Been playing free itch games non-stop for almost three weeks, here are my reccs:
- A Circle of Charity - half hour of extremely harrowing and excellent queer despair
- Joey Wamone's Normal Bedtime Routine That Is Definitely Not a Recurring Tooth Decay Nightmare - masterpiece of good kaizo jokes
- doomsday dreamgirl (18+) - queer despair kinky deer girl smut, extremely hot
- Victim Doll (18+) - queer despair robot guro smut, extremely hot
- Sylvie Lime - masterpiece explore-y platformer with a lot more going on under the hood than you'd expect
- Butterfly Soup 2 (you should play 1 first though) - I adore these characters with my entire heart
- with the last moonbeam - beautiful knytt-y gba homebrew platformer from the creator of bitsy
- Ten Tales from the Records of the Adamant Gambit - ten intimate stories in a really lovely fleshed out setting, strong command of tone and humor
Had another three week itch bender, have some more Certified Bangers:
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Polly the Frog 3: Billy Bullfrog's Decree - These games continue to be very cute and good one-sitting platformers; one of the few devs out there that make me wanna 3D games. The final boss is a little too hard, otherwise this is an adorable little journey.
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Kitten Milk Replacer (18+) - Very nice sister game to A Circle of Charity. Some of my favorite stories out there about getting caught up in your own martyr narratives, a theme really close to my heart.
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers - Drop-dead gorgeous obviously, but it's the excellent artfully directed character stories and the subtle wry sense of humor that really make this game for me.
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Winter (18+) - Controlled and subtle and precise story about two queer characters in a messy grimy kinky relationship, very excellent.
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greasemnk++ - Great art and music and extremely chunky fixed encounter resource management rpg tactics. Gets super-duper-hype at the end which I was surprised and delighted by.
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Quantum Entanglement (18+) - Some of the dramatic parts could've used another edit pass, but nobody does character banter and hilarious environment interactions like Saint Bomber (Embric of Wulfhammer's dev) and the density of it here still made the game sing for me.
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TRAUMAKT~4.SEXE (18+) - It's very fun to play Winter, Victim Doll, and TRAUMAKT and watch the games get increasingly loud and horny and exuberant. It's legit inspiring how much this game delights in its weirdo kinky smut scenarios and wearing its influences on its sleeve, finished with a huge grin on my face.
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Queen Beast (18+) - It is impossible to overstate how appealing the (90's fantasy ecchi OVA-inspired) art in this game is to me. It's like an electrode applied directly to my lizard brain, it never stopped blowing me away and making me smile. The great triumph of Queen Beast is that the writing manages to deserve art this good; it's a strong, complete story full of great jokes and characters.
