I keep a list of indie games that I recommend to my friends, colleagues, and random passersby on the street. Kill the princessthe time loop horror game from Black Tabby Games, is pretty high on this list. It was one of my Favorite games of 2023and although it did not win Baldur’s Gate 3 or Street Fighter 6 for the top spot, it was by far the most engaging narrative game I played last year. Having it bundled together with some other incredible indie games gives me the chance to not only promote it, but also my Favorite Indie Game of 2022as well as.
The SLAY Pack on Steam is a collection of four games that celebrate the release of The Crush HouseThe Dramatic reality TV production simulator from Nerial. The package contains The Crush House for 10 percent off, but that’s the smallest savings you’ll get when you buy these four excellent games in one package. The $61.43 package also includes the modern classic deck builder Kill the towerthe people who played it like to praise it. But I’m here to shout Kill the princess And We are OFK.
Kill the princess is a visual novel that sends you through multiple loops of the same moment. You know nothing about who you are or what world you’re in, but you’re told you must enter a remote cabin and descend into the basement. Once there, you’ll find a princess trapped there in isolation. According to the narrator, if she can escape from this prison, she will bring about the end of the world. How you proceed, whether you end her life with a knife, talk to her, free her, or do nothing at all, will lead you down one of several diverging paths. But no matter where those paths lead, they all end with you going back to the cabin and making a decision about what you’re going to do next. Kill the princess is all about the horror of being known. Over several loops, you and the princess get to know each other and it takes you to some shocking, fascinating places as each loop shows you new variations of the horrors you’ll inflict on each other.
At the other end of the spectrum We are OFK is all about the horror of knowing absolutely nothing. The adventure game from the conglomerate of writers, designers, musicians and more called Team OFK often feels less like a video game and more like an interactive music television show. The experimental, episodic series is an introspective look at four friends trying to figure out who they are artistically while also trying to survive in the American corporate world. If you feel like capitalism is sucking the joy out of art and making it difficult to maintain your personal relationships, We are OFK is the video game for you. I played it when things were going really badly at my last job and it really hit me.
All four games are worth your time, and I love that someone used the word “kill” to bring these four fairly different and unrelated games together, because that word can mean two very different things depending on who’s saying it. Whether you’re into murdering something or servicing pussies, this package has some bangers that will let you do both.
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