Cannonball
So, I love looking through your game recs, and all of them look so interesting!
The only problem is that I have zero money at the moment, or at least zero that can be spent of games.
I don’t suppose you know any good/enjoyable games that are free or have a demo?
(There is only so much time you can spend doing housework or looking for work and I’ve replayed and replayed the games I’ve already got so many times)
It’s funny you should ask. Folks often ask me how the hell I have thousands of games in my Steam library, and the answer is, well, a substantial chunk of them are free to play. Many of them are very, very bad, but there are exceptions – I’ve placed links to the 120 or so that I’d actually recommend to other people under the cut.
A lot of these games are quite short (i.e., average playing time in the five to fifteen minute range), but they're free, so really that's good value for your money! Note: owing to the length of this list, I will not be including descriptions or content warnings – be sure to check the writeups and reviews.
I’ve marked my personal top dozen with asterisks (*). These aren’t necessarily the most approachable or well-constructed titles on this list, mind – just the ones I had the most fun with.
A few more that I've picked up in the months since I made the initial post, plus a number I overlooked the first time around. Again, I make no promises that any of these games are good – only that a. they're genuinely free to play at the time of posting, with no pay-to-win or DLC bullshit, and b. I enjoyed playing them.
I've mostly been playing commercial titles these past few months, but I managed to squeak in about a dozen free-to-play ones as well. As always, see below!
A small batch to kick off the year. I've included several pay-what-you-want titles published via itch.io in this set, which technically isn't free-as-in-free, but eh... close enough! Some of these are also game jam entries coded in just a few days, so set your expectations accordingly.
A few more that I've enjoyed over the past couple of months for Easter weekend. It's a slow time of year for major releases, so this batch is mostly demos, game jam entries, and student projects, with a couple of significant exceptions. You'll know 'em when you see 'em!
An even dozen this time around. The topic of janky indie horror RPGMaker games recently came up in another post, and there happen to be a couple of those in this batch – I've marked them with asterisks*.
This month's batch has a fair number of browser games and SAGE 2023 demos in it, but also a few downloadable full games. Owing to the number of game jams and fan expos clustered around this time of year, it's a bigger list than usual – fair warning!
Probably the last one of these I'm going to put together before the new year. If you're looking for something to occupy your time over the holidays, hopefully something on this list has six weeks worth of play in it for you.
Happy belated New Year. My budget is still recovering from Christmas, so I've been playing a lot of bite-size free browser games these past couple of months, with some notable exceptions. Two of those exceptions are homebrew ROM images for classic consoles, one for the Super Nintendo and one for the Sega Genesis, so you'll need to supply your own emulator; I've marked which ones they are so you're not left wondering how to play a .BIN file.
I've been playing a bunch of homebrew titles for the Game Boy lately – yes, the original Game Boy – so that's a fair chunk of what you're getting this time. Most are playable in-browser as well; as in the previous batch, I'll specifically mark any for which you'll need to download a ROM image and provide your own Game Boy emulator.
Lowpoly V-Tuber/VRChat Avatar Commission 🤖🐰
Americans, please please please vote. Don’t subject the rest of the world to Trump for another 4 years
if my patterned apparel is a little too busy for some of you guys, maybe a cool screenprinted tee would be a better fit? >:3c
100% cotton bella canvas shirts, available in sizes small-4xl! SHOP
What are all the product types you're going to have in your shop? I know about the bar soap and lotion and oil diffusers, are there any other scented products you plan on selling? Hope ur doing well btw!
Thanks, doing okay! Happy to be back in the shop, i think the break was well needed.
What other products are you interested in? The only thing I will not consider at this time is the candles. But everything else is p much on the table. Just let me know what you'd like to see.
Our life is on the ballot #voteblue http://dlvr.it/T4Tw22
What are all the product types you're going to have in your shop? I know about the bar soap and lotion and oil diffusers, are there any other scented products you plan on selling? Hope ur doing well btw!
Thanks, doing okay! Happy to be back in the shop, i think the break was well needed.
What other products are you interested in? The only thing I will not consider at this time is the candles. But everything else is p much on the table. Just let me know what you'd like to see.
do me a favor and reblog for a larger sample size. I am truly very curious.
Soaps and lotions are up in the shop now.
Still have to take product photos and make new listings of the diceless soaps, and the new oil diffusers.
why are product photos so hard??
this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it
buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell
leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist
put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.
when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!
plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.
if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge
if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.
its not stupid if it works! our brains literally have a chemical deficiency. you are allowed to accommodate yourself. go forth and stop making your life more difficult than it has to be because "this shouldn't be this hard". it is hard, so make it easier.
Cover reveal for the UK version of my new book!!
More info & pre-order links here
(The different publishers developed their own covers separately, but the UK version is the exact same inside, just British spellings!)
Graphic novels are not a huge market here, so for me it's a big deal to have a version coming out on home turf. Very excited to see it in print and show it to everyone.
hey, I apologize if you know this already but most dental insurance has a yearly maximum where once the insurance has paid that full amount, they won't pay anything else until your plan resets, regardless of whatever co-insurance percentage you have. Just wanted to warn you that you could end up owing even more depending on the insurance, I've had it catch many a patient off guard and I certainly don't want that to happen to your family too. Please disregard if you knew this already, and sorry to bother if so 🙏 sincerely, a dental receptionist.
I appreciate it! I definitely am assuming they're going to fuck us over and we're going to end up paying more out of pocket.
I have the full estimate which is $6700, and I am assuming we will probably end up paying $5000 altogether.
So while we don't have it ALL paid and taken care of, we do have a significant chunk that will allow them to start the dental work he needs done!
LMAO the dental office just called and said that after our insurance our out of pocket for the root canal is $800 :)))
We, uh, we canceled for now.
Anyway buy my soaps so I can get my husband his root canal and also the bridge. The total we will need upfront is $2500, and a grand total of $4300 :)))))))))))
Oh. No they didn’t deny it. That’s after they pay their portion. Which is about $500-600. So they’re still paying a good chunk, it’s just… we have to pay the rest. Trust me, if they denied it I would be calling them LOL. 😂 our insurance pays a good portion of services but sadly he has to have a LOT of dental work done and this is just where we’re at. ✌️🥺
[image ID: tumblr user @/angered-turtle says: Call the insurance and fight that denial! Make those pussies reverse the decision! /end ID]
Okay update — thanks to some incredibly generous souls, the root canal and first payment for the bridge are taken care of, the second payment for the bridge is going to be underway via a Twitch donathon on Monday (I’ll update with info when I’ve got it)
But the shop is still open! Now I’ll be back on my regular shop schedule, no crisis needed :)
LMAO the dental office just called and said that after our insurance our out of pocket for the root canal is $800 :)))
We, uh, we canceled for now.
Anyway buy my soaps so I can get my husband his root canal and also the bridge. The total we will need upfront is $2500, and a grand total of $4300 :)))))))))))
Oh. No they didn’t deny it. That’s after they pay their portion. Which is about $500-600. So they’re still paying a good chunk, it’s just… we have to pay the rest. Trust me, if they denied it I would be calling them LOL. 😂 our insurance pays a good portion of services but sadly he has to have a LOT of dental work done and this is just where we’re at. ✌️🥺
[image ID: tumblr user @/angered-turtle says: Call the insurance and fight that denial! Make those pussies reverse the decision! /end ID]