touhou koumakyou: new classic

12 Jun 2026 - digitalily

!!!!!actually what on earth!!!!!

blue prince

08 Jun 2026 - digitalily

Blue Prince is a game that I had heard small rumblings about for quite a while, with several people online speaking very highly of it, but I never knew too much about what exactly it was. What I did know was that it was in a decently long early access, and was being made by someone who at the time was very much a non-developer, but that was about it. It wasn't until a friend had started playing & loving it, even going so far as setting his desktop background to a stylized blueprint sketch of the manor, and him having roped a couple others in that I finally sat down to give it a try. Around this time as well, a streamer who I'd known of since long ago had on several occasions spoken about how it was easily his favorite game of all time during his Silksong let's play, so hype and expectation was there. And so, while on a vacation flight around the holidays, knowing it was a good 'Steam Deck game,' I flew up to 30,000 ft. and launched it. Immediately after watching the opening cutscene and walking into the first randomly drawn room, taking in the sounds and atmosphere, I closed the game with a firm understanding that I absolutely had to play it full screen on my desktop, and so I waited.

hades II

01 Jun 2026 - digitalily

I remember seeing the original Hades featured prominently on Steam a few months after it left early access and found the art style fairly appealing, and after diving in and getting immediately hooked, and eventually sharing many a run over voice calls with others playing at the same time, I knew it was something special.

a new year

12 Jan 2026 - digitalily

Happy 2026!

silksong

23 Oct 2025 - digitalily

A bit later than I'd originally hoped for, but as of a few weeks ago I finished my playthrough of Hollow Knight: Silksong, a game which has been anticipated for a little while to say the least.

mystia's izakaya & fossilized wonders

17 Sep 2025 - digitalily

I found myself getting a pretty major Touhou kick earlier over the past year, which started with Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia, which is a retro dungeon crawler ala early Shin Megami Tensei (something to discuss more another time), fuelled further by going a bit too hard in a Minecraft server, and then getting really solidified by my decision to give Touhou Mystia's Izakaya a try. I started back in April of this year, and finished it up in late August. I did have a few long sessions towards the end to wrap everything up, but this is the kind of game you could drip play for a long time.