest #13: clean out closet."

soccr@soccr· Apr 19

Under the Island (PS5, 15 hrs): Feel the wrath of my mighty hockey stick. Top-down action adventure with puzzles, dungeons, and upgrades. The world is packed with rewarding secrets. This genre never fails: it's still one of the best.

screenshot from the game. pixel graphics. a redheaded girl stands in a lush green forest near a river. there's a bat.

soccr@soccr· Apr 9

Death of a Wish (Steam Deck, 11.5 hrs): A cardinally intense top-down action adventure. The art style and sound design and combat are all frenzied in presentation yet deliberate in execution. It feels satisfying when actions connect. Chaotic, beautiful, furious, vengeful, and righteous.

screenshot from the game. harsh hand-drawn lines with bright colors. a blue person surrounded by flowers.

screenshot from the game. harsh hand-drawn lines with bright colors. a yellow person stares at a black and red sunset.

screenshot from the game. harsh hand-drawn lines with bright colors. two figures in combat with jagged rings of pink and purple energy trailing the arcs of their attacks.

screenshot from the game. harsh hand-drawn lines with bright colors. a big yellow diamond explosion in a narrow hallway.

soccr@soccr· Apr 8

tag yourself

zoomed in image from one of the screenshots. person says "hi! i'm ordinary al. i'm very normal and there's nothing weird about me at all."

soccr@soccr· Apr 5

If Dr Pepper will not sell me Cherry Vanilla, I must take matters into my own hands.

Two open cans of Dr. Pepper. One is Cream Soda flavor, the other is Cherry flavor.

soccr@soccr· Mar 30

Sometimes my friends with large Steam backlogs will ask me why I don't have one. It's because I follow a very simple process when deciding whether to buy a game.

A simple flowchart that amounts to me only buying a game if I'm going to play it that same day.

soccr@soccr· Mar 28

a picture of this post and a post from the Moby Dick account right beneath it that says "Moby Dick bodily burst into view!"

soccr@soccr· Mar 18

Ratyrinth (Steam Deck, 2 hrs): Challenging, tight, and satisfying Mario-inspired side-scrolling platforming (except the janky and infuriating cling mechanics). Perfectly varied pacing, quick retries, and responsive controls (mostly). Surprisingly anticlimactic ending.