It's the end of spring, which means the school/university year is about to end, and I have about 2.5 metric shittons of homework to do. So I'm still playing only very short games.
Another game from the itch.io Racial Justice bundle that's been on my backlog this entire time. Like the rest of the bundle, this game has a very wholesome, feel-good vibe to it. Its description does hint at some sort of dark secret behind it, but honestly, I think that's an exaggeration. The plot is very straightforward and the game always stays bright and colorful.
The game's pretty high-quality: the physics are fun to mess around with, the soundtrack is very charming, and wow, *the Russian translation for this game is really good*. I'm used to seeing some really sloppy localization, but this game's translation (by Loc&Load) is very spot-on. There is just enough "quirkiness" in the text to convey the spirit of the game, without sounding cringey or out-of-touch.
The downside to this game is it's a bit too easy. *This looks like a great game to play with your kid (it does have a co-op mode)*, but I'm a big boy and I started to get bored by the end of the 3-hour singleplayer story.
Overall, *8/10*, it's pretty good, I'm sure if you own the Racial Justice bundle then you've already played it but still... If you haven't, and you enjoyed the other games that came alongside it, then Pikuniku is definitely worth looking at.
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Also, because I just can't stop procrastinating, I spent about an hour or two just marking my library's Storefronts. I can proudly say that most of my digital catalog is DRM-free!
As of the time of writing:
vs:
Also, there are bunch of games that don't have a marked Storefront. Some of them are free web browser games that I played back in the day on Newgrounds and similar sites. Other games have no storefront because I - well, some things are better left unsaid.
