Blaugust
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Paeroka’s Ponderings: Games waiting to be played
We all probably have this “pile of shame” of games that we just never played for a number of reasons. I have some that on the one hand, I really want to play but whenever I start them up, I am suddenly not in the mood for it after all. Or there is something shinier…
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Blaugust 2025 – Here we come!
It is this time of the year again! Welcome to Blaugust! In short: During Blaugust, we come together (“we” being anybody who wants to blog!) and try to each publish 31 posts this month. For a more detailed explanation, follow this link. In previous years, I was among the first to sign up. This year,…
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What is it about the “Two Point” games?
I have been playing Two Point Hospital for more than 180 hours. But after a while, it always got too “in your face” with the humour. I prefer more subtle humour or word jokes. It all gets a bit too much at some point and feels like the developers are trying too much to be…
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Guild Wars 2 Housing: First Impressions
Quite simple: I am in love. You need to play the expansion’s story in order to unlock your homestead, but it is fast enough thankfully. I only had a problem with an issue that did not let me find rifts easily. This was seemingly fixed in the meantime, though. One thing was confusing at first:…
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Screenshot Saturday: Lowland Shore (Guild Wars 2)
No matter what criticism I have had about Guild Wars 2, one thing has always been outstanding for me: The way the world looks. The game’s newest expansion, Janthir Wilds, released last Tuesday. It comes with four new maps. Only two have been released so far, the others will follow with content updates later on.…
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The Appeal of Vertical Progress: Tower Building Games
I don’t recall where I said it, but I usually don’t like side-scrolling games. But I do quite like building tower games. Sim Tower seems to be the original “tower building game” but I never played it nor new about it until I started playing Project Highrise. Having this “flat view” of course comes with…
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Screenshot Saturday: GW2 Screenshot Gallery
I realized it has been years since I last made one of these galleries for a zone of Guild Wars 2. In fact, the last one appeared in 2019. I thought I had done a lot more than I actually did. There are some easy favourites still open like Metrica Province or Gendarran Fields. Then…
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The Game I didn’t know I needed: Gourdlets
I played the demo for Gourdlets in the Steam Next Fest in June 2023 and put it into the “The Okay Ones” category. Back then I wrote: “Gourdlets is super cute – but I like having more than just a pure sandbox, some objectives to achieve, etc. If this game wasn’t just a sandbox, then…
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Steam Next Fest from October 2023 – Yes, Very Belated!
Oh my… as you can see from the title, this post has been in my Draft folder for months… I was wondering whether to just trash this post. But since it is Blaugust and since I spent a lot of time writing this post already, I decided to take a look at it now, update…
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Broken Layout…
You may notice that the blog looks different. The theme I used before, “Textbook”, was broken and showing some ugly frames while not showing some of the featured images. It was working fine with Edge, but not with Chrome or Firefox. I had been waiting for a couple days, but since nothing changed, I took…
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Massively’s The Daily Grind: What MMO should Daybreak buy next?
Here is another prompt that I took from Massively OP. My first thought was: Rift! Please, please buy Rift! Gamigo is keeping the lights on, but that’s it. And even if I wanted to still play the game, I do not have any trust in gamigo whatsoever. At some point, I tried to stay informed…
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Humble Choice (August 2024): This Means Warp
This Means Warp is part of August’s Humble Choice. “It’s co-op space survival fun, Jim, but not as we know it. This Means Warp is an intense spaceship management roguelite experience for 1-4 players. Explore a procedurally generated universe, upgrade your ship, battle dangerous enemies and adapt your strategies to survive in a hostile galaxy.…
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Massively’s The Daily Grind: Would you warn your past self against getting attached to an MMO that would die?
Massively OP is a good source for prompts, not just during Blaugust, but especially now, of course! When I read the question “Would you warn your past self against getting attached to an MMO that would die?”, my mind immediately went the other way! If I had known about Wildstar’s short time (released in June…
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What’s your prettiest game?
I received this email as an advertisement, but when I read this subject line, my mind immediately went through my game’s library. Now, what exactly makes a game “pretty”? When you search for “prettiest games”, you get a lot of lists about “visually stunning” and “hardware-demanding” games. That’s not my take on what a “pretty…
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Zachtronics’ Solitaire Games
The joke is on me, I guess. I said that I mainly played the Solitaire games when I wrote about Last Call BBS back in December. After publishing the post, I realized that I miss playing a Solitaire game once in a while and I decided to look at Steam whether there were any good…
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