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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Freshly Frosted

June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Ailingforale 0 Comments Casual, Donuts, Freshly Frosted, Puzzle, Relaxing, Simulation, The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild

Effectively, this is a Puzzle Factorio: Pocket Donut Edition.

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Impressions Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Impressions) Puzzle Pelago – A Drag & Drop Economy

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 Ailingforale 0 Comments Casual, Christopher Mielack, Hallgrim Games, Indie, Puzzle, Puzzle Pelago, Puzzle Pelago - A Drag & Drop Economy, Simulation

The art design and gameplay mechanics work so well together that when combined with the music… I don’t think I’ve enjoyed being as frustrated in a long time.

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) 10,000,000

May 23, 2019 Ailingforale 0 Comments 10000000, Casual, EightyEightGames, Indie, Match 3, Puzzle, Retro, RPG, STEAM

Match-3 games are a dime a dozen, so it’s nice when one stands out as having more thought put into it.

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Book of Demons

December 13, 2018January 13, 2019 Ailingforale 0 Comments Action, Adventure, ARPG, Book of Demons, Casual, Diablo, Indie, STEAM, Thing Trunk

In the grim dark future, there is only loot. To get said loot, one must travel through dungeons and reek chaos and death up on evil baddies until you beat the loot out of them! This seems about right.

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Iris.Fall

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Casual, Indie, Iris.Fall, NEXT Studios, Puzzle, STEAM

Iris.Fall is a good and enjoyable puzzle game with a few hiccups along the way.

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) ValeGuard

October 4, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Casual, Indie, Lost Tower Games, RPG, RTS, Simulation, Strategy, Tower Defense, ValeGuard

I’m not sure if I would have ever put an RTS game into a “relaxing” category of gaming, but here we are.

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Android PAX PAX West 2018 Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(PAX West 2018) WHAT THE GOLF?

September 8, 2018October 2, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Action, Casual, Fig Publishing Inc., Golf, Indie, Physics, Sports, Triband, WHAT THE GOLF?

Have you ever been in the middle of a round of golf and thought to yourself: “Self? What would this be like if I did a lot more drugs while playing golf?” If so, WHAT THE GOLF? is definitely for you.

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Hero of the Kingdom 3

August 30, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Adventure, Casual, Hero of the Kingdom, Hero of the Kingdom III, Indie, Lonely Troops, Point & Click, RPG, STEAM

A good calm, Point & Click game is solid choice every now and then. I’ve not yet completed, but I

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Impressions Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Impressions) Headsnatchers

August 9, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Action, Casual, Couch Co-Op, Iceberg Interactive, IguanaBee, Indie, Sports, STEAM, Steam Early Access

Headsnatchers is a crazy Couch Co-Op game. At its current state it can come off as rather basic in the

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Transport Defender

June 21, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Casual, Clicker Game, Coconut Shavers, Free to Play, Idle Game, PC, STEAM, Strategy

Ah Transport Defender. If ever you wanted more out of your Clicker/Idle game, you need to look no further than

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Ghostory

June 14, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Adventure, Casual, Ghostory, Hard, Indie, Puzzle, RigidCore Games, Rube Goldberg Machine, STEAM

I’m not sure which way to lean with Ghostory given everything that went through my mind while I spent my

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Blueprint Word

June 10, 2018June 10, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Blueprint Word, Casual, Indie, PC, Puzzle, Shard Real, STEAM

Blueprint Word came across my desk and at first I was a little miffed by its ways. For some reason,

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Holyday City: Reloaded

May 24, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Casual, Free to Play, Holyday City: Reloaded, Holyday Studios, Idle Game, Indie, Simulation, STEAM, Strategy

There is something about Clicker games and Idle games that just draw me in. I’m honestly not sure what it

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Pictopix

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Casual, Indie, PC, Picross, Pictopix, Puzzle, STEAM, Tomlab Games

“If you’ve played one, you’ve played them all” is something someone could say about almost any puzzle game be it

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) SiNKR

October 12, 2017October 22, 2017 Ailingforale 0 Comments Casual, Indie, Puzzle, Robert Wahler, SiNKR, Wahler Digital

Finding a decent puzzle game is tough for me. It has to be challenging, but it can’t be so hard that

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Updates and Stuff

-(5/31/22) Yes I’m doing some reviews lately. I’ll get back to dev’n when I’m done with my current reviews.
-While patching my first game Mazungeon, I broke it so it’s off the Play store. You can see on the site what it was like when it worked. You can also play a previous version here.

-Thank you to all developers and PR people who make this wild ride possible. It is a pleasure!

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