I would like to request:

• Rhythm Witch: Beat Death
• Kill The Music

Favorite game music: Prodeus. It's like as if you bought the newest Radiohead album and played all ten tracks at the same time.

I've been wanting to play INDIKA! I don't know if it'll work, since I do live in SEA but I have a US Steam account. I'd be happy to try if you are, though.

I also love the look of Seabed, always up for intriguing stories full of queer women.

As for my favorite video game music, that's such a tough question, since I love so many. I've been playing Deltarune recently and the music for that is truly iconic. I also really like the music used in the Project Moon universe, Mili consistently puts out banger after banger for them, all very relevant to the story and capable of making me cry every time.

I've been meaning to pick up Starbound for a while now.

My favorite game music would probably be the soundtrack of Katamari Damacy, Warframe (literally goes from 1990s style boyband pop song to sea shanties), Dragon's Dogma, and Dragon Age: Origins.

Some nice games, thank you for the giveaway! I'd take Trombone Champ off your hands.

Do I have to pick one favorite videogame music? How about... the Zombies Ate My Neighbors soundtrack? (Answer might be different in another day.)

Hey I wouldn't mind checking out Hellclock, The Witness, and The Riftbreaker.

As for my favorite game music, there's so many to choose from! I'll always feel a ton of nostalgia for most of the original GB and GBA Pokemon music, gens 1/2/3. Also Katamari Damacy has one of the best sound tracks in any game, so much so that I regularly listen to it despite having never actually played the game!

I'm interested in Overlooting! I've played so many it's hard to pick, the first thing that came to mind is the music for the arcade shmup Viewpoint.

EDIT: I would actually have to say the music from Castlevania! 3 in particular, the japanese version of the soundtrack, is fantastic! But Viewpoint is still up there.

I'd like to request SuperHot if it's still available.

My favorite game music? Easy enough by franchise, Sonic. Specific game? Really hard, nearly every game has an insane OST. Depending on the day, it would be either Sonic CD, Adventure 1, Adventure 2, or Frontiers.

Thanks so much for sharing! I would love your copy of Life is Strange: Double Exposure, if it's available!

That's a great question! I have a few favourite soundtracks: the Katamari soundtracks are amazing, as is Fez, Rayman Origins, the first Life is Strange...I have more, but those are probably at the top.

I would like to request Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Blackberry Honey and WORLD END ECONOMICA, thank you.

Here's my Game Music: Atelier Lulua OST & this one track from Sen no Kiseki 3

I don’t really play games these days. Give me something, your choice.

You know what, it's funny for all kinds of reasons, but I don't actually seem to own Portal on Steam (I don't even remember where I played it, so long ago it was). If no one else wants it I'll gladly take it. But if anyone has never played Portal and wants to play, I will gladly yield to them.

hey, can I possibly ask for Trine? Thanks :)

A friend introduced me to I wanna be the Guy before it became a meme/trend? It just constantly subverted expectations and makes you audibly go "what the fuck?". It will forever be my top wtf game.

For the lucky ten thousand, it's free. It helps if you a little bit of gaming history to understand references (if you actually try to progress).

If available, put me down for:

• Chroma Squad
• on your tail
• Sunblaze

Mind if I get Light Fairytale? Thanks.

Oh no, I hope everything is okay now!

Dreamscaper looks pretty cool, I'll happily take that off your hands.

Can I haz any of [internet cafe simulator|beholder|tropico 3|spirittea]?

I leave the choice to you

Many tanks

tell me the weirdest or craziest game you can remember playing [...] that feels most like a fever dream.

Of course, lucid blocks

I hope everything is okay. Your comment sparks some concern. In regards to your question, (one of) the weirdest games I have ever played is INFINI. It only has 29 reviews right now, but I'm slow to recommend it because it is balls-to-the-wall insane. Like, bad trip LSD insane. It's hard to explain, but its story is about anthropomorphic deities representing Hope and Death, but the details won't matter because your brain won't process it. It has a crude artstyle resembling that of ancient civilizations that has a deep, guttural, primal feeling to it. It's creepy, in that bad way that you want to forget but can't.

Here are my selections and some words:

• SUMMERHOUSE: For all the violence I've committed in video games, all I really want is a home. This could be it.
• Lost Words: Beyond the Page: Had my eye on this one for awhile. I am a sucker for games about language. And if a video game is about a coming of age story for a girl, it's even more likely I'll really like the art style, pretentious or otherwise.
• Beholder series: Having come off of Not Tonight 2, I'm all ready for a future dystopia. It's not as though our perfect world will ever turn out badly in the days to come.

Oh yeah: I did try to redeem the Do Not Feed the Monkeys key, but it didn't activate because it was already in my Steam account. Should be good to go.

If possible, I would like Spirittea please.

I played mostly little educational PC games as a child, though there was an exception- the original Myst on CD-ROM. In theory, it was my stepfather's game, but he rarely played it. Managed to get through about ~40% of the game before getting completely stuck (didn't get at-home internet until well after I had given up the game).

Maybe not a weird choice for its era, but compared to how most games are constructed these days, it's architecturally kinda out there

uhm... Is it possibile to have Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)? I frequenly use the first one but colour me curious to see what they have invented on the second one. As far as I know it should be the first game wrapped in sort of 3d enviroment where you can interact with others not only writing mails.

And Beholder 3 (played the other 2 and i found them... quite intriguing). This new iteration seems cool enough to keep the tradition.

I will be blunt/rude, but could I ask for two games? Imagine Earth is something I have looked at in the past and Lost Words: Beyond the Page seems to be the game I would really like to play.

Weirdest or craziest game I have played? I don't remember the name, but I will describe a bit. It was RTS around/before year 2000. It was cartoonish-like, not aiminb to look real or detailed too much. It was played on a grid map (non-isometric, just pure square grid), the main resource looked like salad and was collected with harvestors/combines. There was another reaource like oil or something. There was map editor included. And now for the best part - you could play the game, at the start of the mission, you saved the game and then quit. Then open map.editor, load your save, add bunch of your units into enemy base and save. After reloading your save in the game, you had no problem winning. Rinse and repeat!

I am very sorry for what happened, hope you're all better now! Just remember that time heals.
and I wonder if it's too much to ask for the whatever is left in the beholder series? <:

and as for the crazy game, It's prolly happy wheels (mightn't be childhood game for most tho, but yeah) still love the physics, and how sweaty it all was.

Thanks for the gaw :))

Hi, sending big virtual hugs >< I'll reply in the other thread.

As for games...if the following are still going:
Forests, Fields and Fortresses
Imperium Romanum Gold Edition

Thank you!

EDIT: And to answer your question...there are a bunch of games, most of which I can't remember the name of, which shipped with various Linux distros. My father was a mad Distro Hopper so we got a fresh OS regularly, sometimes every two weeks but usually once a month. Everything would be wiped and we'd have no idea what would be installed. We didn't have internet as these OS's came from CD isos on Linux magazines, so we were stuck with whatever games were shipped with the full installation - which were surprisingly quite a lot sometimes - maybe upwards of 25-50 games! Mostly little arcade games, lots that were super janky and very simplistic - but sometimes we'd find games we really liked and would play them as much as we could until the next wipe. The frustrating part was that we'd get particularly fond of a game and would be gone - possibly forever, or might one day show up again in a future installation if we were lucky. And sometimes the game would show up again as a later version with more content, which felt like Christmas! These games do feel like a fever dream because my memories are just random fragments and they were so temporary and I've forgotten all the names of the games...but here are some: Super Tux, Tux Racer, Rocks'N'Diamonds, Frozen Bubble, Pingus...these are all well-known/popular. There are heaps I can't remember! It was always fun loading up every game having no idea what it would be.

I would like to request Summerhouse and The Ramp. Thank you.
Hope you are doing fine, sending you wishes.

Hello I am aspiring Mechatronics student and therefore Autonauts interests me a lot as its an automation heaven I would really really like to have this game if its available! I will also like to have Tinytopia it looks like a cute and good physics based game.

Thanks a lot for reading my post!

There are some good games here. I can personally vouch for Atmasphere, the hardest/most relaxing medieval marble rolling game you'll ever play that has water effects so good you'll be reaching for the humidifier. If that won't convince you, its 100+ achievements may. Also, Roto Force is a blast, somebody play that thing.

As for myself, I would like to request these games:

• Dynopunk
• Plan B from Outer Space: A Bavarian Odyssey
• RUNGORE

Assuming these are US region codes, I'll put in a request for Gal*Gun Returns because it'll help make a future purchase cheaper - I'm hoping to eventually get a Steam Frame to get back into VR and I hear one of the GG games is decent in VR, if one can get over the admittedly bad theming.

I'm also going to post these older, US region Steam codes publicly because I'm not sure about whether they're valid at this point, so feel free to try to claim any or all of them, by removing the "7" from each code:

Nevermind, noticed after posting that the TC doesn't want public codes posted. Incidentally, why is this a thing? I'd rather see codes go to use regardless of the claimant, and its easier on me not to have to monitor for replies/DMs.

I have possibly expired codes for Iratus, Astrea, and Embr. Can't promise they'll work or that I'll give a timely reply, but feel free to ask.

Would like Red Bow and Roto Force.

I wouldn't mind trying the Agatha Christie game. I periodically get in the mood for some detective sleuthing so would be fun to try that one!

And Anvil Saga looks fun too. Every time I boot up Skyrim again I spend entirely way too long messing around making armor and weapons, so maybe it'll hit that same spot, lol.

I would love to try Organs Please!

hey, I'm a bit late but can I request for Accident? Thanks!

I'll put my hand up for MARSUPILAMI - HOOBADVENTURE if it's still going. I tend to have one platformer on the side casually and I'm always on the lookout for hidden gems! Thanks for the giveaway!

I'm consume some of your shame

I'll round out the bottom of the list:

• Eternal Edge+
• Alfred Hitcock's Vertigo
• Bot Vice

I would like to request Verne: The Shape of Fantasy please, thank you.

Hello Wafik 👋
I would like to have Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! and MARSUPILAMI - HOOBADVENTURE both looks like very fun and enjoyable game.
Have a good day and thanks for reading!

This is not a request but a recommendation for Popup Dungeon. This is a game that falls into the genre subset of "fake janky tabletop RPG" in which features get demaked for the sake of real-world charm. Like, animations will be made choppier or reduced to swaying the character back and forth because they're actually a mini-fig stuck on top of a base. Great examples of this include Wartile and The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, so if you've played these incredibly niche games yadda yadda. In this one, the characters are reduced to massively simplified voxel characters as you run around dungeons murder hoboing. I haven't done it myself, but you can import custom skins so you can even play as yourself, hero that you are.

tl;dr Get Popup Dungeon because you're a person with an active imagination, and you like it when games risk getting branded with the "jank" tag when they actively request the use of your imagination to fully come alive.

Endless Space 2 - I'm thinking about writing a talk next year on the production of 'space' in videogames, using the space sim genre (a top tier genre for me) to explore this topic. Traditionally I've played first person sims rather than 4x and I'm hoping to do some research on 4x so that I can cover the space genre and talk about how the vastness of space is condensed in a 4x frame of vision.

Something I did which I'm proud of over the past while is recover from a long illness. I really put the work in physically and mentally over the past couple of years and it finally paid off!

Thank you for the giveaway :)

I want to mention that the game is made by the same people who made Titan Quest - one of my all time favourite ARPGs. They preserved all of the main mechanics from Titan Quest (skill system, inventory, levelling up, dual mastery builds, many hidden areas in levels), and added in a whole lot of new ones & content.

Whoever enjoyed Titan Quest will definitely get a kick out of Grim Dawn!

I would like to put my hat in for the Grim Dawn raffle, please.

it's kind of meditative and chill as you cut through waves of enemies

Ah, yes. The "Dynasty Warriors" after-work destress session. I'm most interested in this as a Diablo surrogate. I enjoyed Torchlight 2, and am looking for others.

Hello Eidolon 👋, Can I have Construction Simulator? I have always been intrigued with construction/building/farming games, Thank you for reading!

If it's still available, I'll take the key for Princess Farmer, seems like a fun way to kill an afternoon

This year? Oof.. I pulled myself out of the controversy bubble a while ago, but I suppose GTA may have finally set the new price standard everyone feared.
The Steam Machine being worth the cost or not is also really dependent on the person though emotions run high! People really wanted this thing to be the bees knees and looked for another Deck slam dunk. You can feel the disappointment drip from the page.

My "favourite" is the controversial EU decision around Stop Killing Games. I hoped, though did not expect, something a little more substantial than what's currently presented from the EU council: an entirely non committal acceptance that the status quo sucks.

As for my request, Inertial Drift. A twinstick racer sounds like a dream to play on my Steam Deck while I'm currently out in the countryside with oodles of time on my hands.

Because I don't like asking for things, I'll post a key to this thread myself that I have left over from the previous giveaway thread.

Dear kind Tildes user, I would love to try out Gato Roboto if it is still available; not sure how soon it will expire, so I will throw my hat in now. I've had my eye on it for the longest time, but kept missing it. I have an affinity for "one-bit" games; I think they're "pure" in that these games all share the same limitations, but in their own way have overcome it. Obra Dinn and Minit are two other ones that come to mind, and I loved those (at least the latter one). I'm interested to see how Gato Roboto keep the action clear and organized.

hey there, I'd like to partiticpate on raffle for Lingo 2!!! as for a puzzle word based pc game, I haven't played much of it, but I strongly remember Baba Is You, a friend of mine recommended, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to give word based puzzle games a shot.

I'm not entering; I just wanted you to know that I got Lingo from you last year, and that game is very interesting, but tough! I don't know if I have the stamina for it. It requires a journal to jot down your findings, like going on an architectural dig. I recently completed Cryptmaster, which is similarly a first-person puzzler; I kept notes on that, and while both games feature word puzzles, Lingo is much more unforgiving, even with its hint system. Hopefully, with the right headspace, I will have the fortitude to try it again. Thanks very much for giving me the chance to try it out!

Late to respond, but please add me to the Lingo 2 raffle! My favorite game like this is the relatively obscure LOCK, which was created by Pixel_Gorilla in Dreams for PS4. Since most won’t easily be able to play it themselves, I recommend watching this playthrough video. It’s very well designed and quite challenging.

I love Worms Armageddon too but I already have that one so I’ll leave it for another to discover.

Thanks for the giveaway! I'd like to put my name in for Core Keeper, and I'd recommend donating to the Electronic Frontier Foundation - between Chat Control, KOSA, AI-powered mass surveillance/Flock network, the surge of age verification legislations across Western countries, and many other political movements, our rights to digital privacy/anonymity are being rapidly eroded and the EFF is probably best positioned to do something about it.

As a side note, Louis Rossmann and Benn Jordan seem to be doing some great activism/awareness work in these areas as well, there may be a way to donate to them or orgs that they endorse if this is a good cause for you :)

Non-gendered bro, please take care of yourself. If the relationship is over, just move on. Every day is tough, but improvement won't happen unless you agree to move on with your life. You're important, don't lose sight of your goals, good luck. It is now an excellent time to play video games.

Regarding charity recommendations, please consider donating to Ecojustice. Environmental activism is great, but the truth is that intent without action is meaningless against those that use their power and resources to avoid consequences. Ecojustice puts truth to power by getting actual results, holding massive corporations and the government to account through legal representation and government lobbying.

As Canada's largest environmental law charity, they have worked to protect the environment and limit climate change, earning no less than 63 legal victories since it was founded in 1991.

Here are just a few examples of the good work Ecojustice has accomplished:

• By helping pass Bill C-59, Ecojustice's advocacy has helped keep giant corporations honest, pressuring Pathways Alliance to drop its net-zero claims.
• In 2023, they went to court to uphold the government's decision to label plastic manufactured items as a toxic substance after it was overruled by a federal court.
• Ecojustice provided legal representation in the fight against Northern Pulp, a Nova Scotia pulp mill that dumped millions of gallons of effluent into a bay next to a First Nations territory in an act called "one of the worst cases of environmental racism in the province." Ecojustice pressured the government to impose tighter regulations against the mill until they eventually closed in 2024.

This is all to show you that donating to Ecojustice will bring real-world results. A charity like Ecojustice is necessary as the voice that will champion the environment against those that would exploit it.

My selection is for Daemon x Machina Titanic Scion, please. I am not normally a fan of gundam-style mechs that places style over substance (which is usually my just my thing; I suppose "giant battling robots" is where I draw the line). But the story, which is getting put to task in the reviews, looks delightfully bonkers. I can think of no better way to end a cutscene than to have a character strap into a mechanized murder machine to work out their anger issues. I find that if I'm not confused enough by all the backstabbing and reveals and plot twists, it lacks a certain over-the-top je ne sais quoi.

Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince

I would like to put my hat in the raffle for this game. It looks like a full on nostalgia trip but with baked in QoL improvements for a younger generation that won't put up with "Golden Age" annoyances, so it looks interesting to play just to see how these compromises will play out.

My grandpa was a character. Like an old person, everything had to be his way. I saw a lot of it when he stayed with us. He'd do things like sleep on the carpet. In the living room. During the middle of day. But through him, I learned about gardening and how to make plants grow. He was very methodical about his plants.

1. I'm interested in Vault of the Void
2. I recently got a steam deck and card games seem to work especially well for it! And it looks like fun- I like all the customization.
3. All my grandparents were great but I have a favorite funny story. My grandfather was an electrical engineer. When they we're dating, my (eventual) grandmother's parents thought he was an electrician. So they had him changing lightbulbs and rewiring light switches. He was a good sport about, but it always cracked me up.

Thank you!

The raffle is over! u/BailerAppleby, u/xavdid, and u/kfwyre have won their respective games! By default. Truly the best kind of victory. DMs will be sent shortly!

Thank you for sharing about your grandparent/coworker. My grandma always had the tv or radio on for the news, always thought it was important to be updated on things. I guess one of my core younger memories is just listening with her for her opinion and one of us translating for the other depending on the language.