Bold & Bizarre Games Bulletin (August)
It's Bulletin time, and we've got another fine selection of interactive oddities for your consideration.
This email also contains your Pantaloon Puzzle for the month. Solve it before 12.00am BST on 26th August and guarantee your key for our partnered game the month, Outshine (registered your interest in the game yet to get a key? Please do so!).
Alright let's get stuck in.
#1 Athenian Rhapsody
Athenian Rhapsody is interesting for a number of different reasons - a glorious hodge-podge of genres and ideas tied together in a world reminiscent of that one with the animals that are made to fight and then stored digitally in balls. The game describes is as (brace yourself here): "a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics"
#2 Thank Goodness You're Here
If you've subscribed to Pantaloon for some time, you'll have noticed a common thread in our recommendations and taste-making; fever dreams and games that look like they've been designed during a peyote-fuelled dev-sesh in the middle of the desert. Glitch Daddy is a first-person adventure focusing on atmospheric exploration, and the rest is kind of hard to distil into words. Give the trailer a whirl.
(and don't do drugs x)
#3 Pillory
[COMING SOON]
If we had a dollar for every 1-bit or monochromatic indie game we've featured in our Bulletin. Well. We'd have about five dollars. Anyway. Bold, minimalist aesthetics aside, surreal RPG Pillory is also interesting because of it's unique mood-based combat system - which revolves around party members proposing ideas each turn. "You may choose one, or reroll for a different idea, at the cost of mood. Identifying enemies' weaknesses to one of the three damage types is crucial."
#4 Panchin is Frustrated
[COMING SOON]
Not enough developers are making Idle games. You can have 'em open in a separate window when you should be working on a presentation or spreadsheet, and play without having to sacrifice too much of your mental bandwidth. Panchin is Frustrated is just such a game and - despite looking like it came pre-installed on a PC with Windows 98 - has some forward thinking Twitch integration allowing you to suggest things for Panchin to do.
#5 Star Stuff
Less bizarre, but one for Pantaloon's horde of puzzle connoisseurs -- Star Stuff is a game whose quaint aesthetic makes it hard to stay angry at after you've slammed your head on your desk because you can't solve one of it's devilish automation puzzles. Star Stuff has you programming bots to run a factory, with 150 levels requiring you adopt a coders-logic to progress.
Reminder! Pantaloon's partnered game for August is Outshine
Keys will hit inboxes August 29th.
Ok. Nothing more. Goodbye x
pantaloon.