Going Through My Steam Library: Part 7
Part 6, Part 5, Part 4, Part 3, Part 2, and Part 1 are here.
I think this will finish up the project.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Along with its prequel, Hollow Knight, these are the peak of current Metroidvania design. Frustratingly difficult though, and still rooted in the same problems of violence as progression that I've addressed in my other posts.
And yet, I feel like I should attempt it again. It will go into the tentative collection.
The Séance of Blake Manor
If you have a background in esoteric subjects, especially 19th/early 20th century ones, this game is quite the hoot. I just finished it in January, so it's too soon to know if I would want to replay it again down the road when I've forgotten more of it.
Paradise Killer
This game is a fever dream, and not a good one if you look too closely at the plot holes and setting. The ending angered me a lot, YMMV. I LOVED the vaporware aesthetic throughout. Knowing what I know now about the game and its holes, I don't think I would play it again. Or I would play it very differently.
I'm on the fence. It's going into tentative.
Daemon Masquerade
This one I'm not on the fence about. I finished it, but it used a detective trope that I really dislike. It's hard to feel clever in a game when the game is deliberately designed to think you have the answer to something, but then suddenly whips out information later in the game that tells you that you're wrong with no foreshadowing.
It's not, "oops, I got the wrong answer". It's "you had no way of getting the correct answer this early, so your work was useless."
And that's a pity because the story of the game is actually good. Purge.
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights
Unlike Silksong above, this metroidvania has some problems. I'm stuck on a single boss with nowhere else to go, and I don't like throwing myself at a single boss again and again, hoping that I'll beat them this time. Purge.
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We're now to the point of games that I've never played, according to Steam. Here we go.
Learn Japanese To Survive series
I did play the first one a long time ago. I have an on-again, off-again relationship with learning the language, but I have other useful language targets at the moment. I'll purge all of these.
Grow: Song of the Evertree
Open world gardening, like its prequel. I see in the latest reviews that there are bugs. Still don't think it's something I would enjoy once the list of chores begins. Purge.
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
A favorite of my late wife. Match-3 never really appealed to me, but I feel I should try this one at least for a little bit in memory of her. I'll put it into tentative.
And that's the last of the Steam games! I'll write a post soon about what I've learned from this exercise and see if there are any others I might purge in a second pass.