Prime Gaming – February 2025

Maybe you could take a lesson from an early scene in the first game this month Jeffrey. Another month, another Thursday has passed, and I’m bemoaning the existence of everyone, what else isn’t new? Probably the fact the “other benefits/In-game content” for Prime Gaming in February of 2025 are still just Lost (T)Ark and Wordle knock-offs/wannabees. The less said about any of them, the better.

First up for February and available now via GOG, BioShock Infinite Complete Edition. The extremely fun one, BioShock Infinite is about as subtle as the other good one when it comes to its “political” message, but unlike the sequel that dove up BioShock‘s crack, Infinite is a better sequel. It is a swashbuckling, jump on and off of the neatly placed rails, adventure and after rewatching Treasure Planet, that’s exactly what I’m in the mood for. Punching a load of racist zealots in the head and telling them to suck on my fat one, and then playing Infinite.

Now we go from punching Klansmen to being exhausted by the “Souls-like” tag on Steam. Available through Epic, Sands of Aura is one of those dungeon-crawling action RPGs influenced by Dark Souls, but it passed you by because there are thirteen of these each week and I’m bored of them before they’re announced.

There is a touch of Wind Waker in its adventure, a bit broken (buggy) in being a game, and bosses that a lot of people have said “sod that for a game of soldiers.” Sands of Aura might only appeal to like three people, but those three people are happier than a blind dyslexic reading the braille on someone’s breasts.

Julie Andrews sang Hammerstein’s lyric “These are a few of my favorite things,” 2Awsome Studio’s AK-xolotl: Together is a few of my least favorite things. Available through the Epic Games Store now, AK-xolotl: Together is a co-op top-down Rogue-like Bullet Hell shooter. For fans of amphibious health-regening salamanders and top-down pixel art shooters, there is plenty to enjoy, and the Steam reviews dating back to 2023 are pretty good. However, I don’t think AK-xolotl: Together will convert someone out of their dislike and poor playing of top-down bullet hells.

A repeat from a long time ago, Surf World Series looks dated for even 2017. Available now through the Amazon Games App, Climax Studios were still busy making “meh” games such as Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China, India, and Russia, as well as Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (including Portal reference). All of this, including the late-PS3-looking Surf World Series, before the studio would go on to make Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion, as well as support Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition and Returnal‘s PC release.

The final game that is available now and done so via GOG is the robot philosophy simulator, The Talos Principle: Gold Edition. So that’s some DLCs, some DVD extras (it’s a disc, ask your parents), a soundtrack you never listen to anyway, and maybe a game about philosophy from the people who made Serious Sam. From a series about as deep as a puddle of man juice to the writers of Subnautica, FTL, The Swapper, and The Sea Will Claim Everything. It isn’t perfect, and there are those annoying people who will compare it to Portal, but certainly a fantastic bit of writing.

From one pretty decent game to what I’ll be playing for the foreseeable future as I have 40-400 hours of podcasts to catch up on. Available from the 13th via the Epic Games Store, Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a dad simulator through and through. You play as a Ship Breaker in this thing we call space, so the title is accurate, but despite being everything I love about dad games, it gives you audio logs to listen to, just not while you play the game. Yes, the perfect podcast game forgets that fact and wants to tell you the story outside of the gameplay.

I have one experience with a kite, and it is like everyone’s only experience with the thin paper-thin plastic things you get by the seaside as a kid. Or should I say, you used to. Available through the Amazon Games App from the 13th, you can pick up Stunt Kite Party to not do the very thing we used to do years ago, go outside.

I mean, I don’t blame you, it is a hellscape out there filled with people who are trying really hard to rub their two brain cells together but they can’t walk and do that at the same time. Stunt Kite Party is another one of those modern budget titles from HandyGames that made about as much splash as your teenage relationships.

Now, I have two options, bemoan the next game for similarly being an IP tie-in title that’s on a budget, or just direct you to Alexx’s review of it back in 2023. Available through GOG, you can pick up The Smurfs 2: Prisoner of the Green Stone, as it is an ok adventure game with a twinge of Smurfs using their ability to overcome. Alexx’s review is of course going to be far more detailed, but if you’re not a fan of Microids’ jank titles, chances are you’re going to be left wanting for something more from an official Smurfs game.

You’ll be onto plumbs sunshine if you think I’m going to praise something published by Quantic Dream. I’d rather defecate into my hands and clap. This is how I think Sand Door Studio came up with the title for its 2024 title, Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior. An isometric action title about a once great empire in ruin as monsters and legions attack, and I’m already bored of it. It looks nice and I’ve found that the action is supposed to be decent, but its upgrades are not exciting over the several hours of play. Available through Epic, it is the penultimate title for the 13th.

Almost as annoying as the Souls-like titles, but mostly because I’m not a fan of the narrative RPG deck builder titles all that often. Available from the 13th through GOG, you can pick up Ganymede Games and Midwest Games’ 2024 title, Dark Sky. Looking a bit more like a bio-mechanical take on that whole Darkest Dungeon and otherwise deckbuilding-based title, but again given the fact this was released only last September and is being offered with Prime, chances are it isn’t going to convert those who don’t play them daily.

As proven by the Sniper Elite series and even the resurgence of Wolfenstein itself, you can put out as many “punch Nazis” games as you want. Sadly, it doesn’t stop them from marching around waving their actual flags anymore. Available from the 20th via the Microsoft Store for PC and Xbox (a rarety for sure), Wolfenstein: Youngblood is that one that tries to force co-op into everything, and also just so happens to have two young women as the protagonists. I wish I could care about it being BJ’s kids, but the co-op gameplay puts me off before I can defend it as a story.

Available through the Epic Games Store from the 20th, however, is something that is delightful, beautiful, and generally lovely: El Hijo – A Wild West Tale. As the title might suggest, you play as a 6-year-old El Hijo as he stealths around the farms, monastery, and even gang hideouts of this spaghetti-western stealth game. If you’re a touch disappointed by the story of The Stone of Madness, you might enjoy the lighter tone of El Hijo – A Wild West Tale.

Sticking with the Wild West style of game, we’re also going back to 2020 (I’ll not go back!) for Retfriffic and Headup’s Colt Canyon. There is a lot less to say about the top-down action Rogue-like shooter with more claret than the wine cellar of a Frenchman. It is visually interesting and does some things right, but for some reason, I can’t say I’m jumping for joy about Colt Canyon. Available from the 20th through GOG, it’s worth picking up and checking out for yourself.

“Gather your friends (5 to 10 players) and play” This is basically a social game based around politics, the one thing I’m sure my editor doesn’t want me to go on a rant about right now. Available through the Epic Games Store from the 20th, Republic of Jungle does the whole election thing, based on US elections specifically, but this time with anthropomorphized animals. Of course, it is anthropomorphized animals, that’s what anthropomorphized basically means. The point still stands, it is how to lose a friend while drinking alcohol – simulator.

Jésus Henry Christ, from what I’m not allowed to rant about without being hit to something I can’t hit hard enough to go away. The Legacy Games code offering up next, you can pick up “casual” hidden object style game Royal Romances: Cursed Hearts Collector’s Edition. It is the last thing available from the 20th, so have with that what you will, but preferably I’d have it in the bin.

Moving on to the GOG code for the 27th, you can pick up Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut and be wowed by the fact that someone thought this was the cutting-edge of 2013 graphics. Playing as ex-SWAT officer turned secret intergovernmental agent in the second reboot game, Adam Jensen Button doesn’t drive fast cars but instead punches people from vents. “Would you implant technology into your body for an advantage?” It asks. Woman, I am already wearing a smartwatch and have a mini computer strapped to me at all times, if it stops stupid questions I’ll take it.

From the first part in a three-part series that still hasn’t been completed yet, to an RPG-maker style title. Available through the Amazon Games App, you can pick up Night Reverie a self-proclaimed “Puzzle/Adventure game,” but that isn’t going to sell you on updating the Amazon Games App and downloading the game now is it? Available from the 27th, you’ll have forgotten what it is by then.

From RPG-maker to a side-scrolling bullet hell shooter. You can basically copy-paste what I said about AK-xolotl: Together for Sine Mora Ex, available through the Amazon Games App from the 27th. Launched in 2017, the grim and not too visually exciting title has only had a little over 400 reviews on Steam, and even then it is still “Mixed.” Chances are you’ll claim it and never play it like you did with Surf World Series ages ago.

Oh fantastic, everything I am totally and absolutely known for loving and talking about feverously: A dark, high fantasy turn-based RPG with so little color that you could find more definition in a black and white picture book of the 1940s. If you can’t get the sarcasm from that, that is a you problem. Launched in 2023, you can pick up Abglobe’s Redemption Reapers through the Epic Games Store, but I doubt you’ll want to. From a slow plot to a colorless visual style, and generally not a nice world, Redemption Reapers isn’t lighting many fires. Including mine.

Sticking in the era of peasantry for the final game of Prime Gaming for February, you’ll can head over to GOG with your code for Yes, Your Grace. The March 2020 release from developer Brave At Night is generally liked, but if you’re not all that excited by the “choices matter” flavor of ice cream games, then you’re out of luck. Improve the kingdom, destroy it, I don’t care. I’d prefer an updated version of Yes, Prime Minister the game. I also just want something exciting to end the month on one of these days.