What's up.

'sup guys,

I thought it was time to clear away some of the cobwebs from our Steam group and recommend some cheap and fun games to play. I realise that this may have been better done via the "Recommend a game" option, but I wanted to give our group page a workout. I also realise that a lot of you are now working full-time, or close enough to full-time, that you're completely past long-term gaming commitments, but Steam has really been impressing me lately with their indie title distribution. These games provide an incredibly high ratio of fun : time required to enjoy them, so I thought this might be helpful.

The most recent game I've played has been Dungeons of Dredmor, a roguelike dungeon-crawler. Now, before I played this game, I didn't know what a "roguelike" game was. It turns out that "roguelike" means randomly generated maps, a massive list of loot you can pick up, a huge skillset.. and motherfrackin' permadeath! Dredmor is a wholly charming intoduction to roguelikes, with many hilarious skill and item descriptions, and a player avatar who whips out his Nintendo DS when left to idle.

The Cthulhu Saves the World & Breath of Death VII Double Pack doesn't cost much, and from what I've seen both games are funny and cute. I haven't had a chance to play much of either game yet, but I hope the store page speaks for itself. Both games come packaged at the cost of a horrible cheeseburger from McWhatever, so it's a completely negligible cost! I would think $2.50 is a small price to pay for the opportunity to play as Cthulhu, Lord of freakin' Insanity in his own 16-bit satire of JRPGs, but maybe that's just me.

Terraria is always recommended by me, but that may need more organisation on our part to eastablish a proper, persistent server.

Lastly (not an indie game, but fuck that anyway), Batman: Arkham Asylum was by far the the best single-player game I've played in ages.
Look.
You're Batman.
In Arkham Asylum.
How could this ever be an un-fun game, especially when it was developed so well?

Hope you guys have fun!

Francis