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βSaving thoughts on everything I play.β
Month: August 2025
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Trails in the Sky is a transformative JRPG that took 80 hours to complete, earning an 8/10 score. Its tactical combat and rich storytelling, featuring deep world-building and memorable characters, create lasting impressions. Despite early gameplay challenges, the game evolves into a captivating experience, deserving recognition for its emotional depth and innovative design.
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Toy Shire presents a colorful, toy-themed tower defense experience that quickly becomes frustrating due to sluggish controls, poor design choices, and an unbalanced difficulty curve. While visually appealing, the game lacks depth and creative freedom, leading to a repetitive trial-and-error process. Overall, it struggles to offer an engaging experience, meriting a score of 2/5.
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The Cabin Factory offers a unique horror experience focused on psychological tension rather than jump-scares. Players inspect cabins for subtle anomalies, creating a sense of paranoia. Despite its brief playtime of 1-2 hours, it masterfully builds dread through atmosphere and sound. Highly recommended for fans of nuanced horror games.
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Is This Game Trying to Kill Me? is a surprising indie puzzle adventure on Steam that offers approximately 7.2 hours of engaging gameplay. While featuring clever puzzles and a beautiful aesthetic, the game falters slightly with its boss fights, which disrupt the overall experience. Itβs a worthwhile play for puzzle enthusiasts.
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Click Mage offers a charming yet simplistic experience as a casual clicker game on Steam. With approximately 5-6 hours of playtime, it involves resource gathering and crafting but can become repetitive. While engaging for casual gamers, a lack of automation and exploration may lead to burnout. Overall, it is a cozy time-waster, rated 3.5/5.
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Lyca is a short, casual indie game offering about 4-5 hours of gameplay, featuring a straightforward loop of beating levels, earning resources, and upgrades. While enjoyable with replayability, it suffers from occasional frame rate drops. Overall, it provides decent value for those seeking a light gaming experience, rated 6.5/10.
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Kayaβs Prophecy is a unique blend of village simulation and deck-building strategy. Players manage resources and engage in combat with tactical decision-making. While resource RNG can be challenging and some achievements seem bugged, the game offers enjoyable micromanagement and a captivating gameplay loop, earning a solid 4/5 rating. Recommended for genre fans.
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Grounded 2 enhances the original game’s survival mechanics with improved gameplay, deeper systems, and a larger, more detailed world. Featuring new mounts and expanded base-building options, it excels in combat variety and exploration. While Early Access has bugs, it feels substantial already. Recommended for fans of the original and survival genre.
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Keep on Mining! is a click-heavy idle game that offers a simple yet engaging loop of mining, collecting, and upgrading. While it provides satisfying progression and a sense of achievement, late-game grinding may feel repetitive without strategic depth. Despite some areas for improvement, it appeals to fans of casual incremental games.
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Hey there, and welcome to my gaming blog! Iβm Clay, and Iβve been gaming for as long as I can remember. One of my earliest memories is staying up way past bedtime playing Age of Empires II on a bulky old PC β not really understanding what I was doing, but loving every second of…