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https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner
A computer cleaning tool.
All magical and stuff. I guess. I don’t have a particular need for it, and I don’t miss it when it’s gone, but it’s in my toolkit.
payware
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was symphonygame.com
A top-down shooter game which uses music to generate levels.
Absolutely fantastic! HOWEVER progress is not auto-saved! Who the fuck makes a game where you can abandon everything you’ve played just by pressing a button too many times?!
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Abandoned; the website is gone.
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I’m not sure how to describe this game. It’s an oldschool oldschool point-and-click game.
I think I would have liked this back in the day, but these days I find a bunch of the mechanics and gameplay too frustrating to deal with.
- Properly titled Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
- https://www.gog.com/game/leisure_suit_larry
DO NOT BUY. DO NOT TRY.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/
https://www.nomanssky.com/
Explore, survive, gather and trade while making your way to the galactic core.
Every single described goal of this game has failed. It is a bad flight-simulator, with bad crafting, bad technology, and bad survival mechanics. It is set on procedurally generated planets so vast that nothing matters, in a procedurally-generated universe so vast that nothing matters. What’s worse is that it is so godawfully crowded with hand-holding that it becomes both easy and repetitive. Being ugly and with abysmal performance, it’s not even an exploration time-waster.
Perhaps in some years they will change/fix many of its issues, but I believe it has a fundamental casualness to it that anchors its core gameplay problems. This is not a game made for gamers.
2017-05-07 update: I tried it again, and it just isn’t worth it. If its graphics were the same as before (they’re busted now) then maybe. I have another video card but I’m not going to swap things around or fiddle with installing an old version of my card’s drivers. I just don’t want to bother any more.
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https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/
Shoot stuff and things.
I played the open beta. I found it fun, but not worth money. When I was given it for free a while later, I didn’t find it all that great.
- Has graphics reminiscent of Sanctum 2 – (2013 game).
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Overwatch 2 – While it has PvE to some degree, the full talent trees and upgrades concept will not be implemented. (source)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190810154034/http://twistedtreegames.com:80/proteus/
Open-world exploration.
It’s like an even crappier-graphics Minecraft, only with nothing to do. At first I thought it was quirky and interesting, but for some reason I got lifted in the air and after a long, long, while the game ended. I redid things, and this happened the second time too.
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https://www.iobit.com/en/advancedsystemcarefree.php
One of those “PC problems” programs.
Whatever this is supposed to be, it’s insultingly simplistic and opaque.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/344840/
http://www.gratuitousspacebattles2.com/
A tower defence game with space ships.
I didn’t play a whole lot of this, because the novelty wore off with the first one. However, it looks like this is more of the same: Highly customizable and extremely fun, but with poor replayability. Worth a bit of coin if you’re a fan of tower defence games.
I was able to utterly blow away the first two practice missions. It does look like it gets a lot harder. I think maybe this isn’t really for me right now or perhaps isn’t my thing any more. I think I would like this game a moderate amount if I spent more time with it.
Playing a few hours in, the UI is really annoying. That alone makes this game extraordinarily hard. I hate having to fight the game itself to figure all my shit out. I’m giving this a pass.
Like its predecessor, bonus points for the author throwing away all sense of storyline. Fuck all that shit, I just want gameplay. I’m not joking.
- Preceded by Gratuitous Space Battles
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Support was dropped for this game. See Indie game developers move on. Or they fail.
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http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/
A tower defence game with space ships.
Highly customizable and extremely fun, but with poor replayability. Worth a bit of coin if you’re a fan of tower defence games.
I didn’t take notes from back then. All I have are some saved fleets. Some of the game gets extremely hard, especially with technology restrictions. I fucking hate having those restrictions. This was a big downer to playing all the way through.
Bonus points for the author throwing away all sense of storyline. Fuck all that shit, I just want gameplay. I’m not joking.
I never tried its expansion Parasites.
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Followed by Gratuitous Space Battles 2
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Entertainment > Games > Borderlands – (2009 game) >
https://www.telltale.com/category/games/tales-from-the-borderlands/
This “game” is a piece of shit. Avoid it unless you’re a big fan of Borderlands. Even then, you should probably avoid it.
