Welcome everyone once again to another month-long feature covering the various Steam games I've allowed to accrue in my library like so much plaque build-up wonderful gaming happiness I've yet to discover. I'm mixing things up a little this year, though, taking a cue from last year's Desura December format: Instead of the "one game, one blog" per day approach, I'm going to play three thematically similar games across three days and write a larger summation blog that weighs each of the three games against one another, as well as discussing their own individual positives and negatives. I figure a Battle Royale type showdown might help the poor, desperate souls who come to these things for purchasing advice to make a decision, and also give me a better idea about which of them I might want to pursue further once this feature has concluded.
As stated, each trilogy of games will be linked -- occasionally tenuously -- by a recurring theme or genre. I'll add each new May Madness Melange blog to the list below throughout the month, to spare you all from searching them out. Might as well make it easy on ya, right?
| May 1st | The Master (of Magic) Blasters A trio of games that purport to be influenced by Master of Magic. How do they compare to the original? Or each other? | |
| May 4th | Hec-aitomix may have been stopped by a combination of uncanny coat physics and terrible pathfinding, but the war on terror never ends. Here's three horror games for the sinisterest of chopping blocks. | |
| May 7th | Eager for some respite, I look at three games that are direct sequels to highly-acclaimed Indie titles. Do I catch a break for once? | |
| May 10th | Time to get sentimental with a batch of games based upon classics from my salad days. Do these games hold up? Are the homages accurate? And just how old am I making myself sound right now? | |
| May 13th | I have too many adventure games in my Steam backlog. This is an excuse to play three of them. | |
| May 16th | As is the case with the point and clicks, I simply have too many platformers to get through. Here are three of the harder ones I've been putting off. | |
| May 19th | A few games that remember old 16-bit JRPGs as fondly as I do. Well, and make fun of them to some extent as well. But in a loving way. | |
| May 22nd | I love Giant Bomb. It's been my internet home for many years, and with good reason. Here's three games I chose to play after being inspired by three particularly fun Quick Looks. | Angelica Weaver: Catch Me When You Can |
| May 25th | Fuck Indie games. | |
| May 28th | A quintet of random, smallish games to see off May Madness Melange. Bye everyone. |
Thanks for all your views and comments this year! Don't forget, you can check out 2012's original May Madness and 2013's May Madness More for even more Steam musings.
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