Prime Gaming – May 2025 | Phenixx Gaming

Jeffrey, you just have to ruin my day, don’t you? Another month, a particular day of the month, and I’m sat here without cake writing about bloody Star Wars of all things; might as well have me writing about war crimes and disturbing historical facts. Still clinging on as the sole in-game “content” offering, Lost (T)Ark still has a horrible logo and offering the in-game currencies to get you hooked to play the MMORPG that’s about as exciting as shoving pennies up your genitals. Oh, how fun.

Onto what games are available this month through Prime Gaming, first up you can pick up LEGO Star Wars – The Complete Saga via GOG right now. This isn’t the one from a couple of years ago that has all 9 films, I think The Skywalker Saga, it’s episode I through VI alone. So, the good ones. Developed by Traveller’s Tales, it is all the generally beloved and heavily reevaluated films in playable game form with a majority of the drop-in co-op and accessibility we’re used to now with semi-modern releases.

Also available right now through GOG in terms of Star Wars is Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga, a real-time strategy set in the Star Wars universe. Well, it wasn’t about to be set in the Farscape universe now, was it? Developed by Age of Empires developer Ensemble Studios in the Genie engine, I don’t think anyone is going to complain when I say that Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds as it was first called is just a repainted Age of Empires II. The Galactic Battlegrounds Saga includes the Clone Campaigns expansion, for those that can’t get enough of Order 66, or whatever.

One last available through GOG for now, the prequel and second game (and I didn’t know this) to Cyanide and Spiders’ 2012 game Of Orcs and Men, you can pick up Styx: Master of Shadows. Released in 2014 but looking (from the key art) like it was an early to mid-2000s Euro-Jank release, and it sort of is if you think about it. A stealth game at the heart of it, Styx: Master of Shadows isn’t a very good stealth game as the overall rule of thumb is “darkness good, light bad” with no in-between. As well as having combat that is certainly there but never going to be worth doing.

The final game available now is actually a repeat through the Amazon Games App, stockbroker ’em up The Invisible Hand is available again. Released in 2021 and developed by Power Struggle Games, your job at FERIOS isn’t exactly easy or totally intuitive from first glance. Buying, selling, and maybe just killing a few children through illegal arms trade, you do what every person who should be lined up and shot would do. Making as much money for yourself as possible, no matter the longer-lasting implications. Ya know, a politician’s wet dream.

Moving on to May 8th and away from Star Wars, there is another type of space Nazis to be worrying about when you pick up Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition for both Xbox and the Microsoft Store. Yes, actual Nazis on the surface of not the moon this time, but Venus. The sequel to the series that was rebooted in 2001 and has been loosely connected throughout, this 2018 release is widely considered one of the best shooters made in the last few years.

Available via the Epic Games Store from the 8th of May, you can pick up Amnesia: Rebirth. The first Frictional Games game in the series in some time, Rebirth is a rebirth of making you want to bash your face across a brick wall because it is Amnesia: The Dark Descent but again, and worse. Little more than a thinly veiled walking sim with the occasional light puzzling, the story is where Rebirth feels more like something else. Particularly a wet placenta hitting a dirty tile floor.

I’ll honestly be surprised if that last line makes it through editing, so we’ll move on to Hypnospace Outlaw. Or what I’ll call it forever and always, “Remember when the Internet looked like this brain rot that these kids think they invented?” Available via GOG, you are an “enforcer” in this alt-history 1999 where people have made dot-com bubble GeoCities-like websites filled with gifs (pronounced with a G!), midi music, and otherwise. Your job is to get rid of the copyrighted material, which was harder back then because your mum would phone your Auntie Belinda while you were downloading that nude image of Jenny Agutter.

A repeat from 2022 now, as we return to the humble world of trying to make a Doors game sound interesting. Basically, you are shown a door, told “it is a series of puzzles, and that’s it. Now solve it, you useless sod, or you can’t progress any further.” That is until you decide to skip things or take the heavy hints that might as well solve everything for you. Doors: Paradox, available through the Epic Games Store, is yet another Big Loop Studios game where you are given an object or a small section of a place, are told to open the door, but to do so it must be powered by the fan belt of a Reliant Scimitar SS1’s V6 engine.

The only “gat” that I want in hell is the one that I can use to send Margret Thatcher to somewhere hotter than the sixth circle of hell. Presumably the surface of the Sun. The spin-off sequel that no one ever asked for ever in a month of Sundays, 2015’s Saints Row: Gat out of Hell felt like just an excuse to give Meat Loaf a payday. However, despite the name being a parody of the albums and song, nothing on the soundtrack is remotely connected to him.

Meanwhile, the gameplay is just another Saints Row that tries to one-up the game before it, and that was the one where you were the president during an alien invasion. Shark, meet jump. Available through GOG from the 15th, sure, whatever, I’m certainly not excited by it.

Building on the success of the sci-fi-infused ENDLESS Space from 2012, Amplitude Studios returned in 2014 with a fantasy 4X, ENDLESS Legend. An attempt to drum up interest ahead of ENDLESS Legend 2 releasing “soon,” ENDLESS Legend tries to make Civ ten billion times more tiring than it needs to be. Available through the Amazon Games App, the 4X turn-based strategy does a lot right for those that snort this type of game like it was stuff in a dwarf’s navel, but if you’re of the “casual” vein (as I am), you’ll be lost and give a Wild Walker a swift kick in the plums.

The problem with Golf With Your Friends is that you need friends who want to play golf. Weird mini golf, but golf nonetheless. Available from the 15th via GOG, you can pick up Blacklight Interactive and Team 17’s 2020 title and maybe convince the people who hate golf to play mini-golf with you. Or you can dust off the PS2, crack open Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, and play Monkey Golf. Or just play Banana Mania.

Sticking with GOG here for a minute, we’re going back to 2002 with Crystal Dynamics and a time before vampires were late-teen twinks with cool hair. The fourth game in the Legacy of Kain series, but because the timeline is a circle it’s also the second game story-wise, so effed if I know. Blood Omen 2 is a pre-sequel-sideplot thing that makes me want to set fire to someone’s curtains to teach them a lesson about telling a timey-wimey story that’s a bit nonsense. The game’s alright, though.

The last of what is available from the 15th is actually something I’ve reviewed and loved, because it is about as wholesome as putting a tea cozy on your head. Mail Time is a cottage-core adventure about delivering the post around a lovely little forest grove full of adorable little creatures. Available through GOG, this is one that is absolutely for those who want to sit down with a really hot chocolatey drink and play a game in one sitting. Though given the color theme, I’d suggest waiting until September, when leaves turn a bit reddish-brown outside.

A bit late to the promoting the remaster party, Fate originally released in 2005, and looks it. Developed by WildTangent, the same studio that made the Genesis3D engine which was used by a Neo-Nazi group to make 2002’s Ethnic Cleansing: The Game, the Texas-based studio gave the Dungeon Crawler a good college try, but I can honestly say this is the first time I’m hearing about it. Or its three sequels and the remaster earlier this year. Available through GOG from the 22nd, you need a heavy dose of nostalgia to enjoy this one.

From a game that looks like it was designed with diarrhea pills to a game that was designed by diarrhea pills and stencils. Arguably one of the best, if not the best of stealth gameplay in any game ever made, going back to the ever creatively named Thief II: The Metal Age (available through GOG), reminds you that despite having full 3D models, graphics still had a long way to go. Before health regenerated automatically and guards were nothing characters, the Thief series reminds us that you can make a good game that could fit on a CD-ROM.

Similar to Paleo Pines, I think you’ll be getting your Stardew on with Mooneaters, Untold Tales, and WARSAV Game Studios’ Everdream Valley. Available through the Amazon Games App from the 22nd of May, it is just as I’ve described but in 3D and with weird dead-eyed animals. It’s like a game full of Funko Pop animals, which is worse than the sheep from that one episode of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

Back to the Epic Games Store for the next one and it is Minimol Games and Hawthron Games’ Chessarama. A sort of Chess-ish kind of game. Focused more as a turn-based puzzle game, the many themes play host to different challenges that use the idea of Chess without fully be a game of Chess. Pieces will move like knights and rooks, but you aren’t playing full rounds or even trying to capture a king, you’re just trying to complete the puzzle objectives. Strange and could be enjoyable if you’re a fan of Chess in general.

Nope, you can climb in a bin, bend over backwards, and lick your ring piece clean, I’m not interested. Fine, The Lost Ashford Ring is the Legacy Games offering for the 22nd and I couldn’t be more violently sick if I tried. The art style makes me want to go back in time and kick the creator of hidden object games to death for their crimes against humanity. You know what The Lost Ashford Ring looks like? It looks like the game an alien would make if you explained hidden object games to them.

Returning for the 29th via the Amazon Games App, we’ve got the repeat of Samurai Bringer. Previously available back in July of 2024, it sees you playing as a Kami from Japanese mythology, Susanoo-no-Mikoto. As I said back when we first covered it, this strange and interesting Rogue-lite could be a sleeper hit with those who didn’t know about it before.

Somewhat less interesting is Angry Mob Games’ 2023 title, Trinity Fusion, available through the Amazon Games App. Mike reviewed this one back in early 2024 and enjoyed it enough, but as I think most reviews would agree, it does just enough to be enjoyable yet not enough to stand out amongst the Rogue-lite and Metroidvania noise. For me, it is about the art style more than anything. Though a good Metroidvania stands on its gameplay, I think the art style plays a big part in my desire to play one; see Hollow Knight, Blasphemous, and Halberd Studios’ upcoming Mariachi Legends.

Another repeat this time through the Amazon Games App, I said of this one “[it’s a] programming-like flow-chart logistics puzzle.” Masterplan Tycoon is a perfect example of that visual style that’s appealing, even if the gameplay is fine. The majority of Masterplan Tycoon is to basically be one of Jeffrey’s slave-driving warehouse managers, filling out orders for things like fish, bricks, and stone to be delivered here, there, and everywhere. Certainly a niche one, I’m still finding the time to properly play it.

The final game for May is available from the 29th via the Epic Games Store, and sadly it is the most basic of modern indie games, a Rogue-lite deck-builder. For some that’s fine, but beyond just being tired, I’m tired of the entire Rogue-like/lite genre, and Liberté doesn’t change that. Polarizing gameplay and other misgivings isn’t entirely made up for with an exciting art style, unfortunately, making difficult to say too much about without giving a disinterested shrug.