Things I Liked: Jan-March 2025

April 01 2025

Minishoot’ Adventure

Buy it on Steam here

Minishoot’ Adventure is the kind of game I wish I’d had the idea for. It combines Zelda dungeon design with twin-stick shooter gameplay to create an experience I absolutely fell in love with from the get go. I really loved the upgrades you got at the end of each dungeon. Each one felt analogous to a classic Zelda item, but also felt right at home as an addition to your ship’s toolkit. The only thing I was a little disappointed with was the end, there are 4 main areas of the game but only the first 3 have a dungeon, the fourth just puts you straight into a boss fight. That felt kind of jarring, and I was always excited for more content in the game. I’d love for this to get a DLC with some new areas to explore!

Border Hoarder

Download it from SimonDMC’s website here

My boyfriend and I played Border Hoarder, the custom Minecraft map by SimonDMC. I’ve definitely gotten tired of vanilla Minecraft at this point but Border Hoarder brought something completely fresh to the game. You start in a 1x1 area of the world, and the world border grows every time you collect a new item. I really loved how it changed my approach to the game - I’d never made a jungle fence gate in my life! I didn’t 100% it (though it was tempting) but I did beat the game and got to the end poem. I really enjoyed the whole thing!

Nosferatu (2024)

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Robert Eggers’ work, the attention to detail regarding the history and folklore in each of his films just absolutely astounds me, taking lines directly from historical diaries and following historic methods for creating the furniture to dress his sets. Nosferatu is no different (as you’ll see in the links section further down). Lily-Rose Depp absolutely kills it, and it was great to see two recurring actors in Eggers’ work, Willem Dafoe and Ralph Ineson, finally get to share the screen with each other. It’s fascinating that this film even exists: a remake of an unauthorised adaptation of Dracula, honestly at times it feels closer to the original Dracula than the 20s Nosferatu film. But I had an amazing time throughout.

Severance Season 2

I’m so jealous of Dan Erickson, the creator of Severance. The show began with a genius idea and, as it went on, just continued to explore the concept masterfully. That’s really the dream for any genre fiction writer I feel.

The show follows employees of a company who have designed technology that allows them to separate their working brain from their life brain. So while on shift, they don't remember anything about their life, and, out in the real world, their shifts go by in seconds.

I genuinely think some of the best streaming stuff has come out of Apple TV, and Severance is one of their strongest. Season 1 was amazing and season 2 has only built on it, can’t wait for season 3!

Jet Lag: the Game Season 12: Hide + Seek Across Japan

Check it out on YouTube here

Another banger from Jet Lag: the Game. This season sees the boys redesigning Hide and Seek (which they previously played in Switzerland) and taking it to Japan! I loved the concept of Hide + Seek but felt that maybe some of the mechanics were lacking. This new and improved version fixes all of those issues, and the game seems super fun! So fun in fact that they’re selling this new version as the very first Jet Lag home game! I’ve bought it, and will be playing next month, so I’m sure it’ll turn up in the next issue!