Gold-Plated Games

Happy… whatever the hell holiday this is! All I know is that I got Monday off, and I spent it doing things like buying furniture and eating which pushed your regularly-scheduled Weeklong Deals into the evening. But I’m not going to let you down now, especially with all these solid horror and adventure titles up for grabs!

I daresay so

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! – I only played the free version of this, but if you’re into visual novels and horror, I’m pretty sure you’ll dig this

Banished (Review) – This excellent village-building sim single-handedly launched an entire subgenre of survival builders

Stronghold Crusader HD (Review) – For pure volume and complexity of castle sieging, I don’t think this can be beat

Heaven’s Vault – Incredibly clever sci-fi mystery adventure where the puzzles are about decoding language

Stronghold HD (Review) – Not quite as deep as Crusader, but has more charm and character in its campaign

Aven Colony (Review) – Chill sci-fi colony builder

Yoku’s Island Express (Review) – The perfect marriage of metroidvania and pinball

Cube Escape Collection – Fans of macabre point-and-clicks cannot afford to miss these classics

Sacred 2 Gold (Review) – Definitely showing its age, but worth the effort for a truly unique ARPG

The White Door – A simpler entry in the Rusty Lake series, but still a solid experience

Rusty Lake Paradise (Review) – Wonderfully creepy adventure on a cursed island

Rusty Lake: Roots (Review) – One of my favorite entries in this series

Unforgiving – A Northern Hymn (Review) – Extremely unique and atmospheric horror adventure through Swedish folklore

Slain: Back from Hell (Review) – Absolutely brutal yet undeniably metal platformer

Alwa’s Awakening (Review) – Solid, charming metroidvania adventure

The Silent Age (Review) – Simple point-and-click adventure with quality writing and mechanics

Hero of the Kingdom II (Review) – The current pinnacle of this chill trading series

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi (Review) – Unique first-person horror shooter with roguelike elements

Bunker Punks (Review) – A roguelike FPS that’s bigger on style than depth

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (Review) – Neat action platformer in the OG Prince of Persia vein

Nongunz (Review) – Cruel, confusing, and captivating roguelike platformer

FreeCell Quest (Review) – Nigh endless FreeCell to play, wrapped in a thin RPG layer

OK/NORMAL (Review) – Wonderfully atmospheric PS1-style horror

6180 the moon (Review) – Simple-looking platformer that’s hiding some true genius

Black Paradox (Review) – Extremely stylish side-scrolling shmup

Mysterious Realms RPG (Review) – The name may be generic but the battle system is anything but

I daren’t not

Hero Siege (Review) – A confused mess of an arena ARPG

Silver Chains (Review) – Yet another first-person horror romp that’s not worth your time

Cities in Motion 2 (Review) – Absolutely blew everything that was good about the original

Deadly 30 (Review) – Takes zombie survival to a new level of boring

Everybody Loves Skeletons (Review) – …Apparently not

Hack, Slash, Loot (review) – Here’s how you make a roguelike without any understanding of the genre

STANDBY (Review) – And here’s how you make a completely unfun precision platformer