Note, these are not reviews, rather recommendations so your mileage may vary with some of these titles. This week’s post will include a brief synopsis and links to each game so you can add them to your gaming library! You don’t have to break the bank to enjoy your hobbies, so save a little bread and check this week’s thrifty gaming picks!
House(2020) – Bark Bark Games
Cost: $4.99
House is a dynamic survival horror game where you play as a young girl exploring an ever-changing House. Over the course of a day, you can interact with the various creatures, objects, and characters to ultimately sway the final dark outcome.
-Synopsis
House is a short survival horror game developed by Bark Bark Games just in time for Halloween 2020. Step into the shoes of an unnamed young girl and explore an ever changing setting–interact with strange creatures and characters and unlock each of the game’s uniquely spooky endings. Danger lurks around every corner and your actions can spell disaster if you’re not careful…
Beyond Your Window (2020) – Team SolEtude
Cost: Free
While searching for new stories to tell, you look outside your window…
and catch glimpses of other people’s lives.
Observing their struggles, you ask yourself what you would do
if it was you living those moments, those situations.
As you immerse yourself in stories filled with love, choices and difficulties,
will you be able to find something to inspire your ideas?-Synopsis
Beyond Your Window is a short narrative game developed by Team SolEtude. The game is divided into four different short-stories each with their own unique epilogue that changes depending on your choices. Interact with objects on your desk and peer out your window and into the lives of the people you see. The game takes about 30 minutes to an hour per play through and features 15 unique characters.
The Year After (2020) – Hadrian Lin
Cost: Free
A low-res game about life, love, loss and walking through time.
-Synopsis
The Year After is a story-driven heart-rending walking simulator game about an invisible stranger making their way through seasons to follow the life of a family with all its joy and sorrow. It’s a linear story with few choices, but the ones you do make can change the fates all the characters in the game.
That’s it for this week’s thrifty buys, but, don’t worry I’ll have more titles for in next week’s post, so be on the look out for that next Thursday! But, if all that extra money you saved is burning a hole in your pocket and you just can’t wait for next week’s list, definitely check out some of my previous Thrifty Gaming posts, there are tons of games for gamers who like me are ballin’ on a budget!
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The Year After looks intriguing, I think I’ll check it out later.
I highly recommend it. The game is surprisingly simple but super heartfelt!