Gold-Plated Games

I hereby declare this a good week for Weeklong Deals, whether you be hunting for solid classics or something new and exciting. In addition to the voluminous lists below, there are well-known offers like Overcooked and Shadowrun: Hong Kong, as well as Yoku’s Island Express which I have been playing through on our Friday streams. And if none of that tickles your fancy, maybe you’re the type to give the risen corpse of Hellgate: London a try!

GET

Caves of Qud (review) – What started out as an amazing revival of the classic roguelike genre has blossomed into a world of incredible scope (GET IT)

Blood and Bacon (Review) – It’s dumb, it’s gross, and it’s entirely more fun as an arena shooter than it has any right to be

Miasmata (Review) – Perhaps the only game in the world to wear the “hardcore walking sim” badge, and wear it well

Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart (Review) – One of the overall best hidden object games I’ve had the pleasure of clicking through

Sproggiwood (Review) – Fantastic, adorable classic roguelike that should appeal to veterans or newcomers to the genre

Hero of the Kingdom II (Review) – The current pinnacle of this wonderfully chill trilogy of trading adventures

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi (review) – Rough old horror FPS with some revolutionary roguelike elements

Cargo Commander (Review) – Neat roguelike platformer with solid mechanics and story

6180 the moon (Review) – Simple platformer with a neat gimmick and deceptively brilliant level design

Gun Metal (Review) – Entirely serviceable third-person giant robot game

Schein (review) – Clever puzzle platformer that gets brutally hard

Blackbay Asylum (review) – Under the trashy, goofy exterior is a pretty great horror adventure

FORGET

INFERNIUM (Review) – Great concept, great environments, boring everything else

Majesty 2 (Review) – Exhibit A in how to ruin a series with a messed up difficulty curve

DARK – I can’t find my review of this one on Steam but WOW it sucked

Hack, Slash, Loot (review) – A roguelike with nearly all possible elements of skill removed

Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory (Review) – It’s cute, just not solid enough to recommend

The Inner Darkness (Review) – If you’ve seen one psychological horror platformer, you’ve seen them all

Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge (Review) – Sorry, no