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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

It's an amazing punk rock musical and a kickass indie film.

What does hit hard mean? Does it have to be emotionally impactful? Is positively surprised enough?

• Sheepy has great atmosphere (free)
• Halloween Hidden Capybaras with Orange and Pumpkins has great atmosphere, looks great (free)

I remember a game I played a long time ago touched me, but I can't find my review of it.

I found the VR title Surge was great, but it doesn't seem to be available in the Steam store anymore. I sat down and watched and looked around, and the music and visuals had great impact.

Game - Factorio. Literally broke my 5 year gaming fast. I've spent over 1000 hours in it.

Film - Boondock Saints. Not a fan of the gore in it, but damn is the rest of it amazing. Willem Dafoe, excellent as usual.

Book - I honestly don't know if I've read any indy books. I don't know the production status of books.

Adastra.

I'm still infatuated with that dumb wolf. 😩

A game released in 2008 called Iji. At first glance, it seems like a simple platformer, but think again. It's an amazing blend of platforming and RPG mechanics. The game reacts to the decisions you make resulting in multiple endings.

Harveys neue Augen, Edna bricht aus

A couple of games from recent years: Chants of Sennaar (linguistic puzzles and incredible vibes) and 1000xResist (this game had something many big game devs seemingly have completely forgotten about, specifically, writing).

I just finished ViewFinder. It's peaceful, surreal, beautiful, and poignant. Highly recommended if you like puzzle games. The end hits you in the feels.

I've been a pretty big fan of both Elex games from Piranha Bites.

In terms of world design, scale, etc.. It's rare that I come across a game that actually sucks me into exploring every part of the open world map like Elex and Elex 2 did.

They're also games that don't hold your hand. Enemies don't level with you. Meaning that if you wander into an area with strong enemies, that's on you. A lot of people complained about that aspect of it, saying that it leads to having to spend a lot of early game running and dodging fights. But to me, that's the entire point, finding creative ways to deal with the enemies that you're too weak to deal with.

• I've lured stronger enemies into towns for the NPCs to deal with; adding just enough hits of my own to get the experience points. (added bonus of looting the corposes of the townsfolk that were killed dealing with it)

• I've skipped entire minor fetch quests (like paying off a gate guard to get access to a town) by again luring an enemy to him and having it kill him because the games have very few non-killable characters.

• I've spent an hour skirting along the edge of a crater riding the line between freezing by going any higher and getting one hit killed by enemies if I go any lower just to get to a hut that I spotted in the distance.

Honestly, for AA games that certainly have their flaws, there are parts of both that blow the modern Bethesda games out of the water.