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  • FREE GAMES: "Silent Age" & "Tunche"

    From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 30 11:01:47 2023
    Let's sing (you all know the words)!


    Games, games, games, games!
    Games, games, games, games!
    FREE GAMES!
    Games, games, games, games!
    Games, games, games, games!


    This week we get:

    * The Silent Age
    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-silent-age-eb6972
    No. Just no. I know this adventure game /looks/ like it might be good;
    a fun throwback to point-n-click adventures of the past. An
    interesting story about post-apocalyptic worlds and using time-travel
    to avert that dystopia. I thought so too. Then I played it. This game
    is awful. The puzzles are simplistic to the point of being brain-dead,
    the dialogue is uninteresting and that time-travel gimmick is barely
    used. This is a dull, poorly made game and even free it isn't worth
    getting.


    * Tunche
    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/tunche
    Well, the art-style looks nice (it's hand-drawn, the marketing says).
    The gameplay? I'm less entranced; it's a side-scrolling brawler with
    (of course) "rogue-like elements". Is it good? No idea; the reviews
    are positive (of course, they were positive for "Silent Age" too).
    Maybe this satisfies the craving of a certain niche of gamer, but I'm
    not in that niche. And frankly, any game associated with "The Silent
    Age" can't help but look the worse for it.



    You have the usual seven days to claim these titles... if you dare.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu Mar 30 17:32:26 2023
    Thnaks. I only took Tunche. Other game, bah.

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    Let's sing (you all know the words)!


    Games, games, games, games!
    Games, games, games, games!
    FREE GAMES!
    Games, games, games, games!
    Games, games, games, games!


    This week we get:

    * The Silent Age
    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-silent-age-eb6972
    No. Just no. I know this adventure game /looks/ like it might be good;
    a fun throwback to point-n-click adventures of the past. An
    interesting story about post-apocalyptic worlds and using time-travel
    to avert that dystopia. I thought so too. Then I played it. This game
    is awful. The puzzles are simplistic to the point of being brain-dead,
    the dialogue is uninteresting and that time-travel gimmick is barely
    used. This is a dull, poorly made game and even free it isn't worth
    getting.


    * Tunche
    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/tunche
    Well, the art-style looks nice (it's hand-drawn, the marketing says).
    The gameplay? I'm less entranced; it's a side-scrolling brawler with
    (of course) "rogue-like elements". Is it good? No idea; the reviews
    are positive (of course, they were positive for "Silent Age" too).
    Maybe this satisfies the craving of a certain niche of gamer, but I'm
    not in that niche. And frankly, any game associated with "The Silent
    Age" can't help but look the worse for it.



    You have the usual seven days to claim these titles... if you dare.



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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Ant on Thu Mar 30 12:31:29 2023
    On 3/30/2023 10:32 AM, Ant wrote:
    Thnaks. I only took Tunche. Other game, bah.

    You forgot the "Humbug".

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    Let's sing (you all know the words)!


    Games, games, games, games!
    Games, games, games, games!
    FREE GAMES!
    Games, games, games, games!
    Games, games, games, games!


    This week we get:

    * The Silent Age
    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-silent-age-eb6972
    No. Just no. I know this adventure game /looks/ like it might be good;
    a fun throwback to point-n-click adventures of the past. An
    interesting story about post-apocalyptic worlds and using time-travel
    to avert that dystopia. I thought so too. Then I played it. This game
    is awful. The puzzles are simplistic to the point of being brain-dead,
    the dialogue is uninteresting and that time-travel gimmick is barely
    used. This is a dull, poorly made game and even free it isn't worth
    getting.


    * Tunche
    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/tunche
    Well, the art-style looks nice (it's hand-drawn, the marketing says).
    The gameplay? I'm less entranced; it's a side-scrolling brawler with
    (of course) "rogue-like elements". Is it good? No idea; the reviews
    are positive (of course, they were positive for "Silent Age" too).
    Maybe this satisfies the craving of a certain niche of gamer, but I'm
    not in that niche. And frankly, any game associated with "The Silent
    Age" can't help but look the worse for it.



    You have the usual seven days to claim these titles... if you dare.




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    dirty old man.

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