Yuletide nominations

[melannen]

Here's a list of games in both this year's Yuletide tagset and the itch.io racial justice bundle:

A Normal Lost Phone (Video Game)
A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.

Arcade Spirits (Visual Novel)
A Romantic Comedy Narrative Game

Celeste (Video Game)
Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges as you help Madeline survive her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain!

Long Gone Days (Video Game)
Modern-day RPG that imagines the world of war that's coming for us, with a focus on civilians and language barriers.

Night In The Woods (Video Game)
At the end of everything, hold onto anything.

Oxenfree (Video Game)
A supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift

Pyre (Video Game)
Pyre is a party-based RPG from the creators of Bastion and Transistor.

Signs of the Sojourner (Video Game)
An introspective deck-builder about friendship, travel, and collecting snacks.

The Witches' Tea Party (Video Game)
Have tea, make friends and defend world peace...or not.

Vincent: The Secret of Myers (Video Game)
You awake inside a mysterious mansion with only a Myers employee card in your pocket. Who are you? How did you end up here? And what does Myers Corporation have to do with any of it?

Anyone played any of these? Any suggestions where to start?

Comments

[schneefink]

I've only played Pyre, which is fantastic. Gorgeous art, great characters and story, and I enjoyed the magic basketball games too. The characters nominated for Yuletide are some of my favorites and I eagerly look forward to the letters.

[melannen]

Oh, thanks! The short summary didn't really tell me much about that one.

[schneefink]

I have also seen it described as "the game about liberty and revolution and found families and atonement, which also manages to be a game about occult basketball."

[flamebyrd]

If you are at all into the Very Difficult Platformer genre, Celeste is an excellent example of it. Gorgeous pixel art, great soundtrack and a story about (quite literally) confronting anxiety and self-doubt. There are plenty of accessibility options if you need to tailor the experience, but you do need to find platformers fun!

That's the only one of these I've played, but I've also seen Night in the Woods and Oxenfree highly recommended.

[melannen]

Platformers are (in theory) my thing! ...that was back in the days when Commander Keen was the pinnacle, so I may have to set difficulty as far down as I can, but I am definitely up for a platformer.

[sideways]

I've played Oxenfree! It's about 11-ish hours of content, a choose-your-own-path story by way of selecting dialogue, making decisions, and solving a few gentle puzzles. Recommended for the art style, great characters and VAs, and eerie storyline with some neat twists using the medium.

[sonia]

I played A Normal Lost Phone after seeing it here on your list. I really liked it. No time limit (as far as I can tell), puzzles that require some thought, and a storyline I cared about.