Coricus
Kid Icarus: Uprising for Switch 2
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As someone who has not curated the raw heights to their Steam library that some of our esteemed crew have, I am ever on the lookout for more titles to add to my collection. Unfortunately, I am also a finicky weirdo, and Steam page descriptions are not especially conducive to providing a core understanding of the entirety of something off the cuff. So, under the possibly flawed assumption that I am not the only one to suffer this dilemma, I have decided to create a thread for the purposes of pooling together our collective cherished Steam finds. If at least one of us finds something, then that's a win, right?
To kick things off, here's a couple of my own finds!
ENA: Dream BBQ
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2134320/ENA_Dream_BBQ/
Beloved of McFunnyBone and on Yung's wishlist because apparently Toby Fox recommended it at some point, this game's currently a Deltarune style free Chapter 1 demo, with a full paid product in the pipeline.
I would describe the game as it exists so far as a walking simulator with very light platforming elements, but unlike a huge number of other walking simulators, this one actually has a reasonable walk speed and even a sprint button to let you go a little faster on top of it, so I don't feel like kicking it in the teeth. It also has a setting interesting enough to wander around in that participating in it is enjoyable enough to justify the more mellow pace.
A couple of the negative reviews I saw for this game criticized it for employing "LOL random" humor, but honestly, I'm not sure I'd say the humor is the main thing to take away from what it's presenting? I mean, I found the humor enjoyable, myself, but it's kind of secondary. Mostly the whole thing is surrealistic, seemingly operating under it's own set of rules that the player is left to reason out from context clues. It lends itself well to speculation on the nature of the setting, because everything is presented like a bunch of disparate elements from a 90's computer mashed together, but with a pervasive sense of. . .wrongness. It's like a cosmic horror setting inside of a Windows 98 that periodically kicks the legs out from under itself to remind you that, underneath it all, the setting isn't really all that scary, just profoundly weird. And as someone who doesn't entirely feel comfortable with most kinds of horror but finds cosmic horror in a vacuum fascinating, I find what Chapter 1 is presenting so far to be pretty darn interesting.
Personally, I ended up seeing a playthrough on YouTube first and then playing it, but that's because I'm reckless and probably wouldn't have even thought to check it out otherwise. But in your case, dear reader? Go in blind. Trust me on this one. You'll want a fresh first impression if you can get it. And since Chapter 1 is, again, free, so it doesn't hurt to look.
Crab Champions
https://store.steampowered.com/app/774801/Crab_Champions/
Sorry, unlike with Dream BBQ, I don't really have a writeup for this one. Not because it isn't interesting, but because what's here so far is pretty straightforward by contrast. This recommendation starts and ends at the buck wild fact of "The Crab Rave guy decided to make a video game out of it. Yes, the actual guy."
It's a third person shooter roguelike. It has crabs. With guns. It's ten dollars, and sometimes goes on sale for slightly cheaper. The gameplay loop was a little lean the last time I played it, and I imagine that hasn't changed too much yet, but it's mechanically actually pretty OK? Not just in terms of being technically operable, but in terms of being actively enjoyable to play. This is the only thing in my collection that I've found off of the Steam Discovery Queue directly rather than being introduced to by some other source, and I surprisingly don't really regret it? Mostly for the novelty so far, but it's actually solid, and it's going to be fleshed out far more in the future. So if the premise intrigues you?
Time for crab.
To kick things off, here's a couple of my own finds!
ENA: Dream BBQ
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2134320/ENA_Dream_BBQ/
Beloved of McFunnyBone and on Yung's wishlist because apparently Toby Fox recommended it at some point, this game's currently a Deltarune style free Chapter 1 demo, with a full paid product in the pipeline.
I would describe the game as it exists so far as a walking simulator with very light platforming elements, but unlike a huge number of other walking simulators, this one actually has a reasonable walk speed and even a sprint button to let you go a little faster on top of it, so I don't feel like kicking it in the teeth. It also has a setting interesting enough to wander around in that participating in it is enjoyable enough to justify the more mellow pace.
A couple of the negative reviews I saw for this game criticized it for employing "LOL random" humor, but honestly, I'm not sure I'd say the humor is the main thing to take away from what it's presenting? I mean, I found the humor enjoyable, myself, but it's kind of secondary. Mostly the whole thing is surrealistic, seemingly operating under it's own set of rules that the player is left to reason out from context clues. It lends itself well to speculation on the nature of the setting, because everything is presented like a bunch of disparate elements from a 90's computer mashed together, but with a pervasive sense of. . .wrongness. It's like a cosmic horror setting inside of a Windows 98 that periodically kicks the legs out from under itself to remind you that, underneath it all, the setting isn't really all that scary, just profoundly weird. And as someone who doesn't entirely feel comfortable with most kinds of horror but finds cosmic horror in a vacuum fascinating, I find what Chapter 1 is presenting so far to be pretty darn interesting.
Personally, I ended up seeing a playthrough on YouTube first and then playing it, but that's because I'm reckless and probably wouldn't have even thought to check it out otherwise. But in your case, dear reader? Go in blind. Trust me on this one. You'll want a fresh first impression if you can get it. And since Chapter 1 is, again, free, so it doesn't hurt to look.
Crab Champions
https://store.steampowered.com/app/774801/Crab_Champions/
Sorry, unlike with Dream BBQ, I don't really have a writeup for this one. Not because it isn't interesting, but because what's here so far is pretty straightforward by contrast. This recommendation starts and ends at the buck wild fact of "The Crab Rave guy decided to make a video game out of it. Yes, the actual guy."
It's a third person shooter roguelike. It has crabs. With guns. It's ten dollars, and sometimes goes on sale for slightly cheaper. The gameplay loop was a little lean the last time I played it, and I imagine that hasn't changed too much yet, but it's mechanically actually pretty OK? Not just in terms of being technically operable, but in terms of being actively enjoyable to play. This is the only thing in my collection that I've found off of the Steam Discovery Queue directly rather than being introduced to by some other source, and I surprisingly don't really regret it? Mostly for the novelty so far, but it's actually solid, and it's going to be fleshed out far more in the future. So if the premise intrigues you?
Time for crab.