Wonderful Wednesdays: Intro

Welcome to Wonderful Wednesdays!  This is actually going to be a semi-revamp of my GOG/Steam thing if you remember that.

So instead of just listing the releases every week now, I’ll throw six recommendations (three for GOG, three for Steam) out and they might not be within that week’s releases.  One less than $10, one less than $20, and one that looks really cool regardless of price.

So, here is an example of what a normal week will look like:

Steam

Less than $10 - Awesomenauts

Take an 80s-awesome Saturday morning cartoon like I used to grow up with, add a copious amount of side scrolling action and a dash of a League of Legends-style MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game, and stir vigorously, you have the Awesomenauts.  With all sorts of new ‘Nauts (read: new characters) and even a Kickstarted expansion, I need to get back into playing this, because I have not played this game in FOREVER.  Thankfully once winter really finally wraps up I’ll be playing some Awesomenauts once again.

Less than $20 - Rogue Legacy

I’m really on a side-scrolling platformer style kick recently.  And like Arino the Kacho from Game Center CX (yes that is going to be an upcoming topic), I really stink at that kind of game.  While Rogue Legacy is not a game that I tend to enjoy playing, but I am just using it as an example, and next week will bring us a new game.

Looks really cool regardless of price - Blood Bowl: Legendary and/or Chaos Editions

The digital videogame equivalent(s) of the Games Workshop miniatures game Blood Bowl created by Cyanide Studios, where the Chaos Edition is the “ultimate” edition of the current Blood Bowl digital version.  Basically it is a near-exact replication of the actual miniatures game, along with all the kinds of dice rolls that tend to make miniatures gamers and RPG gamers scream in anguish.  The Legendary Edition (which has a few less races) is $20, while the Chaos Edition is $30 with a discount if you own a prior Blood Bowl game on Steam.

GOG

Less than $10 - Flight of the Amazon Queen (Free)

I first tried FOTAQ while I was fooling around with ScummVM a few years ago but it was a tiny bit obtuse so I haven’t gone back to it.  However, I am going to recommend it for the sole reason that it is free.  Yeah.

Less than $20 - RollerCoaster Tycoon series ($6-$20)

The RollerCoaster Tycoon series of management sims is one of those game series that you have to have in your library at one point or the other.  The first one (which isn’t branded) is $5.99, the second one (which WAS branded with Six Flags at the time of its release IIRC) is $9.99, and the third & final RollerCoaster Tycoon title as of right now is $19.99.

Looks really cool regardless of price - SiN Gold ($9.99)

I actually remember playing this game's demo.  Man, this game was unbelievably cool-looking for that time.  And for someone like me who wasn’t about to buy Half-Life because of the jump-scare element that first person shooters seem to have carried over for whatever reason, this game was the other good game you wanted from this time.  SiN was just recently released on GOG.com, so go pick it up!