24 - Time for Bed (PC 2025) - BEAT - Starting off the season with some spooky games, as I want to try and maybe pick up some more indie horror games if I can, though I was hoping more Five Nights at Freddy's stuff would go on sale, maybe later in the month, but starting with this little game.
It's a unique gimmick to me in terms of gameplay you are a kid trying to play your Game Boy at night without being seen by your "mother", so you have to play through an actual pixel art, retro game on the game boy, while having an awareness around you for when "mother" is looking at you, and if she is looking at you with her red eyes, you have to pretend to sleep. I think some of it is maybe an asset flip, I think "mother" is not a unique creature, but it works, it's generally abit creepy and there's some nice variety to the behavior and retro games.
It is only 3 levels and a special bonus level, but you have to play through stage 3 to get the special stage and I kinda hate that, so not sure if I'll attempt it again. I can't complain too much about only 3 levels, just because it's a 5 dollar game I got for 4 bucks and got an hour and a half out of, but I think there's a great idea here that can be expanded. The second level is the best, it's the most creepy, though I like the little Zelda-like game you get in Stage 3.
Got a handful of spooky games to play ready to go, particularly Little Nightmares, Signalis (I've had this ready to go for a long time now), Bendy and the Ink Machine, FNAF 2, and might grab Crow Country since I just refunded another game that didn't really work out.