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Game #30 Complete! Recommendation Dog!!

Throw This Quote On The Back Of The Box: "Ruff"

Final Thoughts:
The game so forgettable I forgot to rank it! I went back to read something and I realized I never actually did a final write up and ranking for this. Do you know how hard it was to force myself to go back and play this another couple of times? I felt like August Suprak was punishing me for something.

Speaking of that jerk August Suprak, he had no idea what he was talking about. This isn't a 5. This isn't in the same neighborhood as a 5. This has to take two separate busses to get to 5's neighborhood. It is one of the most boring games on the Playdate. It is endless rolodex scrolling. It is all the fun of trying to cross reference excel spreadsheets as fast as you can. This isn't a game - this is what the fifth layer of hell is for a librarian who did bad things in the 1950s. I must've been blinded by the crank, and honestly using the crank to mimic an authentic rolodex experience is still kinda fun for a couple of minutes, which proves the crank can quite literally make anything fun.

I said Executive Golf DX was a game I liked the more I played it. This was the opposite. This peaked in the first five minutes for being a quirky little silly Papers, Please-lite game, and then it spent the next couple of hours loudly snoring on my sofa. I was replaying this in the endless mode just to get a quick sense for it again, and it took me all day. I kept taking breaks between the batches of requests because I just didn't want to keep playing. I'm taking a break, right now. I'm mid-run as we speak and don't want to stop writing because once I do I'm going to feel obligated to finish the run.

Beyond being boring, it is kind of weirdly designed. I have no idea how points work, and I get the sense the game doesn't care. There's a leaderboard, but it is local only which as I've mentioned is unforgivable even on the Playdate. But even the local leaderboard is messed up. You can't see it except after each run, so if you just want to check you basically have to play the game another time and that's one thing I absolutely didn't want to do.

And then the points seem given you at random. "I need an expensive gardener" and you find a gardener with a 10 in expense and BOOM extra bonus money. But a lot of the time that might be the only option you have so it is less rewarding my skill and more the fact it was all the game gave me. Sometimes it will ask for that expensive gardener and then the only gardener you can pick will have a cost of 7 and the game will give you a handful of points and shake its head in disappointment. This isn't my fault! It was the only thing I could even do, game.

So you have rolodex based point chasing game, where the points are made up and the leaderboards don't matter. How much do you want to scroll through a rolodex right now? If the answer is less than ten, you're not going to like this.

Should You Play It? No. It is 15 minutes and free, but still no. Maybe if it ever goes on sale for "they give you a dollar"

Final Score: 3. Ah, the classic Playdate 3. How I've missed you!

Games Completed: 30/142

Game Rankings:
30) HANA Spacetime Fantasy
29) Boogie Loops
28) Hidey Spot
27) Bub-O Collect
26) The Lushes Land
25) Nightingale
24) A Joke That's Worth 0.99 Cents
23) Recommendation Dog!!
22) Whitewater Wipeout
21) The Botanist
20) Snak
19) DYG
18) Lost Your Marbles
17) Grand Tour Legends
16) Demon Quest '85
15) The Fall of Elena Temple
14) Flipper Lifter
13) Questy Chess
12) Slitherlink PD
11) The Keyper
10) SKEW
9) Echoic Memory
8) Executive Golf DX
7) Omaze
6) Sasquatchers
5) Castle Tintagel
4) Casual Birder
3) Zipper
2) Pick Pack Pup
1) Crankin's Time Travel Adventure