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This was such a sweet game. Kind of an interactive story. Only took a couple of hours. Extremely wholesome. No pressure or peril, just a fun cute story.

A bright and fast paced arcade spaceship shooter thing. Controls were a little odd- it wouldn't recognise my controller, but also wouldn't run if I unplugged my controller.

I'm not much of a one for tactical games, but this one has a good tutorial that eases you in.

In this game you play as a newspaper editor dispatching your reporters to get stories from around town, but town has an awful lot of strange things going on. I haven't got into this one very far, it looks like there's a fair level of complexity. 

This game is extremely silly and completely misunderstands how trains work. It's also really fun and surprisingly addictive.

Steer your train- I know, I know- through different courses except also the front of your train steers (again, I know) entirely independently of the rear. Good luck!

A sneaky game of spying; also platforms.

This is a fun Glitchy first person shooter roguelike, in which you start the game with six bullets. Once you shoot a bullet, you have to go and pick it up again before you can reload.

There are various monsters that want to kill you, in some kind of hellish corporate "hunting ground" that's gone wrong. You need to get down to level 8 to fix whatever is wrong.

Along the way there are pickups and vending machines that allow you to deposit money and items that you find along the way. You can buy and deposit items to be reclaimed after you die.

A short visual novel about people trying to get into the UK. Quite distressing, and it seems like your choices don't really affect the outcome in a meaningful way. Only about five minutes long.

Plant a seed to grow a tree. Then, climb up that tree, and plant another seed to grow another tree. Get as close to the sun as you can.

This is a a dialogue driven adventure game about a zoomorphic cat named Mae Borowski, who has just dropped out of college and returned to live with her parents in a small town in the midwest.

The game progresses through exploratory platforming and dialogue choices. Often, the dialogue choices are between and abrasive response and an extremely abrasive response, which I struggled with at times. In a similar vein I was quite often not given a choice about doing something that I really didn’t want to do, which was not super enjoyable at times- during one such minigame, I just muted my computer and looked away so I would lose the minigame and could move on with the story. Overall, though, it’s a compelling story. Speaking of story, there are occult themes in this one, and while I love me some occult themes, I was quite taken aback at how suddenly they appeared, after about 12 hours of fairly normal, slice-of-life feeling plot.

This was a fun, weird, edgy, depressing, hopeful game, and it took me about 14 hours in total.

Park cars! Some have no brakes, some have trailers, some are carrying chickens, and all are coming in hot. You earn tips based on how undamaged your cars are and how neatly they are parked.

There's a disabled parking space to keep clear, and a VIP space- occasionally a fancy black car will come in and "It's the prime minister!" pops up on the screen, so I always make sure to crash that one into a wall.

This is a basic first person shooter. You start in a rundown office building, only to discover that some kind of experiment, or ritual, has taken place, and there's no one here. There *is* a portal to another world, though, so maybe check that out.

Also the office building is decorated in trans pride colours which I liked.

Extremely silly game in which you are a dad who is also an octopus but! It's a secret. Can you be a secret octopus without anyone guessing that you're secretly an octopus?

This is the silliest game I ever saw; as a result, I think it'd be best played with an audience.

You are a small spaceship, flying in cycle 27. Fly through space! Shoot (what I hope are) the bad guys! Gain upgrades by beating your previous score. But how many cycle 27s have there been?

There's a timer counting down. What happens if you reach the end? I don't know, I'm bad at videogames. If you find out, let me know!

This game seems cool, and has a great cyberpunk aesthetic and good music. I didn't really understand it though. The controls were tricky and I couldn't see a way of remapping them. I managed to find the first minigame, which was a rhythm game for making a delivery on a motorcycle. It was tough because I had to press both arrow keys and WASD at the right points, but while I use WASD to move all the time, I think about them as directions not letters.

Anyway, I played that minigame for about 15 minutes, always moving forward, going past the looping scenery, and nothing happened. I don't know if I needed to do it longer or I missed some cue to leave the road, but I gave up after that. If you can work out the controls and how to do apply them, this game seems really fun; it mentioned many different minigames to control different processes and I think that's a cool idea.

This is a very cool game. It's sort of a point and click adventure, but the focus is much more on dialogue than randomly combining objects. It has a cyberpunk vibe, and a cool soundtrack, plus very good dialogue and voice acting.

Taking place in Neo San-Francisco in 2064, you are a struggling writer and journalist who is wakes up to find the world's first sentient robot, named Turing, has come to ask for help with the disappearance of their creator, your friend, Hayden.

It's got tonnes of queer representation, and it's fun to play, though at times the dialogue is a lot.

This is a really pretty game, sort of an interactive story. Very good to play just before bed. I will probably write more when I finish it.

In this game, you grind on rails on a cool rocket bike. It's high energy, fast paced, and really hard, but fun if that's your jam.

I didn't get very far because I am not very good at video games, but it looked like there might be an interesting story in there as well.

This game has a cool aesthetic, kind of like Transistor in places. You are a pilot and you've crashlanded.. somewhere. You died in the crash, but you've been cloned, and you will continue to be cloned every time you die.

Run around, find things, shoot things. Modify your DNA in an effort to affect changes, but beware mutations which might engender changes you did not expect. There are also daily and weekly challenges, though I didn't try those.

I wasn't sure what to make of this game at first. The dialogue and characters seemed odd, and not much direction was given. But I pressed on, and spent several hours completing this game. 

This is a game of climbing. Any gradient that's less than vertical you can climb, and you're a good climber; you can stop anywhere and look around without worrying about falling. However, the sun's glare is damaging to you, and you can only bear it for a few seconds at a time.

The very end of the game felt perhaps a little on the nose, but all the gameplay was fun technical climbing and jumping, with interesting plot points on the way. Checkpoints could have been slightly more generous, but I got there in the end.

I used to climb a lot, and this game had me feeling similar kinds of exposure, and my hands were sweating the whole way up. It's surreal, but it's good, and I really enjoyed it.

This game is a fun and (intentionally) glitchy first person roguelike shooter. Extremely 80s, funky soundtrack, simple but effective, and the levels have cool random URL names. Watch out for triangles!

This is a platformer with a simple graphical style. It's described as "accessible" and as having a fair level of challenge, but I've played quite a lot of platformers lately and I found it quite hard. Arcade mode give you unlimited checkpoints which you can place wherever, and 100 lives, and with those tools I made it 12% of the way through this game.

It wasn't bad, though I did find the controls needed rebinding, and it didn't work with my controller.

This is a game about skydiving with a wingsuit, and then a parachute, over a cool mountainous landscape. I couldn't get my controller to work with it, which is shame because I think it'd work really well controlled that way. As it was, I played a little, but had trouble getting into the keyboard controls. It was still fun to fly around though.

This is a top down arcade-y feeling game of bright colours, reminiscent of asteroids, in which you must zap enemies and collect resources. The resources charge your superbeam which makes it easier to zap enemies! I liked the music and the sounds, and it's visually pleasing too. There's waves mode, in which you survive 30 waves to win, and endless mode in which you survive for as long as you can.

This is a fun little puzzle in which you interact with different objects on the screen in order to open a door and guide a toy train to the next level. It's quite relaxing and surreal but cute.

This game is a lot of fun. Fly a cool future jet around and shoot enemy targets with various weapons. Upgrade your ship, then shoot more enemy targets! I just got a controller and this game is really fun with a controller.

Lovely bright aesthetics.

This was an interesting game. I figured it wouldn't be action packed, so I approached it with the intent of getting into the role of the lone trawlerperson, and I found it meditative to sit in the boat's cabin, hearing the rain and the waves.

The downside here for me is that I love boats, and, wanting to get into the spirit of the thing, I set out to trawl, dropped the net and headed in a straight line for perhaps half an hour at a time, occasionally staring out over the waves or recording my thoughts on the typewriter in my cabin. Suffice it to say, and with no intent of spoiling anything, that's not how you play Trawl.

I think a writer would have fun with this game. I'm no writer, but this game gave me the experience of reading my real life book while sitting in my in game cabin, and I think that's a fun experience.

A platform game in which not only is the floor jelly, but many things are jelly. You can use these jelly surfaces to gain extra momentum in order to jump through windows.

It's bouncy and quite fun but also fairly easy to get stuck. It seems like T is a reset button, which you might find helpful. Otherwise it's colourful and pretty and has nice sounds.

Mysterious interactions. 

Help some eggs into an incubator. Water some travelling plants, before sending them on their way. Help some furniture survive a flood, and then hang out with some fish.

This game is described as surreal, and it definitely is, but not in the unsettling, slightly menacing way that a lot of surreal things seem to be. It was strange, but it wasn't scary, and I enjoyed it.

Took about an hour to finish.

In this game, you throw cubes into brick towers to collapse them. If that sounds limited in scope, worry not! You can also throw dynamite.

It's a sandbox in which you control more or less everything. There are a few preset structures, and it seems extra structures can be built if you know how to code, but I do not. Still, it's pretty fun to throw cubes into brick towers to collapse them.