Entropy (2024)

Playing Entropy were among the most fun 10 hours I had in 2024. The game is humorous and has a lot of personality, and it integrates a lot of fun mechanics as well as a moderate challenge in normal mode (there is also a hard mode available) so you don't have to pull out your hair too much and it's just about shooting stuff and having a great time. There are lots of weapons and skills/combos available, bosses, bits of dialogue and little easter eggs/secrets sprinkeld along to discover. The music is great, very cohesive and accompanies the game nicely. You don't need to think twice about this one, it's a hidden gem!

Fun top-down shooter. Space construction-themed. Hasn't been polished very much, seems like it was made by an amateur. But that doesn't really matter, the gameplay is what matters, and that's reasonably good. The controls are not always obvious. It's not always obvious what you are supposed to do. The creator understands their own game, but the player may not immediately understand what the creator was intending. This game could benefit by watching a player learn to play the game from the beginning by themselves, and seeing if the experience could be improved. At the very start of the game, it was not clear where to put the initial pipe. I was expecting to see a broken pipe: like, there would be a pipe section on the left, and a pipe section on the right, and I was expecting to have to put the pipe in the middle. I thought that the window at the top kind of looked like there was something missing there, so I kept trying to place the pipe there to fill in the gap, and it didn't work. I resorted to walking around all over the place and trying to find a place to put the pipe. It took a little while, I was a little trapped. Eventually I figured out that I was supposed to place down …