Spooky Games, Demos, & Dragon Age

What's new on Savvy Gaming Network for the Month of October 2024

Its been a busy month. I started out this month trying to finish a bunch of horror games, new and old, that I’ve been meaning to play. Its Halloween season and I wanted to use that to help me get through my never-ending backlog of horror titles.

Crow Country

I finally got around to playing Crow County! I love Resident Evil sure but I love any game that takes place in a theme park more. I loved this game so much I played it thrice. I’m glad I came a little late to the party with this one because it allowed me to play all three versions. I started out with the easiest mode where nothing can hurt you then feeling like I was missing out I decided to crack it up to a billion and play hardcore which I was not ready for. Finally I streamed my final playthrough on the normal Survival Horror mode trying out the zap girl outfit. Is it cheating because I have infinite laser gun ammo? Does it really matter? You can check out the full review I wrote on SGN .

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Grunn

When I saw this game on steam I knew I wanted to play it, and so I did. Instead of putting it on my backlog I spent a weekend just Grunning it up when the game launched. I knew this game was going to be eerie but I didn’t think it would be so addicting. The gameplay loop of gardening, uncovering secrets, dying using those secrets on the next run was so much fun. Usually I don’t like time loop games because of the time it takes after you die to getting back to where you need to be is far too long for my inpatient ass. Grunn really hit that sweet spot. From all the comments I saw about the game they said its like Outer Wilds, maybe it take to give that one another shot. You can check out my full thoughts on Grun on SGN (spoilers its positive).

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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare

It wasn’t all good this month. I finally finished Alan Wake’s Big Hot Wet American Summer. I’ve been playing this game on and off since my big Alan Wake phase earlier this year. I even streamed it a little. I can’t blame no one for showing up to those streams because this game is a real stinker. American Nightmare is only fun if all you care about is the combat of Alan Wake, because the story is ( and forgive my weeb speak) an isekai harem. Alan gets thrown into an unknown world (the dark place) and is surrounded by hot babes that are very into him. Oh yeah this is another time loop story, and a perfect example of what I don’t like in regards to time loop stories. The game teased that this could have been a dream of Alan’s friend Barry which may explain why its so horney. Its a real change of pace from the other two Alan Wake titles and my full thoughts and ramblings are on SGN if you wanna see the score I gave it.

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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a beautiful bummer. You play as a couple banishing ghosts who are haunting the living in New Eden town so I don’t know what I expected. If someone is a ghost they have unfinished business with the living, they may be angry at them, trying to manipulate them or just not willing to leave the one they love. I tried to playthrough all the side hauntings because at the start of the game I thought they were interesting. I stopped halfway through. This game is all about choice, as a banisher you can let the ghost pass nicely or just rip it out of existence aggressively. Alternatively you can just kill the living person the ghost is haunting because there a douche bag and you want to bring your partner back to life. Either way every villager of new Eden Town sucks in there own way and halfway through the game I didn’t want to help them anymore. Looks great though. You know where my full thoughts are

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Steam Next Fest snuck up on me this month, I always forget then all of a sudden I got a bunch of demos to play and only a week to do them! This year I finally made a video about all the demos I have played.

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Everyone playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard? I have been hyped for it all month so for our Book Club and A/V club podcast I had to pick Dragon Age!

For the book club I chose the comic The Missing that was suppose the bridge the gap between inquisition and Veilguard but all I learned from it was that I’m actually suppose to read Dragon Age Tevinter Nights instead. Oh well I’ll just have to pick that for another month.

For the A/V club I wanted to watch the Felicia Day Dragon Age web-series that tied into Dragon Age 2’s DLC The Mark of the Assassin. For a low budget web series it was pretty impressive and I really enjoyed it.