I have spent a lot of time this year playing games. They've been a great distraction from the struggles of real life, and they're also just fun and pretty and interesting! So these are my favorite games that I either started or finished or both this year (no repeats from previous years). There's actually a surprising mix here of bigger games, smaller games, free games, and even one mobile...
Awen and Brock are both lonely fae in the human world, and both are drawn to each other when they see each other across the club they're at. Going home together doesn't go quite as planned, but the connection they have could lead to something even...
Normally I do recommendation posts with SFF Christmas books once December rolls around, but I'm not really feeling up to putting one of those together. (You can check out my previous posts, if you want some recs!) So I thought, maybe a little discussion instead? I've read quite a few supposed Christmas books, but some of them have definitely felt more Christmas than others. Anyway, the categories...
Quentin is still struggling with all his previous trauma when a ghost hunter starts harassing him, and then Quentin ends up kidnapped. Laurence can't find him because his powers are being blocked, so he turns to new allies for...
November. Another month gone by in which I've mostly just played games (well, mostly one game) when I felt up to doing things with my brain (and my body, sometimes even moving my hand takes too much energy). I got back into Sun Haven after taking a few month's break! They've had two big updates since I last played, and I've been having a lot of fun again. They made my favorite NPC romanceable!...
Sebastian is a 16-year-old prince in a line of military leaders, but he likes wearing dresses and worries what his parents and society will think, so he pretends to be a girl and hires a young seamstress in secret. When she discovers he's a boy, she doesn't care, and they grow close as she designs dresses and they hit the town...
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Told as a story within a story, Keema and Jun travel across their world with a dying goddess in order to end the rule of the Emperor and his three sons known as the Three Terrors. But the Terrors are looking for this goddess---their mother---and Jun's blood-soaked past and the people's hatred for him further complicates their...
I've read multiple books, even played a game or two, in which the ending involves everyone forgetting a whole bunch of events, except for the main character. They still remember. Because of some sort of sci-fi/fantasy thing going on. And I really want to know what other people's feelings are about this, because I don't understand if this is supposed to be a happy ending or...
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There are two factions of witches, they don't get along, and Nathan's parents are from opposing sides, not to mention his absent father is infamous for all the killing he's done. But it's the Council making his life hell, and Nathan is determined to escape their clutches and find his...
Fox & Flock is a quick but charming puzzle game based on the board game Fox & Geese. Foxes have infiltrated a ball and started eating the other animals, and you play sometimes as fox, sometimes as flock, moving pieces around the board as the story...
