Minus World

@HDminusworld

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Mar 1, 2024

Balatro Dev Has Version of Game on His Phone and Is Considering Ruining Our Lives With Future Mobile Release hard-drive.net/news-games/bal…

HDminusworld's tweet card. LocalThunk is the developer of the hit roguelike deckbuilder, Balatro, and therefore holds the power to single-handedly destroy our productivity with a mobile release of…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · May 2

Game Night: Let’s Dunk on Ghosts in ‘Scarred’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. Scarred is a cautionary tale. It was rushed to release before it was ready, and as a result, it’s riddled with bugs and weird mechanical…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Apr 25

Game Night: It’s Post-Apocalyptic Murder Gardening in ‘INAYAH: Life After Gods’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. One of my favorite types of B-movies is when the creators clearly didn’t bother to do any research on filmmaking before they started. No books…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Apr 18

Game Night: Climb For Your Life in ‘White Knuckle’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. White Knuckle is a roguelite. I wish it wasn’t. Now available on Steam Early Access, White Knuckle is a first-person horror game that drops you…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Apr 11

Game Night: Fight Monsters and Politicians in ‘Dark Deity 2’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. A while back, I gave Athena Crisis some shit for being a forthright clone of Advance Wars. In the interest of fairness, I now have…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Mar 22

Game Night: Investigate Multiple Planes of Reality (?) in ‘Centum’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. Serenity Forge, despite its name, seems to specialize in games that are meant to upset or disturb you. It’s probably best known for publishing the…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Mar 14

Game Night: Let’s Mindjack Suicide Cultists for Fun and Profit in ‘Memory Lost’ hard-drive.net/news-games/min…

HDminusworld's tweet card. I’m not sure I’d have released a game in 2025 about a sentient AI that comes to question its creators. It’s impossible to take the…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Mar 7

Game Night: Let’s (Carpal) Tunnel To the Earth’s Core in ‘A Game About Digging A Hole’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. Sometimes my plans don’t work out. My first candidate for this week’s column, due to transoceanic communication breakdown, turned out to just be a demo,…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Feb 28

Game Night: Bring Disaster to a Small Town in ‘Slender Threads’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. Adventure games have always had a low-key sociopathy issue. The genre is built on petty theft, where you’re encouraged if not required to grab everything…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Feb 21

Game Night: Unravel Decades of Family Drama in ‘The Roottrees Are Dead’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. The Roottrees Are Dead is a nostalgia project, but not in the way you’d think. It’s an “armchair detective” game set in late 1998, which…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Feb 14

Game Night: Avoid Solving Crimes and Doom Japan in ‘Urban Myth Dissolution Center’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Feb 7

Game Night: It’s Good Vibes Only In ‘Spirit Swap,’ Except When It Isn’t hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. Spirit Swap sells itself as a chill, low stakes/lo-fi match-3 puzzle game with relentlessly cheerful vibes. It is also a head-to-head fighter with neither justice…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Jan 31

Game Night: Fight Demons With the Power of God and Anime in ‘Blade Chimera’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. Someone recommended Blade Chimera to me as a sort of palette cleanser, and I’m glad they did. At a point when the term “Metroidvania” is…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Jan 25

Game Night: Back In the World of Survival Horror With ‘Dead of Darkness’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. I didn’t intend for this to happen, but the first game I played from 2025 was about rich folks getting a lot of working-class people…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Jan 17

Game Night: The Games I Didn’t Cover in 2024 hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. I’ve been a reporter in and around the video game industry for over 20 years. When I pitched this column to Hard Drive, it was…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Jan 10

Game Night: The 2024 Clean-Up Continues With ‘Neva’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. Neva is the video game equivalent of Oscar bait. It’s in no way bad, but it’s part of a specific formula that goes back for…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Jan 4

Game Night: Throwing Cops Out Of Windows in ‘Tactical Breach Wizards’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. My original plan for this week’s column was to end the year by breaking out the pile of shame: the games that I’d meant to…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Dec 27

Game Night: Steal Your Booze Back from Satan in ‘Antonblast’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. There was a unique strata of 16-bit 2D platformer in the ‘90s. Super Mario World and the various Sonic games got most of the attention,…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Dec 20

Game Night: Satisfy the Whims of the Pachinko Gods In ‘Ballionaire’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. Whenever I complain about the random factor in a roguelike, especially the deck-builders, someone comes out of the woodwork to explain to me that I…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Dec 13

Game Night: Playing A Game Within A Game in ‘Among Ashes’ hard-drive.net/news-games/gam…

HDminusworld's tweet card. In my experience, if you’re into horror at all, there are a couple of things that can and will scare you regardless of their presentation.…

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Minus World@HDminusworld · Dec 12

Kraven’s Last Hunt Proves Superhero Stories Don’t Need to Be Grimdark Power Fantasies to Be Mature hard-drive.net/news-games/kra…

HDminusworld's tweet card. In my approximate 15-20 years of closely following trends and discussions in the world of comic books, as they’re known in North America and large…

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