Video Game Book Club
Aight, gentlemen. Please take a peek at the below video games. Each game listed will include:
- Estimated hour count to complete the game
- Genre
- Year released
- Quick summary
Report back with your top 3 in the group chat.
List items
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Hours: 5-6
Genre: Action-Adventure/Pinball?
Year released: 2019
Quick summary: You're a robot in a far-flung fantasy dystopia that has to power on an underground city through the power of PINBALL. No seriously, most of the action is pinball-adjacent, with interesting twists on that style of play.
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Hours: 2-3
Genre: Top-Down Beat 'em Up
Year released: 2019
Quick summary: You play as an ape who's broken out of captivity (likely in some heavily-guarded lab) and crush the ever-living crap out of guards. It's all set to a procedurally-generated jazz soundtrack that reacts to your movements and attacks.
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Hours: 4
Genre: Side-scrolling Action
Year released: 2019
Quick summary: A hyper-violent "ballet" of shootin' and movin' like they do in the Matrix.
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Hours: 14
Genre: Action RPG
Year released: 2018
Quick summary: Shopkeeper by day, dungeon crawler by night. You take weapons that you find in the dungeon(s) to sell to other heroes during the day in your shop.
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Hours: 2-3
Genre: First-Person Shooter/Puzzler
Year released: 2016
Quick summary: FPS in which time moves only when you move. You have to figure out the best ways to complete each level, and it has a retro-future aesthetic and story. Also, major Matrix vibes.
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Hours: 2
Genre: Story-based, Music/Rhythm
Year released: 2019
Quick summary: I've heard it's a "playable pop album" which *really* appeals to me. The style of this game is unbelievable slick as well.
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Hours: 3
Genre: Puzzle/Exploration
Year released: 2019
Quick summary: ...a game about the terrors of Capitalism? (No, I'm serious)
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Hours: 5
Genre: Top-Down Action, Shooter
Year released: 2012
Quick summary: This game to me is a modern classic. If you can't tell by the logo, it's got major 80s action movie vibes, but set to hyper-violent action and sick EDM beats. I've completed this game, but would be willing to go back (I listen to just the music sometimes cause it's that good).
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Hours: 14-15
Genre: City Building/Strategy
Year released: 2017
Quick summary: Northgard is a strategy game based on Norse mythology in which you control a clan of Vikings vying for the control of a mysterious newfound continent. This seems similar to classic strategy games like Civilization, Age of Empires, etc.
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