Games wot I've played over the past few months

I've been playing games recently too! I've just not been posting about them, though I've kept my habit of trying to say a little something about each one in my BackLoggd account. But for those who don't follow me there, here's a big ol' review dump of games I've played and completed over the past couple of months. Grotto You are a soothsayer in a cave (a grotto, if you will). Denizens of the local village come to you for guidance and you consult the stars to provide it. Only, the stars are ambiguous; each of the constellations you use as your tools not only represents something visually (animals, objects, concepts), but they come with a cryptic representation of their meaning. The people, too, are unpredictable, and will draw their own conclusions based on the symbols you show and the riddles they come with. Grotto is somewhere between a strict narrative game and, I don't know, a deductive puzzler? At first it feels like simply finding all the different constellations to get a full…