Freddi Fish and Luther’s Maze Madness
Ever since I was a child, this game has always been close to my heart. I remember the hours I used to spend intentionally pissing off the angler fish by swimming behind him on level 18 and how I would have nightmares of the shark chasing me throughout a maze. I think on a first go-around, this game is ingenious, addictive and tons of fun. It’s great discovering all the weird gizmos and gadgets in the later levels and the background music for some of the levels is simply remarkable. However, the level editor is absolutely horrific and I find it depressing that nobody has been able to get the in-house one to work yet. Had the level editor had everything the game did and you could create an endless possibility of custom levels, I easily would have given this game a 9/10. The enemies make downright disturbing noises at times, which can hamper enjoyment for more easily freaked out players. Regardless, this game is a solid 7.5/10 for the ingenious level designs, pleasing background music and the great fun to be had on a first go around. If you’re an adult who grew up with this game or a child, definitely get it. And find out how to use that fucking in house level editor!
– Real player with 62.7 hrs in game
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My thoughts on the game:
I almost never choose to play single player story mode. I just make levels and see how long it takes for people to beat them. I am not sure how fun this would by if you are playing it by yourself, but if you have other people to make levels for you to try and to play your levels it’s pretty fun. I can play this for hours on end just making levels and trying to think up ways to make them harder with still giving the player the feeling that the reason they lost was because they wern’t skilled enough. Right now, I would play this over many other games when I have more people to play the levels I make. XD
– Real player with 55.9 hrs in game
Putt-Putt® and Pep’s Balloon-o-Rama
Surprisingly still fun after all these years. This is pretty much Putt-Putt meets Breakout, featuring 100+ levels & a level creator. The music here is also quite good still, I’d love to hear a higher quality version of this Humongous soundtrack especially! The main thing to note here is there isn’t really a story to this game unlike the other games in this series.
Any adult who grew up with Putt-Putt & is looking for a quick dose of nostalgia or something quick & fun for their kid should definitely consider getting this game.
– Real player with 26.9 hrs in game
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I can’t eat, sleep or live without Putt-Putt® and Pep’s Balloon-o-Rama.
This game has changed my life ever since the invention of Colored TVs and the internet.
Putt-Putt® and Pep’s Balloon-o-Rama sets you in a post-apocalyptic world, driven by highly developed “C.A.R.S” (Controlling Airborne Radio Satellite) after the Balloon Wars struck the planet earth and killed all the humans. Here, world’s chance to redeem itself lies into Pep, the world’s last and most brutal Special Forces' K-9, trained for terrorist takedowns and body dismemberment. Alongside Pep, there’s his sidekick; Putt-Putt. Don’t let Putt-Putt trick you down with his sweet 8-year-old voice, he actually is a trained war machine, initially to end Pep’s life, but now teamed up in order for a major deed.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse
BOO!
On a serious note though… I played this when I was of age, and really enjoyed it more than the first one; still enjoy playing it for whenever I want to have some nostalgia.
Another point and click cult classic. This game is more intended for children, as the game is very short, depending what you need to do and where to go.
This time you take a visit to Freddi and Luther’s school house. A ghost is haunting the school and stealing kids toys in the process. Who is the ghost and will our fish heroine and silly sidesick capture it?
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
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Unique things about The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse:
• It by far has the most songs. It seems like half the characters have a song to sing. Seriously, if your kids (or you) like to sing along to things, this is the entry to get
• There are several different items you can use to build your trap. Which configuration you get each time you start the game is random
• It seems to use more dark colors to highlight the whole “haunted” aesthetic; this leads to some of the prettiest backgrounds in my opinion
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell
This is a really good Freddi Fish game, but it does have some issues.
Pros
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The animation is definitely a step-up from the last game, it looks a lot smoother in a lot of places.
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Just like the other Freddi Fish games, there’s a lot of replay value.
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There are a good number of new and interesting characters that have a lot of fun qualities.
Cons
- Most of the jokes fall flat, and some are just plain stupid. If you want to see real funny humor, Freddi Fish 4 is good.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Unique things about The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell:
• Fun things to do on the side include a luau show, animal sorting minigame, tumble tubes, design-your-own-character sheet, and an instrument that you can even record songs on
• Every time you play, you’ll have different objectives to complete in order to get the golden pipes and side characters will have different roles to play
• There are different potential culprits
• The bright, tropical environment and colors makes this game rival Freddi Fish 2 for some of the prettiest backgrounds in my opinion
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
Freddi Fish and Luther’s Water Worries
This game helped me with my depression.
Freddi Fish is a game where Luther who is kidnapped by a whirlpool that places him in a cave.
This helped me overcome my depression because it reminds me of when my dad used to lock my in his basement similar to the cave Luther is placed in.
Playing this game helped me stand up to my fathers abuse.
Thank you Freddi, you saved me.
– Real player with 165.8 hrs in game
“Freedom Is Not Free” - Walter Hitchcock, U.S. Air Force Colonel.
This game tells us about adventures of a small green fish called Luther who was sucked into the cave by whirlpool. The cave is populated by various kinds of fish. Water in cave is oxygenated - a lot of bubbles come from bottom all the time. Because of that all inhabitants are suffering inside those bubbles (remember, fish cannot live outside the water). Luther makes a tough decision to free them by shooting bubbles with his trusty slingshot, but in order to survive he has to take the food (worms) away from them. Does Luther truly realise the output of his actions? Can the unarmed liberated fish make its way outside the cave along with Luther or will they die without food inside bubbles? You will find the answer to these questions after 100 tough levels.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside
There are too many reasons why this game is THE BEST game that you could ever buy on steam.
There is so much that I can say about this game, but I will talk about the best aspects of the game.
The open world aspect of this game is incredible. From scene to scene, each area has something new to see and experience, from throwing pennies in a well to finding gold in the mines. It isn’t a straightforward gaming experience, you can take your time and not be bugged by AI characters constantly telling to you move on with the game.
– Real player with 1111.4 hrs in game
My speed run record is 2:50
Pajama Sam, a name that I have known for my entire life. I have played the series since the beginning purchasing all of them at my local Costco ever since I first opened this on christmas of 1997. I would leave our 90’s computer on all day and constantly go back and play Pajama Sam. I continually go back and replay this amazing game through all the years. I lost the disks of my Pajama Sam games so when I saw this on steam I had to buy it. Yes it is a children’s game but it will always be one of my favorite games of all time. If you haven’t played it I highly recommend it, whether it is for you or for a child. Every child should play this game.
– Real player with 25.0 hrs in game
Pajama Sam 2: Thunder And Lightning Aren’t So Frightening
An Instant Childhood Point-and-Click Classic from the Days of my Childhood, which consist of the old MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 & Windows 98SE PCs in which you help Pajama Sam repair the Weather Machine at World Wide Weather by collecting all 4 of the missing parts for the Snow, Wind, Rain & Sun Machines (Automated Snowflake Inspector or ASI, Wignut, Y-Pipe & Velo Velocimomometer).
[Previously on Pajama Man]
Captain Gelatin: Hold it right there, Earthquaker! Stop that evil doing!
– Real player with 39.0 hrs in game
One of many Pajama Sam games I never played as a child.
This was lacking a few things: same bgm alternations throughout the game–pretty lack-a-daisy, the voice casting for lightning was a bit disappointing than what I imagined, game didn’t feel that all engaging overall unlike the first one. Title was a bit misleading along with the prologue, thought it was to go against Thunder and LIghtning, like going after Darkness in the first game, not help them… then again…
Still, that’s just minor things, and I’m being a bit nit-picky.
– Real player with 11.6 hrs in game
Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet
Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head to Your Feet, or PJS3: YAWYEFYHTYF for short is a beautiful meditation on what it means to be human, the struggles of compromise, and the complexities of global multi-party politics.
In this game you play as the titular Pajama Sam; the alter ego of Sam, who goes on grandiose adventures, which are speculated to occur entirely in his imagination, in order to fix some problem in his waking life. In PJS3: YAWYEFYHTYF Sam is facing the pressing issue of invasive consumerism, as he’s pushed to eat 20 boxes of cookies in one sitting in order to acquire enough box tops to get a prize of his role model, Pajama Man. This excursion ends up ruining his appetite for supper, this is then paralleled in the game by Pajama Sam eating a giant cake and being forced to pay the consequences by being thrown in prison. In this allegory for his actions Pajama Sam (not to be mistaken with the non-imaginary “Sam”) Must seek out and rescue all of the delegates for the peace council, who have all become incopacitated in some way, Luke Wigglebig not included. This small detail makes me believe that the candy people were attempting to prolong the war by delaying the delegates, in order to cement candy as the one true food group.The first delagate you find is your prisonmate, Florette the Broccoli who was arrested due to Anarchistic Insurection. The second you find is Piérre le Pain of the grain peoples, who is found on top of the Ferris wheel, being humiliated by the muffins who used to be his friends, however they have a separate agenda and would rather follow their art careers than help ensure the peace of their people. Later on you find a race war breaking out between the Jelly Beans and the Kidney Beans and the quarry, because although they are both beans, the only thing that matters is the colour of their outsides. This causes them to stop working and partition themselves, with the Bean Foreman being powerless to stop the conflict, Pajama Sam ends up using circular logic to convince them to argue the opposite side’s point without realization. This causes the agression to simmer down, and allows Bean #47 to attend the peace council without fear of being jumped by the local Jelly Bean gangs. The next delagate we run into is Granny Smyth of the fruits, who is being harassed by a group of unrepresented canned goods, in order to passify this group you need to promise funded community programs. This convinces the canned goods to free Granny Smyth, allowing her to go to the peace council. The final delagate you find is Chuck “Cheese of Adventure” Cheddar, who’s flee via hot air balloon was halted by becoming lodged in the cotton candy clouds (who were possibly working for the candy kingdom), preventing him from leaving the country. You will end up blackmailing him, that if you save him from dying, by dislodging the hot air balloon that he’d be required to go to the peace council, which he accepts. With all the delegates rounded up, the negotiations descend into chaos, with all sides becoming more entrenched in their positions, while also yelling slurs at the other delegates and attempting to discredit their positions. It seems as if peace is impossible, until Pajama Sam chimes in as a neutral 3rd party, convincing them of equal representation in an oligarchy style food government. The game ends with Pajama Sam snapping out of his sugar-induced fever dream and remembering that it was time for Dinner. In short, this is one of the great works of fiction told in the modern era, we should be thanking Humongous Entertainment along with Nightdive Studios for making this magnum opus masterpiece available for the all the uncultured plebians on Steam.
– Real player with 158.3 hrs in game
I first played this game on a disk when I was 5.
On September 8th, 2019 (4 days from now, at the time I write this) I will soon be 16 years old.
ELEVEN YEARS have gone by.
And why have I still been playing it, even though it’s “meant for kids”?
Because this game was probably the first game I ever played on my computer.
And it has surprisingly aged well (probably the best out of the 3 games, actually).
If you decide to get get this game on Steam, or see a physical copy at a thrift store…
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
Putt-Putt® Goes to the Moon
I knew getting back in the “dating game” would be a challenge after being out of it for over 10,000 years. When I was released from the privilege mines, I had to learn all the new things “the dating crowd” was trying. I knew about scented CIS skulls and gluten-free cardboard, and sure was glad to hear people still use them. But I had no idea that “video games” were so popular with the “romantics” out there. All it took was one stroll through the Steam Store to prove I had to learn a new thing.
“Where to start?”, I wondered. I wanted something simple. However, all I saw in the store was console ports that were covered with $19.99 DLC and extreme arson, or designed to somehow “heat” your NVIDIA card. No way, Jose! (I experienced the “heat” thing personally once after an adventurous incident with an XBox. I’ll stick with “room temperature” from now on, thank you very much.)
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
WOOOOOOO MAMA what a glo up boi. This lil puttlet was uggo as all hell my dudes but guess what? You better be watchin' who you bully in middle school cos this bitch is thicc af these days and ALLLL MINE. Come to the park where the Fire happened in september, I’ll be surprising him with a proposal!!!! Hopefully we’ll be legally bonded by the end of the year! I love my sweet honey trunks soo very dearly it’d mean alot. Still dunno about that Firebird guy…seems like a bad influence….Sendin' him off in space OBVIOUSLY on purpose with no other words of advice then “Seatbelts!” He oughtta be ashamed of himself! Luckily my boi Putt0 made it in the end throuh his sheer kindness alone….
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Putt-Putt® Travels Through Time
game’s decent if i’m being honest
EDIT: I’ve put in a few more hours since the last review, and I now believe it needs a review update to properly do it justice. This game has grown on me, to the point where I play it daily. It always makes my day to click on something in the game and have it play a happy animation. My favorites are the bird in the bush behind Mr. Firebird’s workshop, the two monkeys behind the curtain in Putt-Putt’s house (I always say hello to them at the start of a game), the talking window on the stable from the view above Tire Flats, and the bird in the flower by the portal to the Castle (I really like the birds). Nothing can ever replace the presence game has in my life, and I’m fine with keeping it that way. It’s a shame this game is so underrated, and that more people won’t experience the lovable masterpiece that is Putt-Putt Travels Through Time. If there’s one complaint I would make (which I would never truly support, even at gunpoint), it’s that my dedication to this game has led to total collapse of my social life, and I’m struggling to find employment due to time it takes up in my daily routine. However, these issues are negligible in the face of Putt-Putt, because as soon as I load up the game, all my worries wash away.
– Real player with 19199.0 hrs in game
Ever wonder what Back to the Future would be like if YOU were the DeLorean? Well, here you go!
“Putt-Putt Travels Through Time” is a wonderous journey where you continually screw up the space-time continuum because Putt-Putt is late for school and his dog never buckles his seat-belt. Throughout your journey, you meet a bunch of memorable characters and explore the different time zones (there’s f***g dinosaurs and cowboys and st!). In fact, the things you do in the past, present, and future change how the game is played. Also, the adventure changes every time you play the game again so there’s infinite replayability!
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game