Thread by @spacetwinks

alright, the sales are rolling in, so you know what that means - time for a game sale rec thread. will be rolling in from steam, gog, and itchio's when it starts.

as ever, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and weirder games that wouldn't get as much attention.

so, onwards!

Forklift Load ($2.69) - exactly what it looks like, and not at all. you're an AI forklift in a future where humans have disappeared. help other AIs as you puzzle over this strange, serene world. for fans of nier:automata, shenmue, and euro truck simulator. store.steampowered.com/app/1392490/Fo…

An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs ($16.99) - a loving comedy adventure, where you and your fiance, the last two humans, are stranded across space. and you need to make your way back to them through this airport for aliens, currently run by dogs. store.steampowered.com/app/1246250/An…

Cruelty Squad ($15.99) - the original rainbow six games, by way of the kind of sweaty nightmares you have while your body is trying to break a fever. kill. mutate. invest in the stock market. kill some more. store.steampowered.com/app/1388770/Cr…

The Flower Collectors ($11.99) - barcelona, 1977. a disabled ex-cop catches sight of a murder, and enlists a young local journalist to help solve it. takes the ideas of Rear Window and turns them into game mechanics. store.steampowered.com/app/1034750/Th…

Umurangi Generation ($8.99) - my 2020 GOTY. in the 'shitty future' of tauranga aotearoa, you're a courier/photographer, snapping photo jobs to pay the bills, as the world spins on around you. the best environmental storytelling in game i've ever seen. store.steampowered.com/app/1223500/Um…

i also HIGHLY recommend getting the Macro dlc ($5.99, or $13.48 as a bundle with Umurangi Generation). takes a complete game and makes it feel even more complete-r. if you've played the DLC, you'll know what i mean.

Shadowhand ($3.74) - an RPG where the combat system is driven entirely by solitaire! become Lady Cornelia Darkmoor, an aristocrat turned highwaywoman, as you cut through deceit and corruption all by chaining together solitaire combos! store.steampowered.com/app/427490/Sha…

Yoku's Island Express ($3.99) - a pinball based metroidvania where the protagonist is the world's cutest dung beetle. as the newest postmaster for mokumana island, your duties will soon go far beyond just delivering the overdue mail. store.steampowered.com/app/334940/Yok…

The Shivah ($1.49) - a short (beatable in one night), tight, point and click adventure murder mystery. down on his luck rabbi stone has suddenly come into a massive windfall, and must get at the source of it - while also confronting his own past. store.steampowered.com/app/252370/The…

a little bit i want to add that couldn't fit in one tweet: one of my fave things about The Shivah is the conversation system, which includes a 'rabbinical' reply to lots of things, where you answer a question with another question.

Starship Titanic ($2.09) - in the 90s, Douglas Adams - creator of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - went back to games and put together a comedy adventure with a stunningly robust text parser, requiring you to guide the titular Starship Titanic to safety. store.steampowered.com/app/467290/Sta…

Spark The Electric Jester ($4.79) - it's sonic! it's kirby! it's mega man! it's all of them at once! a high speed platformer with a killer soundtrack that obviously pulls heavily from retro inspiration, but mashes it up to make something its own. store.steampowered.com/app/601810/Spa…

Ace of Seafood ($2.39) - dumb as fuck and completely unstoppable. control MANY different kinds of marine life, and have them attack each other, and warships, through their natural weaponry: lasers, missiles, plasma beams. you know. store.steampowered.com/app/450500/Ace…

Pizza Express ($0.69, nice) - take Cook, Serve, Delicious, mix it with the Tycoon games, and add a full on story mode. make your pizzeria number one by assembling everyone's orders on the quick and investing in your own store! store.steampowered.com/app/375250/Piz…

Trackless ($6.99) - the puzzle solving of Myst, with old school text parsing thrown in, all in a package of something stylish and warmly strange. as a seeker, you must complete trials to see The Object... whatever The Object might be. you don't know. store.steampowered.com/app/586660/Tra…

alright, gonna stop there for a lil bit. if you've been around for any of my previous rec threads, you already know i'll be adding recs pretty consistently all the way to the last day of sales - these usually get close to 100 games per thread!

so, enjoy video games!

hey hey who wants a couple more game sale recs while it's early in the morn and i'm not busy with anything else

too bad here they come

Dodgeball Academia ($19.99) - the high speed and fantastical gameplay of Super Dodgeball for the NES, mixed with the RPG framing of the GBA Mario sports games, with a style that feels like a cartoon inspired by World Of Gumball and OK K.O.! thrown on top. store.steampowered.com/app/1422420/Do…

Caves Of Qud ($13.49) - my fave roguelike of all time. the game mechanics make it feel like a lo-fi morrowind in just how much is possible - ranging from giving yourself multiple arms to granting sentience to home furniture. adds new content frequently! store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Cav…

couple additional things about Qud:

1. you can actually turn permadeth off and make it into a regular ol' RPG if you want!

2. the price of the game will go up to $19.99 in january, so if you wanna grab it cheaper, now's the time!

3. like Dwarf Fortress, it's hard to sum up Qud in just a general tweet or a couple images, so, an anecdote of the game from me: one time i burrowed 67 floors underneath the ground and found an unexplained clone of myself frozen in ice. then i was murdered by crabs.

The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] ($6.69) - a remaster of a game that never existed. follows in the tradition of the original Prince of Persia, Flashback, and Out Of This World, sending you through a sci-fi deathtrap in endless high color style. store.steampowered.com/app/963450/The…

Overboard! ($11.99) - A whodunnit where YOU are the one who dunnit - and must think and act fast to get away with murder. Talk your way out of interrogations, blackmail, bluff, do whatever it takes in eight hours to get on shore untouched! store.steampowered.com/app/1546920/Ov…

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor ($3.29) - a personal GOAT. patrol the spaceport, burn trash to make rent, all as you dream of a better future and try to free yourself of a cursed screaming skull. beautiful and bittersweet, kind but not saccharine. store.steampowered.com/app/436500/Dia…

The World Is Your Weapon ($6.99) - why hit a goblin with a sword when you can hit them with a fridge. why hit a skeleton with a mace when you can hit them with an entire house. store.steampowered.com/app/1056490/Th…

gotta take care of some things IRL, so will pause recs here for a lil bit! will be back later today and throughout the sale with more.

enjoy video games!

alright it's nearly 7pm est, time for some more recs

Cellular Harvest ($4.68) - a relaxing, chill photography game - and all the reasons it's relaxing are why it's unnerving too. you are an auditor, who is assigned to photographing life on an alien planet, so as to determine its monetary value. store.steampowered.com/app/1366420/Ce…

DIVINATION ($1.39) - "The runes have been set. Show them the answer."

the future is rife with despair and anxiety - a time perfect for you, a fortune teller. listen to their stories. read their futures. maybe even change them. store.steampowered.com/app/1180250/DI…

The Friends Of Ringo Ishikawa ($5.84) - the combat of River City Ransom, the open world and constant moving time of Shenmue, and the quiet existential crises of japanese teen delinquents in their last year of high school. a personal favorite. store.steampowered.com/app/846110/The…

Jazzpunk ($3.74) - a surreal comedy adventure set in a VERY alternate version of the cold war. guide your fisher-price toy looking protagonist to solve (?) mysteries (????) and do... things? (????). like if Lego Island was bizarre on purpose. store.steampowered.com/app/250260/Jaz…

Creature In The Well ($7.49) - hacking, slashing, dungeon crawling, PINBALLING! plunge a robot into the engines underneath the last city on the planet, turning generators back on by smacking balls of charged light every which way! store.steampowered.com/app/852300/Cre…

The Big Con ($9.74) - the 90s TV experience in video game form, up to and including a toggleable studio audience laughtrack and a theme song by Rockapella! swindle, steal, bribe and break in, all to get enough money to save your mom's video store. store.steampowered.com/app/1139280/Th…

Treachery In Beatdown City ($8.99) - a semi-turn based beat 'em up that has studied and dissected the genre expertly to deliver an incredible evolution on it. i'm a beat 'em up superfan and this is a must have for others. FIGHT SOMEBODY! store.steampowered.com/app/762180/Tre…

The Lion's Song ($3.99) - a gorgeous episodic point and click set in 20th century austria. each episode follows a different person's life in the era, then tying them all back together at the end. sweet and vulnerable little vignettes of humanity. store.steampowered.com/sub/106294/

Kingsway ($6.99) - more than just inspired by Windows 95 aesthetics, a knockoff of the OS is a huge part of the core gameplay. cast magic, defeat monsters, round up loot, all by clicking and managing lots of windows at once in this roguelike. store.steampowered.com/app/588950/Kin…

"what is E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy ($2.99)?"

an ambitious first person game with deus ex and system shock inspiration that allows you to hack most anything

"does it play well and is easy to understand"

no

"why recommend it then"

you gain brouzouf store.steampowered.com/app/91700/EYE_…

and that'll do for tonight! more recs to come tomorrow, naturally!

enjoy video games!

hokay, it's nearly 6 pm and pitch black out and i just got my ass kicked in slay the spire, so time for more recs

The Horror Of Salazar House ($3.75) - retro horror in the vein of Uninvited. young journalist Elisa has come to the mansion of Jaime Salazar, who disappeared in 1986.

things do not go well from there. torturestar.itch.io/salazar-house

The Secret Of Monkey Island ($3.49) - a foundational point and click adventure. guybrush threepwood wants to be a mighty pirate, but he has two problems:

1. the dread ghost pirate lechuck.
2. guybrush is a huge doofus.

(PLAY WITH THE ORIGINAL GRAPHICS) gog.com/game/the_secre…

if you want to play with the original graphics AND the new voice acting, some very generous people have made that possible in SCUMMVM over here. gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkie…

LOOM ($2.09) - an underrated lucasarts title, this fantasy adventure has you cast spells with music, akin to the ocarina in zelda. though inspired by fairy tales, it has a rich world and lore all its own. gog.com/game/loom

Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth ($15.99) - a smooth metroidvania featuring and all about none other than the star of 90s anime clubs everywhere, Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War! great for metroidvania fans who've never heard of it too. store.steampowered.com/app/1203630/Re…

Get In The Car, Loser! ($Free!) - a lesbian road trip RPG taking influence from all over the place (though Valkyrie Profile fans will spot that one immediately), take three students of the Academy of Order and renegade angel to save the world. store.steampowered.com/app/938860/Get…

Get In The Car, Loser! is free, but the extra DLC, "Battle on the Big Boardwalk" is not... but it's on sale! $8.99 to get the complete thing to throw on top of GitCL. store.steampowered.com/app/1733360/Ge…

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling ($11.99) - you're a fan of paper mario? especially a fan of the thousand year door? kinda can't shut up about it?

okay, great. this game was made for you, specifically and personally. store.steampowered.com/app/1082710/Bu…

Commune Corvidae ($4.00) - fly, talk, listen, think to yourself about... everything. return home as the descendant of a long deposed leader and reckon with the past and the community's future by speaking with whoever you meet. magresta.itch.io/commune-corvid…

Panzer Paladin ($9.99) - retro mech action that takes influence from a little bit of everything on the NES, from Ducktales to Blaster Master. there's even a create-your-own-weapon option! store.steampowered.com/app/975510/Pan…

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure ($7.49) - you've got your fishing game in my visual novel! you've got your visual novel in my fishing game!

the long running Reel Fishing series now throws on a whole ass VN story alongside the fishing! store.steampowered.com/app/1051190/Re…

Zelle ($2.24) - a horror adventure game that reminds me of dungeon crawlers, old flash horror games, and, of all things, the "Push a button and see what happens" title PANIC! quick reflexes are needed to exorcise demons and get home safely. store.steampowered.com/app/725330/Zel…

Overgrowth ($9.89) - incredibly smooth, incredibly fast hand to hand combat in a deeply bleak world of furries. the flow of combat is like a wuxia story, and the storytelling is like a very dark wuxia story. by the same people behind Receiver. store.steampowered.com/app/25000/Over…

will cap off there for now - more recs to come later, either later tonight or tomorrow.

if you wanna throw me some bones for the curation, or just cuz you feel like it, i do have a ko-fi!

as ever, enjoy video games! hope you found something new to love! ko-fi.com/spacetwinks

alright, let's get another 10-20 or so recs in this thread, eh? nice and warm, i'm caffeinated, all systems green and all that

Signs of the Sojourner ($11.99) - a deckbuilder all about navigating conversations, and the self. take up the caravan trailer of your late mother to stock the store she left you. not all conversations can be won - or should. a personal favorite. store.steampowered.com/app/1058690/Si…

Rock of Ages 2 ($3.74) - tower defense meets... marble madness... meets... art history? look, my summary won't really do it justice - you'll know if you want this or not after one view of the video. store.steampowered.com/app/434460/Roc…

Later Alligator ($9.89) - part visual novel, part minigame collection, you're tasked with defending the (probably) innocent Pat in a conspiracy that could tear Alligator New York City apart! great family friendly title, fun for parents and their kids. store.steampowered.com/app/966320/Lat…

Jenny LeClue ($3.99) - a mystery adventure from two perspectives - jenny leclue, kid whiz detective. and her author, arthur finklestein, whose editor is pushing him to make his stories more mature. navigate two lives while trying to solve a murder. store.steampowered.com/app/319870/Jen…

Frog Detective 1 + 2 bundle ($6.73) - two short (about an hour long) mystery games that are utterly charming, funny and sweet. perfect games for when you just want to unwind on the weekend! (and another great family friendly pick) store.steampowered.com/bundle/12873/F…

also i just want to share/focus in on this one image from Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard. i love it so much.

Pyre ($4.99) - you loved Hades? why not try my fave supergiant game? part VN, part magic NBA Jam, guide a team of exiles through the wastelands and perform rites to earn the privilege to return to society. even has its own version of Air Bud, too. store.steampowered.com/app/462770/Pyr…

Post Void ($2.39) - serious warning: i cannot recommend even WATCHING this game if you have any light sensitivity at all. hyper fast FPS with styling that reminds me of Liquid Television. run, slide, kill, and get to the water before the clock runs out. store.steampowered.com/app/1285670/Po…

428: Shibuya Scramble ($7.49) - the legendary VN is here! a comedy thriller that will have you switching through lives ranging from 'high level scientist' to 'amnesiac cat mascot', all intertwining to unravel a conspiracy that could destroy shibuya! store.steampowered.com/app/648580/428…

NOTE: while i still recommend playing 428 even if you've seen it already, if you're planning to play it, do NOT watch the anime canaan beforehand. they take place in the same universe, and canaan spoils 428 a bunch.

i'm completely serious.

Pamali: Indonesian Folklore Horrror ($4.99) - exactly what it says. an anthology style approach to horror games, with a heavy focus on rituals - many different ways for each night to change, depending on what you do... or don't do. store.steampowered.com/app/854570/Pam…

Shadowrun: Dragonfall ($3.74) - one of my favorite RPGs ever. in a cyberpunk/fantasy world, what should've been an easy job goes south, and sends you and your crew of runners into a scheme of AI and dragons that could destroy the flux-state of Berlin. store.steampowered.com/app/300550/Sha…

to help sell Dragonfall more, and because i know my audience: this is one of your crewmembers, Eiger. she is a huge troll woman, and she takes absolutely no shit, *especially* from you, the player. she rules.

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk ($0.66) - a surreal, short horror visual novel, completable in under an hour.

all you have to do is help someone buy milk.

it's that simple. just like how we never struggle with 'simple' chores, right? store.steampowered.com/app/1392820/Mi…

Sunless Skies ($9.99) - captain a steam powered space train, moving port to port in a sky equally full of warmth and death. i'd describe the tone as "cosmic horror by way of terry pratchett".

sail the stars. betray your queen. MURDER A SUN. store.steampowered.com/app/596970/Sun…

Where The Water Tastes Like Wine ($3.99) - you gambled with a wolf - and lost. to pay back your debt, your skeleton'll hike through depression-era america, planting seeds of stories, watching them grow and change as people re-tell stories to each other. store.steampowered.com/app/447120/Whe…

bonus sales pitch for Where The Water Tastes Like Wine: the wolf you gambled with is voiced by none other than singer, actor, and heartthrob of Your Moms everywhere, Sting.

Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood ($3.59) - an underrated Sierra adventure game gem! a beautiful and deeply ambitious take on the Robin Hood mythos, written by the creator of Jem and the Holograms, Christy Marx! gog.com/game/conquests…

Quadrilateral Cowboy ($9.99) - corporate espionage takes skill, confidence, and a monstrously powerful computer deck with a stunning 256k total RAM, paired with a lightning fast 56.6k modem. use the command line to break into, and out of, anywhere. store.steampowered.com/app/240440/Qua…

that'll do for now! i'll likely be back later tonight with another set of recs.

hope you found something new and unusual to love, enjoy video games!

hey guess what

Can Androids Pray ($6.99, $11.99 as a bundle with the soundtrack) - a short narrative game about "two angry femme mech pilots at the end of the world, and God." itch.io/b/343/can-andr…

Stories Untold ($2.49) - for those of you curious about text adventures but need some onboarding, or those of you who grew up on them and want to see where the genre has gone in the years since, this anthology of horror stories is perfect for both of you. store.steampowered.com/app/558420/Sto…

The Zork Anthology ($3.89) - and following up on the text adventure pitch, for those curious about game history and those who lived it, this collection of a foundational text adventure is a steal! comes with scanned versions of ALL the in-box goodies too! gog.com/game/the_zork_…

Demon's Tilt ($7.99) - can you tell i'm a pinball fan yet

occult pinball taking inspiration from other video game pinball titles like Devil's Crush, doing things that'd only be possible in this digital space and cranking up everything to 11 with it. store.steampowered.com/app/422510/DEM…

Dandara ($3.44) - a beautiful brazilian metroidvania, with an utterly unique form of movement - no running, not even any walking. you can only flip from surface to surface.

walk the salt and bring back balance between creation and intent. store.steampowered.com/app/612390/Dan…

Anodyne ($2.99) - starts as a cute little zelda-alike having some fun teasing of the genre. becomes something far more unnerving the deeper you go. feels like emotional catharsis achieved by puking up blood. store.steampowered.com/app/234900/Ano…

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust ($11.99) - in this more n64 zelda inspired adventure, nano has hatched into their heroic existence as a 'nanocleaner'. but destiny has a heavy weight, and a collar in its weight. (don't need to play the first to understand 2!) store.steampowered.com/app/877810/Ano…

bonus pitch for anodyne 2: the fastest way to get around is not by running or flying or any of that, but by literally turning into a car, adolescence of utena style.

Californium ($1.39) - a psychedelic, radioactively colored homage to philip k. dick. as a writer with an existential crisis, you now have the more immediate concern that you are being warped back and forth through space and time. store.steampowered.com/app/402060/Cal…

Desert Child ($4.07) - taking heavy (and obvious) inspiration from Cowboy Bebop, this racer/shmup puts you as a hoverbike racer who needs to get off planet before everything goes to shit. get that cash through any means possible. GREAT soundtrack. store.steampowered.com/app/844050/Des…

and that'll do it for the night! got some things to tend to over here, so cutting it a little shorter than expected.

as ever, hope you found something new to love! enjoy video games!

hey it's 1 am est. that's a good time to add some more recs to the thread, right. sure

Pikuniku ($3.89) - puzzle-adventure-platforming comedy, having you rolling and bouncing everywhere to help people with their problems, doing what you can to help!

...up to and including 'overthrowing the state'. store.steampowered.com/app/572890/Pik…

Return to Zork ($1.97) - a lesser remembered entry in the Zork series. this FMV title continues Zork's blend of fantasy, sci-fi, and midwestern america, and is incredibly fucking weird in style and gameplay, and is worth it for that alone, imo. gog.com/game/return_to…

"colin, what do you mean by incredibly fucking weird. that can mean lots of things" it's hard to get into detail in just a couple tweets, but: here's the intro to Return to Zork, to set your barometer.

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within ($3.89) - a supernatural murder mystery in munich, germany! werewolves! incredibly thick homoerotic subtext! incredibly homoerotic werewolves! this FMV adventure game has everything you could want! gog.com/game/gabriel_k…

Star Trek: Hidden Evil ($7.99) - hey did you know there's a video game taking place directly after Star Trek: Insurrection

"what"

yeah and of all things it's trying to be like a Resident Evil-alike. kind of a weird mess, but

i love weird messes gog.com/game/star_trek…

Wild Guns Reloaded ($7.49) - a remaster and upgrade of the hidden action gem for the SNES! adds two new characters, more stages, and four player co-op to this rocking sci-fi western shooter. store.steampowered.com/app/585910/Wil…

bonus "i know my audience" pitch for Wild Guns Reloaded: one of the new characters is Doris, whose thing is hurling explosives. she fucking rules.

The Swapper ($2.24) - a narrative puzzler. stuck in an eerie, cold abandoned space station, the only way out is to wield a device that lets you clone yourself - and kill those clones - at whim. every part of the game is hand sculpted from clay and such. store.steampowered.com/app/231160/The…

Mutazione ($11.99) - a "mutant soap opera". you come to this island to care for your grandfather - but there's lots of time to fill. garden, gossip, make friends, go to concerts, and simply live in this small town as you make your personal journey. store.steampowered.com/app/1080750/Mu…

Heat Signature ($7.49) - "sci-fi hotline miami" is the elevator pitch, but that's honestly selling it short. the gadgets you can get allow for truly Looney Tunes-esque murders as you try to fulfill the randomly generated life goals of various outlaws. store.steampowered.com/app/268130/Hea…

alright, that'll cap it for this extremely early morning round of recs - more to come later today.

also, today's the last day for the GOG black friday sales, so if you wanna grab anything there, now's the time.

alright, let's get a few more recs in, shall we? also, the GOG sale is over now so those links are gonna be out of date, but pretty much everything there can be gotten on steam (tho usually without the nice goodies like in the Zork anthology pack)

Comet 64 ($7.49) - a programming puzzle game set in 1984. learn and use assembly-esque coding to solve various puzzles on your Comet 64 personal computer... and maybe find some secrets along the way. store.steampowered.com/app/1397290/Co…

killer7 ($5.99) - suda51's first stateside release, now on PC. an utterly surreal action-adventure game, where you control a psychic collective of assassins that swap bodies to take on invisible living bombs called 'Heaven Smile'. a personal favorite. store.steampowered.com/app/868520/kil…

you may want to upgrade to the limited edition version ($8.88) for the killer masafumi takada soundtrack, which includes bangers like this - which, as if a prank being pulled on the player, only plays during the shortest segments in the game. i love it.

Marginalia ($3.00) - a letter from a missing friend brings you to the valley of Kestlebrook. as you traipse through these woods and away from civilization in this moody horror game, you'll find yourself wondering not only where you are, but when. connor-sherlock.itch.io/marginalia

Long Gone Days ($11.24) - a modern-set military RPG that focuses heavily on cultural and language barriers. people are the focus more than the combat - there are no random battles, and troop morale is crucial. still in development. store.steampowered.com/app/510540/Lon…

Heaven Will Be Mine ($4.64) - queer mecha romance VN that rolls into the modern internet of sliding-into-her-dms flirting, but also into the possibility of redefining War as a concept. fight and/or makeout as 1 of 3 mecha pilots caught in endless Gravity. store.steampowered.com/app/836450/Hea…

Neo Cab ($5.99) - Lina is the last human taxi driver in Los Ojos, and is searching for a missing friend. however, to do so, she also has to keep up her five star rating so she can keep her job as she shuttles people around and trying to ferret out clues. store.steampowered.com/app/794540/Neo…

King of Dragon Pass ($3.59) - part RPG, part strategy game, part visual novel, this wildly inventive fantasy classic has you managing a population, listening to (or ignoring) your advisors, and telling, re-enacting, and CREATING myth! store.steampowered.com/app/352220/Kin…

Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People ($2.99) - dear strong bad,

how do you make a point and click adventure with boxing gloves on?

also, that 'season 1' bit was a real popular bit of false hope back then, huh?

sincerely,
colin, ME store.steampowered.com/app/8340/Stron…

Last Word ($1.99) - an RPG that takes place in one building, in one night, in a world where getting the upper hand in a debate literally gives you power over others. has a conversational combat system that feels like rock paper scissors meets mancala. store.steampowered.com/app/355530/Las…

Artifact Adventure ($1.39) - if you love old school JRPGs, and i mean... FF1, Dragon Quest 1, with no retouches, no remasters kinda old school - you want, need, this. much, MUCH bigger than you'd think. narratively stranger than you'd think too. store.steampowered.com/app/359440/Art…

Cthulhu Mythos RPG - The Sleeping Girl of the Miasma Sea ($4.79) - a love letter to capcom's survival horror classic, Sweet Home. a group of high schoolers decide to hang out at an old, abandoned mansion... and get much more than they bargained for. store.steampowered.com/app/938240/Cth…

Master Spy ($0.99) - a challenging retro style platformer that feels like it's taking influence from Impossible Mission and Elevator Action, turbocharging it, and then making it so you can only hide and dodge, not attack. killer soundtrack too. store.steampowered.com/app/331190/Mas…

will cap there for now! more recs to come later, as expected. hope you found something new and different to love! enjoy video games!