Weeklong Deals for 3/8/21
If roguelikes are your jam, this will probably be the week for you! The Weeklong Deals are weighted towards all kinds of procedurally-generated deathtraps, from platformers to minesweeper. Platformers are similarly well-represented, along with some more obscure titles that I’ve been wanting to shine some light on.
You have chosen wisely
The Long Dark (review) – Premier junk scavenging survival sim, though I can’t speak for the story mode
Nova Drift (Review) – About as good as Asteroids-style action gets, with a clever roguelike progression layer
100% Orange Juice – Surprisingly deep party board game
ABZU (Review) – Peaceful, imaginative underwater journey
Unworthy (Review) – Stylish but rough 2D Dark Souls
DemonCrawl (Review) – Brilliant combination of Minesweeper, roguelike, and RPG mechanics
Fate Hunters (Review) – Decent swing at a deckbuilding roguelike
Blood and Bacon (Review) – Good, dumb FPS arena fun
Sea Salt – A grand ol’ time leading the minions of the Old Ones around in terrible pixel slaughter
Spirits Abyss (Review) – Colorful, chaotic roguelike platformer
Chasm (Review) – Solid metroidvania hurt by its dependence on procedural generation
Hard Reset Redux (Review) – An improvement over the original release, but still a rather bullet-spongey FPS
BUTCHER (Review) – Brutal, unrelenting platform action
Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren’s Call (Review) – Good hidden object game, not quite as good as the previous entry
Teleglitch (Review) – An all-time great survival horror roguelike
Straimium Immortaly (Review) – I barely understand what’s going on here, but it makes for a good roguelike
FreeCell Quest (Review) – All the freecell solitaire you can handle, in a thin RPG wrapper
Shattered Planet (Review) – Neat coffee break roguelike
Tusker’s Number Adventure (Review) – Charming little entry in the creepy edutainment genre
He chose… poorly
Alien Breed 2: Assault (review) – About as baseline as top-down shooters get
Dangerous Golf – Entirely too hung up on actual golf rules to let you get crazy
