Monday, Prime Gaming was a nightmare to cover and try to be positive about, being heavy on the Borderlands and Lord of the Rings games. While Wildfrost is to get a physical release, and Roots of Yggdrasil hits its 1.0 release. Tuesday, Between the Horizons is coming to consoles. Wednesday, the new PS5 Pro was announced with a heavy price no one was excited for, Moon Witch is Superhot but top down in the Bullet Heaven, and Satisfactory is now in 1.0. So I’ll need to play a lot of that again. Thursday, Blood Bar Tycoon is what would happen if someone named Vlad ran a bar.

Onto the offerings on the Epic Games Store this week and it is Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland and SUPER CRAZY RHYTHM CASTLE. We’ll start with the 90’s most famous babies and the nostalgia-filled platformer. As much as I do love Chuckie, Tommy, Susie, Lil, Dil, Kimi, Phil, and everyone’s favorite, Angelica, I just don’t care about the platformer as much as seemingly everyone else does. It has the nice 90s art instead of that horrifying 2021 3D thing, but even then I’m left wanting a reason to play beyond nostalgia. As the saying goes, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

Speaking of “ain’t what it used to be,” the party game genre has mostly fallen to swearing at friends while playing Overcooked, and I guess that’s what Second Impact Games and KONAMI were aiming at. SUPER CRAZY RHYTHM CASTLE is something you can play solo, but at the end of the day, it is designed to be co-op and co-op for a reason. Everything about it is nonsense and the music is about as exciting to listen to Showaddywaddy, which isn’t a compliment. Designed to be idiosyncratic, you’ll wonder why you are even playing it in the first place.

All this week you can pick up the nostalgic Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland or the idiotic idiosyncratic SUPER CRAZY RHYTHM CASTLE on the Epic Games Store until Thursday, the 19th of September. Moving on to what is next on the Epic Games Store, TOEM and The Land Stand: Aftermath. You’ll know TOEM as the cute monochromatic photo-based adventure from 2021. Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A developer using their name to claim success for a new sequel on a niche title, with that new sequel being a Rogue-lite action-adventure set in the zombie apocalypse. I guess we’ll talk more about The Last Stand: Aftermath from 2021 next week.

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