Joe
@joej25.bsky.social
32 🏳️🌈 Dog dad 🐕 gaymer, eater, gig goer, reader, dreaming of Japan (and learning the language)
13. Silent Hill 2 Remake
What’s spooky season without a spooky game? A great remake of an excellent game. The lighting, graphics and sound design make it properly intense, scary and atmospheric.
What’s spooky season without a spooky game? A great remake of an excellent game. The lighting, graphics and sound design make it properly intense, scary and atmospheric.
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
13. Silent Hill 2 Remake
What’s spooky season without a spooky game? A great remake of an excellent game. The lighting, graphics and sound design make it properly intense, scary and atmospheric.
What’s spooky season without a spooky game? A great remake of an excellent game. The lighting, graphics and sound design make it properly intense, scary and atmospheric.
Exact same thing happened to me! Except the final boss - no matter how many times I went away and came back, they still kicked my ass. Took me easily 50 attempts and I nearly quit twice 🤦♂️
October 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Exact same thing happened to me! Except the final boss - no matter how many times I went away and came back, they still kicked my ass. Took me easily 50 attempts and I nearly quit twice 🤦♂️
12. Hollow Knight: Silksong
I genuinely thought the last boss might be the end of me but god, what an excellent game this is. It pushes you to the limit and makes you feel like an absolute god when you overcome it, the movement is perfect, the music is out of this world. Worth the wait!
I genuinely thought the last boss might be the end of me but god, what an excellent game this is. It pushes you to the limit and makes you feel like an absolute god when you overcome it, the movement is perfect, the music is out of this world. Worth the wait!
October 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
12. Hollow Knight: Silksong
I genuinely thought the last boss might be the end of me but god, what an excellent game this is. It pushes you to the limit and makes you feel like an absolute god when you overcome it, the movement is perfect, the music is out of this world. Worth the wait!
I genuinely thought the last boss might be the end of me but god, what an excellent game this is. It pushes you to the limit and makes you feel like an absolute god when you overcome it, the movement is perfect, the music is out of this world. Worth the wait!
11. Monster Hunter Stories
I don’t have any attachment to Monster Hunter but I love a Pokemon-like and this ticked a lot of boxes - excellent combat with tons of nuance and options, fun creature design, a surprisingly effective story. I’ll definitely dig into the sequels!
I don’t have any attachment to Monster Hunter but I love a Pokemon-like and this ticked a lot of boxes - excellent combat with tons of nuance and options, fun creature design, a surprisingly effective story. I’ll definitely dig into the sequels!
September 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
11. Monster Hunter Stories
I don’t have any attachment to Monster Hunter but I love a Pokemon-like and this ticked a lot of boxes - excellent combat with tons of nuance and options, fun creature design, a surprisingly effective story. I’ll definitely dig into the sequels!
I don’t have any attachment to Monster Hunter but I love a Pokemon-like and this ticked a lot of boxes - excellent combat with tons of nuance and options, fun creature design, a surprisingly effective story. I’ll definitely dig into the sequels!
10. Monster Train 2
When I say this game has taken over my life for the last month… a deck-building tower-defending roguelike with endless (honestly endless) replayability, hundreds of different builds to play and an utterly addictive gameplay loop. It might even surpass Slay The Spire…
When I say this game has taken over my life for the last month… a deck-building tower-defending roguelike with endless (honestly endless) replayability, hundreds of different builds to play and an utterly addictive gameplay loop. It might even surpass Slay The Spire…
August 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
10. Monster Train 2
When I say this game has taken over my life for the last month… a deck-building tower-defending roguelike with endless (honestly endless) replayability, hundreds of different builds to play and an utterly addictive gameplay loop. It might even surpass Slay The Spire…
When I say this game has taken over my life for the last month… a deck-building tower-defending roguelike with endless (honestly endless) replayability, hundreds of different builds to play and an utterly addictive gameplay loop. It might even surpass Slay The Spire…
9. The Plucky Squire
What a gloriously fun adventure! Strong concept, adorable art, interesting and varied gameplay and a great sense of humour. A wonderful way to spend 10 hours!
What a gloriously fun adventure! Strong concept, adorable art, interesting and varied gameplay and a great sense of humour. A wonderful way to spend 10 hours!
August 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
9. The Plucky Squire
What a gloriously fun adventure! Strong concept, adorable art, interesting and varied gameplay and a great sense of humour. A wonderful way to spend 10 hours!
What a gloriously fun adventure! Strong concept, adorable art, interesting and varied gameplay and a great sense of humour. A wonderful way to spend 10 hours!
8. Minami Lane
Well this was an adorable little management game. A lovely chill one night experience with a cute, boppy soundtrack and more raccoons than you can shake a stick at.
Well this was an adorable little management game. A lovely chill one night experience with a cute, boppy soundtrack and more raccoons than you can shake a stick at.
August 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
8. Minami Lane
Well this was an adorable little management game. A lovely chill one night experience with a cute, boppy soundtrack and more raccoons than you can shake a stick at.
Well this was an adorable little management game. A lovely chill one night experience with a cute, boppy soundtrack and more raccoons than you can shake a stick at.
😅😅 I played the first one a couple of years ago and to be honest totally forgot I hadn’t played the second too!
July 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
😅😅 I played the first one a couple of years ago and to be honest totally forgot I hadn’t played the second too!
7. Ori and the Will of the Wisps
What a stunning, emotional and deeply satisfying metroidvania! It makes you feel like an absolute boss when you nail a difficult platform of challenge, delivers a standout soundtrack and packs a surprisingly emotional punch.
What a stunning, emotional and deeply satisfying metroidvania! It makes you feel like an absolute boss when you nail a difficult platform of challenge, delivers a standout soundtrack and packs a surprisingly emotional punch.
July 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
7. Ori and the Will of the Wisps
What a stunning, emotional and deeply satisfying metroidvania! It makes you feel like an absolute boss when you nail a difficult platform of challenge, delivers a standout soundtrack and packs a surprisingly emotional punch.
What a stunning, emotional and deeply satisfying metroidvania! It makes you feel like an absolute boss when you nail a difficult platform of challenge, delivers a standout soundtrack and packs a surprisingly emotional punch.
6. Doom: The Dark Ages
My 2025 run of excellent games continues. A crunchy, thumping shooter that’s constant fun, with a ridiculous and utterly brilliant range of weapons and a metal soundtrack that never misses. My kind of shooter, and a real blast in every sense of the word.
My 2025 run of excellent games continues. A crunchy, thumping shooter that’s constant fun, with a ridiculous and utterly brilliant range of weapons and a metal soundtrack that never misses. My kind of shooter, and a real blast in every sense of the word.
June 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
6. Doom: The Dark Ages
My 2025 run of excellent games continues. A crunchy, thumping shooter that’s constant fun, with a ridiculous and utterly brilliant range of weapons and a metal soundtrack that never misses. My kind of shooter, and a real blast in every sense of the word.
My 2025 run of excellent games continues. A crunchy, thumping shooter that’s constant fun, with a ridiculous and utterly brilliant range of weapons and a metal soundtrack that never misses. My kind of shooter, and a real blast in every sense of the word.
5. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Instantly one of my top 5 games of all time. Incredible world building, excellent writing, a killer soundtrack and the best turn based combat system ever made. A true masterpiece - I actually feel bereft having finished it. Play this god damn game right now.
Instantly one of my top 5 games of all time. Incredible world building, excellent writing, a killer soundtrack and the best turn based combat system ever made. A true masterpiece - I actually feel bereft having finished it. Play this god damn game right now.
May 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
5. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Instantly one of my top 5 games of all time. Incredible world building, excellent writing, a killer soundtrack and the best turn based combat system ever made. A true masterpiece - I actually feel bereft having finished it. Play this god damn game right now.
Instantly one of my top 5 games of all time. Incredible world building, excellent writing, a killer soundtrack and the best turn based combat system ever made. A true masterpiece - I actually feel bereft having finished it. Play this god damn game right now.
4. Avowed
It took a while to hook me, but once it did, I hugely enjoyed Avowed. Exploration is constant fun, characters are great and the plot is compelling. Combat feels pleasingly weighty and never gets old (especially a mage build). I’m excited to see what they can do next!
It took a while to hook me, but once it did, I hugely enjoyed Avowed. Exploration is constant fun, characters are great and the plot is compelling. Combat feels pleasingly weighty and never gets old (especially a mage build). I’m excited to see what they can do next!
April 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
4. Avowed
It took a while to hook me, but once it did, I hugely enjoyed Avowed. Exploration is constant fun, characters are great and the plot is compelling. Combat feels pleasingly weighty and never gets old (especially a mage build). I’m excited to see what they can do next!
It took a while to hook me, but once it did, I hugely enjoyed Avowed. Exploration is constant fun, characters are great and the plot is compelling. Combat feels pleasingly weighty and never gets old (especially a mage build). I’m excited to see what they can do next!
That’s my verdict coming out of it too - I’m lucky to have other consoles so I’ve played 90% of the third party titles that I’m interested in already. The Duskbloods is the only thing I feel I NEED a Switch 2 for and that’s a year away!
April 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
That’s my verdict coming out of it too - I’m lucky to have other consoles so I’ve played 90% of the third party titles that I’m interested in already. The Duskbloods is the only thing I feel I NEED a Switch 2 for and that’s a year away!
3: Split Fiction
Hazelight have done it again! A fun, creative co-op platformer with constant new ideas, no filler and one of the most inventive closing levels I’ve seen in ages. A blast - and we didn’t even break up playing it!
Hazelight have done it again! A fun, creative co-op platformer with constant new ideas, no filler and one of the most inventive closing levels I’ve seen in ages. A blast - and we didn’t even break up playing it!
March 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
3: Split Fiction
Hazelight have done it again! A fun, creative co-op platformer with constant new ideas, no filler and one of the most inventive closing levels I’ve seen in ages. A blast - and we didn’t even break up playing it!
Hazelight have done it again! A fun, creative co-op platformer with constant new ideas, no filler and one of the most inventive closing levels I’ve seen in ages. A blast - and we didn’t even break up playing it!
I’m quite early in the story still but I loooove the world and the lore so hoping that’ll convert to story gripping me shortly!
February 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I’m quite early in the story still but I loooove the world and the lore so hoping that’ll convert to story gripping me shortly!
I’ve heard a few people say similar! I’m loving the combat and the characters are great, exploring is fun, but I feel like I need something a bit… more?
February 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I’ve heard a few people say similar! I’m loving the combat and the characters are great, exploring is fun, but I feel like I need something a bit… more?