About Me: I write about video games and horror-related items. Also, I wear a hat.

Games, life, and black spots...

NOTE: I'll proofread this later. You're getting the unfiltered draft right now.

Warning: I'm about to get very serious, and it could feel like I'm dismissing something important, but...

Around February or March, I started a new routine to help get myself going into a new phase of my life. I needed to get out of the house, find some hobbies, and find new people to hang out with. I broke my daily routine down thusly: self-care first (getting the kids ready to go back to mom on Mondays first, though), meal prep second, wildcard time after that. The wildcard could be gaming, reading, watching a movie, shopping, going to a seminar, running errands, spending time with the kids, hanging out with someone, etc. None of this is hard-set, either. If I need to go out of order, then so be it.

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TL;DR - It's bascially the original with modernized visuals and extra bloat. And by "bloat," I mean "tower defense elements no one asked for."

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2026 had better be better

It's that time again. I really wish this list were longer, but 2025 was a year more of rest and healing than of doing. 2026 may well prove differently. One thing I can say positive, though: 2025 saw AlphaMurderthon finally get off the ground.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition (Switch)
This is my current project, along with occasionally playing Trials of Azra. So far, it's not as immediately enjoyable as its predecessor, but there is a lot of potential for greatness.

Escape from the Planet of Robot Monsters (Arcade via MAME)

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You have been misled.

That said, I hope to do more. Though I have a lot of prior experience with it, I'm not reviewing Hustle. It's kind of hard to review a horse racing simulator where you only bet on a horse and watch as they run. It was a novel idea way back when horse racing was more prevalent in the US, but it seems unnecessary nowadays.

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This year's OctJOEber will be the one I tried to create years ago...

Remember AlphaMarathon? You know, that yearly thing where we would all try to cover every letter of the alphabet with a game review, including a numeral? I tried to recreate that as one of my October projects, wherein I submit nothing but reviews for horror, horror-adjacent, and Halloween-appropriate games. Well, I decided one year I was going to do one for every letter of the alphabet and call it "AlphaMurderthon."

Then life happened...

Then I found ways to get myself back on track, so now it's complete.

AlphaMurderthon, the final lineup:
1000 Heads Among the Trees
Alan Wake
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth
Downfall
The Evil Within
Football Game
Grim Dawn
Hello Neighbor
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Joe's Diner
Kindergarten

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And I'm working hard on some material

I aim to finish a project I started long ago. I make no promises, but I have four months and four games left to go.

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Yay me

Outlast
First-person horror fare set in an asylum, except the protagonist actually has a solid reason to be there. So many cheaper games have you entering abandoned asylums just for the hell of it, which no one in their right mind would do. Then there's the movie SXTape... Anyway, what I like most about this one is the paranoia it builds. You never know if an approaching patient is going to attack you or just blather on about some random thing while leaving you alone. Hell, some of them even dispense a bit of backstory, so they can even prove beneficial.

Elliot Quest

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