Amazon Luna Games with Prime

Let’s get started so I can get back to playing Football Manager 27. November’s Prime/Luna (still hate the name) has been announced, and I’d argue that it isn’t terrible this month. However, it is the time of sports releases, so as part of the cloud gaming side of Luna (the Luna Luna part), you can check out EA Sports Madden NFL 27 and NBA THE RUN, the latter a fast-paced take on a game known for its fast-paced, end-to-end gameplay. You can also check out Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, Mixtape, Police Simulator: Patrol Officers, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. If only it weren’t cloud gaming.

Shifting focus to the games you can actually play at a decent quality, we’ll start with what is available now, and it is another sports title that isn’t for everyone. If you too want to fling yourself into a tree at high speed, you can pick up WRC Generations for the Epic Games Store, the last of the KT Racing WRC games before EA took over for a year, and Nacon has the license back. No, it is not Richard Burns Rally, but what do you really expect? As the title does suggest, though, there is plenty of WRC-based history tied up in it.

Speaking of throwing yourself at trees, the other offering right now is Dee Dee Creations LLC’s Squirrel with a Gun. Come closer. I was about to make fun of you, suggesting this was a deep banker simulator, cocaine included, but making fun of Squirrel with a Gun is like putting a hat on an operatic cartoon poo. You play as a squirrel with several guns, doing very Goat Simulator “funny” things that are only funny if you are higher than Willie Nelson with the Rockefella Center tree up his rectum. Enjoy stoners. Squirrel with a Gun is available for the Amazon Games App.

On to the 12th of November, and we’re getting another decent offering for weirdos like me who enjoy wrapping cars around trees and managing human sanctuaries for all my lovely Dinosaur guests. No, I didn’t get that the wrong way around; it is Jurassic World Evolution 2. Available for the Epic Games Store, Planet Zoo with scales and angry noises is the evolution of Frontier’s first try at making a Jurassic Park park management game interesting. I haven’t had much time with it myself, I must admit, but it is an improvement.

Also available for the 12th is Radiolight, a walking sim mystery thing set in the 80s which I’ve had on my wishlist for some time now. There is a bit of horror, but I wouldn’t say it is the focus – it is more of a small bump or thing-in-the-distance type of horror as you, a policeman, investigate the disappearance of a small child in the mid-80s. Anyone think to look at an island in the Caribbean instead of a national park? Well, worth a try. Solo-developed, Radiolight is certainly a late entry into the horror offerings of the year.

From quality games and putting some budget behind things to Nacon’s other offering this month on the 19th, it is Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood. If I am being kind, which I rarely am, it is crap. Developed by Cyanide Studio and released in 2021, Werewolf: The Apocalypse is the Jacob Black (underage and being emotionally abused?) side of World of Darkness, the tabletop RPG that gave us sexy classics like Vampire: The Masquerade and nothing else. So don’t expect to understand the plot and the gameplay as very stealth-action-focused. Indeed, for a tabletop RPG basis, it is the most triple-A-minded stupidity I’ve seen.

Like the prior two, the next one is also available for the Epic Games Store, but one has to ask why bother when it could have been a thing you ignore on the Amazon Games App instead. Developed by Mango Protocol, the developer behind the Mechanika and Agatha Knife games, CLeM (I’m not doing that again) is a narrative puzzle adventure with a typical indie developer art style. It is not a bad art style (like Werewolf) or a terrible game (reviewed fairly well, actually); it is just another one that doesn’t leap out at you as obscenely original.

Believe it or not, there are no hidden object games this month (Jeff Buckley!), and the final offering for the 24th of November is available for the Amazon Games App. Released in 2021, Galbra Studios’ Arcadia Fallen is a visual novel dating sim for the people who watched BBC’s Merlin and have since discovered that they are LGBTQ+IA. You play as “a young alchemist apprentice,” and with a merry band of people you already hate on principle, you must save the world. Indeed, page one of the book on How to Write Fantasy Plot Clichés.