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I've been playing Mudrunner for some time. It's a game about picking up and transporting logs to lumbermills in a shitty soviet truck across the non-roads of Siberia. https://store.steampowered.com/app/675010/MudRunner [1/4]

Prodigal is a 2d Zelda-like about a thief returning to his community and making amends. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1393820/Prodigal/ [1/7]

I Am Your Beast is about a local John Wick type who resigns his job in the US Military. John's commanding officer doesn't take this decision well, so John must spend the entire game fertilizing the forest with the soldiers sent after him. [1/5]

Do you know the door breach sequences in Call of Duty? Where you place a breaching charge on a door, it explodes, and then you shoot every bad guy in a room while the time is slowed down? [1/10]

In Later Alligator you help an anxiety-ridden alligator Pat calm his nerves by investigating his family, who will throw him a birthday party/murder him for betraying the mafia this evening. https://store.steampowered.com/app/966320/Later_Alligator/ [1/6]

Orbo's Odyssey is a short 3d platformer about a little scrunkly man who accidentally locked himself inside his boss' office. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2539960/Orbos_Odyssey/ [1/4]

Northern Journey is a game about hiking in mythological Scandinavia, as you carry out an ordeal for the crime of passing by the wrong fjord in a row boat. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1639790/Northern_Journey/ [1/9]

Someone turned the Garden of Earthly Delights into an FPS: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2518790/Hieronymus/

Trepang2 is an FPS about an illuminati super soldier clone who dismantles Amazon one anomalous object at a time. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164940/Trepang2/ [1/5]

Horse Magnifier is a short game about putting lenses on pictures of horses. I recommend it if you want to spend fifteen minutes giggling while distorting horses. https://wer8888.itch.io/horse-magnifier

Be Not Afraid A.K.A. Seraphim Horror Show!? is a collection of minigames, framed as you (a human) participating in a game show for "biblically accurate" angels. https://slitherpunk.itch.io/be-not-afraid [1/2]

Solas 128 is a puzzle game about redirecting lasers. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1257850/SOLAS_128/ [1/3]

Lunistice is a 3d platformer inspired by games from the PS1/Dreamcast era. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1701800/Lunistice/ [1/4]

Terminal Lucidity is a game about reverse engineering string ciphers. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4154810/Terminal_Lucidity/ [1/8]

Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils is a Game Boy Color inspired 2d platformer and yet another hidden gem that needs wider recognition. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1726760/Curse_Crackers_For_Whom_the_Belle_Toils/ [1/9]

The Immortal John Triptych is a trilogy of point and click adventure games set inside renaissance paintings. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41213029-The-Immortal-John-Triptych/ [1/5]

In the same spirit as Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, also consider Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2238040/Tiny_Terrys_Turbo_Trip/

Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom is a collectathon platformer, where you control a wind-up taxi that can spindash and flop on its roof. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2011780/Yellow_Taxi_Goes_Vroom/ [1/5]

Wavetale is a 3d platformer with a strong focus on narrative, where you surf the waves trying to mitigate the effects of a recent ecological disaster. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823930/Wavetale/ [1/4]

Salamander County Public Television is a collection of odd minigames, strung together with a silly plot about producing content for the local TV station. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521810/Salamander_County_Public_Television/ [1/2]

I tried Harmless Drudge. It's a game that asks you to provide definitions for words in a dictionary, but it's actually about defining operations in a stack-based virtual machine in terms of other operations. https://qwtyest.itch.io/harmless-drudge [1/3]

I played through the FAR duology of games last week. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24953/FAR_Universe_Bundle/ [1/6]

Go Mecha Ball is twin-stick shooter roguelite, where you have Sonic's spindash as one of your core movement abilities. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008510/Go_Mecha_Ball/ [1/4]

DROD is the best puzzle game ever made. https://store.steampowered.com/app/314330/DROD_Gunthro_and_the_Epic_Blunder/ [1/10]

In Robocop: Rogue City you play as Robocop between movies 2 and 3, and the game cares both about presenting fan service and further developing the themes of the series. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1681430/RoboCop_Rogue_City/ [1/7]

Arco is an unusually atmospheric (soulful, even) squad tactics game with lightly branching story about traversing magical Mesoamerica to get revenge. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/Arco/ [1/10]

Soup Rooms is a free collection of virtual art rooms made by various indie developers with different ideas, messages and aesthetics. https://kiteline.itch.io/soup-rooms [1/3]

On art and video games: Here's a Youtube essay about how the Metal Gear Solid 3 evokes cinema history when played with a monochrome filter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzBhf6zElYU [1/2]

I've been playing Last Call BBS. [1/9]

Betrayal at Club Low is a short (~2 hour) RPG about infiltrating a night club while disguised as a pizza delivery man. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885750/Betrayal_At_Club_Low/ [1/8]

Blobun is a short and very snackable puzzle game about trying to cover every tile in a level with wibbly goo without stepping into it yourself. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3284270/Blobun/ [1/3]

Islets is a pretty chill 2d platformer metroidvania about exploring and joining together sky islands that progresses more or less as you would expect. Its tone, presentation and difficulty are fairly relaxed, and I enjoyed how it feels to control. [1/5]

Welcome to the Dark Place is horror interactive fiction about escaping the titular Dark Place. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1135700/Welcome_To_The_Dark_Place/ [1/6]

Tales From The Off-Peak City Vol. 1 is a game about becoming a pizza chef in order to steal the owner's legendary saxophone and help overthrow the local megacorp from destroying the neighborhood. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1129920/Tales_From_OffPeak_City_Vol_1/ [1/3]

Here's a find: Infini. So, mechanically this is a puzzle game whose main mechanic is screen wrapping. As you change which part of a level is shown on the screen, you can move yourself from one edge of the screen to the opposite side, allowing you to circumvent obstacles. [1/9]

Nauticrawl is a game about escaping a planet in a submarine/airship, whose operation you are not trained in. https://store.steampowered.com/app/922100/Nauticrawl/ [1/6]

Maneater is a very good 7/10 game about being the son of the shark from Jaws who has Had Enough. [1/5]

Strange Jigsaws is a puzzle game about solving strange jigsaws. The title really is that descriptive, the game presents and reinterprets the concept of a jigsaw in as many unique, surprising and delightful ways as it can. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2702170/Strange_Jigsaws/ [1/2]

Critters For Sale is a visual novel/point and click adventure hybrid containing 5 short stories about the timeless competition beyond human understanding, as seen from the perspective of various bystanders(?) across time. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1078420/Critters_for_Sale/ [1/4]

I played Monster Hunter World, a third person action game where anime Flintstones hunt a wide variety of dragons, dinosaurs and other oversized lizards. https://store.steampowered.com/app/582010/Monster_Hunter_World/ [1/16]

Deliver At All Costs is a top down driving game about being a courier in a kooky 1960s USA. Mechanically it wants to be a game about carrying out absurd orders in a world that works on cartoon logic, something like Crazy Taxi with more complications. [1/10]

I've been playing CrossCode recently and I like this game a lot. It's an RPG with actiony combat, a lot of puzzles and a very nice 16-bit SNES RPG visual style (Legend of Mana specifically). https://store.steampowered.com/app/368340/CrossCode/ [1/10]

The Dark Queen of Mortholme is a game where you are the final boss of a soulslike, facing off against the hero who keeps coming back. It's free, it can be finished in a single sitting of 15-20 minutes, and it presents some worthwhile ideas. Would recommend playing it blind. [1/2]

DOGWALK is a free ~15 minute game about building a snowman and walking a dog. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3775050/DOGWALK/

Another Crab's Treasure is a game about a hermit crab who had his shell taken away by an opportunistic tax collector following the recent annexation of his tide pool, so he is forced to pursue his house in the big city and learn about crabitalism. [1/7]

Hoa is a heavily Ghibli-inspired 2d puzzle platformer about a forest sprite returning to its place of origin to help a friend. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1484900/Hoa/ [1/4]

I played NaissanceE, a first person megastructure exploration game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/265690/NaissanceE/ [1/6]

I tried Weird West. It's a Diablo-like that aspires to be an immersive sim set in the supernatural wild west (think Hunt: Showdown, or RDR: Undead Nightmare). https://store.steampowered.com/app/1097350/Weird_West_Definitive_Edition/ [1/7]

This weekend I finished Disco Elysium. It's a story about a detective who went on a 3 day drinking binge so hard, that he forgot literally everything. https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/ [1/13]