by Marino – Brad Lynch on December 25, 2024
The author of Giant Bomb’s Bee Week ™ (and owner of Boss Fight Books) had an eventful 2024.
Yes, it is I, the guy who releases books about old video games like EverQuest and the initial Animal Crossing, the guy who made all those Buck Bumble 64 remixes that Jan played throughout Bee Week– simply who you require to inform you which modern video games are cool. These … are my leading 17 game-adjacent activities of the year.
Playing bring with the homicidal doggies of Animal Well. Just play will stop the violence in their hearts. In this method, doggies are the initial players.
Viewing YouTube videos of individuals revealing the secret video game modes deep within UFO 50 and after that returning to attempting to beat the very first level of Seaside Drive.
Getting my long-sought-after 50-streak on UFO 50: Party House randomizer runs … and after that consuming shit on the really next run.
Playing Minishoot’ Adventures, a topdown 2D Zeldalike starring a charming little bullet hell spaceship. Actually offering individuals what we desire, this video game.
Cheering for the increase of Balatro, a big win for fans of the roguelike deckbuilder, a category with lots of untapped capacity. When a wave of Balatro-likes undoubtedly strikes Steam in early 2026, I will not be among the haters. (in the meantime, I advise you play Slay the Spire, Dicey Dungeons, Monster Train, Wildfrost, and Party House.)
Enjoying the Slay the Spire II gameplay trailer at 0.5 speed to attempt to shine a little method so possibly I can manage a win on my really first run when beta opens this year.
Playing Hades II in open beta. It’s as necessary as the very first Hades. A great deal of you are waiting to play up until Supergiant finishes the video game, however you’re missing out on excellent in-game meta jokes about the video game’s incompleteness. The material rollout, mechanical tweaks, and spot updates have actually been a blast to follow.
Playing Outer Wilds and attempting to beat it before I started modifying a book about it, lacking time, discovering the video game’s huge tricks from the book, and now permanently questioning– would I have found out those huge tricks on my own?
That minute throughout my wedding party when our DJ, Dorina, played a Zelda overworld remix, and the dance flooring popped off so hard that it surprised even Dorina.
Making up retro midi tunes in Musescore, instinctive music structure freeware that actually does seem like a computer game. Provide yourself no greater than a couple hours to comprise a tune, and you’ll understand you’ve won the run if you email your brand-new tune to your good friend Andy and he responds that it is ill in fact. Beware: Andy gets more difficult to shock the more tunes you send him, and in this method the video game’s trouble increases over time.
