June Games Title

June Games

Played a few games, bought some stuff. Let’s call it a success.

Games completed this month

Octopath Traveler - Switch

Octopath Traveler – Switch

As with Bravely Default this is another game that has multiple levels of completion. In June we rolled credits on the main storyline, but the game continues. Hopefully we’ll see this here again in July, but it is getting harder.

I bought the digital edition to use up some store credit, but you can get the physical one from Amazon*


Games played during June

Nanotale - Typing Games

Nanotale – PC

Still been playing a bit of this, and do hope to complete it. I seem to get lost a lot more than I did in Epistory which is a bit tedious. The typing mechanic is still really fun though.


Super Bomberman R Online - Switch

Super Bomberman R Online – PC

As suggested last month, I did move to playing this on PC. Played a few more rounds and still enjoying myself. I don’t really like the different character powers & stats, but it’s good fun regardless.


Forza Horizon 4

Forza Horizon 4 – Xbox Series S and PC

Felt like dropping back into this for a while after seeing the trailer for Forza Horizon 5 in the E3 presentations. Still my favourite racing game, looking forward to the new one.


Dark Alliance - June Games

Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance – PC (GamePass)

This is pretty terrible, and a buggy mess at times. However played co-op with a couple of friends has been entertaining. We all have GamePass so we didn’t have to pay for the game, certainly helped with the enjoyment.


Quake Champions - June Games

Quake Champions – PC

I suggested last month that I might try to get back into this. One of the purchases below encouraged me to give it a try. It is still great fun, but I’m so out of practice it’s a bit of a slog trying to climb the rankings again. I may play a bit more but not sure how much patience I’m going to have for the practice required.


What’s been on the arcade?

MAME Cabinet - Finished

Ten Pence Arcade Podcast have a double-header this month, with Mr Do’s Wild Ride and Mrs Dynamite. I have played a bit of Mr Do but Mrs Dynamite requires the latest version of MAME which I can’t run on the cabinet yet so I haven’t tried that. I have, however, been playing a lot of Super Street Fighter 2 on it though, so there’s that.


June Pick-ups

Mario Golf Super Rush - Switch

Mario Golf Super Rush – Switch

Pre-ordered last month and it came out at the end of June so I did manage to get it downloaded. Haven’t played it yet so we’ll find out how it is in July.

This* is the physical edition if you’d rather not get it digitally


New Monitor - Quake Champions
The cables are a bit tidier now, although not as much as I’d like. I’ve taken the heinous stickers off too.

New Monitor

I’ve fanicied an ultrawide monitor for a while, but they had been a bit out of my budget for the spec I wanted. Finally found one at a sensible price that ticked all the boxes. It’s a 34″ Ultrawide curved display from Iiyama, 144hz refresh, 1ms response time, 3440×1440 resolution. It’s this one if you’re interested in the rest of the specs.

I got mine from Currys because I had a discount code that made it <£400, but otherwise it is cheaper on Amazon*.


Nex Machina - June Games

Nex Machina & The Name of the Game Documentary – PC

Although I bought and played this on the PS4 when it came out, after recording & releasing our Twin Stick Shooter podcast, I felt like getting back into it. As discussed on the podcast, the PC version is supposed to be better, so thought I’d check that out for my self. Grabbed it along with the making of documentary in the steam sale.


Williams Pinball Volume 2

More Pinball FX3 tables

After setting up my new monitor above, I’ve mounted one of my older 24″ widescreen displays next to it, in a vertical (TATE) orientation. The better to play pinball and some vertical scrolling shoot em up games. The extra Pinball FX3 table packs are in the Steam sale, so I grabbed the Williams Volume 2 pack, so I could play the Black Rose table. Pinball games are still great played fullscreen on a vertical display.


JRPG Book - June Games

A Guide to Japanese Role Playing Games – Book

Perhaps a surprise purchase for someone who can count the number of JRPGs played on one (well two now) hand. However, this seemed like a comprehensive guide to most of the genre, and I thought reading it might help me pick out other games that I’ll enjoy, avoiding the rest. If you’re interested, they sold out but are due to be reprinted and on sale again in October from bitmap books.


*As usual, these links are affiliate ones, which may earn me a small commission if you buy something.

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