12. Peter Fonda

12. Gersh win

These days, any hand-drawn adventure game piques my interest. Thank you Ana!

Orion, considering it hasn't been announced yet, it wouldn't come up in an AI sweep of the web.

There is indeed chatter that points to a possible game. Here is one: Ragnar and TLJ

Thanks, Orion!

Thanks for all the news Orion!

My son really enjoyed Hogwarts Legacy. Great giveaway!

I have a whole bunch of unplayed Christmas Stories games. At the very least I should play one this month!

I have been playing time management games but plan on getting back into a HOPA pretty soon.

The new CE HOPA Catch can be found here.

Thank you, I'll have to try this one

So I'm farther in, and having a blast. The combat is turn-based but loads of fun, Right now I'm lost, but who cares? There are lots of places to save the game so there's no fear of going too far or attacking something too strong. If you lose a fight you get the option to back off or try again. Sometimes you can even run past a particularly nasty enemy.

The character development trees are easy to understand for the most part and weapons can be upgraded by a skeleton-like entity in your camp (a nod to BG 3?). The other thing that's fun is that apart from the odd costume or hairstyle you can buy and weapons, there's no inventory to speak of, so no inventory management. Weapons you find or buy are character-specific. There is no armour, just outfits.

This is a fast-moving game that's pretty straightforward once you master the tricks of combat.

I'm playing it on my Steam Deck, BTW. I made a few tweaks and of course it doesn't look as pretty as it would on PC, but it runs very smoothly apart from a few lags here and there.

Thanks, oldbroad. I didn't know that... looks like they sold it to a private equity firm which usually means they milk it dry and then dump it. AT&T was SO bad, but this might even be worse.