Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Voidtrain

Voidtrain is a game that has a lot of promise but not a lot of direction.

It was an early access game that hasn't been touched in a few years, presumably abandoned by the developers?  "Something happens" and you find yourself sucked through a portal on a train going through the void with creatures that can attack you.

The gameplay loop is pretty similar to Raft, you spear things from the train until you make it to the next station and upgrade.   There are creatures that can help gather and automate some train management tasks, but all in all it was a bit .. boring? until they add purpose and a quest other than upgrading.







Sunday, September 7, 2025

The Quarry

The Quarry is a game that has you play as a team of camp counselors who get stranded at camp one extra day after locking up and it's a full moon ....

The gameplay was similar to a Telltale game that had quick-time events interspersed to handle any dramatic scenes.  The character acting was fantastic, but honestly having a whole scene set around me choosing decisions in a campfire truth-or-dare episode felt a little corny and boring.

The game has a lot of endings, and there are ways to save everybody, but you would have to do counterintuitive things at times and  I felt like I played it as the characters would and not as "gamer who knows it's a horror game", which helped.   I don't think I'd play again though just to see what else they came up with on alternate paths