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: @brokellusion @Chris @Emizip @Saucekye @jacklehamster @stirfrydotwad @BakethedBean @Snow-Hex @DrDevGuy @bokononyossarian @Izzi8bit @Stopsignal @Spebby @Davbo37 @TwistedByArt @PeterMosevich @ElRandomGMD @Salamandre @TristoneThePerson @Dazlog @masonmcleen @JuniperPinPan @ArlucGames @Jampley-Dev @StuffedWombat @traguilar @Luaonhercomputa @Tombdude @chimpcollective @MoonMoleGames

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, applications and art collabs, 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!

A little bonus game that was featured this month was Boss Rush Delivery from MoonMoleGames! I try to stick to just the nominations, but I'm glad it was brought to my attention as I do think it is a bit of a hidden gem that felt through the cracks: consider giving it a play yourself!

Also there were a bunch of games featured this month that came from the recent Newgrounds Treasure Hunt which I made a post about for my top picks. It's a shame that they weren't eligible to win this month since they were technically submitted long ago, but definitely play them as they are true buried treasure!