Bundle for Ukraine

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Bundle for Ukraine is an itchio bundle with an absurdly huge number of games for $10 or more, supporting Ukraine based charities.

I am very tired today but here's a half assed summary of what stood out to me amongst the THIRTY FOUR pages of games. Asterixes for those I am aware of being available for mac.

Games I have played and enjoyed:

• hidden folk Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Great fun, except for the racist, tropey depictions of indigenous people.
  
• The Lost Art of Innkeeping You’ve just inherited Cascade Manor from your eccentric aunt, but not only is it in a dismal condition, you have only 30 days to pay off the loan your aunt took out shortly before her death. Fun management sim with light plot.
  
• Glittermitten Grove A tiny fun little gathering/base-building game containing a much larger weird game I didn't understand or enjoy.
  
• Baba is You A puzzle game where you change the rules. Brilliant, but very hard, I didn't get very far but enjoyed the little I did play.
  

Games I played and didn't click with but other people love:

• 2064: Read Only Memories merges old-school adventure gaming with modern storytelling to explore some of the social challenges we will face in the near future. Seemed fine but I got bored.
  
• Celeste super-tight, hand-crafted platformer from the creators of multiplayer classic TowerFall. Very good, I just don't like platformers.
  
• A Short Hike a little exploration game about hiking up a mountain. Charming, I just sucked at the jumping.
  
• Arcade Spirits a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. Seemed fine but I got bored.
  

Highly recced games that aren't my sort of thing:

• Minit a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.
  
• A Good Snowman is Hard to Build An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.
  
• Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2 The highest selling and most intense restaurant sim ever made is back!
  
• Jotun: Valhalla Edition a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology.
  
• SUPERHOT The first person shooter where time moves only when you move.
  
• Someone else's rec list
  

Recced games I mean to check out:

• *figment an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative.
  
• *cloud gardens A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas. Crashed for me on mac :(
  
• *A Mortician's Tale a story-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home
  
• *Highway Blossoms: Remastered a short yuri (lesbian) story set in the American Southwest.
  
• *Rusty Lake Hotel a mysterious point and click game developed by the creators of the Cube Escape series.
  
• *CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.
  
• *Speed Dating for Ghosts a weird lil' narrative game about speed dating ghosts by Ben Gelinas (Control, Dragon Age, Mass Effect) and Mikey Hamm (Mikey Maybe, Slugblaster, Glig).
  
• Wandersong A musical adventure where you use singing to save the world! Apparently has hard platforming.
  
• Summer in Mara a summer adventure with farming, crafting, and exploring mechanics set in a tropical archipelago.
  
• Pendula Swing: The Complete Journey a point & click adventure game set in a fantasy version of the American Roaring 1920s.
  

Games I have never heard of but mean to check out:

• *Promesa wander through dreams and memories emerging from a dialogue between a grandfather and his grandchild.
  
• *BARD HARDER! a tabletop-inspired visual novel game about saving your friends from the Big Bad Evil Guy by using your strongest weapon: romance!
  
• *shutterstroll A downloadable walking simulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux
  
• *adventure for a bit Teach an AI named Bit to make a perfect procedural world.
  
• *Lonely People Potion Shop
  
• *I'm a love interest in my best friend's reverse harem! A not-so-generic otome game with BL possibilities.
  
• *kids a short interactive animation.
  
• *Pebble Witch is an rpg-ish, walking simulator-y, talking game.
  
• *amelie a short (and not so sweet) story about two girls in love, and another who lost her love.
  
• *Murder Most Misfortunate a visual novel adventure with an open-ended mystery that puts your deductive skills to the test.
  
• *The Wishing Stone is a point & click puzzle adventure game with challenging puzzles.
  
• *Sarawak a short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo.
  
• *Back to Bed an artistic 3D puzzle game with a surreal twist.
  
• Lake Ophelia A strange little place full of fish from all around the world. Nobody is quite sure why, and it seems like most people don't really care to find out. Go ahead, sink your lure and see what you can catch.
  
• Fatum Bella Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.
  
• Pixross a picture logic puzzle game featuring 170+ unique puzzles, customization and extra challenges for each puzzle.
  
• Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams a first-person exploration game that takes players on an adventure through a series of mystifying dream vignettes, each with their own unique theme and visual style.
  
• Nina Aquila a thrilling VN/adventure game hybrid, fight for justice in a world where all anime genres exist at once!
  
• sunlight a short, vibrant and thought captivating exploration game.
  
• The Search a story-driven puzzle-adventure set in a mysterious world where art comes to life!
  
• flufftopia a cute little clicker game with a story.
  
• Interactivity: The Interactive Experience a short meta-narrative experience about how our interaction with game worlds is limited by convention, in equal parts of awkwardly-funny and oppressive.
  
• A Light Long Gone A downloadable interactive album for Windows and Linux.
  
• pygame 4000 book PDF and epub of the pygame documentation, and a folder of pygame examples(43 or so).
  
• Bombing!! a Graffiti Sandbox a game where you create public art in a retro world.
  

Have since played:

• *resynth a minimal musical puzzler for PC and Mac.
  
• *Metamorphabet a playful, interactive alphabet.
  
• *changeling GxB, non-stat raising, full-length visual novel about love, reconciliation, and trying to survive in a dangerous supernatural world.
  
• *Windosill a point-click-and-drag puzzle-toy, in which you guide a toy car through 10 miniature worlds.
  
• *Landlord of the Woods a cute lil point & click game that takes about an hour to play through.
  

Comments

[schneefink]

A game I really enjoyed is "Figment." Very charming, cool world design, enjoyable puzzles, and great music. The sequel comes out soon and I look forward to it.

[alias_sqbr]

Thank you for this comment, because it made me go "Wait, I remember seeing that and thinking it looked interesting, why didn't I check it out?" which made me re-examine the first page or two of games and I'd somehow missed adding like SEVEN games before my brain kicked in and I started adding them all to my text document. edits post And thanks for the rec in and of itself! Is there anything that requires fast or precise reactions?