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IMAGE(https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/pictures/pictures/picture-13445.jpg)   Felix “Vroom vroom” Threepaper
Welcome folks, and happy “135th anniversary of Louis Pasteur saving a boy’s life with the first rabies vaccine” week! You may all celebrate by wearing masks.

There’s a lot of variety this week. Nothing tickles my particular fancy; I’m back on my old BS with a 3rd playthrough of Divinity Original Sin 2. I won’t be coming out of that hole anytime soon. Demon's Rise - War for the Deep looks a bit similar. It’s a turn-based, tactical dungeon crawler with a smaller scope than Divinity—more on a par with Gloomhaven—while offering that RPG “fight-loot-level” loop with a roster of 30 characters.

Most of the action this week is with Switch ports. There’s stylish first-person puzzler Superliminal, side-scrollin’ arcade throwback Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2, and hefty JRPG Trails of Cold Steel III.

Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise offers up another serving of the Lynchian horror pastiche that made the first game a cult classic in 2010. I couldn’t tell you much about what you do between cutscenes, though. Drink coffee? Talk to people? In the trailer, I saw someone crouching behind a box, so there’s that.

Catherine: Full Body is a remake of the 2011 Atlus game. Apparently, some work has been done to remove some transphobic elements in the original game—more details are on the Catherine wiki at fandom.com. In fact, I’ll let the following quote from the wiki pitch the remake: “The developers chose the subtitle Full Body due to its relation to full-bodied wine. Full Body is Catherine with more content or depth, like a full-bodied wine. It also sounded more erotic as the developers increased the eroticness a bit. The main voice cast also reprised their roles.”

F1 2020 has an extra hook during lockdown: a chance to race online with actual F1 drivers. Apparently Valtteri Bottas is a demon on voice chat, so be warned. I’ll give it the GOTW to make up for all the times TWA has robbed driving games.

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

PC

  • 07-06

  • Andromeda One Zombies
  • ARCANE DUEL
  • Genry's Great Escape From City 13
  • Monster Logic
  • Return to Earth 2130
  • RITE
  • Space Battle
  • tomorrow won't come for those without [Redacted]
  • Twin-Turbo Supercharged Nitro-Fueled Papamobile
  • 07-07

  • Apprentice Arriving
  • Astronomia
  • Box Factory
  • Dangerous Zone
  • DF-41 Simulator
  • Electric Circuit
  • Escape the Clinic
  • Factory of Sweets
  • Fingers: Mini Games
  • Jubeez
  • LINGERING
  • Mouse Dream
  • NASCAR Heat 5
  • pear potion
  • Space Wave Race
  • The Peresmeshnik
  • The protectors of Deya
  • 07-08

  • Analog Party Sim
  • Contract Killers
  • Hoplichess
  • Rogue Bots
  • UNITED COMMAND
  • 07-09

  • 180 Files: The Aegis Project
  • Cinnamon fight
  • Doctor Lee
  • Elden: Path of the Forgotten
  • End of Palette
  • Excalibots
  • Primal Light
  • Soda Dungeon 2
  • The Plague: Kingdom Wars
  • The Wind Road (fhyx)
  • Wobbly Life
  • 07-10

  • A Lot of Universes
  • Ace of Space
  • Alien cat 4
  • Bananaman
  • Beautiful Model2
  • Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
  • Brain Boom
  • Buddy's Creative Quest!
  • Call of Coronga
  • Choco Pixel 7
  • Deer Hunter xTreme Focal Plane
  • Delivery Simulator
  • Desktop Dance
  • DR MILOS REVENGE
  • Dungeons & Guns
  • Escape Room VR: Inner Voices
  • F1 2020
  • Fritz Chess 17 Steam Edition
  • Hashiriya Drifter - Online Multiplayer Drift Game
  • Hungry Boy
  • International Space Banana
  • Jonas Willy Online
  • Kaapelipeli: The Cable Game
  • Logic - Electrons Connect
  • Lone Land
  • Mini Army Tactics Medieval
  • ODIA
  • OMG - One More Goal!
  • Our Secret Below
  • Police Chase (Studio Inward)
  • Pop-It! Or Don't..
  • Quaver
  • Racingmaybe
  • Realm of Heroes
  • Rise & Fall
  • Rock Paper SHIFT
  • shapeWar
  • Sisters Royale
  • Soldier Warfare
  • soundStrider
  • Storynth
  • Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
  • The Chess Variants Club
  • The importance of choosing: second chance
  • The Legend of Cesar
  • The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother
  • Truzzle
  • Vagrus - The Riven Realms: Prologue
  • Welcome to Elk: The first stories
  • Whiskey.Mafia. Leo's Family
  • Winter's Trumpet

PlayStation 4

  • 07-06

  • F1 2020
  • 07-07

  • NASCAR Heat 5
  • Outward: The Soroboreans
  • Superliminal
  • 07-09

  • CrossCode
  • 07-10

  • Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
  • Budget Cuts
  • Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
  • The Great Perhaps

Xbox One

  • 07-07

  • NASCAR Heat 5
  • Outward: The Soroboreans
  • Superliminal
  • 07-09

  • CrossCode
  • 07-10

  • Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
  • F1 2020
  • Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire
  • Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
  • The Great Perhaps

Switch

  • 07-07

  • Catherine: Full Body
  • Superliminal
  • 07-09

  • CrossCode
  • Demon's Rise - War for the Deep
  • Elden: Path of the Forgotten
  • Laraan
  • Love Letter from Thief X
  • Quiet Mansion 2
  • Robozarro
  • TroubleDays
  • 07-10

  • Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
  • Creepy Tale
  • Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise
  • The Great Perhaps

Comments

Holy snap, Deadly Premonition 2 is out already? There's no way they pull this off again, ya?

My body is ready for CrossCode on console. Been waiting for that for a long while. Hopefully I don't bounce off it like that other indie rpg love letter, Undertale.