My Tier List of Games 21-30

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I played each game at least long enough to get the gift.

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S -
A - Party House, Waldorf's Journey
B - Rail Heist, Rock On! Island, Caramel Caramel
C - Vainger, Hot Foot
D - Porgy
F - Divers, Onion Delivery

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Party House: It's a press-your-luck deckbuilding card game. The scenarios are well made with various means of resource generation, scaling, and deck manipulation to shift the odds in your favor. There is definitely a large skill ceiling here despite the amount of luck involved, and can be pretty addicting.

Waldorf's Journey: Surprisingly fun platformer that is basically a rage game but without the rage... if that makes any sense. That said it's very easy to cheese, so I recommend going for the cherry here for a proper challenge (and the best ending).

Rail Heist: Stealth game meets Worms, basically. The levels are varied and really fun to strategize through. There are lots of ways to go about the levels, too, thanks to the destructible environment. I wish that guns had laser sights, since you can be shot by an enemy from offscreen which rarely feels fair. A quick restart option like in Mortol would've also been nice.

Rock On! Island: I like myself a good tower defense game where you can participate with the towers. This game doesn't really do much new, but it's a solid fun time. The chicken stonks can be tedious, though, selling off cooked chicken and replacing them every round. I wish that it was more automated somehow. Even a "sell and replace" button for cooked chicken would do wonders. Also would've preferred the meat cap to be 100 instead of 99.

Caramel Caramel: Basic but fun shoot-em-up. I wish that it was a tad more forgiving since you only have 2 HP and levels lack checkpoints, but this is nowhere near bullet hell difficulty so it kind of balances out.

Vainger: Metroid with gravity switching shenanigans. It uses the gravity mechanic in a lot of clever ways, and the map is pretty well laid out. That said, the game suffers from many small issues that add up over time. The way that the camera scrolls vertically makes certain rooms and most boss fights real janky to get through. Enemies sometimes fail to spawn. When you clear a room of enemies sometimes it stays that way for a long time and other times all the enemies come back the moment I leave the room and come back. Some sound effects are too quiet, especially the sound for taking damage (which even fails to play sometimes). The endgame suffers from backtracking issues due to a lack of shortcuts (other than a few hidden ones). I still consider this a decent metroidvania because for the most part it is a fun game, but it could've spent a bit more time in the oven.

Hot Foot: This 2v2 sports game is an absolute mess to play by yourself. I highly recommend doing this one in co-op so that you aren't at the mercy of an AI partner and touchy partner-switching. With a buddy this game is kind of fun, although I recommend Bushido Ball over it. It's the only game so far that I used co-op to get the gift, since it's absolutely a game built for it.

Porgy: I have a lot to say about this one. Concept-wise, it's neat and shares the upgrade system that I liked in Golfaria, starting weak but being able to progress further and further as you get upgrades. Unfortunately, also like Golfaria, it's tedious to actually play. You move very slow, and while you have a dash ability it's resource-inefficient. This combined with the back-and-forth gameplay made it rather tiring. The blooper-like enemies are pretty obnoxious and have often blindsided me by launching at me from below as soon as they come on screen. Also, what's with those teleporting fish who can just teleport directly on top of you? The "gotcha" gates were also aggravating.

Divers: Porgy with JRPG mechanics. I don't like Porgy and hate JRPGs, so this was a guaranteed nope from me. I just looked up where the gift was so that I could move on asap (which kind of defeats the point of forcing myself to get every gift, but whatever, JRPGs and me don't go well together).

Onion Delivery: Crazy Taxi but if it was dialed to be as horrendous as possible. I'd be hard-pressed to find a game in UFO 50 worse than this. I nearly skipped the gift due to how unplayable it is, despite it being one of the easier gifts in the collection.

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A lot of impressively large games in this row, and I am finding more "epic play" games that I like. No S tier games, but this is probably my favorite row so far.