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: @Damek @Chris @F1Krazy @speed8327 @furano @aplovestudio @ArtistGamerGal @zzox @Miroko @CruiseElroy @NullTale @prsaseta @musrattus @Sjhillustration @LiLg @RainbowCemetery @Pitigamedev @ArcadeHero @natomarcacini @Chaz @aapiarts @whimsical-wife @Luis0413 @bySamuelTome @MarinoDev @crow-seeds @HelperWesley @thatjoshoverthere @Roverkibb @decafpanda @brokellusion @chimpcollective @brwler @DaemonPlus @KittyhawkMontrose @Butzbo @TristoneThePerson @CryptVoice @Moonth @emontero @Sodoj @VascoF
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):
Unfortunately Ritual Bound wasn't actually submitted this month, only featured, so it wasn't eligible. Still, I wanted to put it up here because it was a shoo-in for 1st place until I realized! Ok, back to the actual Top 10!
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!
This month we had a Bonus Game request and played G-Switch 4: Creator from @VascoF, check it out for yourself below if you want as it was pretty neat!
https://seriusgames.com/g-switch-4.html
Oh yeah, and I also did a review on Steam Next Fest October action games if you want to check it out: there are even some Newgrounds games in there! (the recording quality was pretty bad though, big goof on my part)
Chris
I watched the parts on Mære 2, Wizard Brew and Stay Indoors.
Stay Indoors it was a bit difficult making Peanut show up consistently he just wanders around the map. I did have it where he’d just teleport to you after so many screen changes until people figured out they could just cheat by jumping back and forth between two screens to force him to show up. So I ended up taking that out. Still haven’t quite figured out the best approach.
FutureCopLGF
Cheers! Oh wow, I didn't realize he wanders around: that's some interesting insight into trying to reduce frustrations! I wonder if you can do something like I was thinking with the ghost that appears traveling in the direction of the dog, or maybe even directional audio where you follow some dog barks that happen every 30 seconds or so. Ah, the tribulations of game design!
Anyway, you had a great double-billing this month, and I went back to play each game to completion, getting S rank in Maere and Peanut in Stay Indoors, so well done!