Posted November 18, 2015
It is a dark time in itself, and I suddenly got tired of various combat in some poorly lit dungeon or claustrophobic cyberpunk cities with dark, muddy colors. I craved a change of environment, something with a fundamental different feel.
Anyone seen the tv-serial Psych? Comedy about a fake psychic who solves crimes? No? Anyway, what I like about this show is its warm and carefree slacker attitude. It’s game with some of the same feel I’m after. Something bright and light.
So I spend a little time going over various games. Yeah, instead of playing games, I ended up researching them. Typical!
I reinstalled Ascendant again, but sadly, I still think the controls makes this thing pretty much unplayable. So I uninstalled it and created a new tag in my GOG-library named PILE OF GOAT CRAP and assigned it to the game.
But I did find some other games, though:
The burning-stuff simulator Little Inferno is casual and cozy, but also thought-provoking and grotesque. While taking place in a cold world where you just looks into your fireplace, I somehow think this game fits.
Lilly Looking Through takes place in a really vivid world, and has some of the best animations I have seen in a game. The negative is that the game requires you to wait for the animation to finish for everything. Slightly irritating, but it don’t detract much from the experience.
Race the Sun is simple, fast-paced scifi-racer where you race towards the sun at insane speed for as long as possible before smashing into a obstacle and exploding. It just feel good to race at top speed through an open landscape. Flatout II is a more traditional racer. Is quite enjoyable and has plenty destruction. Hit the nitro for extra brightness!
Treasure Adventure Game
A huge, solid world make this so much more than just treasure-hunting and platforming.
TRI
New-age spatial puzzler. Something about its settings just radiates heat. Its world is far from realistic, but it has a certain solidity.
Crimzon Clover: World Ignition
Bullethell with plenty eyecandy!
Pixel Piracy
Sadly it’s kinda buggy, but I like its warm colors.
Long Live the Queen
Many japanese games - or games inspired thereof - features really bright and clean artwork.
Pharaoh + Cleopatra
Jaxx said: “I play it every summer, because it has that unexplainable warm atmosphere, that gets you every time you see the intro movie.” - this sentence was what attracted me to this game.
Come to think of it, those isometric sim games typically has something bright and clean about them. They’re seldom about a gritty cyberpunk city.
Theme Hospital
Simple and entertaining hospital sim with a nice pastel palette.
Anyone seen the tv-serial Psych? Comedy about a fake psychic who solves crimes? No? Anyway, what I like about this show is its warm and carefree slacker attitude. It’s game with some of the same feel I’m after. Something bright and light.
So I spend a little time going over various games. Yeah, instead of playing games, I ended up researching them. Typical!
I reinstalled Ascendant again, but sadly, I still think the controls makes this thing pretty much unplayable. So I uninstalled it and created a new tag in my GOG-library named PILE OF GOAT CRAP and assigned it to the game.
But I did find some other games, though:
The burning-stuff simulator Little Inferno is casual and cozy, but also thought-provoking and grotesque. While taking place in a cold world where you just looks into your fireplace, I somehow think this game fits.
Lilly Looking Through takes place in a really vivid world, and has some of the best animations I have seen in a game. The negative is that the game requires you to wait for the animation to finish for everything. Slightly irritating, but it don’t detract much from the experience.
Race the Sun is simple, fast-paced scifi-racer where you race towards the sun at insane speed for as long as possible before smashing into a obstacle and exploding. It just feel good to race at top speed through an open landscape. Flatout II is a more traditional racer. Is quite enjoyable and has plenty destruction. Hit the nitro for extra brightness!
Treasure Adventure Game
A huge, solid world make this so much more than just treasure-hunting and platforming.
TRI
New-age spatial puzzler. Something about its settings just radiates heat. Its world is far from realistic, but it has a certain solidity.
Crimzon Clover: World Ignition
Bullethell with plenty eyecandy!
Pixel Piracy
Sadly it’s kinda buggy, but I like its warm colors.
Long Live the Queen
Many japanese games - or games inspired thereof - features really bright and clean artwork.
Pharaoh + Cleopatra
Jaxx said: “I play it every summer, because it has that unexplainable warm atmosphere, that gets you every time you see the intro movie.” - this sentence was what attracted me to this game.
Come to think of it, those isometric sim games typically has something bright and clean about them. They’re seldom about a gritty cyberpunk city.
Theme Hospital
Simple and entertaining hospital sim with a nice pastel palette.
