9.) I absolutely swear I played a game called Aquarium, but now I can’t find it in the game list again. Huh. Did it get withdrawn? Have I had a stroke? Anyway, it was an aquarium simulator and I passed a pleasant few minutes with it.
Edit: And @EJoyce suggested that perhaps this was Scale by @lavieenmeow, and that’s it.
10.) Occhiolism by dagitabsoft (no handle, I guess)
I couldn’t play this one. My mac wouldn’t let me open the downloaded game. Didn’t even give me an option to override it. But TIL what this awesome word means, so thanks to the author for that.
11.) Chinese Family Dinner Moment by @Kastel
A little parser game that encapsulates some of the universal awfulness of a dinner with your whole family, but throws in some specifically terrible family dysfunction. There’s very little you can do here as I believe this was for the single choice jam, and I never could wrap my mind around how the rules for that applied to parser games. But in this game there are some very atmospheric stock responses for things like TALK TO and EXAMINE, which really set the tone. There is one command you can really use, and that’s a good one, and probably the wisest action you can take at a family dinner.
12.) Conduit of the Crypt by GrimBacaris (no known handle)
This was a strange little game. My first play through ended about 30 seconds into the game, and my second and third only lasted a minute or two. That’s all the replay I have in me, even for a short game (unless, as in NEST, I’m making progress on solving a puzzle). Can’t really say anything about it without giving the whole things away.
13.) Magor Investigates by @Lazzah
I play ADRIFT games so seldom that I always have to relearn that you type into the skinny little white bar at the bottom. ADRIFT does not make this easy, because you CAN type into the text field; it just screws up the game’s text. So it took me a minute to reorient myself to ADRIFT. And then Frankendrift crashed. And then did it again. So with apologies, I’m moving on.
This was a troubled few games for me, obviously. Lost games, games that wouldn’t open, games that crashed. The game gods are not well pleased with me today.