Amazon Luna Games with Prime

I don’t even know what we’re calling this anymore, and I’m too annoyed to genuinely care. No matter what we’re calling it, it is still quite a crap month of what used to be called Prime, with maybe a game or two at most for every single person who still claims the games with their Amazon Prime subscription.

Available now, we’ve covered Sid Meier’s Civilization VI quite a lot, including when it was actually free on Epic, where you’ll claim it if you haven’t already. Generally speaking, beyond the milf-hunters who are still trying to ice skate up hill following the release of Civ VII, this sixth edition of the 4X strategy game is considered right up there with Civ II and IV. Though personally, I prefer: “Please Don’t Go. The Drones Need You. They Look Up to You.” Civ VI is one of those games (like Football Manager) where if you play it and like it, you are 700 hours deep and it’s August.

You know, if World War 3 does start this week because of an orange man, I’m signing up to get a gun and using those special skills to track down the person who founded Big Fish Games. Also available right now, you can pick up Reflections of Life: Dark Architect Collector’s Edition for the Amazon Games App, and quite frankly, I don’t have to say anything else. Everyone knows what a Big Fish Games game is, they’re all hidden object games that I’m sure are now being spewed out by the millions of AI prompts as we speak. Dreadful drivel directly douring… d’mood – I tried to do smart illiteration, do you know how hard that is?

Actually, one of the most interesting concepts and offerings this time out, we’re going back to 2016 and a top-down autocract cyberpunk shooter, Brigador: Up-Armored Edition. Or as Amazon puts it, Brigador: Up-Armored Deluxe, which includes the soundtracks, according to Steam. Visually and aesthetically, Brigador: Up-Armored Edition from Stellar Jockeyes and Gausswerks is a “hidden” gem offered via GOG from the 15th. It was at least a hidden gem to me, this being the first I’d heard of it 10 years after release.

From an interesting visual style to, as I recently put it, “potato people.” Also available from the 15th of January and via GOG, you’ll be able to pick up Orangepixel’s 2019 title, Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics. A procedurally generated, pixel-based, action, arcade platformer that is about as well-received as a politician covering up a federal employee murdering a citizen on camera; i.e, a bit mixed.

Of the 12 reviews on Steam, 9 are positive, but only 7 of those 12 have played more than an hour; only 2 of those reviews came from players with over six hours logged. Unlike many Rogue-likes/lites, Gunslugs: Rogue Tactics seems to be something you pick up and put down soon after.

I’m going to effectively bundle three-in-one here, simply because of what they are, because I did that last month, and because it was better for me psychologically. Deathkeep is a 1995 FPS/RPG that is available for GOG from the 15th. While Dungeons & Dragons – Stronghold: Kingdom Simulator is a city-building RTS from 1993, available from the 22nd. And finally, Al-Qadim: The Genie’s Curse is an ARPG from 1994, available from the 29th. These are, of course, the three SNEG offerings of dusty old Dungeons and Dragons games that your parents may have played. Grandparents, if you’re from Essex.

Going back to the 22nd and offered through GOG, you can pick up the very strange and quite interesting Harold Halibut. Developed by Slow Bros for its 2024 release, describing just how good Harold Halibut happens to be is quite difficult. It would be like me trying to describe why Thank Goodness You’re Here! is beyond perfection. A bit more “serious” in terms of telling a narrative, this one is almost entirely about how beautiful it is as it is claymation – something we only really see with Wallace and Gromit.

Ok, this next one might suggest that Prime/Luna/whatever is overall great, but I know I’m only pulled into this one because of the weird Art Deco art direction and the fact that I am a manwhore for city-builders. Technotopia is available from the 29th, and alongside Reflections of Life: Dark Architect Collector’s Edition, it is the only other game available via the Amazon Games App. Technotopia isn’t the typical city builder, though, being a card-based affair, you take the role of an “AI designed to build a perfect city.” Well, I can look at the pretty art while failing miserably at least.

The final game available for January 29th of 2026 is Elderborn, a first-person melee Souls-like that looks like Metal: Hellsinger if it weren’t rhythm Doom. Available via GOG, this one is exactly what it says on the tin: An action experience that should feel like a metal album cover come to life. That said, it is short, sometimes you’ll have issues with combat, and generally, it never rises above its station as a two-person developed action title that never outstays its welcome but also never entirely satisfies.