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"But with me, you see the time pass. And you feel it pass. You sense that this is time that leads towards death." - Chantal Akerman

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frogheaven @fr0gheaven.bsky.social · Dec 17
"BB is getting cooked in that damn cage. Roasting at the office, grilling at the pool, burning at the resort, on fire at the seeming end of the seeming world."

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frogheaven's review of Anthology of the Killer | Backloggd
Wait, who is being killed here? This question might come up. It isn’t really important. Actually it’s boring. What I really want to know is what, rather than who, is being killed.<br><br>In Paul B. Pr...
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Posting this then I gotta go work on filling and emptying various meters for the day see ya

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frogheaven's review of Apartment Story | Backloggd
What you do every day is your life. What you do at home, when you wake up, before bed, in the margins of time we don't think about because they happen so often. Where is the video game about those mar...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Shrug off your worldly desires and become train. Chug and groan through a world that reflects a fantasy, an image of The Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs that exists in FMV dreams and NHK Youtube videos, and maybe nowhere else.
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frogheaven's review of Japanese Rail Sim: Hakone Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs | Backloggd
An important thing to understand about <em>Japanese Rail Sim: Hakone Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs</em> is that it is more a simulator for being a train than operating one. People are seconda...
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July 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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JUNE 2025 STEAM NEXT FEST
Sharing what I like as I play through hundreds of demos.

1000 DEATHS
Funky freako narrative platforming death fetishism. Like a Double Fine game but grimier and therefore realer in a way.
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1000 Deaths (Thousand Deaths) on Steam
1000 Deaths is a gravity-bending 3D platformer where your choices matter. What you choose defines the game's levels, mechanics, and story. Dash through platforming hubs and decide your character's fat...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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dotmaetrix.bsky.social
Happy pride folks

I'm still fleshing out the entries, but here's a list of over 200 retro games (pre-2010) which were made by trans people or which had trans people on the dev team.

We have always been here.

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A List Of Games By Trans People Before 2010
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June 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Today I'm going to get out of the megastructure today I'm going to get out of the megastructure today I'm going to get out of the megastructure. Today I got out of the megastructure. Today I'm going to get out of the megastructure today I'm going to-

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frogheaven's review of Metal Garden | Backloggd
What if Master Chief woke up one day with a lit cigarette in his mouth lying next to a broken mech inside a megastructure. Some cat men try to fuck him up but he 360 no scopes them the best way he kno...
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June 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I've got a new showcase I'm organizing...
💰THE UNEARTHED TREASURE ROOM💎
🗺️June 5th / 4 PM PST
Featuring a curation of recent overlooked games we want YOU to play!!
Subscribe here to catch the stream! www.youtube.com/@analgesicpr... (reposts appreciated!!)
Logo for "The Unearthed Treasure Room". The subtitle says "A curated showcase of recent overlooked games we want you to play. The showcase will air June 5th at 4 PM PST/7 PM EST/12 AM BST Screenshot of Electric Fairyland Screenshot of UltraNothing Screenshot of Funny Walk
May 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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More a game masquerading as one for the freaks than truly freakish. It could be so much more if it just let go. Embrace crunchy freaky, reject smoothy comfy. Clair Obscur is somewhat in the middle but just too shiny, too watered down.

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frogheaven's review of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Backloggd
This is an ugly game. I quite enjoyed a lot of it, but it is ugly and I'm going to have to focus on that because I think there's a rot at the creative heart of this game that reflects a broader miasma...
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May 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Hole is state of being, a way of life. Hole is the center of all things. As someone with a lot of hole experience, I can say this game unfortunately knows very little about holes.

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frogheaven's review of A Game About Digging A Hole | Backloggd
<em>Ceci n'est pas une hole.</em><br><br>Edit: This is approaching what could be a new kind of meditative genre- distinct from clickers, cleaning games, etc - if it took the digging idea further by si...
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May 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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"I did not find this game frustrating in the least, but rather sort of disturbing and cynical in the way it combines the thrill of solving a puzzle with the dopamine hit of having the chips fall in your favor."

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frogheaven's review of Blue Prince | Backloggd
This is a tough one. I abandoned the game very near reaching the credits because I realized I wasn't playing the game out of any sort of real curiosity but instead out of compulsion.<br><br>Many peopl...
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May 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Not a review of this game but a reminder that Microsoft is currently a priority BDS target, written here because this was the last game I played on my now cancelled Game Pass subscription. Please do whatever you can to join the boycott against Microsoft.

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frogheaven's review of South of Midnight | Backloggd
This is not a review but instead a reminder that Microsoft is now a priority target of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS). BDS is a Palestinian-led organization working towards Pale...
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May 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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"I did not find this game frustrating in the least, but rather sort of disturbing and cynical in the way it combines the thrill of solving a puzzle with the dopamine hit of having the chips fall in your favor."

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frogheaven's review of Blue Prince | Backloggd
This is a tough one. I abandoned the game very near reaching the credits because I realized I wasn't playing the game out of any sort of real curiosity but instead out of compulsion.<br><br>Many peopl...
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May 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
fr0gheaven.bsky.social
Not a review of this game but a reminder that Microsoft is currently a priority BDS target, written here because this was the last game I played on my now cancelled Game Pass subscription. Please do whatever you can to join the boycott against Microsoft.

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frogheaven's review of South of Midnight | Backloggd
This is not a review but instead a reminder that Microsoft is now a priority target of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS). BDS is a Palestinian-led organization working towards Pale...
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May 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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"Golden Idol is also a game about language, how it often depends on circumstantial evidence and logic, how reality and assumptions crash into each other and how the leftover detritus is a sentence."

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frogheaven's review of The Case of the Golden Idol | Backloggd
<em>More and more the word promises to be an algebraic equation that makes the world intelligible. Just as the new Cartesian algebra permitted the construction of theoretical physics, so too an origin...
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April 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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"Golden Idol is also a game about language, how it often depends on circumstantial evidence and logic, how reality and assumptions crash into each other and how the leftover detritus is a sentence."

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frogheaven's review of The Case of the Golden Idol | Backloggd
<em>More and more the word promises to be an algebraic equation that makes the world intelligible. Just as the new Cartesian algebra permitted the construction of theoretical physics, so too an origin...
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April 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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"Give us disguises, send us to a Leni screening, let us burn down a theater full of em etc. A little more imsim and a lot more disemboweled Nazis and I could play this series for the rest of my life."

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frogheaven's review of Sniper Elite: Resistance | Backloggd
You know what this game is about, you know why its fun, and you know if you like it or if you are a Nazi sympathizer. Kidding, mostly, but really it never quite ceases to be funny seeing a Nazi's test...
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April 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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"But why here and now in this Ukrainian otherworld mirrorland, why? This is a first person shooter video game, this is a run around around in circles and pinprick the bullet sponge mutant video game. Why am I thinking about Rilke?"

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frogheaven's review of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Backloggd
<em>Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic<br>Orders? And even if one were to suddenly<br>take me to its heart, I would vanish into its<br>stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but<b...
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April 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
fr0gheaven.bsky.social
"But why here and now in this Ukrainian otherworld mirrorland, why? This is a first person shooter video game, this is a run around around in circles and pinprick the bullet sponge mutant video game. Why am I thinking about Rilke?"

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frogheaven's review of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Backloggd
<em>Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic<br>Orders? And even if one were to suddenly<br>take me to its heart, I would vanish into its<br>stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but<b...
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April 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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"The only feeling was the tugging on my skin as the stitches were tied into place. And oh god, I thought, if I can’t feel anything is this body even mine?"

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frogheaven's review of Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector | Backloggd
Recently I underwent a minor surgery. Thanks to local anesthetic, I didn’t even notice when the surgery began. Of course there was no pain but it's always a little disturbing when you realize you are ...
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March 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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"Incel murder simulator. A relaxing play for the catastrophic moment as you imagine the world’s most powerful faces behind those masks because after all they’re all just couch fuckers and run out fathers."

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frogheaven's review of Butcher's Creek | Backloggd
Incel murder simulator. A relaxing play for the catastrophic moment as you imagine the world’s most powerful faces behind those masks because after all they’re all just couch fuckers and run out fathe...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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"Avowed rejects adjectives. Describe this game in any meaningful way, I dare you. Obsidian has broken new ground by making something entirely indescribable because you forget it as soon as you look away."

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frogheaven's review of Avowed | Backloggd
It can be hard to write about games like <em>Avowed</em> because as with <em>Dragon Age: The Veilguard</em> and <em>Final Fantasy XVI</em> before, it is an entirely sauceless game. Sure that’s flippan...
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March 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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"The only feeling was the tugging on my skin as the stitches were tied into place. And oh god, I thought, if I can’t feel anything is this body even mine?"

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frogheaven's review of Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector | Backloggd
Recently I underwent a minor surgery. Thanks to local anesthetic, I didn’t even notice when the surgery began. Of course there was no pain but it's always a little disturbing when you realize you are ...
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March 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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"The physicality of the skiing and the impossibly beautiful snow ground this game in a balletic, gritty feel."

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frogheaven's review of Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders | Backloggd
I was about three-fourths the way through all the single player challenges when I was suddenly hit with a vision like a Biblical prophet. <em>Downhill Domination</em>. My mind reels, and years of my c...
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February 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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"This is a meathead buttrock video game. This is a video game that gives you a weapon called the Type 666 Heavy Machine Gun. This is a video game that seemingly names a primary villain after Elizabeth Bathory and then flushes her down a blood toilet."

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frogheaven's review of Ninja Gaiden II Black | Backloggd
Before I ever played a <em>Ninja Gaiden</em> game, I could hear the screaming of the very loud fan base from miles away, “<em>Sigma</em> sucks!!!!!”. For a long time I did not know what this meant and...
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February 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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"This is a meathead buttrock video game. This is a video game that gives you a weapon called the Type 666 Heavy Machine Gun. This is a video game that seemingly names a primary villain after Elizabeth Bathory and then flushes her down a blood toilet."

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frogheaven's review of Ninja Gaiden II Black | Backloggd
Before I ever played a <em>Ninja Gaiden</em> game, I could hear the screaming of the very loud fan base from miles away, “<em>Sigma</em> sucks!!!!!”. For a long time I did not know what this meant and...
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February 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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im sayin

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February 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM