I’ll be honest and say that it has been easier voting in Scotland this week than it is often covering these Prime/Luna things. To get it out of the way first, the offerings for Luna in terms of cloud gaming this month are Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Resident Evil 2, Alien: Isolation, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, and both LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars and LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Surely you don’t need Clone Wars if you have The Complete Saga, unless we’re removing The Clone Wars from Star Wars? The perverts who like late 2000s CGI cartoons are going to be angry.

Anyway, onto what you can pick up, download, and even keep, we’ll start on the 7th, and we’ll start with a GOG offering, Mafia II: Definitive Edition. Indeed, like a gay Japanese man who was in an American concentration camp in WWII, I am also saying “oh my!” Set in the post-war period of a faux-New York area, you play as Vito Scaletta, and from the outside, Mafia II is a GTA clone with the Italian mob and very linear gameplay. Yet it was easily one of the best games of 2010.

There never was a Fallout in Vegas, God of War III didn’t happen, Mass Effect ended after 1, and there was no sequel to Red Dead Revolver. Shhhh, if we say it enough, the lie will take hold.

Also available from the 7th, and for GOG, you can also pick up Fruitbus. Released in 2024, this is a weird, cozy little German thing where you run a food truck for animals and make fruit and veg-based dishes. We saw this one a lot during the showcases leading up to its release, and I’ve still yet to properly get around to it myself, but I think Mike reviewed it, and it wasn’t too well optimized, which was a major issue on launch. Reviewed a lot more favorably now, but keep that in mind.

Moving on to the 14th of May and Amazon Games Code for Survival: Fountain of Youth. I wondered why I hadn’t heard of this one before, then I realized, “Oh yeah, I hate all that this is trying to be.” Survival: Fountain of Youth is another survival game (it is in the title) where you fight the endless struggle between your will to live and the fact that you’re playing a survival game with crocodiles/alligators, sharks, eagles (I hate you, Far Cry 4), and snakes. Give me a knife, and I’ll do the job myself.

Given what I wrote, it’ll be interesting to see if that makes the edit as we move on to mc2games’ 2025 game, 60 Minutes to Extinction: Escape Room. Available from the 14th and for GOG, 60 Minutes to Extinction is like Ready, Steady, Cook – I know what it is, what it is happens to be is in the title, but I can’t explain it any better. You are thrown into a Cold War-era bunker, told there is a puzzle or umpteen to solve, and solve that in 60 minutes or you’re locked in. It’s a bit like The Crystal Maze, too, I suppose.

From UK-centric gameshows to budget comic book art styles, and I do mean multiple, going by the screenshots. Lethal Honor – Order of the Apocalypse is available from the 14th for the Epic Games Store, and is in fact not the MCU’s answer to Lethal Weapon. Being serious for a minute, there are bits of Lethal Honor that look ok, nice even, but then you move on a bit, and it looks as if the art style changed somewhat.

Maybe it is the lighting and perspective that are not helping it, but you look at it in one angle and one scene, and you like it well enough. Then you look at something slightly different, and Lethal Honor isn’t as appealing as it once was, just a few seconds ago. It is a weird one, and not just because it is an action Rogue-like trying to be adult, but just in general.

I guessed it on the title alone this time, and that’s not a good sign. Orangepixel’s 2016 game Space Grunts is available from the 21st for GOG, and I’m going to struggle to say anything nice again. I think the reason I dislike Orangepixel’s offerings each month is Nickelback– Hear me out here! Everyone moans that Nickelback is the same song over and over, and sure, if that’s what you think, but Orangepixel’s games are pixel art, either top-down or side-scrolling, with an action bent, and the same or similar-looking short, fat characters.

Sir Questionnaire was different, I’ll give you that, but Snake Core, Meganoid, Heroes of Loot, and even Stardash look about the same. Do they maybe play a bit differently? Sure, but I’ve no interest in playing them as is, never mind talking about the nuances between metaphorical FIFA 16 and FIFA 19.

I’m sensing a pattern here… the second offering from mc2games, Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room, is available from the 21st for GOG. It is another escape-the-room thing (it’s named well for sure), but this time you’re in/on a space-based bio facility. Sure, go nuts.

Hot Brass, what I called your mother that one time when she sent me that picture, is a Door Kickers-like. I think I tried this one ages ago and didn’t like it because it is very much Door Kickers, but a bit less sophisticated. I know that sounds like I am bending over and licking myself, but it felt like a prototype of what Door Kickers is, which isn’t helped by playing hundreds of hours of its sequel either. Available from the 21st, you can pick this one up for GOG.

I’ll give Jeffrey (not that one – who honestly believes he wrote that note?) credit in that it isn’t a hidden object game this month. The Legacy Games offering for the 28th still isn’t exciting or good, but it isn’t complete drivel. This month, you can pick up Seven Sails’ 2020 offering, Nordic Storm Solitaire, the Solitaire your mum says we have at home, but only government computers and critical infrastructure PCs have Windows XP anymore. If your birth year starts with 2, that’s a reference not for you.

From a bland solitaire that got me distracted enough to go play a couple of games to a very boring sci-fi, adventure, mystery thing. Available from the 28th for the Epic Games Store, Cosmoscouts’ Moon Mystery might be for you. Then again, so might beige paint. If there is something nice to be said here about Moon Mystery, it is that the developers tried. They didn’t succeed at whatever it was they were going for, but they did try, which is more than most.

The final offering is a Football Manager-like, but if it didn’t have the equivalent of the EFL. Which, in the case of basketball, is just the NBA and WNBA. There are European and Oceania licences, but I’ll be honest in saying that’s like turning up to an F1 race in an Aston Martin designed by Adrian Newey. Available through the Amazon Games app, you’ll be able to pick Pro Basketball Manager 2026 up from the 28th if you’re criminally insane enough to play a basketball variant of Football Manager.

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Keiran McEwen

Keiran Mcewen is a proficient musician, writer, and games journalist. With almost twenty years of gaming behind him, he holds an encyclopedia-like knowledge of over games, tv, music, and movies.

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