Nice. Of the classic Yakuza games I liked 4 the best, I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

I will just mention some of the games I played from the genres you like. They are all pretty well known, so you probably played them already or have them on your list.

Puzzles: Does Turn Based Combat count as puzzles? Tactical Breach Wizards and Into the Breach (A rogue like, but it is sooo good).

Platformers: Celeste, Horace, Dustforce and Little Nightmares

Metroidvanias: Guacamelee

Point and Click: Everything by Wadjet Eye Games. Seriously, everything they developed or published.

Story aka Walking Simulators: The Suicide of Rachel Foster, Firewatch, The Beginner’s Guide, Dr. Langeskov (It’s free!), Jazzpunk, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

+1 for Yakuza. I hope you have played 0, Kiwami 1 and Kiwami 2 before 3.

What genre of indies are you looking for?

The rerelease of Doom 1.

This time with Pistol Start, as I recently learned that the levels were balanced around that. It is challenging, but feels so right. The beginning of a level often plays like a little puzzle. Who to kill in what order to get to a decent weapon, before your 50 pistol shots run out. Can’t wait to play the new semi-official expansion they added with the rerelease.

Lost Judgment. I can’t for the life of me bring myself to keep going. The first one was kind of a drag already, but man, the addition of all the High School drama and dancing did not make it any better. The premise of the big case you are trying to solve is quite interesting, but everything around it is so bad.

I’ve already spent 30 hours on it and there are at least 50 more waiting for me. I don’t think I can do it.

You might want to fix your links.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PSP was pretty great.

2000s - The rise and fall of Nu Metal, at least in my country.

The right extremists are on the rise in my country. I would rather not have them knocking on my door in a few years to detain me for calling their leader a cunt on the internet.

Too bad, it was such a good fit.

Man, TotalBiscuit and iNcontroL would have loved this… :(

IDLES - Dancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ZZj5y6Qt4

Some more Crime Boss. I tried the Multiplayer. It is nice, but repetitive without any clear overarching goal. They recently patched the game and now the enemies spawn weirdly all around you. I think that killed it for me.

Supermarket Together. Free to play Supermarket Simulator. Played it for about 13 hours with two friends. Quite fun together, but I imagine it to be too bare bones to enjoy it alone. Still, it is free. Give it a look if it sounds like something you might enjoy.

Kind Words 2 playtest. I already “played” a lot of Kind Words 1 a few years back. They added quite a few things to do, besides writing letters to people. The playtest ended, but there is a demo. Try it!

Started the Amid Evil DLC, The Black Labyrinth. Really good stuff and highly recommended if you enjoyed the main game.

Finished Zortch, a boomer Shooter made by a single person. They even wrote their own engine for the game. Plays a bit like Turok. Enemy variety is great, weapon variety not so much.

Some Cosmic Collapse, a neat Suika-Like. I tried a few different Suika inspired games. This one is the best by far.

Well, he wouldn’t be my first choice for stealing a car… but he is close.

That reminds me a lot of Takeshi Terauchi in some parts.

I don’t know what kind of tea parties you “throw”, so to say. But here is a suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

If not this, some Erik Satie maybe?

He is responsible for lighting and reflections. Pretty overrated guy and gets paid way too much.

Probably this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS46wzuY2b0

The song only has 29 views and at least 10 of those come from me.

Looks good. Would be very thankful for an invite to the playtest.

I’ve put many hours into “Crime Boss: Rockay City” in the last week or so. I had a lot of fun with Payday 1 & 2, but 3 left me pretty disappointed after trying it on PC Game Pass, so I gave Crime Boss a chance. Apparently it got fixed up pretty well after it had a rough launch.

Crime Boss focuses on its rogue-lite campaign, which works well enough. The game is split into two parts. One is a world map in which you plan heists, hire personnel, buy equipment and attack the four other factions to take their turf. The second part is basically Payday with fewer cops, a bit worse gunplay and smaller heists.

All this is garnished with lots and lots of 90s direct-to-video action movie charm with (phoned in) voice acting by Michael Madsen, Chuck Norris, Kim Basinger, Danny Glover, Danny Trejo and Vanilla Ice. Also licensed music by Jon Bon Jovi, The Prodigy, Body Count, Boomfunk MC’s and so on.

It all works pretty well, even though some parts feel a bit low-budget. My only real complaints: Some mechanics are not explained well or at all. It took me a few runs to understand how everything works together. Also, attacking and defending turfs gets boring after a while.

Oh wow, I never heard of the skin archive. This is fantastic.

I still use Winamp 2.95, with a Pure Pwnage skin I downloaded back in the mid 2000s. Added it to the archive.