Iamfivebears

Requester: Zam City Guard Advance: 0 C Upon Success: 14000 C

"You are to eliminate a group of illegal squatters at an abandoned factory on the east side of the City. They profess to be radicals opposed to area redevelopment."

"But they are still citizens, so from the standpoint of the Guard, we cannot use force. If they are left as is, there is a risk of affecting the progress of the plan."

"There is no need for restraint. We want you to firmly teach them the rules of society."

Oh right sorry it's not between the two evil corporations, it's between the cops and one of the two evil corporations lmao

Cover art for Luftrausers

Luftrausers (Vita, '14)

Completion: I put some time in
Recommend: ☑️
Best Part: Going into space

Score attack arcade-style game with gorgeous graphics. Pretty cool, but actual progression is tied behind really obtuse objectives that rely heavily on RNG and some of them are clearly bugged so eh.

Cover art for Jet Set Radio.

Jet Set Radio (Vita, '12)

Completion: ✅
Recommend: Hmm
Best Part: I mean just look at it

If this game had good controls it would be the best selling game on every platform, the Jet Set Party would win every election. But the controls suck so we just talk about "vibes". They're damn good vibes tho.

Cover art for Super 10 Pin.

Super 10 Pin (PC, '25)

Completion: ☑️
Recommend: Yes!
Best Part: The voice that says "Spare"

It's the kind of bowling game you would expect on the N64, but with vaporwave styling and a great soundtrack. It's just simple fun and great models like all of modus' games, not much more to it.

Schumer thinks masked ICE chuds should be allowed to terrorize immigrant communities and kill innocent people if they have a doctor's note.

Cover art for Just Cause 2

Just Cause 2 (PC, '10)

Completion: ✅
Recommend: Maybe one of the later ones
Best Part: Flyin'

If it was still 2010 I would probably consider this one of the coolest games I've ever played but it's 2025 and I want more than the ability to have my plane immediately shot down by racist stereotypes.

Cover art for Ultros

Ultros (PC, '24)

Completion: Not that far
Recommend: No
Best Part: The cover

Another game I wanted to like. I am low key obsessed with El Huervo's art and music and have been since Hotline Miami. I own damn near everything he's ever put out. But art and music alone does not a good game make.

Holding down ctrl+shift while starting my car so I don't have to get an oil change.

Cover art for Rain World.

Rain World (PC, '17)
Completion: ~1/4
Recommend: ✅
Best Part: Just look at it, damn!

I've tried this game over and over trying to crack it. On paper it's the perfect game for me but I just CANNOT figure it out. I'm going to play it again with a guide. I don't like that but I WANT IN!!!

The Blizzard of 20-what?! Oh you mean the Snowpocalypse? You're talking about the Snowmageddon. Are you talking about the Snowzilla? You're literally talking about the Snowlodomor. Wait do you mean the Holofrost?

Tekken 6 (PSP, '09)
Completion: Played a few modes
Recommend: Sure!
Best Part: King and Paul

I dunno, it's a fighting game for the PSP. Seems like it would really scratch the itch for fighting fans but I'm not one of those so I just wanted to see the costumes.

"Your name is in the Epstein Files. Principal Skinner saw it with his own eyes."
"That's true, but I was only in the files to get instructions on how to get away from the files!"

Cover art for Aesop Rock's Black Hole Superette Experience

Aesop Rock's Black Hole Superette Experience (PC, '25)
Completion: ✅
Recommend: Eh
Best Part: The item labels

A less interesting version of what RAP Ferrera did with Bob's Son but still interesting for a few minutes.

Cover art for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - Game of the Year Edition

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PC, '19)
Completion: ✅
Recommend: ☑️
Best Part: Owl Father

A nearly perfect game, and the best game I played in 2025. If FromSoft can make a soulslike rhythm game this good then I don't want to hear ANYONE saying my soulslike dating sim idea won't work.

I signed up the last time you posted this. I don't know if I have to say anything to qualify but I would like one please.

Cover art for Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity

Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity (PSP, '11)
Completion: No
Recommend: Worth a shot
Best Part: Samurai HuCast

I gave the fan translation a try. It has a lot of what I love about PSO but in between every mission you have to sit through the most inane anime dialogue and I just don't have that in me.

Cover art for Dread Delusion

Dread Delusion (PC, '24)
Completion: ✅
Recommend: ☑️
Best Part: Monster in the Basement

This game starts slow as hell but once it takes off it never stops being cool. Best game writing I've seen in years, amazing character and environment design. Solid progression right to the end. Giant mollusks.

Cover art for Stone: A Hip Hop Stoner Noir. That subtitle does more to attempt to set a tone for the game than anything actually in the game.

Stone (PC, '18)
Completion: 50%
Recommend: 😒
Best Part: The opening is identical to the opening of Disco Elysium

I've enjoyed many VN-adjacent games that don't have any real gameplay, but usually they have heart. This one instead goes, "what if we have jokes?" which would be fine if it had jokes.

Cover art for Pixel Puzzle Collection.

Pixel Puzzle Collection (Android, '18)
Completion: 200%
Recommend: ✅
Best Part: Thinking expert mode was impossible and then 100%ing it

Maybe the only good phone game I've ever played? It's a nonogram/picross style game with art from Konami games. The controls are tight, that's really all it takes.

Makes you feel badass though

Cover art for Skin Deep.

Skin Deep (PC, '25)
Completion: ✅
Recommend: 🎊 BEST GAME OF 2025 🎊
Best Part: 😻

I got caught killing a guy on the bridge so I ejected his skull and used it to smash a window, blowing us all into space where only I survived. IMMSIM!

Still can't believe this is the Gravity Bone guy.

Lost Kingdoms (GCN, '02)
Completion: Can't beat last boss
Recommend: ✅
Best Part: WHIP WORM

You can really tell this game was inspired by Dark Souls! Once you get going the game isn't too hard to break, but some of the harder challenges almost seem designed for that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovEn...

Cover art for The Binging of Isaac: Rebirth.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Vita, '14)
Completion: I've beaten the chest level
Recommend: YES
Best Part: The creator was once asked why red poop hurts you and he replied, "because it is made out of AIDS"

Imagine how popular this game would be if it wasn't made of all the most unsettling shit.

Spoilers for my post 6 days from now, that was another of my top games last year. Both these games have REALLY slow starts but if you can power through that to the midpoint they both open WAY up.

Cover art for Timespinner. I heard it has some cool takes on the genre and a trans-positive narrative but I'll never find out because I'm garbage at vidja apparently!?

Timespinner (Vita, '18)
Completion: No
Recommend: ?
Best Part: Pretty

Man, I've heard a lot about how this is a good-but-not-great Metroidvania and a gem for the Vita but I can't get past the first boss. I tried several times, even watched a video. I thought I was good at games 😭

More like Clamp Chump

Cover art for Lunacid.

Lunacid (PC, '23)
Completion: ☑️
Recommend: 🤌
Best Part: The Tower

One of the top games I played in 2025. Normally I can't handle horror elements in games but this one had me HOOKED. Hard but not too hard, VERY intriguing levels and lore, secrets, great music, amazing enemy design. Almost perfect.

Star Trek: Borg (PC, '96)
Completion: 🖖
Recommend: 🖖
Best Part: Death scenes

This is a weird one! An old Trek FMV game where you're trying to figure out Q's weird puzzles. Almost every mistake kills you and it's glorious. Free to play in browser thanks to some crazy fans: borgremastered.com

Tyrian 2000 (PC, '99)
Completion: 👍
Recommend: 👎
Best Part: 🥕

I had a shareware copy of this as a kid and was always mystified by it. Now that I'm able to play it in full I'm confused by it. It doesn't even seem on par with shmups of the time, so I don't understand the cult status it has now.