games

https://store.steampowered.com/app/970830/The_Dungeon_Of_Naheulbeuk_The_Amulet_Of_Chaos/
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-dungeon-of-naheulbeuk
https://amuletofchaos.com/

A top-down strategy game.

I dunno, it’s slow and awkward and has more talking than playing. Maybe I’d just have to wade through for much more time before the real game happens, but I’m not going to give it that chance. A game should be fun immediately.

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Loop Hero – (2021 game)

2023-08-03

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(on Wikipedia)
https://loophero.com/

A mostly-idle not-roguelike game, which, although it’s unique, is still mediocre.

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Final Fantasy 14 – (2013 game)

2023-01-04

dead, disliked, Final Fantasy series, freeware, games, multiplayer games, proprietary software, reviews, software, sword and sorcery entertainment, sword and sorcery games, Windows 10 software, Windows games, Windows software

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(on Wikipedia)
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/

Yet another MMO, but Japanese and built on a huge franchise and the smouldering remains of an abysmal failure.

I don’t understand how this is popular. It has boring repetitive abilities, a confusing layout and a terrible map system.

Properly named Final Fantasy XIV
Technically I’m looking at Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
aka ファイナルファンタジーXIV: 新生エオルゼア
aka Fainaru Fantajī Fōtīn: Shinsei Eoruzea
- Apparently that’s not a joke.
aka FF14, FFXIV

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Entertainment > Games >
Tower Defense Games > Bloons >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/bloons-td-6-bf95a0
https://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Mobile/Bloons-TD-6.html

A fair tower defence game that really does come across as a mobile game ported to desktop. I got it free from Epic, which is the only thing making me not completely trash this thing.

Fair, with flaws.

Supports ultrawide in so far as it paints a design outside of its normal widescreen aspect ratio.

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Entertainment > Games >

(XCOM > on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/XCOM_UFO_Defense/
was on microprose.com
was on mythosgames.com

Aliens drop by Earth and evil Humans shoot them down and mug them.

Nothing about the interface makes enough sense, and there are no hints as to how things work. It could have been made much better, even back in the day. I’m not going to forgive how bad it is, especially since there was zero effort by Steam to actually fix basic things like aspect ratio.

aka UFO: Enemy Unknown
- (in Europe)
TODO – There is another, XCOM:Enemy Unknown but it appears to be a remake/something and with DLC content:
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/200510/XCOM_Enemy_Unknown/

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Turtle WoW

2022-05-12

dead, disliked, entertainment, freeware, games, multiplayer games, oldschool games, online games, proprietary software, reviews, roleplaying video games, software, Windows 10 software, Windows games, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft 1 (Vanilla), World of Warcraft private servers

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https://turtle-wow.org/

A classic/vanilla World of Warcraft private server with additional modifications.

While it looks like it has hope, it fails because there are no quest markers on the minimap, so I don’t know where to find quests. I don’t want to re-live that part of things.