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

Welcome folks, and happy “605th Anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt” week! This is the famous battle featured in Shakespeare's Henry V, where English longbowmen wore down the numerically superior French men-at-arms as they pressed through mud in their heavy armour. Once the French closed the distance, the nimbler archers switched to hatchets, swords, and mallets to finish them off. You may all celebrate by playing a game where you burn up all your ammo on a boss before wailing on it with your underpowered, melee attacks.

If you thought last week was quiet for games, get a load of this week. Case-in-point: the only new thing for a Nintendo property is the second expansion for Pokemon: Sword and Shield.

The consoles are getting a whole bunch of indie, platformer/action games from yesteryear’s PC lists. Bladed Fury is a side-scrolling, 2D action game in a Chinese fantasy setting. Outpost Delta is a side-scrolling, 2D action game in a sci-fi setting—with puzzling. GROOD is a shmup and Supraland is a colourful first-person metroidvania, similar to last year’s Journey to the Savage Planet.

Amnesia: Rebirth is the latest Amnesia game. The mechanics haven’t been changed too much—there’s still a fear meter and the use of light to keep it in check. If you’re in the headspace for what the devs are selling as a “harrowing journey through desolation and despair, exploring the limits of human resilience,” well, here it is.

DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part One is an expandalone DLC that you can jump into without buying the main game. It looks like more scoops of DOOM Eternal without changing the recipe.

I mentioned the G.I. Joe game last week, so I’d better mention Transformers: Battlegrounds this week. It’s XCOM-lite and aimed at kids, as you’d expect. The action economy in battles is a lot simpler than in XCOM, and you don’t level up your autobots—just pick them from a roster before a mission. And there’s single- and multi-player.

This is a hard week to pick a GOTW; nothing really inspires me. I can’t even vote for Macrotis: A Mother's Journey on parochial grounds. Although the game is about a Bilby (an Australian, ratlike marsupial), the story looks like such a downer—like a Bambi for Bilbies—that I can’t do it.

I’ll give the GOTW to DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part One. DOOM’s fun, go play more.

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

PC

  • 10-19

  • Artifact Hunter
  • CBT With Yuuka Kazami
  • Corrupted Hospital : Summoner Part1
  • DEMON'S SWORD SNAKES
  • Dofamine
  • Dungeon Lord
  • Endless Memories
  • Inseparable
  • Just a Game
  • MEGAJUMP
  • My Cute Commissar
  • Recruit One
  • Seeking revenge
  • Space Love Delta
  • Sunflower Code
  • The Unknown Sock | Interactive Comedy
  • Wark & Wimble
  • 10-20

  • 7 Bones and 7 Stones: The Ritual
  • Aurora (Michel Coelho da Silveira)
  • Battle Hunters
  • Beyond Polaris Guardian
  • Blood of Steel
  • Bloodland
  • Chesnakisnak
  • Cultus
  • Death: The Ascension
  • Desolate Roads
  • DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part One
  • DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge
  • Drone Swarm
  • Electioneering
  • F*** The Police
  • Horace Goes Skiing
  • Hot Jigsaw Puzzles
  • HyperBrawl Tournament
  • Input Out
  • Kandidatos Kart
  • Outpost Delta
  • Paper Beast: Folded Edition
  • Perilous Warp
  • PhotoWorld
  • projet BLARI
  • Roads of Rome: New Generation 3
  • Soccer Adventures
  • Solasta: Crown of the Magister
  • Sword Slinger
  • TEXT: Russia
  • The Episodic
  • The Guise
  • Vaporwave
  • Wibbly Witches
  • Yolo Space Hacker
  • 10-21

  • Before Dark
  • Beyond The Wire
  • Burning mountain and sea
  • Crystal Chasers League
  • Dark Asteroids
  • Devious Dungeon 2
  • Dragu's Puzzle Adventure
  • Escape2088
  • Fast Typing Master
  • Goblin Takes No Argument[s]
  • Grey Scout
  • Horror Movie Bingo
  • Knight Dice
  • LOVE - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories
  • Maniac Path
  • Messier111
  • Metal Strike
  • My Sweet Washing Machine!
  • Reality End
  • Save the Planet (Wenay Studio)
  • ScourgeBringer
  • Space Force Squadron
  • Tenderfoot Tactics
  • Throne of Fate
  • Uppers
  • Zero IDLE
  • 10-22

  • Crappy Climber
  • Disc Room
  • Don't Be Afraid
  • DwarfHeim
  • Ezaron Defense
  • Fallen Angel
  • Fingertips mountain sea
  • Gravity Ace
  • Isles of Adalar
  • Ray's the Dead
  • Shapeshooter
  • Souls Unguarded
  • Succubus Affection
  • Surviving the Aftermath
  • Unspottable
  • VALHALL
  • Zhelter

PlayStation 4

  • 10-20

  • Amnesia: Rebirth
  • Bladed Fury
  • DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part One
  • HyperBrawl Tournament
  • Outpost Delta
  • 10-21

  • A Tale of Paper
  • Macrotis: A Mother's Journey
  • 10-22

  • Bless Unleashed
  • Ray's the Dead
  • Supraland
  • 10-23

  • Galacide
  • GROOD
  • Pumpkin Jack
  • Supermarket Shriek
  • Transformers: Battlegrounds

Xbox One

  • 10-20

  • Bladed Fury
  • DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part One
  • HyperBrawl Tournament
  • Monster Truck Championship
  • Outpost Delta
  • 10-21

  • Macrotis: A Mother's Journey
  • Rusty Spout Rescue Adventure
  • ScourgeBringer
  • 10-22

  • Supraland
  • 10-23

  • BH Trials
  • Clea
  • Galacide
  • GROOD
  • Lord of the Click
  • Pumpkin Jack
  • Transformers: Battlegrounds

Switch

  • 10-19

  • Death Ray Manta
  • 10-20

  • Battle Hunters
  • Bladed Fury
  • HyperBrawl Tournament
  • Outpost Delta
  • Two Point Hospital: Culture Shock
  • 10-21

  • Bullet Beat
  • Horace
  • ScourgeBringer
  • 10-22

  • Asterix & Obelix XXL Romastered
  • Disc Room
  • Double Pug Switch
  • FRACTER
  • GONNER 2
  • If Found...
  • LUNA The Shadow Dust
  • Nullum
  • Outbreak: Epidemic
  • Pokemon Sword / Shield: The Crown Tundra
  • Restless Hero
  • Rusty Spout Rescue Adventure
  • Supraland
  • The Red Lantern
  • They Bleed Pixels
  • Toolboy
  • Torchlight III
  • WARTILE
  • 10-23

  • Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda - Complete Edition
  • CrossKrush
  • Galacide
  • Grood
  • Kakurasu World
  • Maze
  • Pumpkin Jack
  • Supermarket Shriek
  • Transformers: Battlegrounds
  • Truck Driving Simulator

Comments

If it's the anniversary of Agincourt, then it must also be the anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and of the busiest day of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Good day for absurdly imbalanced matchups.

Supraland is supposedly quite good. Will have to check it out.

The Amnesia devs are top notch. I still haven't played much of Soma though, so I should probably get to that before the new Amnesia.