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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the best defense is a good offense

stat menu from Star Ocean 3
ATK 3187
DEF 405
AGL 378
HIT 412
INT 126

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Limbus does it again... if you're not tapped into Project Moon then you're genuinely just missing out

the ending illustration of Canto X for Limbus Company, featuring the sinners standing around the bus, conversing and gazing out the windows

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Typesetter for Centuria doing some nice work

A two page spread from the manga Centuria, featuring a character rapidly moving through the air

The same two-page spread, but now a black centaur-like entity is shattering the panels and speech boxes

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Kyoto Xanadu cleared. While I liked the characters all the way, the actual plot kind of ended with a whimper... probably enjoyed chapter 4 the most even though it was mostly predictable. The gameplay is mostly fun, but even on Asura it's not particularly hard. The consequences of having a parry.

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The delivery on the last line here is so good

A conversation in Japanese in Kyoto Xanadu

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Me and the boys were doing game grids for fun, here's the two I came up with. Game names in the alt text

Favorite Game: Distorted Travesty 4
Best Story: 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim
Favorite Art Style: The Untitled Tower
Biggest Personal Impact: Golden Sun: The Lost Age

Best Combat: Savage: Ultimate Boss Fight
Overhated: Tokyo Xanadu ex+
Underrated: The Torrential Turnabout
Overrated: Kentucky Route Zero

Needs a Remake: Shadow Hearts
Criminally Overlooked: Reinphazer
Favorite Protagonist: Crosscode
Favorite Antagonist: Astlibra

Best Soundtrack: Fantasy Maiden Wars Dream of a Stray Dreamer
Best Multiplayer: Rabbit & Steel
Not Usually my Thing: Alan Wake II
Turn my Brain Off: The Sekimeiya

Best with Friends: Remnant II
Best Retro Game: Histoire
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Sonny 2
Game Everyone Should Play: Distorted Travesty 3

Cold Glass of Water Gaming: Bloons TD6
White Knuckle Gaming: Peaks of Yore
It Ain't Easy Bein' Cheesy: Lufia 5: For the Savior
The Enemies are Really Cool: The World Ends with You
It Really Had to Grow on Me: Trails in the Sky FC

I Love Fucked up Controls: Savage: Ultimate Boss Fight
Someone Please Iterate on This: Fanastasis
Put it in the Louvre: King's Field
The Side Content is the Real Game: Phoenotopia Awakening
I Didn't Expect This to be Good But it Was: Gigasword

Sealed in the Box of Memories: Tales of Symphonia
Don't Tell the General Public: Black Souls
Feels Shitty to Play but Rocks: Mortal Manor
Echolalia: Aeterna Noctis
Beautiful Structure: Outer Wilds

Satan's Dark Delight: Lingo 2
Perfected by Users: Golf with Your Friends
It Insists Upon Itself: Kentucky Route Zero
One Day I'll Lock In (truth): Tobira no Densetsu
One Day I'll Lock In (lie): Wooden Ocean

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Sometimes the game wants you to win. No-hit is easy when you skip half the mechanics

Clear screen for Rabbit and Steel, obtaining the Moonlit Floofball (no-hit on Lunar difficulty)

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

18. Slay the Spire 2 (early access) (2026) Playtime (Ironclad A10): 24h 1m It's more Slay the Spire. It's definitely a lot less balanced than 1 right now, but all the changes are pretty cool. Excited to see how it goes while in EA. Cleared A10 on Ironclad so I'll probably take a break for a while.

The Ironclad
Playtime: 14h 20m 46s
Fastest Win: 26m 43s
Ascensions cleared: 10
14 wins, 29 losses
Current Streak: 1
Best Streak: 3

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Lunar EX no-hit finally cleared after like 26 hours. The Spellbound Floof is mine...

Victory over the final boss of Rabbit and Steel EX mode on Lunar difficulty without taking any damage

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Finally eked out a solo Lunar clear of the Rabbit and Steel DLC, after choking to the final boss like 5 times. Maybe I've just gotten better, but it definitely felt a lot more manageable than the base game. Overall, excellent stuff.

Victory screen for Rabbit and Steel Extra Mode on Lunar difficulty, using the Pyromancer rabbit

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

13. Rabbit & Steel: Extra Mode (2026) Clear time (story clear / solo+Hard): 14h 18m Great update for a great game. The new bosses/classes/music are all good. The ending cutscene was cute too. Crazy that it's just a free update. Still have to do Lunar/multiplayer at some point...

MC rabbit standing with Tassha, Saya, Blush, and the crow/wolf from the main game whose names I don't remember

Tassha, the Snowfur Wolf: "Farewell! Farewell rabbit! Until you meet Tassha again!"

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

9. Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002) Clear time (Normal 1CC): 6h 38m >20+ failed runs as Reimu >switch to Marisa and instantly win After playing a bunch of fangames and reading some of the various manga, I'm finally no longer a secondary. backloggd.com/u/ChillGuy/r...

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil results screen
Final Score: 75331330
Difficulty: Normal
Continues: 0
Misses: 10
Bombs used: 18
Spell Card Bonuses: 11

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

6. Limbus Company: Canto 9 (2026) Clear time: 9h 25m Incredible stuff. Kind of a weaker ending, but makes up for it with the rest being nonstop kino. Unfortunately the Mili song doesn't really work for me this time, but the other boss themes make up for it in spades.

Ryoshu, to the Index Nursefather: "Fuck off with your bullshit."

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Completed Games Thread 2026 Wonder how long this one will be. I kind of want to tackle some of the longer games I've been putting off this year. Let's see if I actually stick to that...

A dragon girl thinking "This bitch crazy."

Source: https://myanimelist.net/manga/161867/Succubus_nanka_ni_Makenai_Isekai_Seikatsu

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Steam Replay always cursed by forever games :pensive:

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Rolled credits in Angeline Era, but I already know I'm far from done. Probably my favorite Analgesic game, though I think I still prefer the story in Anodyne 2 over it

File 1) 37 scales, 17:34:11
Melos's Trick difficulty
Level 14, 228 Deaths

Achievements obtained for beating the game on Melos's Trick

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Some of the hardest picks of all time (other than Silksong) Narrative and soundtrack in particular were really difficult to pin down, but I gotta shout out Untitled Tower for narrative since nobody else will, and Mili for OST since they're the best

Backloggd Best of 2025
GOTY: Silksong
Gameplay: Lies of P Overture
Narrative: The Untitled Tower
Art Direction: Artis Impact
Sountrack: Ender Magnolia
Multiplayer: Nightreign

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The Mountain of Faith was mighty, but luckily this game doesn't have turn limits

A victory screen for Chapter 23 of Fantasy Maiden Wars
Difficulty: Lunatic
Turn Count: 53
Clear time: 1:39:53
All kills/objectives
Saves: 79
Losses: 4

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

67. Draglade [Nintendo DS, 2007, brawler] Clear time (Guy's story): 3h 45m I played this solely to see the Shroud Lord (from Distorted Travesty) in his original context. backloggd.com/u/ChillGuy/r...

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

63. Hades II [PC, 2025, action roguelike] Clear time (credits): 23h 52m tl;dr it's fun, and better than Hades 1 in a lot of ways, but ultimately not THAT much different in terms of raw gameplay backloggd.com/u/ChillGuy/r...

The archway to the house of Hades
Narration: Few tales are told of Hades, whose reign as grim lord of the dead came to a sudden end when, all at once, his past caught up with him.

Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt, meeting with Melinoe
Artemis: It's been too long, Sister. Look at you, on your great hunt! Not ideal circumstances but you've finally begun. Know that the family has your back, surprised as they are about this.

Melinoe, Princess of the Underworld, meeting with Narcissus
Melinoe: You have the wrong idea. I'm not seeking a mate. I don't even know who you are.

The credits to Hades II. Melinoe, Hecate, Artemis, and Apollo ride on the back of a chariot through the skies, driven by Selene.

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

61. Type-Noise: Shonen Shojo [PC, 2025, visual novel] Clear time: 19h 49m Posting my thoughts to Backloggd now since it has a longer character limit and is probably more permanent than social media, so follow me there if you care backloggd.com/u/ChillGuy/r...

Title screen, showing the various characters. One of them, Zena, holds up a golden key

Starting an escape room section; the words Exploration Started are large and in the center of the screen. The room is a distorted classroom, with puppets dangling from the ceiling

One of the characters, Hiyori Endo, striking a pose; she has blonde twintails and blue highlights in her hair

The pause screen; the left shows the character Zena looking at her phone

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Finished the Alabaster Dawn demo. As expected, it was good. Combat has a really great flow to it, the graphics are a huge step up from Crosscode (which I already thought was a beautiful game), music is nice, and I'm excited to see the future dungeons/overworld traversal. Time to wait for 2+ years...

Alabaster Dawn title screen, showing the protagonist, Juno, sitting by a tree

Juno and her godly Capybara about to face off against the weakest enemy of all time

Juno getting ready to face off against a sword and shield wielding rock knight guy that came out of a meteor

The map screen, showing a fragment of what will probably be a very large map

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If I were to nitpick, the only real "issue" is that the game probably didn't need so many fetch quests; looking for people is fine, hunting down 25 random items drops is less fine. There were also some visibility issues on some bosses but it's not really that big a deal.

Hornet riding in the Flea Caravan with a bunch of fleas

A shot of the Citadel from outside, a massive, sprawling structure

An epic silhouette of Hornet defeating a boss

Hornet speaking to Lace inside the Citadel
Hornet: "Then best you keep watching, child. I've found those who claim themselves a god can rarely match the title."

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

60. Hollow Knight: Silksong [PC, 2025, metroidvania] Clear time (true end): 35h 49 Excellent game, superior to Hollow Knight in every way. Hornet feels great to control, the world is vast and expansive, and many of the bosses and enemy arenas actually put up a decent fight! Solid art and music too.

Silksong title screen, showing Hornet's needle embedded in the ground

Hornet sitting at a bench in the starting area, surrounded by rock and moss

The Bell Beast letting out its cry of defeat

Hornet entering Greymoor, and rainy city-ish area

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Silksong true ending cleared!!!! Shoutout to my co-op partner Wahfuu and all my other friends who helped out a bit along the way

Game Completion
Percentage: 79%
Time: 33h 41m 11s

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

59. Dungeon Warfare III [PC, 2025, tower defense] Clear time (all main maps Flawlessed): 11h 12m Pretty decent tower defense game. The difficulty balance is a bit weird, but they're updating stuff every day so it makes sense. Nice game to chill with.

Title screen, showing a map in action on the side

Trap upgrade screen, showing off all 23 traps you have available; the highlighted trap is the Grinder, which is a bunch of saws you place on the ground

The world map that you build, showing off all the completed levels

A map in action; the enemies move from the starting point and dash towards the Cornerstone; they're being blasted by a laser and dart trap while running over grinders

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

58.5. Hollow Knight Clear time (two bosses): 51m Back when I first played Hollow Knight I was a lot worse at games, so I never actually beat the Radiance or Nightmare King Grimm. Luckily, going back to beat them didn't really take any time at all. Nice fights though

The Radiance in Hollow Knight being defeated

Nightmare King Grimm in Hollow Knight being defeated

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

a bit annoying, so I sort of just stopped instead of running around the entire map again. I've seen plenty of people talk up the difficulty, but I didn't really have any issues; the generous checkpointing makes things a lot easier. Also shoutout to instant retry on bosses instead of runbacks!!!!

Mission Complete
Time : 10:42:53 53
Items : 90%
Map : 98.98%
Equipment: All of it
E-tanks: 20 Missiles: 103 Power Bombs: 10
Deaths : 196
Sessions : 4
Damage Taken : 67305
Missiles Used : 2280
Bombs Used : 134

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

58. Zexion [PC, 2025, metroidvania] Clear time (active time): 8h 44m Cool game! Pretty enjoyable exploration and bosses. The controls can feel a bit finnicky at times once you get all the upgrades, but I ended up getting used to it by the end. Only real negative is that endgame item cleanup is

Title screen; Zexion is written in blue, above a shot of the planet the game takes place on

The main character standing on the planet's surface next to their landing pod

The map screen, showing different colored areas connecting

The main character riding a platform through a corridor of spikes

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

57. Haiku the Robot [PC, 2022, metroidvania] Clear time (true end, 95%): 4h 45m Perfectly competent metroidvania. There's nothing really bad about it, but it does nothing to stand out. Maybe a good choice if it's the first one you ever play.

Title screen, showing the title Haiku the Robot atop an orange screen with a spinning gear in the background

Haiku standing atop a small platform suspended over a lake; there's green shrubbery all around, and a small jet of water coming out of a pipe on the right side of the screen

The map screen, showing various interconnected areas

Haiku wandering through a dark area, with the way lit up by dangling lamps

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

it starts out fairly tactical, but it's pretty easy to get a build that just steamrolls everything (except Ending C, that was slightly hard). I'm ultimately fine with that though. The presentation could be better. I like the style of the CG/character art, but the tiling/enemy art is a bit weaker.

A CG of Red Hood and her wolf, Poro
Red Hood: "......I'm sorry for being so selfish. But, if possible, I don't want to involve you."

The MC facing off against a giant knight, with archers perched along the wall (Demon's Souls reference)

Entering battle against One Who Observes, a giant tree-like thing covered in eyes

The MC walking down a path floating over a darkened forest/mountain range; there are rivers of blood running down the sides of the screen

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

56. BLACK SOULS [PC, 2017, turn-based RPG] Clear time (all endings): 13h 24m Pretty solid overall. I liked how they reinterpreted the various fairy tales, and the plot beats toward the end of the latter endings are pretty Neat; makes me look forward to playing BS2 at some point. The combat is okay;

Alice talks to You (a blue soul flame) inside a large library
Alice: "Yes, I'm talking to you. Congratulations. You were chosen to be the protagonist of this story."

You speak to Jeanne inside the walls of a fortress
Holy Knight Jeanne: "The world is in turmoil. Affected by the fog spreading from the castle of the Lost Empire, humans turn into demonbeasts."

Facing off against Hansel (giant blue demon thing with an axe) and Gretel (giant red demon thing with a curved machete thing)
Hansel: Hahahaha! Today is our day! No, not just today, tomorrow, day after tomorrow, forever we're blessed with a bountiful fate!"

Facing off against Beauty and the Beast. The party is composed of the MC, Jeanne, Catherine, and Dorothy

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

54. Castlevania [NES, 1986, platformer] Clear time: 2h 40m Played with the Anniversary Collection, so no save states. What do you say about Castlevania in the year 2025... honestly it just kind of sucks, which is about what I expected.

The legendary title screen to Castlevania

The ending screen of Castlevania, showing Dracula's castle collapsing; there's an Epic Games achievement pop-up at the top for clearing the game

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

really like... a central plot. When the game said "final mission ahead" my reaction was just ???. The MC is a cute dork and there's some funny scenes, but that's about it. The English script is also pretty rough, with a lot of typos/grammar mistakes. Pretty disappointing overall.

Akane and an old man give each other thumbs-ups

Akane does a cute salute while talking on the phone
Akane: "Sir, yes sir!"

Akane staring down a large, lightning-blue monster

Akane showing off her incredibly strong bicep
Jordan: "Ha. Yeah, yeah, go get 'em, Tiger."

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

53. Artis Impact [PC, 2025, turn-based RPG] Clear time: 6h 3m Absolutely incredible visual presentation, but... that's sadly the only thing that really worked for me. The combat balance is incredibly broken (I beat every fight using the same move, which you start the game with), and there isn't

Title screen, with the MC Akane faintly in the background on the right

Combat screen, facing off against a small robot

Akane and her two companions face off against a horde of robots

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

52. Epic Battle Fantasy 4 [PC, 2013, turn-based RPG] Clear time (Epic difficulty until the final boss): 16h 2m It's definitely the prototype to EBF5, but it's still fairly solid in its own right. The gameplay is mostly the same (from what I remember), with the main difference being that you have MP

Title screen, with Epic Battle Fantasy 4 emblazoned across a large sword. The main cast is in the background

Battle screen, showing Anna and Matt facing off against two giant wasps
Anna: "Wasps are always followed by more wasps, so take them out quickly, before the rest show up!"

The party walking through a dark cave, displayed in a paper-cutout-like style
Natalie: "It's so dark I can't see anything! I want to hold the candle! Please?"

The starting area, Greenwood Village. Some NPCs are gathered around a large stump

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

51. Ultros [PC, 2024, metroidvania] Clear time (Bad Ending): 8h 58m The combat is a bit jank at times, but the puzzle solving is pretty solid overall. The loop system is kind of repetitive at the start, but it quickly becomes fairly inconsequential. The visuals can be a bit much, but at least

Title screen, showing a ship floating through space

The MC standing near their broken hibernation pod; a variety of alien fauna is all around

The area called the Gardner's Garden; the Gardner, a hooded alien, is working on a giant orange-leafed tree with a lot of fruit growing from it

The screen that shows up when you loop, showing a large black sphere with three purplish "eyes"

"The cycle begins anew.
Let our quiet mycelium lament the unrest
and return to what once was."

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

There's still a lot of issues with the English script, but I actually tracked and reported them this time so hopefully they get fixed. Best girl Lura's episode was actually pretty well edited already though, sasuga...

Lura Graves standing around with her eyes closed; she has white hair and is wearing a black, hooded outfit
Lura: (Making friends... This is not my strong suit.)

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

50. Noctuary DLC Episodes [PC, 2025, VN/action] Clear time: 4h 59m Nothing too huge here, but they're cute. Nice to see the characters again, nice to see Krosa again (and her combat animations are fun). Funny that the game gets a JP dub but the DLC is unvoiced so I still don't get to hear it, lol

A red haired girl, Krosa, stands in a field with two other characters (Yuya and Nacrotia)
Krosa: "Haha, I might not look like it, but I've taken down plenty of gangsters before."

A large, purple creature grabs hold of a white-haired girl wearing a dark, hooded outfit (Lura)

Krosa making a funny face
Krosa: "Actually, I've been holding back from commenting on the 'deity' title. I didn't want to be disrespectful..."

A white haired girl in a dress (Puria) talks with a blonde haired girl in a light blue outfit (Alina)
Puria: "You were always... a little dumb."

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

49. Aggelos [PC, 2018, metroidvania] Clear time (hard mode): 10h 51m The first is kind of mid but inoffensive. The second half, especially the bosses, is atrocious. Every boss is just a giant awkward hitbox that kills you in 3 hits, or danmaku spam when you really don't have many options to dodge.

title screen showing a large mountain and a starry sky

MC standing underwater. there's a green fish enemy nearby

a large dragon and a small dragon. the large dragon is probably a reference to the megaman dragon boss

MC running through town, past a bunny and a dude having a conversation

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Chill Guy @chillguy17.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

48. Wheel World [PC, 2025, biking] Clear time (all races): 4h 44m Ehhhh... the AI is so easy to beat, all you have to do is take a shortcut or cut some corners and you're basically guaranteed a win. This makes every race feel repetitive. It's kind of chill to just ride around, I guess.

title screen, a fall-colored forest area

the race preparation screen, showing the course layout and your goals; this particular one is in a forest area

racing down a hill towards the next checkpoint; there's a lake to the right, and also all the other racers are really far behind

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