When is an incremental game not an incremental game? When it’s a roguelite fighting platformer! Only… it’s still an incremental game. You do fight enemies, mainly by standing close to them. Which you have to do a lot because you lose health if you aren’t standing near anyone. Kill baddies, and you get currency. When you inevitably die, which you will do a lot, you spend your money improving your skills, like more HP or doing more damage, or making …
Yes, another incremental number-go-up game to suck my time. Just like Diggin and Loot Loop and Shelldiver and Unboxathon. This one, however, is based around the exciting world of lottery scratch cards. Buy a card! Scratch it off! Possibly win money! Wash some plates if you run out of money! Buy more tickets with your money! Earn enough to buy more expensive tickets with greater rewards! Unlock the skill tree to tilt luck in your favour and increase your possibly …
I was wondering how to describe this game, as it is very unusual and seems to defy proper categorisation. Eventually, I managed to come up with this: It’s like if Bad North and Into The Breach made a baby with Puzzle Quest after reading Alice in Wonderland in The Office on LSD. With CGA graphics. To see if that was really correct, I asked ChatGPT to tell me which game I was thinking of when given that description. To which, …
Many years ago, I was obsessed with a game called Diggers on the Acorn Archimedes. It’s was a slow paced mining game, sort of a bit like if you gave Lemmings some digging tools and got them to find gemstones below the earth in increasingly deep mineshafts. Since then, I’ve always gravitated towards games that scratch a similar itch – Miner Dig Deep, SteamWorld Dig, Mr Driller, Dig Dig Dino, and so on. Diggin is like a hyperactive mix of …
I know! It’s yet another incremental game! But! This one has a turtle in it! It’s also more action focussed than most of the others I’ve played recently. As in, you actually have control over your turtle while he dives for minerals and traps octopusseseses in bubbles. Minerals that need more and more hits to collect. Octopuses that need more and more bubbles to catch. Depths that require more and more air for you to survive in them. So, being …
Surprisingly, this isn’t called Pizza Survivors. Because it seems that most Survivors-type games explain to you their genre by including that word in the title. But now you know, you can guess the rest of the game for yourself, no? If you can’t, then let me explain. It’s Vampire Survivors only you’re a pizza slice and your weapons are all pizza topping related analogues to those weapons in Vampire Survivors. So you have the gun type ones and the rotating …
Loot Loop, bought only because it was bundled with Gambler’s Table which I already own so it was cheap on the Steam Store, is an incremental auto-battler side scrolling RPG. In some ways, it is a bit like Idle Slayer, but it’s much shorter and much more fun. And by much shorter, I mean, it lasted a couple of days play instead of about six months. The aim is to walk right, fight baddies, beat the boss at the end …
I do like Rusty Lake’s weird graphical adventure/escape room games, with their creepy aura, Art Deco imagery and psychological themes. Cube Escape is another of those, mostly set in a single room with you able to look in each direction and interact with items, such as a clock, mirror and a telephone in order to solve puzzles to (usually) open doors and drawers, eventually leading to the unravelling of some event in your past where you may (or may not?) …
Why yes, I am seven years old. Because that’s clearly the age the game is aimed at. But you know what? It may be simplistic and childish, but it was good, actually, so stop judging me. It’s not like it’s Paw Patrol or anything. What it actually is, is a bit like all those Lego games, only without the building and smashing. Or the Lego. So maybe not like Lego games. It does feel like those Lego games though, with …
I actually got this in a random game bundle a while back, and it was one of the better games in that pack, but for some reason I didn’t put much time into it. Over the last few months I’ve been doing the odd run here and there, eventually finishing it today. As the name suggests, it’s a Survivorslike. In this one, you’re a frog riding a mech because of course you are, and you have two basic weapons – …
You’ll never guess from the title of the game what sort of game this is and what you’re supposed to do. No, not punch Nazis (although that would make a good game), it’s finding – get this – frogs. Incredible. In a dramatic change from the ten thousand “hidden cats” games currently available, this is a large, scrollable image with hidden frogs in it. Click on them to “find” them, and when you’ve got them all (and all the gnomes, …
Unboxathon is a simple, relatively short, clicker game. In this one (and I feel like I’ve played a lot of these recently), you buy boxes, open them, and sell the random contents. As you make more money and collect more stuff also found in the boxes, you can buy and unlock better boxes with higher value contents. There are upgrades which do things like improve the chances of rarer items, or allow you to open boxes with fewer clicks, or, …
Yes! Another incremental clicker game with Luck Be A Landlord/Balatro nods! This one isn’t anything to do with cards or trees though. No, it’s all set around a penny falls machine. You put coins into it, that pushes coins out. Coins that come out earn you money. Somehow, you make money out of this – unlike a real one – because you have special coins that can be bought between rounds, are stored in an expandable clip, and do magic …
As I enjoyed Proverbs so much, of course I was going to download this, which is the same sort of puzzle game by the same developer. This time, instead of plague-era images depicting weird proverbs, it’s a collage of representations of events that happened in 2025. Some funny, some stupid, some sad. I say “the same sort of puzzle game”, but I actually mean “it’s the same game but with different pictures”. Which is exactly what I wanted, so that’s …
One massive Picrossy/Minesweepery puzzle which takes about 20 hours to complete? Why yes, sir, I will boogie. Especially at the peanuts-price it was going for. Imagine a big old painting depicting pictures of lots of proverbs that have pretty much all fallen out of use, made up of groups of pixels all split into areas. Each area has some pixels with numbers in, and those numbers – a bit like minesweeper – says how many yellow pixels are touching it …
