I feel like April was moderately productive with punctuations from various horror games, because nothing screams horror games like April, 2026. Organ Quarter, The Exit 8, and 8AM. Then, in the coming weeks, we'll have some more articles for a couple of additional horror games on both Steam and Quest 2 VR.
On the Switch, I started Hades, for good or ill. Meaning after only three runs and dying to Magaera twice. I'm hooked. I've not played a lot of rogue-likes, but I totally get the "one more run" at 12:30 in the morning. I also tried showing The Squire Scribblenauts Unlimited at the same time I was trying it out, and that is some wonky keyboard typing mechanic in that game. Was it invented by Steve Jobs? I was hoping for some touchscreen functionality akin to the other Scribblenauts games on the DS, but this typing mechanic, I think, is going to kill the game for the Squire.
On the Steam Deck, I'll bounce back and forth between Outer Wilds, which Dr. Potts got me for my birthday, Ace Combat 7 that I'm slowly progressing through, and also recently started (because why play just one game when you can play eight?) Karate Survivor. I was telling Conklederp yesterday that I sometimes find it hard to start up Outer Wilds because of how vast and daunting the game feels, with there being very little direction apart from "Go explore the solar system and discover stuff." But once I get into the cockpit of the spaceship and take off from Timber Hearth, I feel more driven and focused. Thank bloody Christ for the digital corkboard, which tracks your planetary progress through each loop.
On my laptop, I'm also playing back through NightSky, which I first received from Dr. Potts back when Humble was still doing Indie Bundles. This was specifically Humble Indie Bundle IV, and now I can finally say that, 14 years later, I've either beaten or given the ol' college try to all of the games in that collection and will have a collection of Game EXP articles in the coming weeks. I'm also a slut for nonogram games, specifically, right now, Picross for a Cause, which is no longer functioning for a cause, but is now just a massive Picross game that's free on Steam.
Reading-wise, I just started part II of John Steinbeck's "The Red Pony," which is part of a larger collection of short stories called "The Long Valley." But that's an old-timey hardbound book that I like to read downstairs. Upstairs, while I'm in bed, I'll either read "Shadows of Doom" by Ed Greenwood, also a physical paperback, or "Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia on my Kindle. I also have perpetually open a chronology of all of H.P. Lovecraft's works and all of Arthur Machen's works. People should really read more Arthur Machen.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
I Found a BirdP.S. Also, our President (still) sucks.
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