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Finally, just one more quick list. There were a few games I played that are too stupid to actually put on the list but I feel like belonged somewhere, so here is the list for that.

7 Games that are too weird and stupid to actually include in my list but I felt like mentioning them for some reason anyway:

West Hunt

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One of my favorite games of the last decade, and of all time, is a 1v1 deduction game called SpyParty, in which one player tries to hide among a party of AI-controlled guests while secretly completing missions under the watchful eye of a sniper trying to kill them. I try to evangelize this game when I can (despite its issues - it hasn't seen updates in a long while and I have unresolved problems with the community), but it hasn't got a lot of traction due to it still being in early access and being a sort of niche game to begin with. But the idea is popular, and it was popular enough to spawn knockoffs! And the most hilarious knockoff is West Hunt.

This game became a little bit of a meme in the SpyParty community for a bit because it's pretty much a direct ripoff but also sort of ridiculous. One player plays as a random person in a small, western-themed town, and has to commit various nefarious deeds while avoiding the eye of the sheriff, the other player who's wandering around and looking for this outlaw. These evil acts include poisoning the water supply, setting up a bomb at the train station, stealing from the local stores, uh... grieving the loss of a loved one, and um... dancing? Yeah, I don't know either, but doing a fun dance and crying over someone's grave are two of the possible missions. Very suspicious. Very nefarious, indeed.

The game's not very good - it's very much wish.com SpyParty in every way. But it's kinda silly and fun for what it is and I had some fun playing it when there were some limited playtests of the game this past year. It doesn't nearly have the same strategic acumen that SpyParty has, mostly the sheriff just has to kind of walk around and try to see which people have been to the most places and shoot someone. It's not terribly interesting, but it gave me some laughs. I think the game saw a full release in 2022, but I don't think I'll be going back to this one.

God Damn The Garden

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At some point in 2022, I really started to make it my mission to play AS MANY games from 2020-2021 as I possibly could, and I really scoured the deepest, stupidest corners of the internet looking for interesting stuff to play. The fact that I actually purchased God Damn the Garden and played it represents my jumping-the-shark moment, the point at which I had officially lost the plot and realized I needed to stop buying and playing stupid games. I had a problem, I admitted to myself that I had a problem, and I stopped. I finalized my list soon after and began posting it.

God Damn the Garden is basically a total shitpost of a FPS. It's about an hour long, it has some of the worst lolrandom humor I've ever seen, and I have absolutely no idea why I played it. The fuck up thing is, I kind of enjoyed it anyway. It's weird as hell. I decided to buy it just because the environment and the music was so damn weird. It's a stupid game, but the dark, jungly environment in this game is actually kinda creepy and cool, and the music is some kind of bizarre outsider art. So I... sort of liked it? Why the fuck am I even talking about this game? Christ. I just really needed to show you guys how far off the deep end I went here.

Landlord of the Woods

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Another game that I found on steam for a dollar. It cost a dollar! I mean, for god's sake, there are so many games that I won't play for free, but paying a dollar for a game, that's value! Unlike God Damn the Garden, which is stupid, this game is actually cool, even if it's only about half an hour long. It's kind of a point-and-click adventure-slash-physics puzzle game-thing, and it has a super rad artstyle that I would really love to see in a bigger, more ambitious project - I hope this dev continues to make stuff because I think they really have potential. The game's cute, it has a quirky sense of humor and an entertaining ending, and it doesn't overstay its welcome. I couldn't really put it in my top 50 because it's such a tiny little bite of a game - barely anything at all - but I got my dollar's worth just for the cool art alone.

Pikmin Bloom

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Hey, remember that really boring looking mobile app that Shigeru Miyamoto was talking about in the Nintendo Direct before the much more important announcement of Pikmin 4? I play that! And as it turns out, Pikmin Bloom has been around since 2021, so it qualifies for this list. Barely. Because it's kinda barely a game. They took Pokemon Go and went, well, what if this had less gameplay? And that's how you get Pikmin Bloom.

That said, I actually sort of prefer that in a way. It's basically just a way to gamify a pedometer and give some incentive to taking walks outside, and I'm actually way into that. Pokemon Go was sort of fun for the same reason, but while it was fun to walk around and try to find Pokemon outside, it kind of ended up feeling like too much of a distraction, and I ended up not caring at all about the actual monster raising and battling aspects of the game and such - I really wanted JUST the part where it's kinda fun to walk around and find stuff. Pikmin Bloom boils it down to those elements - you make Pikmin, you walk around with them and plant flowers, you walk more steps to grow more Pikmin, you send Pikmin to collect items you find around the world. That's kind of it, but for what it is, it's a cute little app - it functions nicely as a pedometer to keep track of how much you've walked and where. This is something I can use, because I like to do a lot of walking - I actually just completed my goal of walking a mile every single day for an entire year, which I'm really proud of (before getting covid and breaking the streak).

My family is really big into the game right now too and it's cool to get them walking outside more to raise their Pikmin. We actually did a community day at the zoo recently, they had reps there who were handing out Pikmin hats, there were a surprising number of people there at the zoo playing the game, it was pretty fun. Not exactly the killer Pikmin app that anyone's hoping for, but Pikmin 4 is coming out now, which makes Miyamoto's Pikmin Bloom presentation seem a lot less embarrassing.

I can't really use it much, because my phone is kinda old and this game takes a while to load and DESTROYS my battery, unfortunately. And as someone who occasionally suffers from some kind of chronic depression, I don't desperately need the game asking me if I had a good day or not when recapping the events - thanks, Pikmin Bloom, it probably wasn't, thanks for asking. And also, please, *please* do not import photos into the game without my permission, I am begging you. But aside from all that, it's fun! I'd probably use it more often if my phone could handle it.