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Peppered: an existential platformer Preview: Immortality Day — Six One Indie

Sep 19, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Austin Ernst

It's the 100th anniversary of Immortality Day, and unfortunately, it looks like the God of Death will return. The known hero, Theodore Glagolev, is a no-show, so you decide it's up to you to save the world by bringing a new life star and excruciating deaths. You play as an office intern in the middle of their job interview.
Sliding Hero Preview: Slippery when Wet — Six One Indie

Sep 19, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Austin Ernst

Combat is implemented by running into them, but you have the stats of your weapons that play into it. The number of strikes and blocks currently equipped plays a factor in initiating combat or whether or not you should. Some enemies and traps are even timing-based. Attack or trigger the obstacle and high tail it out of there to avoid the trap. You can also use these environmental hazards and sliding skills to defeat foes. If you struggle, you can heal and save your game at statues in-game.
The Quiet Things Preview: Heavy with Perspective — Six One Indie

Sep 19, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Austin Ernst

The Quiet Things features several content warnings for the game's heavy themes. As you take control of a young Alice and grow up alongside her rollercoaster of a story, you tackle topics like cancer, depression, addiction, suicide, cutting, and overall self-harm. It's easy to tackle these subjects, but Alice contemplates them from her perspective in The Quiet Things, and it feels genuine.
Once Upon a Rogue's Tale Preview: Heart of the Cards — Six One Indie

Sep 19, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Austin Ernst

Once Upon a Rogue's Tale progresses slowly, but I didn't mind that. I enjoyed what I was playing, so I implemented new strategies as I went. The slow and methodical approach to the game complimented my playstyle well, and overall, it feels like a game with high replay value. Character deaths and the ironically locked Unlock Ability are among things I didn't experience beyond the other starting characters. Those aspects interest me, but I can’t speak too much on them.
Thank Goodness You're Here Review: The Humor Slaps — Six One Indie

Jul 29, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Austin Ernst

It's all one massive puzzle. What can I do to move the game forward? It's completing fetch quest-like puzzle after fetch quest-like puzzle but laughing throughout, thanks to the wackiness and catered humor. This flow in the gameplay can leave a little to be desired as most players aren't truly doing much, but if the humor hits, you won't care. With just three buttons-Move, Slap, and Jump-at your disposal, the gameplay is refreshingly simple.
Crow Country Review: The 90’s Around Every Corner — Six One Indie

May 6, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Austin Ernst

Over my roughly 6 hours, the game didn't evolve all that much, but it didn't need to. The formula in Crow Country's Survival mode, rather than its Exploration mode, delivers a good balance of combat, resource management, horror, puzzles, and piecing together the narrative.
Cryptmaster Preview: A Comical Typing Crawler — Six One Indie

Mar 20, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Austin Ernst

These four characters at your disposal have skills you can unlock by typing them into their allotted slots as you see their missing words below them. You can type phrases like hit, strike, yell, and even crabs. Not only do each of their skills have an action that transpires, but I enjoyed guessing what these skills could be. Each of the four characters below appeared only to have three available skills to uncover, but each character had a page worth of commands to be uncovered.
Slider Preview: Reconnecting in More Way Than One — Six One Indie

Mar 20, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Austin Ernst

Slider's bit-style graphical choice makes some words hard to read, but beyond that, it's a nostalgic retro-inspired style that I dug. I would be remiss, not to mention the cats. When you boot up the game, you name one of the many cats instead of your character, which already has a name. While the cats play a crucial part in the game, my time didn't represent that, but I assume that changes as you progress. The devs even write you a note and give you an emotional support cat that sits on your head.
Fowl Damage Preview: Simple, Punishing, Brilliant, Scrambled? — Six One Indie

Mar 20, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Austin Ernst

While exploring is vital to the game, it's not very inviting to the player. Considering the game is simple to play but challenging to master, a decent chunk of one's playtime will be spent simply surviving rather than exploring. That, coupled with no map and no ability to scroll the camera, enables you to see if the stages continue, rendering the player a little cornered in terms of what Fowl Damage can offer.
Bahnsen Knights Review: Good Knight — Six One Indie

Feb 8, 2024 | sixoneindie.com | Jacob McCourt

Not all mini-games are frustrating though. Darts in the bar are fun and the mechanism for sharing evidence is great too (and not as twitchy). Once you find evidence, you’ll be asked to pass that information on to your handler using tarot cards, where you have to match the type of evidence to religious figures on the cards.