Monday, Cash Cleaner Sim is on consoles early for totally not criminal reasons, and Maid of Salvation is now on Switch, so maybe I won’t get an email a day about it. Tuesday, Barda is the bag management from Cairn, but as a Rogue-like, while Under the Island, which I’ve been following for years at this point, finally got a release date. Wednesday, the Humble Bundle offerings for February are here, for good or bad, and there is a new therapy game on the way. Thursday, Games Done Quick is doing a Back in Black event, and there is something called Dice Throne Digital coming to PC.

Moving on to the Epic Games Store, and this week it is a double bill that kicks off with Botany Manor. A cross between the walking sims of the 2010s and a little bit of Strange Horticulture, you play as a woman (Indeed Bond) tracing her career in the 19th century by finding and cultivating many strange and wonderful plants in her manor home. Think Croft Manor, but instead of solving puzzles to unlock the secret areas, you’re just growing exotic plants by running all over the house for clues. Not a Return of the Obra Dinn mystery, but it certainly has a couple of puzzles to calmly solve.

The second offering this week is a free-to-play thing with a special offering of some DLC guff, i.e how the game is typically monetized. Pixel Gun 3D is basically Minecraft FTB turned into a rudimentary multiplayer shooter with all the charm of a damp and mysterious-smelling sponge. This week, you can pick up the “Poison Retro Set” DLC, which is about as obvious as graffiti on one of those hand dryers in the men’s room. It is a game aimed at fleecing the wallets of parents of young kids with whatever this DLC is supposedly worth, $24.99. In what world?

All this week, you can pick up Botany Manor on the Epic Games Store for PC and for mobile, while you can only pick up the “Poison Retro Set” for Pixel Gun 3D via PC. Onto next week, and it is a detective double bill, but one that I don’t entirely hate. One of them was my game of the year for 2024. Once again we’re talking about The Darkside Detective: a Fumble in the Dark, because I can’t get away from those damn games. However, I get to smile in the 1930s Fifth Element detective drama that is Nobody Wants to Die.

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