No, not Beryl again. Prime Gaming Giveaways, which seem like they're really becalmed in the doldrums of late summer this year.
Remember when I said I was going to stop reporting on these every month? Well, it's just too easy a post to miss. Also, it's nice to have regular features. On a blog, I mean. Not on your face. We can't all be Sydney Sweeney, which is probably just as well.
So, what have we Prime Gamers got to look forward this month? So far, not a lot. But then, we haven't hit Second Thursday yet.
Week One nets us a couple of big fish and tiddler. The big fish are well past their prime, but I imagine there's still some good eating in them...
Look, I'm just going throw that metaphor back into the lake, if it's alright with everyone. Or even if it's not. I mean, I bet I could keep the fish-related imagery going all through the post because fish puns are like shooting a hippopotamus in a barrel (How he got into a barrel I don't know - © Groucho Marx.) But I'll restrain myself (Insert dad joke here...)
Five paragraphs in and I've said nothing. Beat that, ChatGPT!
Ahem. Getting back to the point.
The three games in question are
Sid Meier’s Civilization® III Complete
Sometimes it feels like I've played the Civilization series because I've read so much about it on blogs, especially TAGN, but I never have. I don't believe I've ever played any 4X games. I don't even know why they're called "4X". I could look it up but I'm not going to. I probably won't start with this one either but it's not out of the question so I'll take it. It's currently 80% off on Steam anyway, making it less than a pound to buy, so it's not much of a bargain, even for free.
I have a feeling Thief was already in the offer from last month but I'm too lazy to check. I seem to remember mentioning before that I dislike stealth games and Thief is the reason why. I bought it when it came out - the box is still in the house somewhere, with the disc still in it. I really did not get on with it at all. Too hard but worse, too boring. Pass. Also, since I'm just noticing how very low-value this month's offer is, I'll mention this is just £3, at full price, on GOG...
The Academy: The First Riddle.
As for The Academy, it's "a puzzle-packed adventure set in a school filled with mystery", which sounds like something I'd play if I was in the market for a cheap-ass Harry Potter knock-off, which I might be now the real thing is off limits. I was planning on claiming it but it wasn't showing up on my Prime Gaming page so I had a closer look and guess what? I already claimed it back in March 2021! It may be twice the price of Thief on Steam but this is the second time they've given it away. At least. Another non-bargain, then.
So much for this week. What's upcoming? And I'm only going to talk about the interesting ones. If you want the full line-up, it's on the blog.
Not this blog. This blog.
Two days from today, on Thursday 14th, you can make your choice from
FATE: The Traitor Soul - Not the first FATE game that's come up on Prime, I think. There was one last month. Looks like they're giving the whole series away. They do a lot of that. "Very Positive" Steam rating. Suppose I'll take it.
Tin Hearts - Compared to Lemmings in the Prime blog, which is worrying. I was addicted to Lemmings for a while. Everyone was. Not sure I want to go there again. It doesn't actually look anything like Lemmings, though. It looks mildly interesting. Might as well claim it.
Filthy Animals -Not to be confused with the movie of the same name. Or the "Australian supergroup". A "heist simulator" apparently. Is that a recognized genre? Looks mildly amusing but only "mostly positive" on Steam. Probably going to end up claiming it then forever afterwards forgetting I own it.
Not in the running: Necroking.
And a week after that, on the 21st, because this month Thursdays are all a handy multiple of seven...
Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective - I was sure this was going to be one of those tedious hidden object games Prime likes to use as filler but it turns out it's an actual game and a weird one. It's like a Where's Wally book come to life. (Where's Waldo if you prefer. Or Where's any other pop culture phenomenon you care to name - Taylor Swift, Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog... we have a whole shelf of them at work.) So I guess it is a hidden object game but a much more original one than usual. Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam. I'll give it a go.
Silver Box Classics - Four very, very old games but possibly of some interest still. "This collection brings back a gathering of adaptations of the events in the first four Dragonlance role-playing modules, at the beginning of the War of the Lance. These were the first games that brought the world of D&D to PC." Dragonlance was my era. AD&D rather than D&D as it once was and later reverted to being. I read and reviewed the first Dragonlance novel when it came out. Didn't think much of it as I recall. Never read any of the others. I'll claim this but looking at the screenshots on Steam (Where it has a Positive rating from just eleven reviews.) I can't imagine playing any of the games. Or not for long, anyway.
It's just those two for the third week. I didn't skip any. On to the last week, starting on the 28th.
... aaaaaand nothing. That's an anti-climax, isn't it? I mean, there are games being given away in the final week of August. They're just not anything I'd consider claiming and I said I wasn't going to preview stuff I wasn't interested in.
Okay, two of them are things I theoretically might have been interested in. One's a sort of dungeon crawler and the other's yet another D&D game, but the first is a sequel to a game I wasn't bothered about the first time around and the other looks older than gaming itself. It's embarrassing in a way, the kind of games Prime is trying to pass off as interesting or exciting these days.
Oh, alright, I'll do you the links...
Happy now?
And the final game, which I am not going to link because it only encourages them, is a hidden object game called City Legends: The Ghost of Misty Hill. The Collector’s Edition no less, although I wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with anyone who actually collects these things.
That's the lot for August. Roll on September, eh?
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