tldr videogame curation
melbourne, australia

Platform: PC (Microsoft Windows)

Seemingly made from the (open) source of the sadly abandoned SNKRX. For the most part I had virtually no idea what I was doing, but it was oddly enjoyable and intriguing enough to warrant another run.

Devil Daggers with your third eye open. At first utterly incomprehensible and overwhelming, but given some time, reveals itself to be incredibly tight, elegant and intensely masterful. A special game.

Hugely addictive tower defense with beautiful, minimal art, from the Creative Director of Hitman GO. A lot of your energy will go into managing and mitigating RNG, but itโ€™s fair, smart & lots of fun.

A surprisingly compelling soulslike despite quite a bit of jank. World is cool & very pretty. Combat is easy but enjoyable. Disappointing amount of invisible walls, and overall a bit clunky, but fun.

๐˜›๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ณ, ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ ๐˜๐˜˜ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜‘๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜‰๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ. ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฑ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ป๐˜ป๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ โ€ฆ

Canโ€™t blame them, but someone clearly loves Bloodborne. Thymesia is cool and like a lot of new soulslikes, has a bunch of neat ideas, but somehow feels like less than the sum of its parts. Decent.

A relatively short, and undeniably Tiny version of Darkest Dungeon. Could do with a bit of a QOL uplift, but still very fun and superb value for money. Cute, compelling strategy, and great music.

As mechanically experimental as it is visually. Youโ€™re a pizza delivery guy tryina infiltrate a nightclub. To do so, youโ€™ll roll dice - lots of dice. Seemingly inspired by Disco Elysium in a lot of ways, which can only be a good thing. Really cool.

Max Payne DOOM Tony Hawk. Super fun; cool little setting and story, nice presentation, and makes you feel better than you probably are. Feels a bit weird at first but doesnโ€™t take long to get used to.

Vampire Survivors + SNKRX. Really clever, solving some problems other games in neighbouring genres suffer from. Not a huge fan of the art and stuff, but it doesnโ€™t really matter.