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I’ve failed to publish my Games of the Year (or much of anything) since 2016. I would like to do something about that. Strange as it may be to discuss my highlights from last year halfway through this one, it’s nonetheless what I’ve got for you today. Read on… IF YOU DARE.
Argh, this was meant to go out over the New Year period(!) but I’ve been burning the candle at both ends with work and… well, this turned out a lot longer than I expected!
I opened the door to 2019; felt like I was struck dead. Saw the future, but all the future was was the past repeating itself. “Fuck,” I exclaimed. “No!,” I pleaded. I tried to slam the door shut, cried in horror at the terrible revelations unfurling themselves. But there was no closing the door. Before I knew it I was on the other side, mistakes ready to be remade; but would any lessons be learned? I feared for the worst case. I was right to be afraid.
Hi, Tap-Repeatedly. It’s that time again! So… Here’s somewhere between five and ten games I liked in 2019. Below the jump!!
Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I end season five of Side by Side with, well, a sheep dog game called Disobedient Sheep. You can’t say we’ve not had variety this season!
This week, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I slink around in the dark trying to kill each other in Mild Beast Games’ At Sundown: Shots in the Dark. We played this a few years back at Rezzed and loved it, and since then it’s been in active development. Much to our excitement it was finally released in January this year!
Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I resume our usual Side by Side programming this week with Totally Reliable Delivery Service, an ‘open world multiplayer physics game about terrible delivery drivers’. Yep, that was us!
In our second departure from playing, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I discuss local multiplayer trailers. And we forget to mention a couple of (puts on American hat) doozies.
It’s Side by Side Thursday again, and this week Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I are whacking energised spheres and firing chicken arrows at each other in Moonradish Inc.’s Wand Wars.
This week on Side by Side, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I play the digital board game Daka Dara by Sugarsnapp Games.
In this week’s episode of Side by Side, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I take a look at rules cocktail and party shooter SSMP by Actual Humans, which stands for ‘Shoot Shoot Mega Pack’, but I prefer ‘Soft Soft Muted Pastels’.
This week, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I get bad to the blood in Winnie Song’s brutal and beautiful BADBLOOD.
In this week’s episode of Side by Side, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I play Hypersect’s crisp ‘negative-space shooter’ Inversus. I mean, just look at it.
In this week’s episode, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I don’t play, we talk about the Side by Side games of yore that we’ve since changed our minds about, and why. Sometimes, you just need more time (and friends) to stress test a multiplayer experience and reveal things that perhaps weren’t so obvious initially.