Brigador: Great Leader Is Dead, Solo Nobre Must Fall
A tactical mech game where you flatten a neon city block by block, and the city remembers. Steep learning curve, excellent synthwave soundtrack, very satisfying once it clicks.
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Vapor: Custom Steam Library Artwork Without the Tab Hoarding
Vapor is my open-source Python app that pulls grids, heroes, logos and icons from SteamGridDB and applies them to your Steam library, one game at a time or in bulk.
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Wobbly Life: Getting Kicked Out by Grandma Never Felt So Fun
A cheerful physics sandbox where you deliver pizzas, fight fires and dig up treasure instead of stealing cars. Proof that chaos doesn't need violence.
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Star Trek Online: War Is Good for Business
The most authentic Star Trek game around, stuck inside an aging MMO that really wants your money. Great ship combat, rough everything else.
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Human Fall Flat: So Much Fun Failing Basic Motor Functions
A physics puzzle game where you control each arm separately and fall off almost everything. It's best with friends, and it's funny every single time.
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ICON: Swapping Desktop Shortcut Icons for SteamGridDB Art
ICON is my open-source Python tool that scans your desktop shortcuts, finds square artwork for them on SteamGridDB, and replaces the icons, with a backup you can restore from.
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Rain World: Life Is Hard When You're a Slimy Little Guy
The most beautiful way to suffer ever made. Rain World will break your spirit, then slowly teach you how to survive in a world that doesn't care if you do.
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Stocking a Windows 98 PC the Way It Looked in 1999
My list for loading a Windows 98 machine with the software, games, sounds and screensavers of 1998 to 2001, plus the DOS-era diagnostic kit I'd keep beside it.
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Balatro: Just One More Hand
What if poker was actually fun? A roguelike deckbuilder about building ridiculous hands and watching the numbers go into scientific notation. It will eat your evenings.
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Moving Epic Games to a New Drive Without Re-Downloading Them
Epic Games Transfer is my open-source PowerShell and Python tool that rewrites the Epic Games Launcher's manifest files after you move your games, so the launcher finds them instead of downloading them again.
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FlowDrive: A Storage Optimizer That Only Exists on Paper (So Far)
FlowDrive is my concept for a storage optimizer that learns which files you'll need and puts them on the fastest drive, written up as a spec and architecture with no code yet.
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Animal Well: 34MB of Pure Magic
A tiny download that holds one of the densest, most rewarding exploration games I've played. It keeps going deeper, and deeper, and deeper.
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Marvel Rivals Stands Tall in Overwatch's Shadow
A free hero shooter with a huge roster, team-up abilities and a real sense of polish. It doesn't reinvent the genre, but it does the familiar stuff really well.
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Modding Shadow of Mordor in 2026
A twelve-year-old game, a proxy DLL, a ReShade preset and a trick for hiding the HUD. The Shadow of Mordor mod setup I put together this month.
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My Cyberpunk 2077 Mod Loadout
I bounced off Cyberpunk once because the guns felt stiff. Here's the mod list I'm running on the 2.3x Steam version now, and what all those frameworks actually do.
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What's Inside My Very Average Desktop
The parts list for the perfectly ordinary PC behind my mod posts, so you know what "it runs fine for me" actually means.
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Door Kickers: Think Twice Before You Kick Down Every Door
A top-down SWAT tactics game where every mission is a puzzle and the planning is half the fun. It rewards patience and punishes you for rushing.
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Portal 2: I'm Making a Note Here, Huge Success
Brilliant writing, clever puzzles and a co-op campaign that tests friendships. My only real complaint is that I can't play it for the first time again.
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Loop Hero: Time Is a Flat Circle and I Can't Stop Playing
You don't control the hero. You build the world around him, one card at a time, and watch him walk the same loop until something kills him. It's weirdly addictive.
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Homeworld Remastered: Still Beautiful After All These Years
Two legendary space strategy games in one remastered package. Not a perfect remaster, but still the best way to play the games that made fleet combat in 3D feel possible.
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Space Marine: A Great Game at a Bad Price
The 2011 Warhammer 40K action game still nails the power fantasy of being a Space Marine. The price jump right before the sequel is the hard part to swallow.
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales Is Short, Stylish and Worth It
A shorter, snowier Spider-Man game that makes up for its length with Miles's powers, gorgeous winter New York and one of the better PC ports I've played.
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Inscryption: The Less You Know, the Better It Gets
A card game that isn't just a card game. I'm going to tell you as little as possible, because that's the best way to play it.
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En Garde! Have Fun Storming the Castle
A short swashbuckling action game where you parry, kick guards down stairs and throw buckets at their heads. I wanted more of it, which is the only real complaint.
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Sizing Up a $250 Used Gaming PC
How I worked out whether a used RX 570 and Ryzen 3 gaming PC was worth $250, what it can actually run, and the checks and questions I'd use on any used PC listing.
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Apex Legends: It's Complicated
The best-moving, best-feeling battle royale I've played, wrapped in monetization and server problems that make it harder to recommend every season.
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Slime Rancher: Just One More Harvest Before Bed
A farming game where the crops are bouncing slimes and the farm tool is a vacuum. Sixty-three hours in, it's still the game I put on when I want to unwind.
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