Gacha gaming update 2023 – Tried Alchemy Stars, gave CounterSide a second chance

Dropped both after roughly two days, though. It’s going to take a lot for a game to make it into my permanent gacha rotation now. I don’t even think it’s possible because I’m either really busy or really tired these days. Peak earning years, I told you. Games aren’t going to pay for my retirement […]

Guardian Tales dropped – Too much skill required (great game, though)

And by “too much skill required” I mean there were too many stealth missions and eventually I’d had enough. I played up to World 9-1 in Guardian Tales, made it through other stealth-based stages like the whole desert saga, but finally I gave up the ghost. It’s like, even if I make it through this […]

Figured out Mega Picross

I’ve always ignored the “Mega Picross” sections of the Picross games I played, but after playing Sanrio Characters Picross, I thought I would give those puzzles one last try. I’d always found the explanations too complicated to understand, but once I took my time and worked through the tutorial puzzle along with the instructions, huh, […]

Pyramid Solitaire Saga review – Annoying gimmicks get in the way of fun

Instead of jumping into another RPG after Demon Gaze II, I’ve been playing Pyramid Solitaire Saga for the past couple of days. It’s another prettyfied puzzle game from King, makers of Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga and many similar time-wasters. And these games all share one thing in common: they all start out really […]

Dungeon Shoujo – Finished. Not that exciting

Dungeon Shoujo / Dungeon Girl,  is yet another game from Japanese indie developer inutoneko. It was released before both Soul Smith of the Kingdom and Witch Ring Meister, but I skipped it earlier because mentally I couldn’t reconcile the dungeon exploration setting with the puzzle gameplay. If it’s a dungeon crawler then I want to […]