Welcome to 2019! We can take a collective sigh of aid as we made it by way of the Running Man gauntlet that was 2018. Let’s begin the brand new 12 months off with one thing optimistic and discuss some nice video games to assist ease you into this courageous new 12 months.

The Tomorrow Corporation catalog

Ok this one isn’t a sport however three of them. You might have missed it throughout the pleasure of the Winter Sale, however we labored with Tomorrow Corporation to carry their whole catalog to itch.io. That’s proper, now you possibly can play Little Inferno, 7 Billion Humans, and Human Resource Machine by way of the itch app or DRM-free.

My favourite of the trio is Little Inferno (I really like burning issues and Sugar Plumps is a valuable baby), however all three have a singular model of darkish comedy that resonates all through. If you’re not keen on burning all the things you personal, it’s also possible to take a look at Human Resource Machine and seven Billion Humans: a pair of employee automation video games that grow to be mind melting programming puzzles that may encourage even probably the most code-averse gamers. I’m an enormous fan of all the things this crew does, and when you get hooked on the Tomorrow Corporation library you may be too.

Homerun Bun

This is without doubt one of the purest suggestions I could make. Homerun Bun is an easy excessive rating sport the place a rabbit with a bat hits a ball into the air and collects cash as soon as that ball hits the bottom. You then spend the cash you accumulate on new bats, balls, and garments. Honestly, all of that is fairly frequent stuff, however I couldn’t cease taking part in.

When I began taking part in Homerun Bun I assumed I’d spend a couple of minutes on it after which transfer onto one thing else, however after I exited the sport after amassing all the things from the in-game retailer I came upon an hour had been taken from me. Watching the headscarf carrying rabbit transfer backwards and forwards throughout the display making an attempt to catch the ball earlier than it slams into the bottom and sprays out cash creates an unbreakable circulate that solely stops whenever you pause the sport to select a brand new bat.

Northbury Grove: King’s Comfort

80s-style horror video games are in one thing of a renaissance proper now. I don’t know what occurred, however the previous few years have seen an explosion of vhs filters, wood-paneling, and questionable style selections. Northbury Grove: King’s Comfort is the latest entry on this surprisingly common style, and considered one of its finest. Following up final 12 months’s Northbury Grove, King’s Comfort is a horrific crawl by way of an deserted motel. All of the same old first particular person horror trappings are right here, you’ve received a spotty flashlight, one thing is stalking you, and also you’ll wander round a dense however small space — however King’s Comfort polishes all of those concepts to a mirror sheen.

In recommending this sport I additionally need to advocate the Scythe group as an entire. It’s simple to overlook the truth that each Northbury Groves got here out throughout 2018 however it’s an necessary factor to comprehend. With the steps between these two video games, I can’t wait to see what comes nest.