# Roots of Pacha (2023) Mort's Video Game Backlog 37 / 37 Backlog 2024-02-19 Mort O'Della 5 min read The pitch for Roots of Pacha is it’s Stardew Valley with cavemen. Say hello to my cavemansona, Mrot, who’s jacked from a lifetime of carrying stacks of rocks to and fro. He’s never cut his hair.
# Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (2010) Mort's Video Game Backlog 36 / 37 Backlog 2024-02-13 Mort O'Della 3 min read I’ve been meaning to play Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective pretty much ever since it originally came out for the DS over a decade ago and By George I’ve finally managed it. I knew this game had become…
# Norco (2022) Mort's Video Game Backlog 35 / 37 Backlog 2023-07-20 Mort O'Della 3 min read So here’s the thing, I picked up Norco almost immediately after I finished Paradise Killer but I struggled to get through the first chapter at the time because a lot of the early subject matter is…
# Paradise Killer (2020) Mort's Video Game Backlog 34 / 37 Backlog 2023-01-19 Mort O'Della 5 min read First-thing’s first, Paradise Killer’s vibes are IMPECCABLE. The setting is this fantastic blend of vaporwave and eldritch horror, taking place in a pocket dimension where immortals called “The…
# Pentiment (2022) Mort's Video Game Backlog 33 / 37 Backlog 2023-01-16 Mort O'Della 4 min read Meant to post this a full month ago but I forgot, whoops! Pentiment is so incredibly my shit, to the point that I’m not sure if other people would like it as much if they haven’t taken a couple…
# Floppy Knights (2022) Mort's Video Game Backlog 32 / 37 Backlog 2022-12-12 Mort O'Della 2 min read Floppy Knights reminds me of a high quality 3rd party DS-era game for some reason. Probably because it’s a strategy game in the vein of Advance Wars or Fire Emblem. The twist is that it’s also a…
# Minit (2018) Mort's Video Game Backlog 31 / 37 Backlog 2022-12-05 Mort O'Della 1 min read The central gimmick of Minit is that you respawn every 60 seconds, which I thought was going to be really annoying, but once I got into it it really wasn’t! It’s a very cute little game. Very clearly…
# Mort's Video Game Backlog #28/#29: Cat Game Combo - OneShot (2014) & Stray (2022) Mort's Video Game Backlog 30 / 37 Backlog 2022-11-29 Mort O'Della 7 min read OneShot is one of the oldest games in my backlog, and while playing it I realized it had a lot in common with one of the newest games I’ve played: 2022 indie darling Stray.