New year new thread new tallies.
The traitors, roundhouse style! It wasnāt actually the traitors - Iām not sure what it was actually called but it was a similar principle, and an awful lot of fun.
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- Limbo
Technically finished this the last few days of 2025 but I want to keep myself accountable and finish more games this year, so posting in this thread to get a little momentum going.
I liked this! Maybe not as much as Inside though, which I played a few years ago. Think I did that the wrong way round. The controls arenāt as fluid and responsive as something like Celeste, but maybe itās unfair to compare it to a game that came out much more recently. There were just a few times that I found it tricky to time a jump because my little dude wasnāt moving exactly how I thought he was going to. I also wasnāt a huge fan of the sections where a weird lil worm thing takes over your brain and controls where you can walk, found those scenes frustrating.
Those quibbles aside I had a good time with it and it was kind of the perfect thing to get me out of a bit of a gaming slump. I loved the simplicity of it - in any given puzzle you know you have everything you need to solve it within the screen, thereās no backtracking to collect an important item you might have missed or a chance to level up. The world design and sound effects are so creepy and sad. I really felt for my little guy when he was getting bashed and shot and impaled and dropped from a great height.
Iāve had a long run of not finishing games, so I was really pleased to get to the credits scene on this. Letās be seeing more credit sequences in games in 2026!
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I can never remember which one I played - is this the one with the wild mad ending?
Think thatās Inside
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Whoops, realised I wrote this whole post mixing up Limbo and Inside 
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Hahaha thatās funny
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Slain: Back from Hell - Switch 2
Fun little Castlevania inspired medieval side scroller with a heavy metal sound track. Game was entertaining enough and threw up a few challenges but I mainly played it because it was Ā£1.99 in the Nintendo sale. Definitely not worth a full price purchase but did the job as a simple game to ease into 2026 for me.
6/10
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Letās begin!
1. Promise Mascot Agency - 7/10
Loved Pinky and driving my truck around getting collectibles but the management stuff wasnāt that rewarding mechanically and I didnāt realise how much text there would be, had no idea it was a visual novel too. Last few hours felt like a complete slog and power curve didnāt really expand much after about the halfway mark. Pinky rules tho.
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Letās-a go!
1. 1000xResist
Iām kind of mixed on this. On one level, I love that thereās a big ambitious (almost novelistically so) narrative game like this; and I loved how it treated its themes - the way in which the seed of a relationship kind of sprawls out and bleeds into the development of whole entire societies. The way it weaves in and out of all these different timelines, juggling all these ideas pretty deftly was really impressive.
My gripes with the game lie mainly with the presentation. Iāve seen people describe this as one of those stories that ācould only be a gameā and I sort of disagree with that. There are points where itās doing things with the interactive medium, but - for me - thereās a point where it felt like they were running out of ideas (the part where you need to solve kind of poetry puzzles in a cave?) and, after that, it felt like I was mostly just hitting āXā to get through a lot of dialogue. It was a real case of a game that was so bulging full of ideas that it couldnāt really present them all that effectively, if that makes sense. Iād also cattily add that I think āwholesale ripping from Neon Genesis Evangelionā is becoming the indie game sceneās new āwholesale ripping from Twin Peaksā.
I really enjoyed this game, though - I just wish it had focused a little more on some of the gameplay elements they touch towards: the exploration, the use of different perspectives, the slightly different formal approaches to the different communions. Solid opener for the year!
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The Sopranos on PS2
Umm. I enjoyed it. Iām too tired to explain why. Itās terrible. But itās also pretty good.
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To roll over from the previous thread. Completed Devil May Cry 5 in 8 hours, didnāt die once. Enjoyed the hell out of itā¦
ā¦ was eager for more and the games are cheap (in the Sale on PS) now, so i bought 'em all, except DMC, seemingly a remake of 1?
Put a good hour into Devil May Cry 1 and it shows itās age but feels fine and has that Resi vibe somehow. Put an hour also into Devil May Cry 4 and I kind of love this despite reading it is perhaps a game to avoid. Love the fact it has lock on combat, DMC 4 feels older than it actually is but is - like 5, a lot of fun.
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It has the Resi vibe cos DMC1 was built from the abandoned Resi 4 concept work. Or maybe 3. But same director etc.
Edit: yeah DMC1 was built from an abandoned Resi 4 prototype
Resi should have at least 1 game with the DMC style combat, would genuinely love that.
It Takes Two
Santa brought this for my wife as she always likes a couch co op over Christmas. The core game was a decent enough platformer about a couple contemplating a divorce having to work together. As we progressed through it though, it got far too ambitious, bringing in sections from other genres as diverse as air combat, isometric dungeon crawlers and rhythm games. It spread itself too thin and all of these sections proved to be more of an annoyance than anything else.
Speaking of annoying, see that fucking book? Fucking hell, I wanted to tear my ears off every time he appeared. And he appeared in almost every fucking cutscene. Zany, whacky and equipped with an awful Spanish stereotype accent, I havenāt hated a side character as much since that stupid fairy thing in Zelda on the Wii. Or so I thought until the coupleās daughter gets brought into the story.
I think I would have enjoyed this a lot more if theyād gone with a bit of a different tone. The gameplay was forgiving enough for my wife to jump in and feel comfortable although she did struggle with the camera control which did default back to the developerās favourite positions at times.
6/10
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Have you played Split Fiction? Exactly the same problems but a little smoother to play, so just a teeny bit better.
Got the Maria ending for Silent Hill 2. I was ready for it to end after the museum bit really. Combat bloat nearly completely derailed it in the final stretch. Hated the descent. Was that in the OG? Anyway, still a surprisingly adept allegorical experience. The start is one of my favourite beginnings ever. Too many boss fights in this though and it ran like shit on pc.
The descent in the museum? Yeah itās in the original and itās fucking scary. But you can avoid combat quiet easily in that. The remake is more heavy on it.
and Roger (PC)
I like me some short form narrative games, so saw this a while ago recommended as a one hour story to play through that you want to go in blind on.
One hour later and I donāt think Iāve ever cried at a game more than this. It hit on a personal experience in my life that I wasnāt ready for and just really got me. It isnāt grim dark, and ends in a place that is actually quite wonderfulā¦but man it got me.
Iām going to be annoying and keep vague about it, but if you are up for a short form narrative game this was amazing. Closest comparison is Florence from a few years ago in how it incorporates the gameplay into the story. But yeah, be warned itās quite an emotional experience.
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One of the greatest games of 2025. I canāt stop thinking about it.
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