Recent reviews by monokoma

Wonderful exploration-focused adventure: I'm happy there's finally a game like this where I can freely explore a Moebius-inspired world without caring about combat nor puzzles (even if there are a few puzzles, but they are not required). It's basically Zelda: Breath of the Wild in a dreamy sci-fi world, without enemies nor dungeons. A relaxing experience with amazing landscapes to explore and look at.

This is a gorgeous low-poly style game, with a fascinating tale of allucitated dreams. It reminds me of Yume Nikki, but with a few more light-puzzles and multiple, strange playable characters. An esoteric tale of TV statics, demigods, friendships, declining towns, degrading jobs, and capitalist frogs. At the moment it has a "to be continued" ending, but it's already a unique and lovely experience. Did not have any major bug during my playtrough, just remember to save often.

One of the most clever games I have played in 2019, it's main mechanic is a simple idea but it quickly became a crazy series of meta-controlling characters that will just melt your mind. It's short and cheap and if you are interested in weird, original games you should give it a chance.

One of the funniest experiences we had with local multiplayer on Steam. Gameplay is simple and may feel repetitive on the long run, but it's perfect to play between our most-played titles during local multiplayer parties.

This is such a wonderful hidden gem: if you love time-loop adventures like Future Proof, Disgaea Infinite, Zelda: Majora's Mask & Minit, this is the next game you have to play. A small town full of mysteries and weird characters, with complex story-progression and multiple crazy endings with meta-narrative plot. Hope to see more games by the same team in the future!

Awesome, hardcore puzzle adventure game for up to 8 players! It's quite the clever and difficult game, it's fun to discuss how to resolve each room with your friends. There are many playable characters each one with their own skill, that could help resolving rooms in many different ways. An hidden gem for sure, if you can play this with more than 4 friends it's a must-have for your multiplayer parties

Minit is such a wonderful little game.

It's like Zelda: Majora's Mask + Half Minute Hero.

If you loved those games, you'll probably love Minit too. It's a short (3 - 4 hours to explore everything and find all the secrets) time-loop action adventure, full of bizarre characters and clever puzzles <3

It's hard to review The Missing without spoilers, but i'll be quick.
If you love Swery65 games, it's important to support The Missing as his first indie project: the world needs more of his dreamy, emotional games in the future. Still, you might not like this one as it's less crazy than his past projects (Deadly Premonition, Spy Fiction, D4).
If you like Limbo / Inside + Life is Strange + Shintaro Kago + Personal Identity issues, then you may love this.
If you hate all of the above, just skip it.

Future Proof is really a clever, hardcore puzzle adventure game.

This is not an easy game, so don't play it if you don't want a real challenge for your investigation and observation skills.

Its 12-minutes time-loop is used more as a way to collect information in multiple loops than as a game mechanic. All of its puzzles are related to hints you could find around the city that would be impossible to find in a single loop.

Most of its riddles are obscure, difficult and super satisfying once your resolve them. It's like a huge interconnected enigma that you have to decipher little by little.

There are 14 different endings to unlock and probably you won't find them all by yourself. Or maybe you'll be able do it? If so, consider yourself some kind of crazy genius.

Future Proof is one of those games that you love and hate at the same time: it destroys your ego, but when you finally understand what to do and how to do it, the feeling is great!

Super recommended if you love complex puzzle games that don't hand-hold players, this is quite a unique and original experience.

After many years playing Metroid and Castlevania games, I was bored of Metroidvanias.

I never liked Pinball games.

Yet, I loved Yoku's Island Express.

It's a charming exploration adventure with many strange characters to help, the island is full of secrets that often require a bit of "thinking outside the box" to resolve. You move around the island with your dung-beetle and sometimes you'll have to resolve some "pinball boards" to move forward. These could became hardcore near the end but never too hard to complete in my opinion, you just need to pay attention at where the ball is before hitting it.

There's also a button dedicated to play your little trumpet and make "PHUEEEEEEEEE!" every time you want.

One of the most fun I had with games in the last few months, super recommended if you like funny adventures with original ideas and weird characters.