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Life Update: Who's Laughin' Now?

Not in the sense of Jessie J’s song “Who’s Laughin’ Now”, which is a great song mind you and I love Jessie J, but more in the sense of Todd Howard’s little lobotomised gremlin tone. “Who’s laughing now? …. Yes, I was in the chess club.” Throughout the whole time, there have been big steps, small steps, back-steps and completely falling off; I am still struggling with mental health, we were all…

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[LEGACY] Astral Breakers

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #AstralBreakers by @intropygames. A #action #indie #puzzle #cute #zodiac #game, released on #Steam. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

Astral Breakers is honestly a game that surprised me. While not being squeaky clean, no bugs, no issues, it’s certainly a game I enjoyed right to the end.Actually, I am considering playing it on stream to showcase its highlights and lowlights.This game is, genuinely, not bad. Anything that is bad about the game doesn’t make it unplayable, unlike some games. There is, however, a lack of a…

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When Destruction Leads to Creation: Navigating Relationships and Setting Boundaries

Not a game review.

When does destruction equal creation?When is it necessary to destroy something to pave the way for something new?And does that change when it’s regarding relationships, be it romantic or friends? Food becomes spoiled, and can be used to turn into compost, which helps new plants to grow. Similarly to when the Native Americans would burn land, it would not only prevent forest fires from spreading,…

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Going MIA. (Again and again and again and…)

Not posted in a while, here's an update.

Well, hello there,It’s your old pal or nemesis Jinx, and I’ve come here to say… Sorry for going MIA.This is not a new thing for me, as it happens fairly regularly, but if you’re new to all of this I can give you a little run-down. I have ADHD and I also have ASD. Both of these things affect me in different ways, and my ADHD is unmedicated, so we have a lot of fun with that.The ADHD means that I…

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[LEGACY] Nightmare Never End

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #NMNE by @AKStudioCompany, given to me by #keymailer. A #horror #mystery #dark tag game, released on #Steam. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

You wake up in your room and realize that something is very wrong. You’ve been tasked to review another horror indie game, and it already looks as if you’re going to be crying in frustration more than you are in fear. In the last (or maybe first) review that you saw of mine, in the very first paragraph I mentioned the shovelware that has plagued Steam since Steam Greenlight was taken from us and…

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[LEGACY] Thrive

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #Thrive by @Thrive_Game. A #Science #Simulation #Nature #Indie #game, released on #Steam, and given to me by #keymailer. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

We’ll start off by saying that I was excited about Thrive, as I’ve played Spore. It’s the part of Spore where you crash-land into the sea inside a big meteorite and gobble up all the stuff you need to evolve, adding more on as you go.This game is that exact part from spore, but more complicated, more complex. Again, you start off a tiny cell doing a wiggle-swiggle around the sea, but instead of…

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[LEGACY] Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #AcornAssault #RodentRevolution by @HighTaleStudios & @plugindigital. A [#tag] game, released on #Steam. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

Acorn Assault: Rodent Revolution is where Plants Vs Zombies meets a Match 3 game. There is not really a lot to complain about the game, despite the number of cons I will inevitably put at the end of this review. Most of them are because the game is a little price-y for only having 25 pretty short levels, which I’m sure scale in difficulty. It’s more or less nitpicking after the whole price check…

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[LEGACY] Shape Shift Shaun Episode 1: Tale of the Transmogrified

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #ShapeShiftShaun by @MegaMainframe. A #retro #Fantasy #Surreal #platformer game, released on #Steam, and given to me by #keymailer. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

When strolling through Keymailer, I often look for games I know I can play. This also means that the selection of games that I get can sometimes be rather underwhelming, or just plain shit.The ease of getting and reviewing bad games has got me this far, being not just a smaller streamer than most, but also relatively newer to streaming, less professional and less social media savvy. I can now…

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[LEGACY] Receiver 2

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #Receiver2 by @Wolfire. A #simulation #fps #shooter #indie #realistic game, released on #Steam, and given to me by #keymailer. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

I first went into Receiver 2 thinking that this was a first-person shooter game like any other, I was wrong. I’d read the blurb on how it teaches you vaguely how a vast array of guns work, in the most “This Does Not Qualify As Actual Gun Training” way as possible, but still thinking it was a progressive game. I was also wrong. You start off by getting this pistol, which it tells you how to fire…

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[LEGACY] 9 Balls

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #9Balls by #CasGames A #sports #indie #indiegame #3d #shovelware #game, released on #Steam. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

9 Balls is indeed a billiards game, what happens when it is 8 balls instead? This is the question I asked when I opened the title screen and instead of “play”, “options” and “exit” I was met with “8 balls” and “9 balls”.Now this isn’t relevant, obviously, but it was a lingering question. Why call it 9 balls when you have an 8 balls game too? This is a shadow of a billiards game, it is…

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[LEGACY] Lake

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #Lake by @Gamious @WhitethornGames An #OpenWorld #Relaxing #Adventure #Cosy game, released on #Steam, given to me by #keymailer. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

Lord bless Keymailer and their forever extensive library of new and upcoming games, waiting to be requested and played by the unsuspecting gaming influencer. With Steam and the Greenlight function being taken away and a mountain-load of shovel-ware sweeping into the marketplace like a landslide from a landfill, it’s hard to request things from the site and not dread what you’re getting into. Due…

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Fugue

#DoubtfulPlayer #Friday Fresh upload. Today's #GameReview is #Fugue by @OriGaminc @shawnpierre A #Puzzle #Music #Casual #Charming #Relaxing #Indie #game, released on #Steam. The #review is available now on our website.

Fugue is a game, and a basic game at that. For those who saw the “music” and “melody” part of the description on Steam, ignore it. This game has nothing to do with actual music, there just happens to be music creation, of sorts, within the game. If you’re a music nut, this game isn’t for you. If you like to relax and do simple “1+1=2″ maths with the pay-off being you make a four note “song” then…

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[LEGACY] Alwa's Legacy

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #AlwasLegacy by @EldenPixels. A #pixelgraphics #2d #platformer #adventure game, released on #Steam, and given to me by #keymailer. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

Starting off with the sequel to Alwa’s Awakening, what a joy and what a delight after playing the first game. From their game in 2017 to this release in 2020, Alwa’s Legacy is one of the games that I can say visibly and thoroughly improves from the first game to the second. Nearly every point that I had made about the previous game was cleared up, rectified, and that’s always a great thing to…

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Action Rush

#DoubtfulPlayer #Friday Fresh upload. Today's #GameReview is #ActionRush by #ThroneLab A #3D #Platformer #Shovelware #Indie #game, released on #Steam. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

So, here we are, in Action Rush. We start at the precipice of a rocky, floating island after just having come out of a very India Jones looking temple-like place. Flaming torches on stone pedestals, huge towering columns and dark shadowy corners. Completely contrasted by the protagonist, the woman, this woman that we are given looks so damn improper that not only am I questioning why I’m here…

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[LEGACY] 12 Hours

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #12Hours by #SecondReality. A #meme #horror #indiehorror #indie #3D #action #darkhumor #maze game, released on #Steam. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

Upon entering 12 Hours, you’re hit straight with that shitty indie feel and not to mention the long loading times. The screen shows some basic text with controls, but some of these controls seem confusing at first because they ask you to use the LMB to turn on and off your torch, but also to use it to attack… What? Nevermind, I’m sure it will explain itself eventually or make sense in-game. You…

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The Captain

#DoubtfulPlayer #Friday fresh upload. Today's #GameReview is #TheCaptain by @Sysiac. A #PixelGraphics #Adventure #RPG #SciFi #game, released on #Steam, and given to me by #keymailer. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

The Captain is one of those games that takes me back to the old days of NewGrounds and Armour Games, a plethora of flash games, all of my favourites being point and click adventure games. (I tried to recreate that magic on Twitch once by only playing flash games on Fridays, but I can safely say that no one was interested.) Despite the very long intro with screeds of text that I ended up skipping…

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[LEGACY] Alwa's Awakening

#DoubtfulPlayer #Sunday legacy upload. Today's #GameReview is #AlwasAwakening by @EldenPixels. An #indie #2D #adventure #pixelgraphics game, released on #Steam, and given to me by #Keymailer. The #repost of this #review is available now on our website.

This instance for me was a first from Keymailer. What I’d done was go through my entire Steam Wishlist (Over 2k Games, it’s a story for another time) and requested EVERY KEY that I could for all the games on my wishlist. This took mostly the entire night until 4am in the morning, provided that I’d also watched my friend’s stream until midnight that night, and was also being distracted by…