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Today's game is Oddworld: New and Tasty. Rumored list: I'd be good with that. Still don't have Alien Isolation, Darkest Dungeon, The Long Dark and Jurassic World. But Stranded Deep and Solitairica look like solid pick-ups too.

Snap impressions of a few games I've played here and there this week between Hades runs. Night in the Woods Bounced off it after realizing I wasn't in the mood to re-explore the town each in-game day. I've had the most fun with the mini-games so far. The writing feels like it should carry the game, but it is strange how it hardly acknowledges the animal theme at all. I'll return to it next year. Kunai Got this one in the Amazon Prime free library. It feels like a slightly floatier Hollow Knight with dual grappling hooks ... which is kind of awesome, truth be told. It's perfect comfort food Metroidvania that doesn't demand much from you. The visual style also works out much better for it than you'd think. Underhero It's both better and worse than I thought it would be. On one hand the combat system is very unique, kind of a real time Paper Mario. The writing is surprisingly on point for having to live under Undertale's shadow. Platforming is straight-up boring though, and production values are a little off at times, kind of like a 90's computer game that can't decide whether its pixel art or not.

FFVIIR deserves the recognition its getting. It's not quite GoTY quality and has its controversial bits, but it ended up being a great RPG in its own right. Between it and DQXI, SquareEnix is finding their groove again.

Or bundled in the January Humble Monthly / cheaper in the Steam Winter sale. Fair chance many games will be cheapest on Fanatical/Humble/GMG too. But that $10 coupon should come out ahead in several cases.

Outer Wilds is $5 with it. So is Journey to the Savage Planet.

You just missed it. They were free for the past week. I keep the stickied thread title updated for new freebies. This thread is an offshoot for more visibility, since the newer EGS giveaways will only run 24 hours each.

Ubisoft is also having a similar $10 off coupon if you install and run Hyperscape. Their winter sale just went live as well. I'll pick up AC Odyssey's season pass for $6. Got the base game free from Google's streaming test, so they probably deserve something from me.

$10 coupons are back as well, for games $14.99 or higher, after claiming a free game

Cities Skylines is up first. Site is getting hammered atm. Cities Skylines - Cities: Skylines WWW.EPICGAMES.COM Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. It introduces new gameplay elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience. Don't forget Ubisoft is also doing their week of giveaways too!

Trials Rising is Ubisoft's free game today. Epic's giveaways start today too!

Strongly considering double dipping now.

Hydra always felt easy to me. The Elysium bosses continue to be annoying as hell for me though.

Unsung Story on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Unsung Story is a tactical RPG from the mind of Yasumi Matsuno (FFT, Vagrant Story) that takes place in a world where spells are cast as songs and a 77-year war has damaged the foundations of magic. Build a team to work backwards in time from the final battle to find a way to save Lasfaria. It lives?

Reminds me of this long retired logo: Meant the game passed cert and wasn't a black market port or hack. Some people never understood it, took it way too literally.

I play Hades pretty much every day. I've read that you need to beat it 10 times to 'finish' which is what I'm aiming for. But I also want to space out my attempts since it's a lot to do all at once. It'd be nice to play other games in the meanwhile. So some days I swear I won't play Hades. But no other game is as instantly fun as Hades. So I'll boot something else up for an hour, ditch whatever it is, and go right back.

Crossplay with PC and mobile.

Not really worth watching IMO. Hoa and Cyber Ninja look alright, and Spelunky and Among Us on Switch for those who want it.

Saw this in IGN's XBO/PS4 footage, lol.

Starlink is free! Ubisoft is doing a bunch of giveaways for the next week. https://register.ubisoft.com/happyholidays2020-day2/en-US

On a related note:

It’s not 3D and lacks complex combo strings, but give Hades a shot. Very action heavy combat.

I don't see why they can't co-exist. Those who are playing it are talking about both in this thread.

Most of the big announcements were basically FMV teasers. It was a bad showing if you wanted those annoucements to be more than skin deep. Most of the 'minor' announcements and gameplay reveals were great though. It's hard to say what will pan out exactly, but there were a lot of promising indies and AA games shown last night. So I'm not disappointed at all.