We seem to have one of these every year. I’ll pick off the low-hanging fruit, the titles. Spoilers abound.
Beat Witch subsumes The Witch if we ignore articles. Similarly "All Hands on Deck subsumes All Hands without any articles. I wonder if this has happened before?
Lake Adventure and Creative Cooking are written in MagX/AGT. (MagX is very AGT-adjacent.)
Help! I Can’t Find My Glasses! and LAKE Adventure both have you trying to find your glasses as a clear goal early.
We’ve got two “Lake ______”, Lake Starlight and Lake Adventure.
“One Does Not Simply Fry” and “One King to Loot them All” are both from Lord of the Rings quotes. I sorted alphabetically and laughed when I saw them one after the other.
Gestures Towards Divinity and My Pseudo-Dementia Exhibition feature the same bench in their cover art!
It seems just from the blurbs like we have a LOT of mystery games or whodunnits.
As someone who wrote er own “solve my own murder” game I know which one I’m gonna gun for playing next!
- Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head (maybe?)
That’s accurate! Though it’s not quite a whodunit as much as a did-someone-dunit.
(They’re also both set in museums!)
At least four games about sailing though it may not be a lot out of 75 entries(?)
I noticed this too, and they’re both puns that hinge around replacing a word. I was like, what are the odds?! lol
Actually, all three titles with “One” in their name are puns (One Knight Stand being the third). You could make a stretchy generalization that all are fantasy-related puns as well.
I remember 2021, when we had two games that started with “4x4” (including yours @aschultz). And a game with a character named Blake Lively that had nothing to do with the actress.
It seems just from the blurbs like we have a LOT of mystery games or whodunnits. – @pieartsy
Antony & Cleopatra: Case IV: The Murder of Marlon Brando and Detective Osiris both concern Egyptian investogators no less.
More specifically, both Ancient Egyptian Royalty who have become investigators! Great example.
Oh but come on, one’s Pharonic and the other’s Ptolemaic, that’s hardly the same thing!
(It is indeed quite the coincidence! Though I haven’t found anything yet this year that’s as unlikely as the three games featuring a peristyle in 2020 - still early days, though!)
(It is indeed quite the coincidence! Though I haven’t found anything yet this year that’s as unlikely as the three games featuring a peristyle in 2020 - still early days, though!)
I didn’t even know what a peristyle was until I looked it up…
Quality architecture never goes out of–
Okay, I’ll show myself out.
All the way to Paris, amirite?
Assembly and All the Troubles Come My Way both feature IKEA furniture assembly/disassembly 
(although in the latter it’s optional).
And here I was thinking furniture assembly was a unique mechanic… 
This is a very small coincidence, but here’s another quote from Assembly:
>take chair
You can barely stand to look at it.
And one from A Thing of Wretchedness:
>look at thing
You can’t even bring yourself to look at it.
Clearly establishing that the wretched thing is even more wretched than the worst chair you can imagine.
I’ve only played seven games, since I’m quite slow this year; they’re all parser-based.
Of those seven games, four (Dr Ludwig and the Devil, Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?, A Thing of Wretchedness, and Gestures Toward Divinity) have exactly eight locations on their maps.
I just started Magor, and discovered that both Magor and Prince Quisborne have a couch with stuffing coming out of a busted seam…