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Long Live The Queen

If you like cute designs, classic music, and the mentality of "Try, Try Again" then Long Live The Queen is for you. At first i got it due to all the hype, but then I started playing it in earnest and I couldn't let it go. It's not a sprint of a game; it's a marathon. It's a "come back later when you're not mad anymore" game. It's a "I've got it this time!" game. You'll laugh. You'll curse. You'll stomp your feet and kick the wall. Then you'll come back for more and you will love it. Getting your first victory is a wonderful feeling that will have you +3 cheerful for days. And then you'll wonder how else you can win and you'll be back on the grind to try it another way. There are a lot of achievements, plus the epilouge checklist. There are boys and girls to marry. There are kingdoms to fight and befriend. There are spies to outwit and be outwitted by. There are chocolates with your name on them and a dagger, also with your name on it. Be smart, be determined, be prepared to fight or hug your way to the top!

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

Bloodstained keeps tempting me to simply call it Bloodstained:symphony of the Night. It's a fun game, but I'll be honest; i've never played a castlevania before. I imagine i might hve stronger opinions on this game if i had. After all, nostalgia was a major selling point. That aside, it was fun to play and had a lot of funny sound clips. A built in randomizer and a timer really boost replay value. It's nice to have something overpowered that isn't patched out day one.

Monster Prom!

Monster prom is a part game where you try to date a monster and maybe fuck over your friend if they're trying to date the same monster. The real appeal of the game is its sense of humor. IT's refereneal, but not overly so. It enjoys punching up occasionally, but prefers the blatantly absurd. First game takes place in a highschool, and the second in a summer camp. Monster Roadtrip takes a different approach. Where the first two games called themselves dating sims they had very little to do with actually dating your characters. Monster Road trip is a resource management simulator with dating sim elements. You're already invested in the characters by the time the third game has rolled around, if you're still playing, so I was delighted to be able to interact with our colorful cast of characters in a more in-depth manner and ask them about their plans for the future, hopes and dreams and the best and worst parts of being themselves.

SuperGiant's Entire Catalog

Super Giant as a game studio makes such wonderful stories. The art direction and music are astounding. Super Giant has never made a stinker. I started with Bastion, skipped Transistor and jumped into Pyre with both feet. Hades is the fan favorite, but all the games are fun.

Yume Nikki

Listen, I can't do a better job explaining Yume Nikki than any of the other people out here on the web and certainly not the people on neocities. Check out https://ynoproject.net/ to play it online with others. My favorite location is a tie between neon and forrest world. I really like the sheildfolk world music, though. My favorite fangame is .flow and my favorite location in there is atlantis/underwater city.

Umihara Kawase for the super famicom

I hate snails. I hate goldfish. I hate snails. I hate eels. I hate snails. I hate myself a little for playing this. And I hate snails.
Jokes aside, this is a fun game if you like a challenge. As seen on Game Center C X, this game is difficult, with doors that may lead you to the next level or fling you eight levels ahead, with challenges you havn't tackled before. You get ten lives and there is a timer on every stage. Just to add a little light to your life. You are unlikely to complete the game in a single sitting unless you're already used to kusoge or the like. I would recommend it for something to come back to every so often. Just stay away from snails.

Slay the Princess

You start on a path in the woods; at the end of that path is a cabin and in the basement of that cabin is a princess. You're here to slay her. If you dont, it will be the end of the world. Or, at least, so the narrator says. Slay the Princess is a visual Novel, out of beta and officially released in 2023 by Black Tabby Games. Everything is voiced except your dialouge options, which is both convenient and part of a good story telling technique. The runs are relativly short, and a game only lasts five runs before requiring you to start a new save. Five runs is plenty of space to show you what Black Tabby can really do. The warnings for gore and self harm are serious here, but they don't revel in it. The game invites discussion between itself and the player and between the player and other players. There's lots to see in those five runs, whichever way you run. Just remember that, at the heart of it, This is a love story.

Cult of the Lamb

A little lamb, the last in the land, is chained and brought forward to be slaughtered in a desperate attempt to prevent the fulfillment of a prophecy fortelling the return of The One Who Waits, only for the act of the slaughter to trigger it. Now, The Lamb begins a quest: create a great cult to draw in worship for The One Who Waits to revive and Defeat the gods that imprisioned him for your new master. But if you're strong enough and smart enough, you may have a chance to flip the script nd become the master, yourself!
An isometric dual part game where you manage a cult in a very Don't Starve manner and go on Crusades where you battle enemies in a style best described as 'If the Binding Of Isaac was melee." The game covers dark subjct matter very lightly, prompting you to keep a smile on your face even as you murder a loyal follower and chop them up for dinner, intimidate adorable creatures into handing over all their worldly possesions and other such Cult Activities. You can save cute animals from being sacrificed to a religous cult, only to sacrifice them for your own cult! Destroy the lands of competeing gods and grind their followers into bones! There is a fishing minigame, resource management, all that good stuff you look for in your indies. This game also loves crossovers. Naturally it has a cross over with Don't Starve, but it also has a crossover with the lamb appearing in Monster RoadTrip

The Beat 'Em Up is not very popular these days. The quarter muncher arcade machines of the past are history, along with the CRTs in machines themselves. The memory of the Beat 'Em Up still lives on in River city Girls. A spin off of River City Ransom, starring Rikki and Kunio, Misako and Kyouko dive kick and roll punch their way through River City in search of their kidnapped boyfriends! Are you a bad enough bitch to fight the Yakuza and save your sweeite pie? If you are, then do it again with River City Girls 2. Now featuring Provie, who just got off the DDR machine to fuck up some Yakuza in order beat the dog-napping allegations, and Marian, your favorite punching bag who got tired of getting gutpunched and rescued and resultingly grew a six pack and an attitude.
River city Girls 1 & 2 have great sprites, fun and engaging game play, and a fun combo system where you can knock enemies into a co-player's attacks like a greasy volleyball. You can live life on the edge by turning friendly fire on or keep it sweet. The story is simple but the characters are fun and make you smile. The game comes on multiple platforms and isn't very expensive. If you've got the cash and a little time to kick a dude's nuts back into his body, I very much reccomend River City Girls and any of the River City Ransom series.
I also reccomend River City Girls if you've never played a Beat 'Em Up in your life. Game genres only really die off when there's no one around to play them. Most of the old school arcade goers already have estalished favorites and might replay those time and time again, but not spend any time looking at new offerings. The BEU genre needs new blood to keep teeth flying across the city streets. All genres do, really. With no one interested in trying new game styles, anything that isn't mainstream tends to die off. Dreams of game styles find themselves shelved or relegated to a dusty corner where they won't get half the attention they deserve. Sure, not every game can fit into the spotlight at once, but giving a new game a try can lead to you having a blast and being the new blood that a game desperately needs.