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IMAGE(https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/pictures/pictures/picture-13445.jpg)   Felix “Make and Break” Threepaper

Welcome folks, and happy “50th anniversary of the first mobile phone call” week!

On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper stood on a footpath in midtown Manhattan and made a call with his prototype handheld mobile phone, to demonstrate that it worked. Who did he call? Joel Engel of Bell Labs, his main competitor in the race to develop a mobile phone, who had been busy building the cellular network that the call was carried on. You may all celebrate by playing a game where you stay classy.

Meet Your Maker is by the Dead by Daylight devs. It’s an FPS with dungeon building. You kit your dungeon out with traps, guardians and obstacles, but there must be a clear path to the upgrade material, GenMat. Then you can go out and raid other people’s dungeons, trying to get their GenMat without getting squished, burned or stomped. Meanwhile, other people raid your dungeon and hopefully get squished, burned or stomped before they reach your GenMat. Both raiding and being raided build up your GenMat, so you could feasibly choose to lean into either the building or the FPS raiding without doing the other.

Curse of the Sea Rats is trying to make “ratoidvania” happen. You and up to 3 friends are a bunch of rats, sidescrolling through 2D environments with a hand-drawn, Disney cartoon art style. There’s the usual RPG trappings of gear and skill trees to motivate you to explore and smash every box.

Road 96: Mile 0 is a prequel to Road 96, a narrative-based roguelite adventure game about a road trip with action sequences, minigames, and political drama. One of the side characters from Road 96 is the PC this time around, and you play through her story, up to the point where you meet her in Road 96. It’s a more condensed game—instead of road-tripping across the state, you’re skateboarding around a neighborhood—but that allows more focus on the dialogue choices and political story. And there’s still a bunch of minigames.

The Library of Babel is a 2D stealth platformer that looks like a graphic adventure game. The crisp, high-res art style gives the environments a level of detail and texture that you just can’t get with your charming pixel-art. The gameplay is focused on avoiding enemies, with instakills if you are seen. Looks pretty good, if you don’t mind crouching behind crates.

Filthy Animals | Heist Simulator is a co-op heist game that looks like a Double Fine game and plays like Overcooked, with slightly clumsy physics. This makes your heists look more like Inspector Clouseau than the Pink Panther, and the AI is more forgiving as a result, which keeps it fun.

Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories looks like a Game Boy game and is as short as one. It’s a sequel to Melon Journey Pocket—a cult game from 10 years ago that was made in a week (and is bundled in if you buy the sequel). This is a lo-fi, narrative-heavy game about walking around talking to people. The hook will depend on whether you enjoy the story, and how nostalgic you are for those tiny, green screens.

Road 96: Mile 0 is the most interesting hodgepodge game this week, but I can see some potential in Meet Your Maker, with its blend of Dungeon Keeper and DOOM. I may not actually play it, but I can see myself watching Youtube videos of the crazy dungeons people make, and the deadly shenanigans within. GOTW.

Here's the list, in release-date AND alphabetical order!

PC

  • 04-03

  • Amigo: Kebab Simulator
  • ANCIENT SOULS
  • Battle Force 2249
  • Brinefall
  • Court of Crowns
  • Dice Kingdoms
  • Endless Pinball
  • Form Fitting
  • Full Metal Sergeant
  • Katana-Ra: Shinobi Rising
  • Little Monki
  • Manny's Mechanical Emporium
  • Military Enlistment Office Escape Simulator
  • Necogram
  • Offroad Mechanic Simulator: Prologue - First Job
  • Orestorm Factory
  • ParkerSpace
  • Rise of the High Elf King: A LEGACY OF BLOOD
  • Roxy Raccoon 2: Topsy-Turvy
  • RPG Stories
  • Skillsworn
  • Spiritfall
  • Superior Crack Relatives
  • Tax Heaven 3000
  • The Blocks Shoot At You
  • The Thieves!
  • The Wolf of Derevnya
  • They came from another planet
  • Tin Edge
  • Tricked into an adventurer by a bad woman!
  • Ultimate Blackball
  • Waifu Puzzles
  • 04-04

  • Bullet Blaze
  • Casino Heist
  • Cult of the Sons
  • Cursed Pantsu
  • Filthy Animals | Heist Simulator
  • Frequency (Virtex Edge Design)
  • Grim Tides - Old School RPG
  • Meet Your Maker
  • PACTUM + EPISODE 1
  • Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist
  • Road 96: Mile 0
  • Shogun Showdown: Prologue
  • Starryard
  • Terminal Velocity
  • The Game of Fourtune
  • Turing Quest
  • 04-05

  • A Night With Neil
  • Celebrity Slot Machine
  • Einheriar
  • Extreme Offroad Simulator
  • First Light (Mage's Hat)
  • First Racer
  • Forests, Fields and Fortresses
  • Furies & Magazines - Episode 1
  • Grimgrad
  • LAB SORTERS
  • Legion Fall
  • Let's Crush Together
  • Lucky Slots
  • Moviehouse
  • Multiplayer Shooter FPS
  • NecroCity
  • Nimblefoot
  • Orbital Bombardment
  • Overcolony
  • Role Model AI
  • Schoolife
  • Sherberia
  • Sorcerers Summit
  • Super Death Game SHOW! VR
  • Tasty Slot Machine
  • TerraScape
  • The Aching
  • Tribal Legends
  • Wall World
  • 04-06

  • Across the Valley
  • Boomerang Battles
  • Celestial Raider
  • Crazy Prisoner
  • Crystal Blast
  • Curse of the Sea Rats
  • darkside
  • EA Sports PGA Tour
  • Gambit!
  • Hot Therapy
  • Kujlevka
  • Kunado Chronicles
  • Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories
  • Memory Land Extreme
  • MINDHACK
  • My Dear Dad
  • Otokiyome
  • Oxygen
  • Ravenswatch
  • Rescue Agency: The Kidnapper of happiness
  • Shooting Saucer
  • Somnus
  • Song Of The Prairie
  • Story of Animal Sprite
  • Supplice
  • The Dungeon Vendor
  • The Unbeatable Path
  • The Wingless Bee
  • ToriDori
  • Tribe Dash - Stone Age Time Management & Simulator
  • Undeadly
  • Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Three
  • 04-07

  • 1WEEK
  • 2D Dawg 2
  • Ashcrown
  • Auto Brawl Chess
  • Bottoms Up!: Part 1
  • Chief Emoji Officer
  • Dark Dead
  • Deep Dark Dungeon of Anglaus
  • Don't Byte Your Tongue
  • GachaHell
  • GENIE
  • Getting To The Other Side!!!
  • Greymarsh
  • Hinami Bay
  • Idle Clans
  • Knights and Goblins
  • Ku Shu Kyuujo Chuushin IV
  • Long Truck Simulator
  • Mechaneer Resta's Grand Adventure
  • Molecular Warfare
  • Peace is Your Destiny
  • Phantom-OS
  • Plasma Drone
  • Quant
  • Scroter
  • Sky Survivors
  • SoulJah Kingdom Rise
  • Starblast: 3D Wars
  • Strip Fighter ZERO
  • The Library of Babel
  • The Voidness - LIDAR Horror Survival Game
  • Veni, Vidi, Vici
  • WITCH RACE
  • Witch's Garden
  • 04-08

  • Don't Rage
  • 04-09

  • Basketball Club Story
  • Shh! This is a mystery game! But watch out for spoilers
  • Tropical Resort Story

Xbox Series X

  • 04-04

  • Meet Your Maker
  • Road 96: Mile 0
  • 04-06

  • Curse of the Sea Rats
  • Dashing Orange
  • Marfusha
  • Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories
  • 04-07

  • The Library of Babel

Xbox One

  • 04-04

  • Meet Your Maker
  • Road 96: Mile 0
  • 04-06

  • Curse of the Sea Rats
  • Dashing Orange
  • Marfusha
  • Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories
  • 04-07

  • Horror Tale 1: Kidnapper
  • The Library of Babel

PlayStation 5

  • 04-04

  • Atari Mania
  • Creed: Rise to Glory - Championship Edition
  • GrimGrimoire OnceMore
  • Meet Your Maker
  • Road 96: Mile 0
  • 04-06

  • Across the Valley
  • Curse of the Sea Rats
  • Marfusha
  • Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories
  • Pretty Girls Tile Match
  • 04-07

  • The Library of Babel

PlayStation 4

  • 04-04

  • Atari Mania
  • GrimGrimoire OnceMore
  • Meet Your Maker
  • Road 96: Mile 0
  • 04-06

  • Curse of the Sea Rats
  • Marfusha
  • Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories
  • Pretty Girls Tile Match
  • 04-07

  • The Library of Babel

Switch

  • 04-04

  • GrimGrimoire OnceMore
  • Kitty Rainbow
  • Road 96: Mile 0
  • 04-05

  • A Light in the Dark
  • Finger Football: Goal in One
  • 04-06

  • Alekon
  • Batora: Lost Haven
  • Celebrity Slot Machine
  • Curse of the Sea Rats
  • Goroons
  • IIN
  • Lucky Slots
  • Marfusha
  • Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories
  • Pretty Girls Tile Match
  • Pupperazzi
  • Tasty Slot Machine
  • The 7th Guest
  • The Answer is 42
  • Volley Pals
  • Witch Explorer
  • 04-07

  • Another Tomorrow
  • Bumballon
  • Catgotchi: Virtual Pet
  • Drill Deal - Oil Tycoon
  • Forever Lost: Episode 1
  • Fusion SHIFT
  • Incoherence
  • Numbers and Squares
  • Station 117
  • Super Cute Alien's Adventure
  • The Library of Babel
  • Tuya
  • 04-08

  • Zodiakalik

Comments

Melon Journey looks interesting, so I may check that out down the line. I did kickstart Curse of the Sea Rats, so that one's a guaranteed addition to my library.

For any Playstation players curious about Meet Your Maker, it is one of the free PS+ Essential games for the month.