![]() I 100%ed this, which is bonkers when there are 500 puzzles. And the pictures are classic Konami characters and items, from games like Frogger, Bomberman, Gradius, Contra and Castlevania! It makes the sensible decision to auto-fill Xs into rows with all the correct blocks painted, which makes play on a tiny screen much more pleasant (and can be switched off). It understands how picross is solved by a player, which madly seems to be the stumbling block for most mobile attempts, and accommodates for that. There’s no good answer, since this is one of those rarest of things: a good picross game for a telephone. IT’S FREE! IT’S BY KONAMI! What is going on?! It sports a single lone review on its Metacritic, and only 100,000 installs on Google Play. I mean, what? And yet, impossibly, this FREE game by the legendary publisher has been completely ignored. It definitely feels wrong to be putting a Konami game on Buried Treasure. ![]() And you can pay for the brand new Kyle Is Santa DLC. So make that better by heading to Szymanski’s itch page to throw money at him. It’s frankly offensive that this is free. I strongly recommend loading this game up, handing your phone to a friend or relative, and then just watching their delight. I then had the vicarious pleasure of showing the game to my 13 year old nephew, who played it on my phone, eventually rocking with laughter. Good grief it made me laugh so often, as I picked my way through a chat show host’s interview preparation day over and over and over, trying to find every joke it has to offer. This is such an easy pick – it’s the funniest game of the year. And this ends up really working, becoming something really rather special. You’re some artist, mooching about an island. The tasks you perform along the way are far more emotionally complex than your average RPG, and you’re not the bloody saviour. Not only does it make Unity look prettier than you could ever imagine, but it’s a violence-free first-person game, in which you’re visiting the island of Lyndow to paint pictures in memory of your late mother. But I still fear it’s a little forgotten since its February release, and it was definitely one of my favourite gaming moments of the year. ![]() ![]() Despite reviewing Eastshade from obscurity, it did go on to get noticed by some of the press a coincidental week or two later. Steam (Switch next year, which will be amazing) £9/€10/$12 Eastshade My review remains the only one on Metacritic, which is criminal, and this industry should be ashamed of itself. Able to read the unique last thoughts of every single biped enemy in the game, it’s certainly macabre in places, but buoyed by constantly fresh ways to play, and some really splendid puzzling sequences with your very own clone. This also allows the game to evolve as you progress, allowing your poor blue blob to attempt to discover his own origin and escape the ruins of some really rather gruesome experimentation. That’s wholly unfair – it stands out for so many brilliant original reasons, from its Dandara-if-she-were-sticky movement, to its parasitic main character – but gosh it was a pleasure to play a game that was all about constant progress, zero backtracking. MO Astray stands out from the overcrowded crowd of pixel platform games by one main feature: it’s not a Metroidvania. (Two of them are free!) Merry Christmas, and enjoy. I’m listing the prices as they are just now during the Steam sale, which are mostly reflected across all the other sites.Īll these games are spectacular, and well deserving of your time and/or money. Heck, that latter game’s on almost every other Of 2019 list anyway, as well it deserves. ![]() And I’ve made the decision to skip games that I played/reviewed when they were tiny indies that then went on to get lots of splendid coverage, like the amazing Pikuniku and Hypnospace Outlaw. They are in no particular order, apart from the last one, which is my favourite of the year. I will absolutely have missed out wonderful games because I either never played them or just forgot. This is my personal favourite games you might have missed in 2019, based on what I was fortunate enough to stumble upon. Let me be abundantly clear from the top: there is nothing definitive nor even half-reasonable about this list. ![]()
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