If anyone who has requested a game (or two) would like to request another game (or two), feel free! And please forgive this ping, but I just want to let people know it is an option.

Oh hey these are incredible games. I'd love Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew if possible. Been meaning to check that game out for a while but never got around to getting it.

Here's a holiday memory for you: in my country it's traditional to put all your shoes by the door around xmas, as that's where Santa would leave the presents. So as a kid I hated throwing away shoes because clearly more shoes = bigger/more gifts. Like I'd get some new shoes and rather than throwing the old ones out I would just keep them til xmas that year and then get rid of them after they had outlived their usefulness on December 25th, lol.

One Christmas when I was younger, my brother and I decided to go tobogganing. We were staying over at a relative's place and, as we weren't familiar with the lay of the land, we had no idea where to go. But, being impulsive kids, we were sure we could continue this Christmas tradition of ours. As it turned out, finding a location wasn't a problem in our relative's hilly neighborhood; what was a problem was the snow: there wasn't enough of it. Because it's this kind of story, you can probably guess that we went tobogganing anyways, and as I can tell you, this is not something that I would recommend to anyone. Going down is rough, and falling off is simply not an option. We did it a few times until the wiser part of decided to go home, dragging our ruined sled behind us. But yeah, it was fun, and memorable.

Would like to request Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun if it is still available.

Nioh 2

In my hometown, there was an event called "The Fantasy of Lights" every year, which my father's employer sponsored. It was an enormous park filled with extravagant displays of Christmas lights, put up by local institutions. We were broke, and couldn't afford Christmas decorations of our own, but I remember bundling into the minivan to drive through the display. We'd sing Christmas carols as we went, me, my siblings, parents and grandmother oohing and aahing over the lights. Then we'd buy candy canes from the convenience store and go downtown to see the huge Christmas tree they put up by the bank building. I guess, looking back, it was all a bit small-town corporate. But I don't have many memories of my family, and it's nice and even a little romantic to have one of us being poor and festive and happy together.

Thanks for the giveaway :)

I'd love Persona 4 Golden and Yakuze: Like a Dragon! Heard great things about both and adored P5R.

Favorite holiday memories are mostly around watching movies with the family. We always let my dad pick the movies on Christmas and he loves mysteries / detective stuff, so I've started to associate Sherlock Holmes with the holidays. There are a ton of spins on the character, so we've always got something new (or old and familiar) to watch!

Hello! I would definitely take Cavern of Dreams as I'm a massive fan of 3D collectathon platformers! As for Christmas memories, the most impactful would probably be as a young child (I don't remember how old lol) when my parents got me a PS2 for Christmas as well as the original Ratchet & Clank. Since then, the PS2 has become my favorite game console of all time due to all the great memories of it!

Legacy of Kain™ Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered.

For older memories, I'd probably have to say sponge cake, because Christmas was the only time I was allowed to have it. Three ingredients: store-brought sponge cut into cubes, a tin of berries and whipped cream. All layered and squished into a cake tin and chilled. The best part was eating it for breakfast on boxing day.

These days, Christmas is very relaxing and low-key, which is just the way I like it.

Thank you for the giveaway!

i would love total war pharao

Hmm I'm actually on holliday atm. i just saw a cuple of whales, blowing water and jumping out. what an amazing sight.

Thanks for the giveaway, I'd like Trepang2.

I think my favorite holiday memory is going to a family gathering (we don't do these anymore) and eating a delicious pie we call "german pie" around here but is not actually a German recipe, and then getting Super Paper Mario as a gift from an aunt, back when I still only had Wii Sports as a game.

I would like to request The Long Dark, if still available.

A holiday story: As a child, I burned my report card in my back yard before visiting my grandparents for Christmas. I found myself struggling with undiagnosed mental health disorders during the school year, but now I see I was practicing a form of dishonesty that damaged my trust in my family and in myself. Since that moment I had allowed my fear of sharing the truth to taint the Christmas season, since it was likely I would be sharing (or hiding, as was more often the case) bad news about school performance around the holidays.

It has taken years of therapy, difficult conversations, and self-accountability since then but I'm happy to share with the Tildes community I've worked to rebuild trust! and I no longer view the holiday season as one to be dreaded!

Happy Holidays to all.

I'd love Slay the Spire (my Steam ID is KariLehtonen)!

A nice holiday memory I have is when I was ~10 ish, some family friends we'd met while both living in Switzerland came and visited us in Texas from Canada for New Years! We lit off lots of fireworks, chilled in the heated pool & hot tub, and had a general blast. It's the first time we'd seen them in like 2 years at that point, and we still try to see each other once every couple of years even though it's ~20 years since we met them in an entirely different continent.

Thanks for your generosity! I would love to play Citizen Sleeper, if no one else has claimed it.

One of my favourite recent holiday memories was during COVID. I was bubbling with my future in-laws, who were also my neighbours. It was very relaxed, we prepped food beforehand, there was lots of cheese and dessert, and since we were all very close, no one felt the need to be on good behaviour or worry about being offended or make small talk. We watched some movies, played Nintendo, and it was one of the most relaxing holiday experiences I've ever had! Even though COVID was tough in a lot of ways, that was the perfect day, and it wouldn't have been possible without social restrictions. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to reminisce!

Hey, I would love Trepang2. I keep getting close to buying it and stopping myself so you would finally push me over. Whoops, just realized someone already asked for it. I'll change my request to Lost Eidolon if that's okay!

One of my favourite Christmas memories is a little random. As a kid we would gather on Christmas Eve to open stocking stuffers and we would always have escargot. I have no idea how we started this tradition. We have snail shells we would fill each year and everything. Good times.

Thanks for the GiveAway, aphoneix! I sure do hope Roguebook remains available.

So shortly after graduating from college back in 1998, I decided I would finally buy my own gaming console. It's still sitting in my bedroom of my ancestral home, though unused for many moons now and likely no longer functional. About a decade later when my nephew was old enough to maturely handle the challenge, we engaged with great delight... Super Mario Strikers on my cherished GameCube! Needless to say, our bonding though this activity was particularly memorable during the Christmas visits. A great meal with my loved ones and in festive attire with holiday music in the background, only to be capped with the boom and bam of the Super Strikes--now that's what I call a fond memory! Great times and lively bonding, indeed.
I wish you all fellow Tildeans (is that a valid moniker of the users of this forum?) a most wonderfully blessed Christmas season!

If it hasn't already been claimed yet, Risk of Rain 2 looks interesting.

Not exactly a holiday memory, but it's a nice one I look back on fondly. I had decided one weekend to fly to a different city to meet up with some friend. It was a snap decision, like right there and then. It was during summer, and on that particular evening it was forcasted to be cloudless. So we drove maybe half an hour, an hour out of the city. The whole sky was filled with stars; it felt unreal.
And then the next day I flew back home, as I had work the next day (flew out on a Saturday, flew back on Sunday). I usually never do something this spontaneous, so I really treasure those two days.

Merry Xmas and happy holidays!

Hello ! If you still have it i would love to have Knights of Honor 2: Sovereign.

Unfortunately I'm nowhere near Berlin but this is a cool giveaway.

Also sadly not near Berlin....but would be happy to pay for shipping if you go that route :D

I'm interested in VVVVVV. It'd been a game I knew was out there and existed but I never paid it any attention for years and years until I heard this song in some context outside the game and now I find myself interested.

Wow, what a list of good games! For me, I would like to request Core Keeper. I've been on a mining kick lately; right now, I am playing Ad funum, a rather cozy mining game.

I’d love Jackbox Party Pack 3! I played Tee K.O. at a friends place once and it was such a blast that the whole pack immediately went into my wishlist :)

Thank you for your generosity! I'd like Psychonauts if that hasn't been redeemed. Merry Xmas and happy holidays!

Thanks for your generosity! I'd love to see if your Starbound key works - I hear the modding scene is pretty good.

Would be keen for 'Into the Breach'. I almost always have a strategy game I dip into on the side, while I'm working through an RPG. And I love turn-based tactical games. Thanks for the giveaway!

Hey, I would love to get Spelunky from you. I keep getting told I need to give it a try and never get around to it. This would finally force me to.

Can I get Tower Unite if possible?

What are the odds that I'll see Starbound mentioned twice in the same day all of a sudden.
Might be my sign to actually play it again for once

I would gladly accept either Pikuniku or BioShock, whichever you feel like giving or haven't given to someone else! Thank you!

I'd love Kerbal Space Program. It's been on my wishlist for years now. Thank you very much!

Hey I'd love to check out This War of Mine if possible.

Thanks for doing this!

Thanks for your generosity :) I'd like to request World of Goo, something I've always been interested in and never gotten around to playing! I think my wife would enjoy it too :) Thanks again!

I don't know how I've gone this long without getting a copy of SUPERHOT but I'd love one if it's still available

Hello, I would be interested in Jackbox Party Pack 1. Thank you either way for the gifting!

This is such a fun way to do a giveaway! It's doubly fun because I've got no clue what basically any of these are (which is unusual, since I consider myself pretty well-informed about games. So I'm excited about surprises!

I'm interested in:

• 5. Water, Fire, Shell
• 6. Magnets, Ships, Beasts
• 7. Run, Good, Perfect

because I like magnets, platformers(?), and elemental stuff and have ZERO clue what they are. Thanks a ton!

Please post the answers once all the games have been given away!

11 (Rake, Melons, Moon) and 15 (Kami, Yokai, Tsuchinoko) both sound very interesting to me! Though I'll be happy with just one if someone else finds one of those interesting, since I do have a pretty hefty backlog already.

Side note, I just went through your posts to see if I could figure out what some of them are. I have a good idea what those two are, but looking through your history gave me a couple other games I might end up adding to my wishlist. You seem to have found some real hidden gems! 11 in particular seems VERY hidden, so I'm curious how you learned about it.

It's not obvious to me what any of these are, but I can't resist a good mystery!

I'd like to roll for 4 (Mouse, Ostrich, Kangaroo).

I'm choosing not to research these ahead of time lol. I would pick:
Mouse, Ostrich, Kangaroo
Water, Fire, Shell
Kami, Yokai, Tsuchinoko

This is definitely a fun way of doing giveaways!

I've got some suspicions but not overly confident! This is such a cool idea.

8 (Grids, Paintings, Cave) or 12 (City, Mountains, Paradise) please!

10. Piano, Friends, Catastrophe

I would like to choose this one because I believe there is a Loony Toons scenario in which a trap involving a suspended grand piano is an integral part of the plot.

Alright, time for our draw! The process will be similar to previous giveaways, but this time, instead of drawing by participant first, I'm just turning every entry into a ticket, placing it into an imaginary bag and giving it a good shake.

As before, the source of randomness is crypto.randomInt. After each round, every ticket belonging to the same person or with the same game is removed from the bag.

Round 1 winner: [10] CrystalManta-4 @CrystalManta gets ANIMAL WELL!

Round 2 winner: [17] PelagiusSeptim-3 @PelagiusSeptim gets ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist!

Round 3 winner: [8] fefellama-7 @fefellama gets Haste!

That's the budget. Congrats to the winners! I'm definitely sad I couldn't give some of these away, but if they caught your interest perhaps you'll be able to get them yourself at some point.

Swap round

Next up, please reply to this comment saying if you want to accept your game. Oh no - did you make the wrong choice? Already have the game? Not interested at all? No worries, just say so and we'll find a good home for it. I'd rather all games end up with someone who wants to play them!

All games accepted.

Ohh interesting. Had some fun trying to guess what a few of these might be. One or two I think I might know, others I have no clue!
The two that sound most interesting to me are 14 and 7, but I could be totally wrong, lol.

I'd like to request Girl, Homunculus, City! Love anything with a homonculus!

I'd like to request 12 and 13, please
I don't think I recognize any of these, though I always enjoy reading your game writeups in the weekly threads :-)

I have done no research and also wouldn't say I am all that knowledgeable about the game scene, so I'm going in blind. I'm very curious about fox, throw, rabbit (mostly because I'm envisioning some system of foxes throwing rabbits for some reason), wolf, darkness, wolf, or city, mountains, paradise (so 9, 2, or 12). I hope you share the answers (and why you chose those specific words) because I am very curious.

This is really cool, I love the mystery and surprise of it. I am interested in 3, 8 and 14. I'm not sure what any of them are but I'm excited to see what these could be referring to!

Thanks for doing this! This is a fun way to go about it. I think I've figured out what some of these are, but I'm not 100% confident. These ones sound interesting to me, though (in no particular order):

3. Girl, Homunculus, City
8. Grids, Paintings, Cave
14. Plans, Keys, Letters

I'm a bit late to this, but something in my gut said to check my messages even though I don't feel I have much to add right now. Thank you for allowing me in your thoughts, I truly feel that it's with the help of kind hearted people like you, @chocobean, and more that I've been able to handle my situation so well. I'll post another update soon.

Wishing you the best on this Christmas Day.

Could I try for Humankind? I got pinged and it was an unfair advantage, if someone else wants the game please give it to them :) thank you for the giveaway (and all offers as well!)

I hope the coming year is one of positive growth and healing for all. There's so much broken that needs mended, so much lost that needs to be gathered and held tight; I hope that we can be Healer and Fixer for each other, and that random circumstances will be kinder to each of us. I know that sometimes we grow best when challenged, but I cannot help but cry Mercy! Please let us grow slowly, give us time to pause and catch our breath, as well as one another. For myself, I hope I can become less angry at badly behaving humans, and feel less hopeless about our biosphere.

Hmm I'd love Humanki.... just kidding! Saw u/chocobean's comment and think they totally deserve it for being such a positive contributor to the site!

I would love High on Life and Desperados 3 though if that's alright!

In exchange, tell me about some kind thoughts or hopes you have: they can be for yourself in the new year, for people in your personal life, for people here on Tildes, or for the world at large.

Well 2024 was a very stressful year for me for various reasons, so much so that my wife and I decided on some big life changes together (leaving our jobs, selling our house, moving, etc.). Then 2025 has been sort of a transitional year, got the ball rolling on a lot of those big life changes, but still a few left to do to wrap it all up. And 2026 is the year where we'll do them in. So the kind thoughts and hopes that I have is that this last year of planning, working hard, and saving pays off.

I've posted a bit about it before on Tildes, and found the community here extremely understanding and supportive. Those mental health threads and just various threads that come and go where someone asks a general question to the audience are very helpful to read through. Even on the threads where I don't post or comment, it's helpful to see the stuff that other people are going through, as often times the comments for those people feel like they could apply to me as well, and it's reassuring to see that other people are facing some of the same issues in this crazy world we all live in (though obviously I'd prefer if none of us had to deal with those issues at all).

So thanks to everyone on this site for being so wholesome and uplifting. Made these last couple years easier to get through, which is more than can be said for most sites out there.

My sister in law has had a couple rough years. A garbage husband, now ex husband, watching the ex immediately hook up with the waitress from his favorite bar and have a kid with her immediately as well. Last year she spent building a new house. She just moved into her brand new house and it is beautiful so I'm looking forward to 2026 being a much better year for her.

And I would love Aliens: Dark Descent!

Thank you for sharing! On my end, I hope that I'm able to get medicated for ADHD around January, something I've been waiting on for a long time and might help me finally progress towards a lot of my goals; or failing that, that I learn to manage the disorder better. It's been a journey!
I'm also hoping all my friends have a great year, especially the ones that have had trouble with life and anxiety as of late. I'll stick with them and do whatever I can to support them. Shout out to my friend who's been particularly unlucky with her apartment roof being flooded right before leaving for her vacation with her husband :x

If I may request some of these, I would please very much like these:

• Awesomenauts
• Nickelodeon All Star Brawl
• Fashion Police Squad

Would love to try N++

As for the kind thoughts. I’ve been thinking about how to make a more positive impact on the world myself. I feel like work is just work and not that meaningful at the moment.

Working on projects that hopefully will be more meaningful. We will see.

I'm hoping for a peaceful year for myself without bad things happening, such that I can focus on work, writing and staying healthy. But more importantly, I hope my brother will figure out a way to find peace in his own life. He's always too busy and stressed, and this worries me.

I'll take Rock of Ages 3 off your hands. These games aren't everyone's cup of tea, judging by reviews and opinions over the years, but I found the first two hilarious and had a blast playing them.

Thanks for this! I’d love to try Dome Keeper.

Well I’m 106 days into quitting all alcohol. I’ve just seen too many studies lately about how unhealthy any amount of alcohol is, and basically there’s no “safe” amount. So I decided to take a break for 100 days and see what it was like. Then last week, I decided to make the change for good!

I’ve been helped a ton by nonalcoholic beers. There are some really good ones out there. And then video games have helped keep me occupied too!

If it hasn't been redeemed yet, I'd like "We Were Here Together" and "Neon Abyss".

I hope that everyone is able to be safe, and to have happy moments and memories. Whether you're celebrating with loved ones or you're going through this month by yourself, I hope you look after yourself.

Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Forgive Me Father

Thank you for your words and I share the appreciation you have for this community. I don't have the time to engage much on Tildes right now, but I am grateful to lurk in the periphery, reading things every day which often resonate with me. I've been quite depressed about the state of the world for a long time now, but I've made significant steps in how I manage that feeling. Meditation has been a big shifter for me over the past couple of years, but I have been taking long breaks. Next year I'm hoping to be more consistent with my practice and also branch out a bit and connect with a group.

Thanks for the givewaway :)

If this giveaway is still going, I would love to get Destroy All Humans 2! I recently beat the remake of the first game but never actually got to play the second, even as a kid!

ETA: My main hope for this year is that my dad can fully recover. He recently suffered some kind of injury (we initially thought it was a stroke but I'm hearing that it wasn't) and has to go to physical therapy to relearn a lot of stuff. He's doing fine, but he uses a cane and can't drive again yet.

World End Economica Ep. 1
Ghostrunner
Distraint 2: Soundtrack

I've been trying to learn Japanese for a while now and am hoping next year I'll have some significant process with that. Studying the language was harder than I thought but fun.

Thanks for this! :D

hi there ! If you find a way for transfer i can haul Diplomacy is Not an Option.

Thanks for sharing! My big hope at this point is that the country doesn't tear itself apart. It feels like there's a shortage of good news and everything is getting worse. It's probably more a perception thing than anything else, but it's been a little rough, vibe wise. But I hope it gets better!

Game wise, I'd love:

• Super magbot
• Astral Ascent
• Levelhead

Is there any game that's been particularly memorable for you during past holiday seasons? It could be a game you binged while you had so much free time, something you were waiting for, a game you played from the giveaway...

Back when I was in grad school I really wanted a Switch, but I new that if I got one it would distract the hell out of me and I was so close to finishing my Master's. So I was due to graduate in December, and my girlfriend at the time (now wife) decided to get me a Switch with BoTW for Christmas. She told me about it beforehand, as a sort of motivation to get me through my few remaining 25-page papers I had to write. And then graciously allowed me to open and play it like a week early once I had graduated. So I have some fond memories of BoTW right around Christmas, being a welcome reprieve between the hustle of writing papers and the agony of submitting resumes after.

A game that you've put off purchasing until the next holiday season, when you suspect that the sale price will drop low enough.

Oh man too many to list. The older I get the more /r/patientgamers I become. There are tons of great games that I'm looking forward to playing that I just don't even bother looking at until like a year or two after release, both because of price and also because by then they've had a lot of bugs fixed and balance patches and whatever. Sometimes they'll already have a goty version with some dlc, lol.

Anyways, thanks for your generosity, I've been looking into Roadwarden for a while so I would definitely take you up on your offer if still available.

If i can... Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer.

To answer your question right now I'm playing Silksong but because of some health issues i find it really hard. If i play for more than 30 minutes the nerves on my right arms ignite and my shoulder explodes in a supernova of pure agony so... i am pretty slow as you may guess and i am thinking to move to stuff i can play with only my left hand until i'll get better: point and click adventures, visual novel, etc... in this case the game i will soon move to is Citizen Sleeper 2. Not that i'm really looking forward to playing with it but i have to if i want to preserve my sanity :D and I really liked the previous one (that i played last holiday). It is a very very VERY slow game where most of the atmosphere is delivered throughout long blocks of text... not differently than in Disco Elysium. It's like reading a book and decide here and there where to point the protagonist, you choose a path, you roll the dices. And i really like the vibes it gives me. it's a sort of chill cyberpunk. A lofi dystopia... a settings that i find intriguing because it's so well described within the game that i would like someone would pick it up and make an anime about it.

I'd love Roadwarden! It's been on my Steam wishlist.

My favorite christmas gaming memory is probably the Steam winter sale of... 2011? A bunch of indie devs added holiday-related achievements to their games and you could get steam items and things for getting those achievements. It lead me to trying a bunch of games I might not have otherwise. And though achievement hunting isn't mostly something I enjoy, it was fun experiencing it with everyone. (the full list is here)

Of those games, Atom Zombie Smasher is my favorite. It's a series of stylish vignettes played over a zombie invasion game. It sort of plays out like a board game, where you score points after each level and you try to stay ahead of the zombie team. It's utterly original and I still go back and play a run once in a while (it's super customizable).

Thanks for the giveaway!

I'd love Sable! Call of the Sea is my backup pick.

Game I'm looking forward to playing: A gift exchange santas gave me Constance, so that one.

Memorable holiday season game: Last year I was playing Dungeons of Hinterberg. It was definitely a memorable game, despite a few design weaknesses!

Unexpected gaming gift: When my internet friends gave me my first VR headset, the HTC Vive. I'd never have expected anything like that.

One year, I decided to buy and play Cthulhu Saves Christmas during the holiday season. I hadn't played the game it is based on and don't usually play holiday-themed games, but it was the right pick for the gaming mood I was in. It was number of years ago, but I remember being impressed by it and promising myself to play it again in the future; I think it would be to catch a different ending (which wouldn't matter now since I don't remember much about the game anyways). The thing that impressed me about it is how many corners were cut to make the game, and how flippant the game was about it. It seemed pretty obvious that crammed in the work to push this game out for a holiday deadline (a (mini-)RPG, no less), but it doesn't feel unworthy. Rather, the whole thing is a hoot, and the game dev let us in in the fun. I'd play it again, but it's on Switch, and I've mostly given up on that platform. Still, a good small Christmas RPG recommendation for anyone interested.

I am interested in American Arcadia or, if that is not available, then my alternate choice would be Sable. Thanks!

Id like to nominate American Arcadia! I've had it on my wishlist for a bit now after learning it's sort of truman show like. I love the movie and think it's a really interesting concept. Thank you for the road warden shout out too, I added that to my wishlist now!

As for a Christmas game memory this is a bit niche and I don't actually have concrete memories of it because it was probably about 20ish years ago. I would be really interested to learn if others remember this and could say what this is. I remember it was a browser based flash game that I want to say was made by Nintendo (I could be misremembering just because it sounds so odd for Nintendo with no Nintendo characters). It was wintery and Christmas themed and I remember it being sort of like an advent calendar with a new level becoming available each day in December. I remember it being a 2D platformer with a penguin character you play as.

I bring it up as a fun Christmas memory because I remember excitedly playing it every day in December leading up to Christmas and loving the music to get me in the Christmas mood!

I'm crazy and looking forward to finally starting Baldur's Gate 3 this holiday season. I have some time off and then more in February so I hope I can put a good dent in it but we shall see how it goes.

And I would love to ask you for Bad North Jotunn Edition

Hey if no one takes you up on your offer, I wouldn't mind checking them out. I used to really enjoy Forza and Gran Turismo back in the Xbox 360/PS3 days but since then I've just mostly played a couple of the F1 games here and there. I'm especially curious about Automobilista 2 since I hear that has a lot of attention placed on Brazilian tracks and divisions, and I happen to be Brazilian. And I've heard great things about Assetto Corsa but don't have any experience with it. Which one do you prefer?

As for racing setup, last year I was thinking about getting a simple Logitech G29 to get more serious about sim racing, but then I ended up moving and now don't have the same space that I did before. I plan on moving again in the near future, and am hoping to have some more space then to set something up. Do you have any recommendations that I should look at?

Hey, thanks for joining. I would happily take Farewell North off your hands. I have a part Border Collie and who doesn't want to paint Scotland?

I always keep four or five secret stashes of chocolate around the house for emergency mood lifting. Maybe if I had Coromon to play, I wouldn´t need so many. Unfortunatelly, I keep forgetting where I keep them, and my pet racoon is looking suspiciously fatter.
Jokes aside, thank you for the giveaway. This post reminded me that I haven't been very active on tildes, even though I still come here to read every now and then. I have been a pokemon fan for a long time, and I didn´t knew this game. Even so, if anyone else wants the the game, I dont mind conceding, and in the future I will make an effort to post more :)

I would definitely take Supraland! Thanks in advance if you choose me!

Requesting Legend of Grimrock 2, please. I love the old dungeon crawlers from before the turn of the century. I played the first one for awhile (before my laptop gave out), so I imagine this should be just as great.

I'll take Euro Truck Simulator 2. I tend to try to play new games as soon as I get them.

I would love Full Throttle: Remastered, please!

I would love Retro City Rampage DX. And to your point, this is why I love this giveaway. I try and choose games I have wanted to try for a while and force myself to actually play them instead of just throwing them into my backlog. Great way to start the new year and then I'm reminded again of it when the Steam recap comes around.

Hey it's the guy with the cool review site. I'm glad you still keep up with it! I've thought about trying to learn web development by doing something similar, so thanks for explaining things on your about page!

I'd like to check out West of Dead if it's still available.

I'm only chiming in because I did not get on with this game. I came from playing Stardew Valley with my partner, to this. And the change could not have been more brutal. I think I credit this game with teaching me that I apparently not not value "a challenge" in my games, I value escapism, cosy vibes, funky music, achievable goals. Not carrying a heated stone around all the time and then dying later because I my home got burned down later.

I was holding off, but since nobody else has claimed it I would be happy to take the game off your hands to gift to one of my kids. I have the game, but can't play it with them right now, so we have never really tried it out.

I would love #5 because number 5 is alive! And it also relates to my story.

Last year, my wife and son conspired together and got me a package of 5 hot sauces that had increasing heat levels. My son carefully seasoned several chips with each sauce, and we had a Hot Ones style interview and answer period at our kitchen table over the course of the Christmas afternoon, where my son played Sean Evans and asked questions. It was actually a really thoughtful and great gift; he knows I love spicy foods, and Hot Ones, and he asked good questions and it was nice to sit and talk while we were hanging out in each other's presence on a holiday.

Final round! Everything up for grabs is now named.

Additionally here's a freebie for a first come first serve but please leave a comment if you claimed the key:
SoulSteel - Minecraft Bedrock (Noxcrew) Key
Redemption Key: CMCK6-36422-HV3XD-KJVRJ-24H9Z

Redeemed

How to redeem Soulsteel

How do I find and play Soulsteel

Now to reply to the actual thread (thank you @fefellama)

#2, because I've made friends with a blackbird and he's found where my window is where my gaming computer is located, and I can see him hopping around right now. He keeps taking my food offerings away to a secret location, potentially to his nest (it is breeding season here currently). So it has to be 2, because I'm hoping there is a pair of them. I'm not living in a house with cats, so birds have taken over my life a little!

I'll take a roll on #6! Good strong number. Round, but stout. Can hide if it turns upside down.

New round, new rules. I have updated the list with a short description of the game making your choice perhaps a little easier but require more introspective answers as the challenge.

Can I get Ixion?

Something I'm proud of accomplishing this year: Stability for my wife. In short, we moved to Colorado late 2024, it was very necessary for various reasons, but complete life upheaval isn't easy for many, my wife especially so. This year we've successfully gotten her settled, into a routine, new hobbies, new burgeoning local friends, and she's much better mentally and significantly happier than before. Next year I hope to get myself to a similar point.

Fine. How many times have I been ill this year? Four! In fact, added together with some excruciatingly painful root canal troubles, I've been down for a good four months out of the whole year. And things had been so good health-wise in 2023-2024... I'm currently willing my digestive track to please resume functioning before christmas, but I suspect it looks like a nuclear bomb went off in there.

Is this where number 4 will finally bring good luck to someone? Good thing I'm a westerner!

Okay, hit me with number 8.

First year university I partied with a girl on the floor below me in my dorm. She was wild. One night of many I helped her back to her dorm room and put her to bed with her roommate. 14 years later I met her dorm roommate on a dating website and now she is my wife. The roommate, not the girl I partied with.