What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

February 2nd, 2026

I still had a Survivors-like fixation yesterday, so I picked up a few of them cheap. One of them, Fury Roads Survivors for Switch, was just a normal twin stick shooter. I was mad for 30 seconds, then realized I could make my car explode everything in the wasteland and score an unlock every few minutes. From there, I played it for over an hour without moving from my chair.

I tried and enjoyed Crazy Cats Survivors even more. This one is a proper Survivors-like, and not one where the character builds have much complexity. The five-minute runs make everything fly by, though, and it seems like it'll be short enough not to overstay its welcome. I had a great time starting this one!

After that, though, I played a couple of rounds of Clover Pit because I couldn't sleep, then still couldn't sleep for several hours. That's hardly Clover Pit's fault, though.

February 1st, 2026

I've been wanting to play a lot of Survivors-likes lately, so I did a second play session in Kitty Survivors: Rogues of Catmere. I had some problems with it last night tht I didn't last time! I couldn't get the weapons forging mode to function, and I had a lot of lags during my run proper. I think Windows was trying to do some rubbish in the background, though, so I'm not inclined to blame the game itself for my bad run.

January 31st, 2026

My Tamagotchi posting will be back on Monday. Last night, I played a couple of runs in Primal Survivors, a Survivors-like that I picked up dirt cheap on PS4. It's kind of fun, but last night's play session was weird because it totally frontloaded the game with trophies! If it were really terrible, maybe I would have understood that, but at worst, this'll have a long unlock grind. It feels strange that they dumped most of the trophies in the first ten minutes of play. (The screenshot is as bad as it is due to some severe hand wobbling I suffered last night, not due to how the game actually looks.)

January 30th, 2026

I actually did some minor gaming yesterday, playing a couple hours of a cute and simple creature collection roguelike called Bumpsters. I found this looking for something to kill time with on itch.io and did have quite a nice time with it. My not-Pokedex isn't complete, so I can't call this finished yet. The monsters are cute, and I'd like to see all of them! I did clear a few runs, though, which was nice.

I kept the Jurassic World Rebirth Tamagotchi going, too. Right now, I'm in a feed and clean up pattern that'll probably go on for days, but Tamagotchi Nanos are cute in that you get "special visitors," which are usually tiny pixel scenes from the property they're licensed from. I saw a couple yesterday, but I was impressed by the little pixel Laura Dern, pictured below. If you hit any of the buttons, this pans out to show them looking at a brontosaurus, like in the first movie, and it's very charming! Tamagotchi Nanos have some surprisingly nice minimalist pixel art.

January 29th, 2026

I was too sleepy for any in-depth gaming last night, but I did keep up with the Jurassic World Rebirth Tamagotchi yesterday. It evolved into a triceratops, which was neat! It didn't change the gameplay at all, though. I fed it more, ignored the games because I didn't want to play them, and cleaned up after its giant dino poops. That being said, I'm pretty happy with the little photo I took of it yesterday.

January 28th, 2026

I've been a little low on traditional gaming lately, so I thought it might be kind of fun to write about some of my virtual pets. I mostly collect Tamagotchi Nanos, since they're low maintenance and pretty well suited to life with an office job. They're cute, have some unique goals, are technically video games, and certainly have a range of quality to discuss, so they seem fine for this blog.

Right now, I think what I'll do is play one until the battery runs out and then pop over to the next one that strikes my fancy. I'm just kicking off with one I already had running, the Jurassic World Rebirth Tamagotchi Nano. I bought and like this one just because the shell is my favorite color, and also see through, which rules. It's a cute little virtual pet, though! I did a fresh reset on this and got the herbivore starter dinosaur, which is a first for me, and proceeded to throw leaf snacks at it and play an incomprehensible egg picking mini game throughout the day. Tamagotchi life is not exciting, but it is somewhat soothing.

January 27th, 2026

Since I had a headache last night, I just played a round of Clover Pit before bed. Nothing soothes a weary soul like hell slots.