Prime Gaming - June 2025 | Phenixx Gaming

To quote Green Day, here we go again. The first weekend of the month is ahead of us, and Jeffrey picks the best of times, doesn’t he? Prime Gaming for June isn’t particularly long, interesting, or exciting. Let’s get the in-game stuff out of the way first. Lost (T)Ark offers a “Legendary Rapport Chest,” and that’s it. Otherwise, it is still mobile games that offer daily “rewards” that are as exciting as cleaning a toilet bowl after curry night.

Available right now via the Amazon Games App is The Abandoned Planet, a 2024 point-and-click adventure. I’m not going to say it is a bad choice, especially from the publisher of the Doors/Boxes series, but it is heavily influenced by the 90s titles. The short description on Steam highlights this fact a little too much to say it has its own identity going on. I’m certainly interested since it passed me by last August, but maybe there is a reason for that.

Available through GOG right now is 2015’s Mordheim: City of the Damned, typically what I’d call fantasy Euro-jank, but I can’t. Developed by Rogue Factor, the Montréal-based studio is a subsidiary of Nacon’s Cyanide. The studio has a knack for adaptations of Games Workshop’s IP, also working on Necromunda: Underhive Wars back in 2020, though if you’re not a fan of that fantasy style, it can look a little tiring. Generally favored by those who have played it, Mordheim: City of the Damned is another one that’s a bit niche.

I like trains! Available through the Amazon Games App from the 12th of June, Galaxy Grove’s Station to Station is a light, minimalist, cozy voxel thing I was excited for back in 2023. Kind of a city-builder-esque, you are simply connecting stations up in procedurally generated voxel worlds. A bit like your Nether train stations in Minecraft, but more visually interesting.

Part of me wants to say the next one was available through the Amazon Games App before, but I’m not totally sure now. SMG Studio’s 2017 co-op puzzle game, Death Squared, will be available as a GOG code from June 12th, and just last month got 42 new levels. I’m not complaining, just odd, and I thought it was already something most of us had.

On to the 19th, and we’ll stick with GOG for the rest of the month, starting with Dark Envoy. Released in 2023, the fantasy real-time tactics RPG with a sort of 19th-century (Steampunk-ish) medieval-ness about it could have interested me, but then I saw the UI. Designed by a blind data analyst on drugs, you couldn’t pay me enough to lie about this – Final Fantasy VII (Remake and original) has a better UI. Just because your game is an RPG doesn’t mean the UI needs to be needlessly messy.

Also available on the 19th of June is the 2008 sequel to 2005’s Fate. It is Fate: Undiscovered Realms, which is the MyFirst Diablo of dungeon crawlers, and not a very interesting one at that. Favored by people older than dust itself, who still think Runescape is the height of graphical fidelity, it is an odd choice of “classic” to include. Especially in an RPG kind of setting. Even the remastered versions featured in FATE: Reawakened don’t excite, even though that’s why it is here.

Drowning like a child in a church clad in only a white dress, Looking Glass Studios died only months after the release of Thief II: The Metal Age. So in 2004, when Ion Storm had already killed Deus Ex the year previously, and Daikatana fell out of Romero like diarrhea, the Austin-based studio also made Thief: Deadly Shadows. Available through GOG from the 26th, Deadly Shadows took away the sprawling levels and charm of Thief for the sake of 2004’s best graphical quality through Unreal 2. If it weren’t for 2014’s Thief, I’d have easily said the worst Thief game, at least until Legacy of Shadow releases.

If I smoked crack for a long enough period, I’m sure I’d be able to think the next offering was good, but it is like that whole monkeys-typewriters thing. I sort of lied on the whole GOG thing, as also available on the 26th through Legacy Games is Gallery of Things: Reveries. A hidden object game that uses faux-psychedelic imagery to create a collage. Sure, do as you do Tiny Little Lion and Boomzap Inc, but can I stop being involved? Because you are terribly dull.

The actual final game for the 26th of June is available through GOG, and I can’t say I’m too excited about that either, despite its Alien-like themes. Jupiter Hell (released in 2021) is a top-down, turn-based shooter Rogue-like with a heavy dose of unapologetic stylization, and I kind of want to commend that. However, unless you are a very small number of people who do enjoy that stylization, you are kind of told to go suck eggs. For better or worse, it has an audience, but I don’t know who.