oldladygreybun
ladygrey
 
 
An old lady newbie, with gnarly hands, slow reflexes, and a potato.
:steamthumbsup:: Casual. Gentle. Story. Adventure, puzzlers, PnC, HO. Indie.
:steamthumbsdown:: Dexterity, speed, stress, unkind. Tearjerkers, pink-o-mania.
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I like games that are casual and gentle. Prefer a proper story with some thought behind it - can be explicitly told or show-don't-tell. Adventure, puzzlers, point-and-click, hidden objects. Happy to support Indie games. My potato laptop prefers smallish games <5GB. And I play with only KB+M, no controller.

With a strong dislike of being subjected to scares, and with no dexterity or speed, no skills, and only very basic gear, I am unsurprisingly not a fan of :
platforming, arcade, combat, killing, timed, creepy, stress, jumpscares (argghhh!), blood-n-gore, cruelty, unkind, "-ist" of many kinds, and such.
Nor am I a fan of heavy-handed "lessons learned" or the-moral-is. Or cutie-pie adorability and pink extravagances, including manga/kawaii/anime visuals. Or obvious emotional manipulation. And very tired of sexist tropes and other stereotyping.

Really, really don't like pixelart (yeah, I know!) . And my oldish eyes prefer an artstyle that is reasonably well-lit. Be that bright colours, or a more subdued palette, or greys, browns or black-and-white. Even if for nothing else, therefore not keen on space settings, caves, nighttime urban, or dungeon crawlers.

I wish, wish, wish that developers would make games that are consistent in style and content. I hate non-skippable arcade minigames in a PnC adventure, for example. Or a sudden jumpscare thrown into an otherwise kind and gentle game. Please DON'T do that. Hmpfff!

And while we're on the peeves and rants: What's with those stupid typewriter sound effects, and text presented at any rate slower than instant. Line-by-line, word-by-word, or - OMG !! letter-by-letter, is just tedious, highly annoying, and headache-inducing. Cut it out already. And - come on devs - manual saving is NOT too much to ask for in a game. Nor legible fonts. Nor grammar and spelling checks by someone competent in the language.

But to end on a positive note: Wow, I'm so grateful for the thoughtful and helpful reviews posted by so many people. Both on curated sites and on individual player profiles. A wealth of useful information and guidance for a newbie like me. I especially appreciate those who take a moment to mention if a game is OK to play on KB+M without controller. You make my day! Thank you to all :steamhappy: :emberhappy: :tinybulb: :shellebration: :pippin1: :messiaheon:
On COMMENTS
Please be polite and considerate if leaving comments.

I'm not on Steam to 'collect' friends. Am very reticent on friending, and especially random strangers.
But if we seem to share same interests in (smallish) kind and gentle games, or you're another *newbie* older person (60+ or thereabouts), then leave me a couple of lines in my comment field, and I'll consider it :granlostwords: :happystar2022:

And please don't leave random hi's or season's greetings or such. Or text art . That's really not my cup of tea, at all - and will be deleted, if any.
Thanks !

I love reading other people's thoughtful reviews, so decided to make mine open for public view too.
Such as they are...
Here's hoping my tuppence-worth of opinion may be helpful to some :carto_snowman:
A poem - to share:
Winter is well and truly here :-) Wilder weather these days than when I was growing up, but it's still a favourite season. Although I wish the pavements got cleared as good as the roads ! Old-lady hmpff ;-)

The Snow Song
- A.A.Milne (from the book 'The house at Pooh Corner')

The more it snows (Tiddely pom)
The more it goes (Tiddely pom)
The more it goes (Tiddely pom)
On snowing

And nobody knows (Tiddely pom)
How cold my toes (Tiddely pom)
How cold my toes (Tiddely pom)
Are growing

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Previously:
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson :'In Memoriam'.
- Emily Dickinson: 'The saddest noise, the sweetest noise (No 1789)'
- Caitlin Doyle : 'Not it'
- Arild Nyquist : 'The seasons' (In original: 'Årets tider')
Recent Activity
298 hrs on record
last played on 16 Mar
158 hrs on record
last played on 16 Mar
8.2 hrs on record
last played on 14 Mar
Jr.Junkie 9 Jan @ 9:17am 
I like cozy , chill and indie games , well i am in my 20s so its always a good idea to see what elderly likes to play and experience . have a good day tho , also did sent a friend req
löyly 7 Jan @ 12:25pm 
I'm not sure we're supposed to understand ALL of what's happening, there's that aura of mystery (:
I had at least one reaction like "ah yes... wait, what?" :behappy:

Glad to hear you liked the game :flamey_happy:
löyly 7 Jan @ 12:24pm 
I'm still the only one they mention with special thanks? Haha cool, though I'm not sure how I deserve that tbh... A dev sent me a direct message about something I mentioned in the forum, and I kept giving unsolicited feedback and bug descriptions. Did send a player log by email at one point, but I've done that for other games along with many other people...
I can only guess they didn't have that many testers that weren't from the same high-skills community, and getting stuff fixed right after release made a bigger difference than later help (like yours).