I’ve been tracking which games I play, on my Gaming Diary, for 6 years now. It’s helped me realise how many different games I play, and how many I complete. This year, however, I’ve additionally started tracking the games I buy, and how much I paid for them – the aim being to scare myself into how much I spend on gaming. Thing is, just knowing that it’s logged has actually made me more frugal with my spending. Not only …
Gothenburg, or Göteborg in the local tongue, is Sweden’s second largest city. It is on the west coast of the country, pretty much half-way between two other Nordic cities I’ve visited – Copenhagen in Denmark, and Oslo in Norway. In many ways, if feels like somewhere between the two as well. We went on holiday there for 8 days. According to the guide on the boat tour, the city is built on mud and they needed the help of the …
UFO 50 is presented to you as a collection of 50 games from an 80s game development company called UFOSoft, for their three computer systems called the LX-I, LX-II and LX-III. The thing is, UFOSoft never existed, the games never came out in the 80s, and the LX series of computers aren’t real. It’s all a lie. Except that there are actually 50 games here. All full games, fully realised, and they all could have plausibly existed in the 1980s …
I previously started playing Horace on the iPad via a Steam Link from Windows on my Mac, but although I persevered using this setup for the whole of Lair of the Clockwork God, Horace’s tricky platforming needed something a bit more so a couple of hours in I stopped playing. Not that I hadn’t enjoyed it, just I thought I’d wait for a console version. And here it is! Firstly, let me get one thing out of the way. On …
Another Apple Arcade title, and one that looked really nice but turned out to be pretty weak. There are lovely little dioramas for each location, with what starts out as simple point and click puzzles in each. Unfortunately, the puzzles are all far too simple throughout the game instead of getting harder or more complicated. The story also seems to start out interesting, a couple of kids in the 80s sneaking out at night to watch a film, but then …
