Spooky's Playground

  Hi all! I know it has been a while since I last posted. I have had a lot of life events happen and have had to work through with some things. Now that I feel I am in a better place, I want to get into posting more regularly again.  To start off again, I wanted to just do a quick little review of New York Rat Simulator. When I got this game, I was not expecting what I got... at all. In this "game" you run around a block or two of New York City, as a giant rat. I love rats, so I figured I'd try it.  There is no point to this game, other than to collect pizza to grow your rat. Since it's so basic, I wanted to see if I could interact with other things in the surrounding area. Oh boy could I! I was streaming this game to my friends on Discord. I was showing them that I could run into cars and all. I showed them how I could jump at the people walking around and knock them over. That's when we figured out, I could charge at them.  My friends went silent. I went silent....

  Okay, this game was not what I expected it to be. I honestly had no idea what I was supposed to do, so I just ran around the map like an idiot until something happened. And something did happen. I was running around, just enjoying the island sun, doing the macarena with other island natives, chasing seagulls, and exploring. I suddenly found myself in a predicament. I was in a volcano... Well, the volcano began to erupt, and my silly self simply sat for the ride, until I got to the top at least. Then I just ran. I ran and ran until I reached the boats. My fellow tribe members ran and screamed and ran and screamed some more. Some couldn't escape the lava flames, while others made it to the boats and we took off. Some of our tribe tried to swim to our boats, but.... it was horrible... the sharks finished them off!  The PTSD for my islander family is painful... and if you too want to suffer from the same PTSD, you too can play Pineapple On Pizza for the low, low price of FREE!

       O.M.G! This game has quickly become one of my favorite one shot games. You play as the mayor of Stinkytown, an absolutely adorable possum, simply called Mayor. In this game, Mayor has a really big problem. His whole world has gone grey! It has grown gross and smelly after our poor Mayor had a downward spiral, and it's our job to help clean it up.     To clean each location, you must complete a mini game related to that room. So for example, when cleaning the bedroom, you have to organize the stuffed animals in order to bring the color back to it. It's a super short game, but extremely enjoyable.     The first time I played this game, I thought it was just about a little possum mayor cleaning up his town, but the more I thought about it after the game, I realized that the dev may have had a deeper meaning to it.      Now this may just be me looking into it too much, but I think it's a valid thought for what may be deeper to th...

       12 Hour Museum came out when finding anomaly games were extra popular. Normally, I don't care for "find the anomaly" games, but this one caught my interest, as I love museums. You play as an unnamed male, who was knocked out in an accident. He wakes up in this museum and everything seems normal, until nightfall.      The goal is to survive the night by finding the anomaly each hour. You must find the anomaly before time runs out, and find 12 in a row or else you restart the count. There are a total of 45 different anomalies in the game, some being harder to find than others. My favorite ones to find were the ones that changed the paintings.      The game consists of 7 different endings, which are affected by the way you play. Once you find all endings and all 45 anomalies, an extra mode is unlocked and adds 54 additional anomalies. The first playthrough takes about 30 minutes on average, but once you get extras and work on clearin...

      This game is my worst nightmare in 3D graphics. If you don't know, I have Thalassophobia. Now don't get Thalassophobia and Aquaphobia mixed up. Aquaphobia is the fear of water itself. Thalassophobia is the intense fear of deep bodies of water like lakes, the ocean, and rivers.     In this game, you fall off your ship in a storm. You wake up, floating in the ocean on a wooden raft. In the distance you see a bell buoy. Following the lights you end up back at your raft with a box on it. On top of the box is a letter telling you what needs done. In order to complete the tasks, you need to swim from place to place in the ocean, all while disturbing sounds and invisible creatures stalk your every move.     What scared me about this game is the unknown. You're jumping into the ocean without being able to see anything around you and you have no idea what may be lurking under the depths. I could handle the monsters and creatures that torment the main char...

      Terrarium is a PC game that was recently released on January 10th, 2025. I came across this game on the Cozy Gamer group on Facebook. I instantly fell in love with the graphics, style, and premise of the game.  In this game, you decorate different bottle terrariums. That's it. Super simple. I LOVE games like that and have made several terrariums in my life, but now I get to enjoy doing them virtually! You get 8 slots to create with, and unlock several additional items as you play.     While making terrariums in real life is an amazing experience, it can get pricey at times. I've made one out of a Pokeball, one with flowers I've dried, and several different terrariums for when I raised Isopods and now for my 3 Hermit Crabs.       As I said, they can get expensive to make, especially if it comes to involving real critters. This game is an amazing alternative to pricey terrariums, with a price tag of only $3.99! Better yet, Terrarium ...