Barotrauma is roughly three to seven games in one; what’s remarkable about this is that they’re all enjoyable.
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by LepcisMagna 
Once again, and for reasons I still can’t figure out (microstuttering, maybe?), a game causes me incredible nausea after playing for about 45 minutes. Though in this case, I’m not sure it would be worth my time even if it didn’t.
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by LepcisMagna 
Riven is what I expected Myst to be. Is that a good thing?
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by LepcisMagna 
Myst is perhaps the most famous point and click adventure game series, surpassing both The Secret of Monkey Island and Broken Sword, in my opinion. When I was much younger, Myst was the game that always drew my eye and made me imagine the fantastic worlds that must lie within. For one reason or another, I never played it until now. After accidentally stumbling across C.G.P. Grey starting a playthrough of it on YouTube, I figured now was as good a time as any.
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Paradise Killer
by LepcisMagna 
Paradise Killer is a game of three parts: an island exploration, a crime investigation visual novel, and a trial. There are serious flaws with all three of these parts, but it might be worth 5 hours anyway. Unfortunately, it’s a 10 hour game (from my 99% run through). This should be spoiler free, just in case!
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by LepcisMagna 
On the one hand, there’s a lot to like here. On the other hand, there’s also a lot of things that don’t quite work.
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by LepcisMagna 
I guess I can’t really say why I like Kentucky Route Zero. By all accounts, I should probably hate it. It has as little interaction as a visual novel, has a slow walking speed, is about as open to interpretation as anything imaginable, and you’d be forgiven for saying it was pretentious.
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by LepcisMagna 
Journey is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful, best sounding, and emotionally moving video games of recent memory. I am clearly in the minority, then, when I say that I found it lacking.
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by LepcisMagna 
D&D 5e has been around for six and a half years now, but there are essentially only two cRPGs based on the 5e ruleset, both in Early Access. Here, I’m going to take a look at one. No, not that one.
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