Jeffrey, I get that the grown man who looks like he’s eaten more glue than he’s ever had brain cells now technically has more money than you, but this is a new low. As usual, it is the monthly moan about Prime/Luna, and it is a waste of time telling you the “GameNight” tripe because it is AI drivel and more Jackbox Party Pack stuff. However, for the psychos who think cloud gaming is a great idea, Dispatch and Sonic Mania Plus are on there right now.
On to the first offering for July and available now, it is Raven Software’s 1994 Doom-clone, CyClones. A game that thought Doom needed 30 minutes of FMV cutscenes that were slow, uninteresting, and “one of the worst FMV sequences ever witnessed.” At least your Prime subscription is valued. CyClones is available now for GOG.
I’d rather defecate in my hand and clap than have to talk about this next one again. Free on Epic in May through early June, you can pick up Lonestar now… for Epic, again. “Originally released into early access in mid-2024 and into 1.0 by April 2025 (a rarity), Lonestar is a deck-building Rogue-like turn-based strategy that certainly has been compared visually to FTL for one reason or another. Though Lonestar is praised, it is worth noting that it is criticized across the board for having poor descriptions,” as I noted back in May.
Sticking with the Epic Games Store for a minute, and available now, you can also pick up Dancing Dragon Games’ 2022 release Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga. The smelliest person you know’s idea of what Fire Emblem should be. “That’s not nice,” tell me that when you get to the bottom of this list and don’t want to have some strong words for someone. If you’re coming away from this list with Symphony of War as the best game on here, I will begin to question your tastes while also understanding it.
That said, I’m more drawn to the first offering on the 9th of July for GOG, GhostShark’s 2019 point-and-click adventure game Still There. Not because the fridge in that one image has a naked woman with Post-it notes on her nips. The art style and retro-ish space look is phenomenal. That said, this should be a second or third place in “I can’t wait for that one” for these types of things, not the “yeah, this month is so bad, that’s probably the best offering.”
Sticking with GOG and the 9th, it is your friend and only your friend, mc2games, with Regular Factory: Escape Room. Released in 2022, it is another one of the studio’s many escape room games, and does exactly what you think it does. Of all the games, it is certainly one of them.
On to the 16th and the Legacy Games offering, it is Alejandro Zielinksky’s Poly Vita. It is another one of those simple puzzle games that is visually similar to ustwo games’ Monument Valley series. Let’s be honest, what more am I meant to say? The game has 19 reviews, 14 of which are in English, and most of which are fairly positive.
Again, sticking with the 16th but moving back to GOG, there is certainly a novel idea to Loveshack Entertainment’s 2018 release, but I swear I’ve spoken about FRAMED Collection before during one of these. A noir-style spy adventure plays out, but you have to place the panels of a comic book in the right order to tell the story of this one that combines both FRAMED puzzle games into one. Sure, it is fine.
What is this, 2018? Back to the Epic Games Store for a minute before we move on. On the 16th, you can pick up Coin Crew Games’ Escape Academy, yet another godforsaken escape room-style puzzle game, this time set in school. If you haven’t noticed yet, I lost interest in covering this article when I first looked at this dire list of games, and somehow, Escape Academy is high on the list of positives.
Right, with that in mind, we move on to the 23rd of July and the Amazon Games App for a repeat of In Sound Mind. Something I lost when I agreed to keep doing these articles. Released in 2021 (because it wasn’t bad enough), We Create Stuff’s In Sound Mind is a first-person psychological horror game focused on puzzles rather than conventional action. As I say, another bloody repeat.
I know where she lives, so I could (theoretically) defecate in a bag and throw it at her front door because I am sick of magical schools and fans thereof. Available for GOG from the 23rd, you can pick up mc2games’ second offering for the month, Mystic Academy: Escape Room. A VR game where you play as a stripper for Santa on the surface of Mars, obviously… and for those that are exceptionally dense, that’s a joke. It is another bloody escape room game!
The penultimate offering is also available for GOG from the 30th of July, and unsurprisingly, it is not much better. Released in 2024 to tens of applause, Tiny Trinket Games’ Zoria: Age of Shattering (“sh-att” is certainly a phrase I’d use for this month) is a squad turn-based tactical RPG that unluckily had to release seven months after Baldur’s Gate 3. I don’t recommend suicide, but that’s certainly one way of doing it as a business.
However, we move on to the final offering available from the 30th, and for GOG, Weakless. Don’t worry, no one else has heard of it either. Released in March of 2020 (the best of times, if you’re criminally insane), Weakless is a puzzle-adventure where you play as teenage Groots known as Weavelings with bioluminescent glow. Listen, it looks fine, is reviewed reasonably well, but nothing this month will make you drop other games to play these offerings. Do better, Jeffrey; our hopes weren’t high, but you still disappointed us somehow.
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