Want some distraction from this heat wave?
Gaming didn't make me feel any colder, but it sure entertained me while I was melting!
We are going through a heat wave and the Steam Summer Sales are on. Fantastic opportunity to pick up a few games and keep yourself distracted from all the sweating and melting you’re doing.
Keplerth
Keplerth is the next game on the ‘Necesse-like’ list, specifically one that feels like you crawled out of a RimWorld cryosleep casket and have to survivalcraft your way off the planet.
I’m taking it rather slow. I’ve restarted the game a few times, like I usually do. And then suddenly I had 19 hours on my counter and I still have no idea what I’m doing. I know I’m supposed to be helping a dude repair his space ship but I’ve been distracted building a little hotel for other survivors and collecting stone to build myself a castle. I’ll let you know when I figure it out, but for now: it’s so good. If you like Necesse / Core Keeper / Tinkerlands, this is the fourth musketeer.
Chef Knight
Chef Knight feels like the Dungeon Meshi anime if it were an incremental.
Go into the dungeon, kill enemies, collect ingredients, cook them, sell them, buy upgrades to do more damage, have a longer timer, cook faster, sell faster, sell for more gold, etc. and then dive back in, and do better.
A simple, traditional incremental loop that hits the spot!
Gamblers Table
Gamblers Table makes coin flipping weirdly addictive and semi-automated with the help of adorable little people with crazy hats.
You have a coin, you click it, heads gives you money. Get a helper, he’ll flip the coin for you. Get another coin. And another helper. Upgrade the coin. Upgrade the helper. Continue until you have a silver and gold coin. Prestige to start over. Get eaten by the table. What?
Bug & Seek
In Bug & Seek, you do two things I absolutely love doing in games: catch bugs and display them in a museum!
It’s your job to bring the insectarium back to its former glory after the… incident we don’t speak about, and you do so by going to out to catch bugs and then display them in your museum.
Sounds easy enough! And super cosy! And there are more than 200 different bugs to discover and collect, making it a collector’s dream.
Pastry Pile Up
Pastry Pile Up has a demo out, and I just can’t stop playing it.
It’s a yummier take on the tried and true suika game, where you match two of the same fruits pastries together to merge them into a +1 tier one, and continue your way up until you get to the biggest pastry.
There are customers who will give you the opportunity to remove a pastry from your jar in exchange for money, which you can use to buy decoration and customisation options for your shop, and, in the full game, different sets of pastries to play with!
Bonus points: bunny pastry!
