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Previously: "I Was Buried In Steam Games for New Year's!" I am back with even more games to mention, some from the gamesplosion and some others picked up since.

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams: grabbed it on a lark one night while e-hanging out with a friend after they said "this is the good Steam jigsaw game because all you have to do is buy one cheap DLC to unlock all the features." I approve of being able to turn any .jpeg of my choice into a puzzle of my desired size/complexity! Also comes with a digital room you can decorate/move around in a little. It's fine, if you have $5 and really want jigsaw on the computer go look into it.

Nexomon: Extinction: the best Pokemonlike I have ever had the pleasure of playing! It is very, very Pokemon (not to be confused with Digimon, Monster Rancher, etc) but establishes itself as its own thing... I guess my shortest summary (instead of gushing for an entire review) is that if you like Pokemon mainseries games, this has all the good stuff and none of the bad stuff. No needing to memorize several encyclopedias to play! A surprisingly good story! Combat and collecting which are mostly the fun parts instead of the boring parts! I won't call it perfect but damn I had such a blast, I recommend this one as hard as possible to anyone intrigued by it. (PS. It's technically a sequel but not really, you can play it without playing Nexomon 1.)

Tiny Pasture: less of a game and more of a desktop toy but I like it a lot so it gets a mention. You get a small pixel-art "pasture" along the bottom of your monitor and you fill it with cute pixel-art chickens and corgis and bunnies. In modern parlance it's a clicker→idler but if you're old like me, it's, you know, a silly thing to decorate your desktop and zone out looking at/poking when you don't want to work. A desktop toy.

Fae Farm: a 3D farmsim... and it feels weird to type this, but 1. I like it a lot 2. consider pirating it if you want it (unlike basically anything else I will ever mention)! The base game is very fun, it has its gaps/weaknesses but there's plenty to enjoy. I am told the multiplayer is GREAT and it definitely feels like a game I wish I had some friends to play with! However. The DLCs are not just hideously overpriced but actively make the game worse (for example one breaks multiplayer pretty badly) and that's because not that long after this game was published it was surreptitiously bought out by crypto bros who fired everyone. (This included nuking the next game they were working on, and having seen some of the concept art + played Fae Farm I AM SAD ABOUT THAT!) So the base game, made by a team who clearly cared and did honestly a very solid job, is quite fun. Unfortunately if you buy it your money goes to fuckheads who'd kill the golden goose to pry one egg out of its corpse slightly faster, and everything they touch sucks ass. If you decide it's cute enough to tempt (and I don't blame you if you do!) do NOT get the DLCs and DO explore the swashbuckling options.

Monster Hunter Wilds: Everything you've heard about how bad the PC optimization is? Extremely true (derogatory). Everything you've heard about how fun the gameplay is? Extremely true (fervent adoration). I'm not even good at action games! But I love hunting monsters with my friends. ♥

I think the backlog is nearly defeated. Maybe I won't have to write any more of these! (Which is good because I'm about to be dragged from MHWilds to the new FFXIV patch to a major ARTPG event... in what free time?????)

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