Prime Gaming – September 2025

There will be nothing offensive said by me this September, I promise. If there is anything offensive said about the 11th, then it has nothing to do with me. It is Jeffrey and the people at Prime Gaming who are going to be responsible for the offensive stuff. Anyway, for the first time since god knows when, I don’t need to talk about mobile game daily challenges, or in-game guff, that, quite frankly, you should be getting in the game in the first place. So let’s get to what is available for Prime Gaming in September 2025.

Starting in the year four, and what is available now through GOG, we’ll talk about DreamForge Intertainment’s Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft Series, which was originally released in 1994 and 1995. Originally called Ravenloft: Strahd’s Possession and its sequel Ravenloft: Stone Prophet, this is a bundle of the two releases of the fantasy RPGs that are so old that 57% of the screen is UI with your party’s faces on it. Given my experience with D&D is fairly limited to Baldur’s Gay 3, I think you know why I’m not exactly excited by a D&D game with dungeons looking like boring Doom levels.

I love Subset Games; FTL is easily one of my top 25 games of all time, but for the life of me, I couldn’t get into Into the Breach. Available now through the Epic Games Store, Into the Breach always fails to intrigue me tactically. Its simple art style and limited scope of maps in a Rogue-lite vein of gameplay don’t make me ask for one more run, but rather another game entirely. I think I am quite literally the only person to bemoan Into the Breach‘s simplicity, so take me with a grain of salt. If you’re looking for FTL‘s depth, but turn-based, that’s where you’ll be misguided by Into the Breach‘s pedigree.

Returning to GOG once again with something we spoke about last month, you can pick up Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Complete Edition. In my opinion, the better option, alongside Civ VI. If you’re looking for a sort of “classic” 4X experience without the modernities of gaming as it is now, then Civ IV is every bit of the full depth that late 90s/early 2000s gaming had without the shortcuts to keep it light and breezy. That’s the only problem I actually have with this 2005 release, that Civ VI somewhat fixes: It could be a touch more fluid, but still great.

Onto September 11th, and we’ll continue with GOG, as I have to ask who thought it was a good idea to offer Tower of Time on this day and this month? Released in 2018, the fantasy RPG with Pauldrons the size of mountains and a UI that’s a bit underserved. It is the one month you could say “don’t do anything with tower(s) in the title,” and no one got the memo. Heavily favored on Steam, presumably for its active-pause gameplay, the few who had heard of Event Horizon’s first game before Dark Envoy would probably be excited, if they hadn’t already picked this one up.

I can clear this one off my Steam wishlist as it is available via the Amazon Games App, Afterimage. Released in 2023 and coming from Aurogon Shanghai, this 2D hand-drawn action adventure is every bit the typical “Metroidvania” and “Souls-like” that plagues the indie sphere like Hep-C. However, unlike most of them, Afterimage, like Hollow Knight: Silksong, actually has some color and vibrancy to its art style that makes it stand out. Some of those backdrops and ideas going on are utterly gorgeous.

Returning to GOG and the days of UI taking up 90% of the screen, we continue with the 11th, and we also continue with more D&D adventures as we look to Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace. If you want a game that looks, plays, and feels like it is older than dust itself, then you’ll be happy as Larry to play Cybertech’s 1992 release, but if we’re honest, a modern Spelljammer game wouldn’t go amiss. The more tech-space fantasy version of D&D, I’d argue is an often forgotten bit of D&D in gaming in favor of sexy gay vampires.

The final game of the 11th available through the Amazon Games App is a bit of a weird one that I wish I knew more about before now, as it actually looks interesting. Released in 2024, Pixellore Inc’s Subterrain: Mines of Titan sees you do the usual game thing of waking up in a strange land with no memory, but you’ve woken up in a desolated mining camp on Saturn’s Moon. Looking a bit like a Rogue-like dungeon crawler, it is actually “an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG” where the subterranean horrors of Titan make life a living hell. A survival-crafting game I want to play in 2025, am I ill?

Moving on to the 18th of September and we’ll continue with GOG for both offerings, particularly the last FATE game, FATE: The Cursed King. Emerging from the putrid year of 2011, when there were only about 5-6 decent games, this was the release that finally looked like it came from the year the original FATE released, 2005. As I’ve made clear in the series being offered thus far, as a dungeon crawler for the time, it might have been decent, but a 2011 dungeon crawler promising the exciting new feature of having party members is like the exciting new feature on the new Ferrari is the badge with a horse on it.

Speaking of a game that’s a bit old and designed by the nostalgia committee, Orangepixel’s 2021 title, Residual, is a mix of Spelunky-style adventure and Terraria-infused survival. Maybe I’m the only one who sees that, but you explore planets throughout the galaxy to mine resources and eventually fix your ship in a heavily crunchy pixelated art style. An art style that I don’t particularly find appealing. Someone is going to like Residual, clearly, but I’m afraid it isn’t too many people. Of the 31 reviews on Steam, several are negative with an overall rating of mixed.

We’ll move on to the 25th and the penultimate offering that makes me want to cave my own face in with a brick, any guesses what it might be? That’s right, the hidden object Legacy Games offering, this month’s offering is Mystical Riddles: Ghostly Park Collector’s Edition. If I were allowed to swear here, you’d find out just how little I think of the people who make these poor excuses for games. I put the crime of making a Big Fish Games game (or similar) right up there with murdering kids and stabbing pensioners in the street, and this offering is no different.

It’s okay, that wasn’t the final offering; we instead have, via the Amazon Games App, Baltoro Games’ 2023 title, Pixel Cafe. An odd little crunchy pixel-y cafe thing that walks a line between Cook, Serve, Delicious, and I want to say Coffee Talk. Of all the offerings, this is one that’s up there simply because it looks like a warm hug of cozy time management game fun times. Which is more than I can say for some of the offerings with Prime Gaming lately.

Maybe I won’t do this from now on, or maybe this will be the start of it, but of the offerings this month, I’m most excited by or looking forward to Afterimage and Subterrain: Mines of Titan. Though they are the basic indie ingredients of genres, their visual style and twist on what genre they are in looks more interesting than 90s D&D in different flavors. If you haven’t tried it yet, Civ IV is also top-notch, but as I previously said, we’ve seen that one before offered through the Amazon Games App. Not a terrible month overall, but there are certainly a couple of duds and a few delights.