#JakeReviewsItch by Rating

Every 4/5 review for #JakeReviewsItch, roughly sorted from best to worst. I'm not overthinking that, and you shouldn't, either. You can also sort by name or genre.

See this month's ranking, or check out other reviews by score: 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5

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a new life. Aerannis Anarcute Angry Video Game Nerd I&II Deluxe Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story All You Can Eat Alt-Frequencies A Normal Lost Phone Airships: Conquer the Skies Antecrypt⚡ Akuto: Showdown / Akuto: Mad World 10s 1993 Space Machine Alien Life Lab A Hole New World 10mg: SNAAAK A Short Hike About Love, Hate & the other ones A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build A Snake’s Tale 2000:1: A Space Felony Affinity The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition

March 2023 Game Awards

#JakeReviewsItch Game of the Month Archives

You know how this works: Every day, I review an Itch.io game, and on the first day of each month, I give prestigious awards to the previous month's games. There is no reason we need to acknowledge that I've been on hiatus for more than two weeks. We can just pretend that everything is normal. This month's award categories come courtesy of Steve Kim, whose Tweet was the first hit when I Googled, "1 like = 1 game". Thanks, Steve! He also has a long-abandoned Tumblog, which is pretty fun if you want some silly goofs about things that were happening on Giant Bomb 5+ years ago.

Week In Review - 3/12/23

#JakeReviewsItch Week In Review Archives

This week's reviews:

🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 Alien Life Lab 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 All Haze Eve 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 All You Can Eat 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 Alone With You 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 Alt-Frequencies 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 Ambidangerous 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 Amelie

It's a week of messes! Steam is a mess! I am a mess! Even the Game of the Week is a mess!

Game of the Week

All You Can Eat is easily the best game I reviewed this week. Alt-Frequencies is the clear runner-up. Game of the Week, however, is a title that goes to the game that's still occupying my brain after the fact...

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All You Can Eat

by gamechuck

Price (US): $1.99

Included In: Bundle for Racial Equality and Justice

Genre: Adventure

Pitch: A man who has been living in a diner for the past 10 years to get the most out of his all-you-can-eat meal must emerge when a shady corporation forces the establishment into foreclosure. A point-'n'-click adventure presented as a three-panel comic.

My expectations: An adventure game set in a newspaper comic strip? Yes, please!

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A NIGHTMARE'S TRIP

by SKY HOUR WORKS

Genre: Visual Novel

Pitch: The physical embodiment of a nightmare, now a young adult who's outgrown his scary ways, takes a trip to a cross-dimensional city to relax, buy anime merchandise, and make friends along the way.

My expectations: I played an exceptionally good visual novel yesterday. This looks like a big step down. It's unfair to compare the two, and I'll do my best to judge this game on its own merits, but lets not kid ourselves: There's no such thing as an "objective" review. My thoughts will be tinged by that bias.

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A Day In the Woods

by RetroEpic Software

Genre: Puzzle

Pitch: A casual, tile-based puzzle game. Safely guide Little Red Riding Hood to Grandmother's house in the fewest moves possible.

My expectations: From the title, I was expecting some sort of Night In the Woods homage. I'm way more interested in a fairy tale puzzle game with an art style. The hex-grid, board game thing brings Settles of Catan to mind, which doesn't appeal to me in the least, but I'm feeling hopeful.

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10mg: SNAAAK

by Clovelt and jokxxi

Genre: Adventure

Pitch: Snake as a compact, atmospheric action/adventure game. As the developers put it, "Snakevania."

My expectations: I felt my chest deflate when I remembered there was another 10mg joint awaiting me this morning. However, SNAAAK comes from an entirely different development team than Sealed Estate, so I'm lifting my chin and hoping for a redemption story.

1/8/23 - Week In Review

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This week's reviews: 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 // Down to Earth // 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 2d flight simulator 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 2 9 0 1 / / FREELANCER 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 4-LEGGED-HEROINE

Game of the Week

2d flight simulator looks terrible, sounds terrible, and barely functions. By almost any metric, it's much, much worse than this week's other games, and that's why I've found myself thinking of it fondly over the last few days.

#JakeReviewsItch by Genre

Every review from #JakeReviewsItch, sorted by genre and arranged alphabetically. Genres provided by developers/publishers on Itch.io. A lot of developers/publishers seem very confused about what kind of game they've made. You can also sort by name or rating.

[4/25: Phew! I've cleaned up the broken links and the clutter on the name and rating pages. Now to get genre sorting back in shape. Should be done by the end of the week.] Genres on this page, alphabetically: Action / Adventure / Card Game / Educational / Fighting / Interactive Fiction / Platformer / Puzzle / Rhythm

See Page 2 for: Role Playing / Shooter / Simulation / Strategy / Visual Novel / N/A (No genre tag)

Action

// Down to Earth // 10 Flights of Ballooning 10s A Lullaby of Colors Aerannis Akuto: Showdown / Akuto: Mad World Alfal's Grove Alien Life Lab Ambidangerous An American Werewolf In LA Anarcute Angry Video Game Nerd I&II Deluxe Antecrypt⚡ Antistatic The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human

Adventure

// Down to Earth // 10mg: Sealed Estate 10mg: SNAAAK 1,000 Heads Among the Trees 2064: Read Only Memories 2000:1: A Space Felony A Magical Tale: Cavern Crawler A Normal Lost Phone A Short Hike Adventure for a Bit Adventures of a Radish After the first station Akurra Alien Life Lab All Haze Eve All You Can Eat Alone With You An Airport Game Anarcute Anodyne Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

Card Game

9 Till Void

Educational

The Archives of Evil Dr BA

Fighting

Antistatic

Interactive Fiction

12 Labors a new life. A Normal Lost Phone A Sketchbook About Her Sun Adventure for a Bit The Alabaster Donut Farm Alt-Frequencies An Outcry, prologue

Platformer

8 Bit Space (ZX Spectrum Inspired Platformer) 1365 A Hole New World A Short Hike Abomination Tower Above: The Fallen Adventures of a Radish The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition Air Dasher And Yet It Moves Antistatic Arachnopunk

Puzzle

A Day In the Woods A Forgetful Loop A Game of Changes A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build A Kishoutenketsu in the countryside A Normal Lost Phone A Snake's Tale A Wish Upon a Star About Love, Hate & the other ones adjacency Affinity Akurra Alt-Frequencies An Airport Game The Archives of Evil Dr BA

Rhythm

A Dance of Fire and Ice

#JakeReviewsItch by Name

Every review for #JakeReviewsItch, sorted alphabetically. You can also sort by rating or genre. # A1 A2 B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Abomination Tower About Love, Hate & the other ones Above: The Fallen Absolute Blue ACIDTRIP adjacency Adventure for a Bit Adventures of a Radish The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition Aerannis Affinity After The End: The Harvest After the first station AIdol Air Dasher Airships: Conquer the Skies Akurra Akuto: Showdown / Akuto: Mad World The Alabaster Donut Farm Alfal's Grove Alien Life Lab All Haze Eve All You Can Eat Alone With You Alt-Frequencies Ambidangerous Amelie Amethyst Hearth An Airport Game An American Werewolf In LA An Outcry, prologue Anarcute And All Would Cry Beware! And Yet It Moves Angry Video Game Nerd I&II Deluxe Animal Lover Annwn: the Otherworld Anodyne Anomalies Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story Antecrypt⚡ Antistatic The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human Arachnopunk Arcade Spirits The Arcade Tower The Archives of Evil Dr BA ARGH-P-G Arigatou, Ningen-san! Arlo The Rabbit ART SQOOL as long as we're together: magical girls sweet & pure As We Know It