The first game reviewed in the New Year is Aquarium Designer from Sigur Studio. This serene aquarium designer game offers a surprising amount of depth and even has a single player campaign. It’s a perfectly peaceful way to ring in the New Year.
Captain Burnham takes the Discovery into the substance rift created by the DMA, and the ship and her crew find themselves embroiled in more danger than they expected. Meanwhile, Book encounters a face from his past. This week: “Stormy Weather.”
If you are looking for a little holiday fun, then Too Many Santas makes quite an impression, like an ugly but somehow still amazing Christmas sweater. The game has the player dating one of six Santas in this really fun, low budget full motion video game.
While Stamets must work with rival Ruon Tarka to crack some of the DMA’s deeper mysteries. Michael Burnham and Book in turn head off to rescue a colony’s worth of people caught in the DMA’s potential path. However, what they find there tests Book in ways he could not have anticipated. This week: “The Examples.”
If you fell in love with city builders back in the 1990s when games like SimCity were first hitting their stride, then Silicon City is a first-class trip back to that nostalgia. It might struggle to capture a huge number of modern players, but the developers are highly active and supportive of their community.
Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly heads a team building mission that goes awry while Captain Michael Burnham and Mr. Saru must repair the rifts appearing in the Federation/Ni’Var negotiations. Book tries therapy, and theoretically, Stamets continues to work on analyzing the DMA data. This week: “All is Possible.”
Love Colors is a painting game where you use your mouse, keyboard or game controller to color and paint beautiful, pixelated portraits and other works of art. It’s amazingly relaxing, and a perfect way for gamers to escape the stresses of real life.
A string of dilithium thefts culminate in the murder of a Starfleet officer, so Burnham must team up with her mother to bring the guilty party to justice. Meanwhile, Gray Tal endures an unusual zhian’tara, and Tilly begins to seek out a new path.
This week our intrepid Modern Gamer starts her own company in Bus Simulator 21. She will have to do nearly everything to make it work, from planning the routes to driving the buses. So come onboard as we travel around the virtual city in style.
The crew must come together to cope with their trauma while attempting to glean as much information about a new and deadly threat to civilizations across the galaxy. Fortunately, Saru rejoins them as a steadying influence. This week on Star Trek: Discovery: “Anomaly.”
