Very unique puzzle game. Decode fictional language using visual clues. Around 8 hours to beat. 10/10

This game is a square-shaped WW1 simulator with more explosions and less typhoid fever

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Editing to give more than a cutesy blurb cause this game is actually something pretty special:

The fully destructible maps of this game make it a work of art. Even though this game is lacking in maps (as of right now, two weeks after launch, there's only one map for the 24vs24 game mode), the chaotic nature of the destructible maps has had each game play out wildly differently.

One game, each team built elaborate forts forcing a WW1-style trench rushing battle of attrition.

One game, one team worked to build an elaborate hovering platform from their spawn to the contested point while we worked tirelessly to destroy it before it engulfed the map.

One game, the teams built extensive Vietnam-style tunnels throughout the walls forcing chaotic guerrilla warfare and tunnel clearing expeditions.

One game, the center of the map became an M.C.Escher spiderweb of stairs to the skybox as snipers kept trying to build better positions to countersnipe the others

One game, some crazy person dug a 50 foot wide, 50ft deep, 100ft long pit of death in front of the contested point. Their team wasted no time in constructing a castle on the other side of this moat, resulting in 30 minutes of trying to build siege bridges across this pit to get over their battlements

One game, the entire center of the map got nuked out by rocket launchers, giving players natural foxholes for a wack-a-mole style pop up battle.


The game is free-to-play and is absolutely worth checking out.

Battlerite is a fun arena brawler that's easy to learn and relatively tough to master. Battlerite Royale is a frustrating experience that takes everything fun about Battlerite, removes it, and replaces it with a RNG that always seems to drop the same two abilities that you already own.

Maybe worth Free to Play if you like a royale brawler where winning is heavily RNG based. Absolutely not worth 20 dollars.

I am Henry, the local blacksmith's boy. I am a serf to the feudal lord. Father has sent me to town for errands: to collect a debt from a drunkard, to purchase charcoal for the forge, and to bring home some cool ale for supper. I go to collect the debt. Things come to combat and I am swiftly beaten bloody by the drunkard. I am not a heroic fighter, I am the blacksmith's boy. I go to the charcoal trader to haggle for goods. I try to speak to him but accidentally punch him instead. I am not good at the controls, I am the blacksmith's boy. The guards witness the crime and order me to surrender. I attempt to lie. "I am on a secret mission for our liege," I claim. The guards do not believe me and order me to pay the fine for brawling. I cannot for I have no coin, I am just the poor blacksmith's boy. I am thrown in jail. As I am serving my time, I hear warning bells. The villagers start to scream, there is the sound of horses and sword fighting, and fire begins to engulf the jail. I scream for someone to help but no one comes. I burn to death in jail and have failed the tutorial without completing a single objective. I am the worst blacksmith's boy.


You are just a dirty peasant. You arn't a great hero. You will get beat up by the town drunk. You will join the young master of the castle's hunt, but as a page, running behind his horse like the dogs. Yes he has two other horses, yes you may ask to ride them, no you may not ride them because riding is for nobility and you would get the horses dirty. You will take up work in the local town. The captain will tell you to meet him at a specific time and location. If you arn't there at that aforementioned time and place, the captain will leave without you. He doesn't care you wanted to sell the weapons you plundered off some dead Turkish soldiers and you got caught up haggling for a better price. You are just a dirty peasant, you were late, and he has important duties to attend to. When you do show up he will yell at you for like three minutes about it and you will feel ashamed in both real life and in game. He would tell you to get off your high horse and stop acting like the world revolves around you but you don't have a horse because you're just a dirty peasant.

If you do not eat, you will starve to death. If you do not sleep, you will become sluggish. If you drink too much you will pass out and wake up in a pigsty, typically with less items than you had the night before. Your clothes will get dirty and if you do not wash them the nobility will mock you for it. If you want to play Skyrim as some unimportant shmuck that will probably die from dysentery at the age of 20, this game is for you.

I'm 42 hours into this game. My date still hasn't shown up yet. She's probably still coming. Gonna wait a few more hours.


Updates:
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Nov. 28 2012 @ 4:09pm
60 hours in. Still no date. Maybe her car broke down and her phone isn't working.

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Dec. 1 2012 @ 6:36pm
72 hours. Date still hasn't shown up yet. Maybe she's just really sick.

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Dec 4 2012 @ 2:23pm
127 hours played. Date hasn't shown up. Food is cold and stale at this point.

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Dec 8 2012 @ 7:08am
147 hours now. No sign of date. Maybe she's lost and can't find my house.

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Dec 12 2012 @ 10:58pm
Terrible news. I hit 150 hours played and can no longer launch Dinner Date. I think I got banned :(

CONCRETE EVIDENCE THAT THE TRIBUNAL IS A BROKEN SYSTEM

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Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:20pm
Good news everyone I am unbanned from Dinner Date. 151 hours in now and she hasn't showed up. I hope I didn't miss her while I was banned. Guess I'll wait to see if she comes back.

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Dec 19, 2012 @ 4:09pm
172 hours. Date hasn't shown up. I hope I didn't miss her. Better play through the game again and start over.

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Dec 31, 2012 @ 7:26pm
190 hours. No date yet. Probably got called into work or something.

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Nov 25, 2013 @ 2:16pm
239 hours. I hope she's ok. Maybe she was kidnapped. Thinking about calling the cops and reporting her missing.

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Jan 20, 2014 @7:30pm
247 hours. I reinstalled the game. Lost my save file so I gotta start over. Waited about 8 hours and she hasn't shown up. She's definitely coming this time though. I can feel it.

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February 14, 2014 @1:12am
259 hours. Maybe she went to the wrong address. Guess I'll have to wait longer and see.

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August 24, 2014 @ 10:58pm
287 hours. Maybe she fell asleep on the train. Soup is getting cold at this point.

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October 28, 2014 @ 12:40am
302 hours. Maybe she's infected with a deadly contagious disease and has been quarantined for public safety. Probably a good thing she hasn't showed up if that's the case. In other news, the day/night cycle of this game is really unrealistic.

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April 4, 2015 @ 12:44pm
314 hours. Maybe she's trapped indoors by a blizzard and can't leave her house. Guess I'll have to keep waiting.

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May 27th, 2021 @ 10:28pm
335 hours. Maybe she stopped for gas and the gas station was out because a bunch of people panicked at rising gas prices and they bought all the available gas in the area and now she needs a tow because she's completely out. I can't think of any other recent events within the last year that would have possibly prevented her from coming, so that's gotta be the reason. Hopefully she shows up soon, the Corona beers I got us are getting warm.

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May 14th, 2025 @ 1:53am

415 hours. Going to give it a little bit longer, maybe she stopped at the store to pick up some wine or something.