[i]My wishlist has substantially grown, and I’ll likely never get to all the games I want to play.[/i]

I'd give Hyper Light Drifter a strong 7. (It really feels like where Death's Door got some of its inspiration. Because they feel very similar to me. Except this one doesn't overstay its welcome. Since there is no secret hidden ending. So you don't have to feel obligated to get 100% completion.)

Has a pretty decent atmosphere and soundtrack. Combat is challenging, and I beat most of the bosses on my first try. (Though the former is mostly due to filling the screen with enemies, and the latter felt like brute force luck on my part.) And while it certainly doesn't hold your hand as to where you're supposed to be going. The rewards for exploration were often hidden behind progress walls that I hadn't completed yet. So without any map markers to make the purposefully obscure map any more useful; it made backtracking and finding secrets less than ideal.

Biggest nags were how the dash and platforming needs tweaking, because it's occasionally inconsistent otherwise. (Leading to unfair damage being dealt.) And how certain upgrades are pointless and others are 100% needed to progress. But I was able to finish the game, and feel a little underwhelmed from the narrative. However, the gameplay was solid enough.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, Lonesome Village is about as fucking awful as you can make a game. But I tried my damnedest to get through it anyway. (Until my character got stuck in the ground, and that cost me hours of progress. Because the game has no autosave.) As if this game wasn’t already getting tedious, with its Navi-like tutorial character popping up every other second. And I’d honestly ask for a refund, if it wasn’t an x-mas present.

Thirdly, I decided to play Bloody Hell (a free bullet hell on Steam) and it’s pretty damn good. (Haha pun.) Even if I still suck at twin-stick shooting. [s]And I don’t know why I originally thought your character looked like an old homeless man with a beard.[/s]