Simply put this is everything Action 52 claimed/tried to be, and then some. There’s genuinely a little bit of something for everyone here, with fast-paced arcade experiences as well as far slower, more thought-provoking stuff. It’s already sapped this many hours of my life and I’ve barely tried half of them!

My highlights so far have been thus: an adorable puzzle game about a lizard hiding from predators, a brutal deck-builder about throwing the best party in town, a simplistic yet highly engaging war simulator where bird soldiers pray to their dinosaur ancestors for guidance, splatoon but pve and with vehicles running each other over, a bizarre puzzle platformer where you must strategically expend your lives to proceed, a goofy tower defense where you yourself can roam around building a caveman army to throw bones and rocks at frisky dinos(there’s a lot of Dino action here and I’m all for it), a frantic top-down gta-esque frenzy to deliver giant onions at arbitrary locations, an engaging gravity man-like puzzler with bangin’ atmosphere and an even more bangin’ soundtrack, open-world golf where you whack yourself around to explore vast terrain, and perhaps most impressively a full-fledged point-and-click horror game that’d make Scriptwelder proud.

And who knows what else I’ve yet to discover! Again the variety is impressive, you’re not gonna find 8 cheap reskinned space shooters here. Every single game so far stands out on its own in some way, even sequels to other games in the pack tend to shake up the formula quite a bit. And it’s all tied together with a lovely retro aesthetic+sound palette spanning every game, so that for how different they are from one another it all still comes together for one grand, cohesive experience. When it comes to bang for buck you’re going to have a very very hard time topping this.

Simply put this is everything Action 52 claimed/tried to be, and then some. There’s genuinely a little bit of something for everyone here, with fast-paced arcade experiences as well as far slower, more thought-provoking stuff. It’s already sapped this many hours of my life and I’ve barely tried half of them! My highlights so far have been thus: an adorable puzzle game about a lizard hiding from predators, a brutal deck-builder about throwing the best party in town, a simplistic yet highly engaging war simulator where bird soldiers pray to their dinosaur ancestors for guidance, splatoon but pve and with vehicles running each other over, a bizarre puzzle platformer where you must strategically expend your lives to proceed, a goofy tower defense where you yourself can roam around building a caveman army to throw bones and rocks at frisky dinos(there’s a lot of Dino action here and I’m all for it), a frantic top-down gta-esque frenzy to deliver giant onions at arbitrary locations, an engaging gravity man-like puzzler with bangin’ atmosphere and an even more bangin’ soundtrack, open-world golf where you whack yourself around to explore vast terrain, and perhaps most impressively a full-fledged point-and-click horror game that’d make Scriptwelder proud. And who knows what else I’ve yet to discover! Again the variety is impressive, you’re not gonna find 8 cheap reskinned space shooters here. Every single game so far stands out on its own in some way, even sequels to other games in the pack tend to shake up the formula quite a bit. And it’s all tied together with a lovely retro aesthetic+sound palette spanning every game, so that for how different they are from one another it all still comes together for one grand, cohesive experience. When it comes to bang for buck you’re going to have a very very hard time topping this.