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Best Games of September Review! (with video feedback)

Posted by FutureCopLGF - October 6th, 2023



(In addition to the usual review, this month we've got a highlight reel too: short n' sweet for public consumption!)


Every month I see to review all of the games that were nominated as the Best of that month, which you can view in the link above!


As a game developer myself, I know how difficult it can be when you are starting out and how tricky it can be to tell how your game will be received by users. After all, you know how your game is meant to be played, and you can't just wipe that from your memory when you're building and testing it!


Therefore, I record myself playing all of the games for the first time for 10-15 minutes and try to voice how I'm feeling when I'm playing it, so that developers can see how a user might experience their game for the first time, especially for things like tutorials. I also try to provide some advice as well, but it might not always be the best: what I'm really hoping is that developers can draw their own conclusions on what might need work from how I stumble through their game.


Game Devs Reviewed: @53xy83457 @soniclinkerman @MaxBytes @fe3l1ngsk1lledd @CubePunks @jmtb02 @Meiallu @FCPXAV @MyNextGames @KanartStudio @Khorde @voidgazerBon @ErikSwahn @ThreeTreesEU @Pitigamedev @frdy @larrynachos @rickropes @zeddy1267 @RicardoReyesPaz @Durinde @Tritnew @garbo111 @HelperWesley @ImmanentDeath @GamesPrinter @Prismisho @aplovestudio


While all of these games were the best of the month...


MY PERSONAL ARBITRARILY-RANKED TOP 10 GAMES OF THE MONTH


My Top 10 was (in sort-of ranked order and based on my own criteria which is some weird sense of 'memorability' for me personally and totally subject to genres I like and I don't feature an author twice even if they had two good entries so as to spread the love etc etc):












And here are some Honorable Mentions (games that were close contenders for the top, additional games from an already highlighted dev this month, games that are still demos but promising, games that are clones of existing games but still good, etc):








Thanks to all the portal warriors that sifted through all the games to find the best in the bunch for me to check out in the first place! And as always, even if your game wasn't listed by me personally, hold your head high as I enjoyed playing all of them nonetheless as they are, after all, the best of the month!


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Thanks for checking out our game :)

Cheers! Quite the interesting and experimental little game that stuck with me: hopefully it wasn't too annoying to watch me try to grasp it initially, haha!

Thanks so much for the feedback! I'll make sure to fix the menu stuff like you pointed out!

Cheers! Hopefully I was able to provide some nice feedback: game has a lot of potential and I look forward to seeing future updates!

Thank you for featuring Unloop!

And regarding your closing comments, it does get a lot more complex later! :)

Cheers, and yeah, I was quite surprised at how complex and interesting the game kept getting as I kept playing: despite it being a 'chill' game, I was definitely underestimating it!

@FuturecopLGF Nhhaaa It's actually very educational to see someone experience your game for the first time.

A bit late, but some insight regarding the Spider Collab

The thread specified a 320x320 resolution for submissions. Since most contributors weren't really taking it seriously, entering small jokey spiders, this didn't really matter much.
Mine on the other hand was drawn using a stylus and Photopea and kinda pushed those limits, since it was considerably more detailed.

The thread: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1527197/1
My submission: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/anonymous-frog/miku-spider

There was also a Miku Birthday "collab" around the same time, but that didn't really amount to anything resembling the Spider Collab. My submission was made with both events in mind.
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1527032