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  • Avernum: Escape from the Pit

    A sprawling, underground civilization, made up of criminals and exiles from an oppressive Empire above is certainly a unique setting. My party find themselves flung into a pit, and forced to make a new life in the dank caverns of Averum. I don’t know their names. Not because they don’t have any but because I…

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  • Coming back to Old School Runescape (Again!)

    After months of not gaming and/or only gaming on the weekend with friends, I find myself back in Old School Runescape. Because all roads lead back to Runescape eventually (for me at least). The last time I really put in time was in 2020. Back then, I was playing a normal account but got the…

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  • I Set up an Ark Survival Evolved Dedicated Server

    Ark Survival Evolved is one of the first games I think of when I think survival crafting open world. It’s been around for nearly 10 years so I feel like it’s one of the classics of that time period where everything was survival crafting in one form or another. The squad has a thing against…

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  • Next Fest: Umigari – The Fish Might be People, The People Might Be Fish

    I downloaded a few demos for this quarter’s Next Fest but played very few. Rather than trawling through categories to find interesting demos, I let Steam pick for me via the “Recommended for You” section. Having recently playing the likes of Hell is Us, Yuppie Psycho, along with a smattering of Devour and Outlast Trials,…

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  • The Scariest Part of Yuppie Psycho is the Save System

    Lately, I’ve been playing through Yuppie Psycho. A pixely, horror, adventure game released in 2019. It being October and all I thought I should play at least one horror game. This has been on my radar since the No Sleep Podcast was hawking it, so probably 6 years now. Having just completed Hell is Us,…

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  • Hell Is Us

    I just finished up Hell is Us this week. I hadn’t heard of this game until I read this RPS article a few weeks back. Admittedly, the article doesn’t give the game much praise but I was intrigued by the prospect of a “souls-like” in a more modern setting. Hell is Us takes place in…

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  • Deadzone: Rogue First Impressions

    Deadzone: Rogue is sci-fi rouglite FPS that combines frantic combat with randomized rooms, loot and upgrades. It wasn’t particularly on my radar though I had seen it a few times on my Steam home page. I clicked on it once, thought it looked neat, and went on to something else. My friend, Blades, came across…

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  • Blaugust from the Inside-Outside-In

    To everyone out there participating in Blaugust, I hope it’s going well for you! Especially now as we round past the halfway point and into the back half of the month aka where streaks go to die. Atleast for me. But not this year! No, that’s because I haven’t been on a streak this month.…

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  • Mid-Year Freakout Book Tag

    I was tagged for this by JD Weber of alligators and aneurysms!. Thanks JD! These sorts of round up posts are fun to write because they make me think back on everything I’ve read this past year. Though, I tend to forget what books are about about a day or two after I read them,…

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  • Caves of Qud: The Life and Times of the Mighty Marsh Taur

    See that guy over there, bitten to death by a wet giant centipede? Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here. Well would you look at that, I’m actually keeping up with a plan for once! Well, one post a plan does not make but – it’s a start. So here I am,…

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  • Dungeon Crawler Carl and Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

    I didn’t know a whole lot about Dungeon Crawler Carl before picking it up. I had heard of it, of course, but only to the extent that it was a LitRPG and a well written one at that. Other than that, I was going in blind. I came across The Gate of the Feral Gods,…

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  • Happy Blaugust!

    It’s the first day of Blaugust! One of my favorite days of the year. It’s awesome to watch my RSS feed fill up with posts, more posts than I could ever hope to read. It’s always fun to check out the new blogs that join the event and see blogs from past events come back…

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