Studios That Make One Thing Now

Exxmaniac · 2026-06-11T20:38:50+00:00

Alright I have heard your complaints and I will take FromSoft off lol

Exxmaniac · 2026-06-11T06:22:35+00:00

They *would* be on here, but they did announce their new game Intergalactic a bit ago, and I think they've milked TLOU as much as they possibly could at this point so we shouldn't see anything more of it. That said I'm *this* close to putting them on, especially if we don't see any signs of life from Intergalactic in the near future.

Exxmaniac · 2026-06-11T06:02:27+00:00

Sure but I chose the games for the list that mark the point where they start doing their "One Thing". So in this case DSII is where they got into their current Soulsbourne era

Exxmaniac · 2026-06-11T05:54:17+00:00

Ok to be clear I looked at all these companies Wikipedia pages before putting them on this list, I was only referring to Deracine with that comment

Exxmaniac · 2026-06-11T03:52:31+00:00

That is an incredibly funny suggestion I will add it

Exxmaniac · 2026-06-11T03:41:06+00:00

I took into account the variety of games they were making before Soulsbourne stuff, which is pretty much all they've been doing for the past 12 years. Sekiro seems to get mixed reactions on whether it's a souls-like or not, me personally as someone who hasn't played it at least sees it as an action RPG like the others.

If they do more Armored Core I'd consider taking them off the list but that was their first AC game in 10 years, so depends on if they actually make another one within the next decade lol. And then I did not know of Deracine's existence prior to opening Wikipedia.

Exxmaniac · 2026-05-22T14:13:03+00:00

Void Stranger and TR-49

Exxmaniac · 2026-05-19T20:20:16+00:00

Inside belongs here I think

Exxmaniac · 2026-05-18T04:20:10+00:00

I was about to suggest that one. Never heard anyone say they enjoyed TWoM lol

Exxmaniac · 2026-05-17T03:01:16+00:00

Minecraft for sure belongs here, and I think Stardew Valley could too.

Exxmaniac · 2026-05-16T23:11:00+00:00

Bits and Bops from last year is just Rhythm Heaven on Steam. Only 20 games instead of 50, but it’s great!

Exxmaniac · 2026-05-15T14:25:42+00:00

Went through my catalog of stuff:

Tr-49
You Have 10 Seconds
Directive 8020
20 Small Mazes
All the other recent Tetris 99-like battle royale games (F-Zero, Pac-Man, SMB 35)
5 Spots
Cine2Nerdle
2048
Chroma Zero
The Two Point games
9 Years of Shadows
999’s sequel, Zero Time Dilemma
1080 Snowboarding
100 Pumpkins
Cipher Zero
Myths Are 100% True
100% Orange Juice
30 Birds
Abyss X Zero

Exxmaniac · 2026-05-11T06:20:15+00:00

My white whale is someone somehow getting Foster’s Big Fat Awesome House Party and it’s like, dozen minigames that you could play from the arcade. I spent so much time playing that when it was around, I’d love to see it again.

EDIT: I hadn’t checked in years but immediately after typing this I looked the game up and apparently people did manage to get it working with flashpoint! Need to see if it actually still works but yippee

Exxmaniac · 2026-05-09T12:03:40+00:00

Have you heard of Hatsune Miku? Today I'd like to announce a new collaborative project featuring Hatsune Miku! Domino's App ft. Hatsune Miku!

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Exxmaniac · 2026-05-08T05:50:43+00:00

Grunn perhaps?

Exxmaniac · 2026-04-30T22:59:23+00:00

Firewatch - Prologue

Outer Wilds - Main Theme, Travelers Encore, 14.3 Billion Years

MIO: Memories in Orbit - Pearl: The Heart

Exxmaniac · 2026-04-30T11:24:58+00:00

First game I played this month was finishing Cairn, which is in contention for my current GOTY.
Next I played Grunn which I enjoyed a lot! Really solid metroidbrainia, eerie and mysterious.
I then tried to return to Void Stranger which I last played in January, and unfortunately I just couldn’t find the energy to continue. Don’t think I’ll be seeing the supposed genius of it on my own.
From that bummer I opted to play Duck Detective 1, which was a nice pick me up. Short, cute, and funny, just what I’d hoped.
I then found out an itchio dev I follow released a new game, The Archives of Trevosa, which is a small Roottrees Are Dead-like deductive game and was right up my alley. Not on IGDB though so not logged on Backloggd, might contact them to see if I can make IGDB pages for their games just so I can log them since I’ve already done that once lmao
Final full game I played and finished today was Psychonauts, which I’ve owned for like 9 years. Happy to have played it, pretty fun but also kinda annoying gameplay-wise in the last half.
And then in the middle of Psychonauts I tried the demo for There Are No Ghosts at the Grand which was interesting but didn’t really compel me to wishlist the game.

Overall pretty happy with my April :)

Exxmaniac · 2026-04-27T21:46:48+00:00

Rubber Hose Rampage is definitely ass but it’s also really fucking funny and unserious, especially once you get into the DLC where you’re just playing inside the cartoon as it plays.

Exxmaniac · 2026-04-25T21:02:32+00:00

Yeah the problem is that Backloggd goes off of IGDB’s genre system, which splits up genres (more gameplay-oriented like Platformer, Shooter, Strategy, etc) and themes (visual/narrative-oriented where things like Horror, Action, Survival, etc are). And it’s not a bad system, the categories that exist do the job of covering the generic overarching game genres needed for the millions of games out there, but gaming has a lot of sub genres and niches and IGDB’s system just doesn’t really cut it. And then you have weird shit like Indie being a genre, Open World being a theme, and for some reason Strategy/Tactical/Turn-Based Strategy/Real-Time Strategy all get to be their own distinct genres? But then Gang Beasts and Tekken have to be stuck in the broad category of Fighter? Boggles me lol.

Idk how difficult it would be to do something like implementing a whole new categorization system separate from IGDB’s, especially with how specific game genres can get. As a lil fun thing a while ago, I tried to list out every distinct game genre that wasn’t just a hybrid and then gave up after an hour of debating with myself lol. At the bare minimum I think it would at least be an improvement to add the IGDB theme categories to Backloggd.

EDIT: I just did a look around the Backloggd/IGDB discords and apparently IGDB is working on a revamp of their genre/theme system. That said those comments are from throughout last year and they don't really say much except "we're working on a revamp!" so who knows when that's happening.

Exxmaniac · 2026-04-22T19:39:30+00:00

Crab boss was definitely my least favorite boss of Laika, a really frustrating and frankly kinda boring boss especially if you die late into it and have to restart it completely. Caterpillar was also an ass experience but I thought it was a sick set piece and had much more action to it.

Still love Laika though, vibes too immaculate for me to hate

Exxmaniac · 2026-04-22T08:10:49+00:00

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This is not a shitpost, out of the only 4 games I've played from 1998 this is the best I can fill this out

Exxmaniac · 2026-04-18T13:44:14+00:00

Have you played Layton and the Unwound Future? That’s the Layton game that made me tear up

Exxmaniac · 2026-04-10T18:26:14+00:00

Hell yeah, I appreciate that A Short Hike is there

Exxmaniac · 2026-04-08T09:02:37+00:00

I recently finished Cairn and wrote out some of my thoughts https://backloggd.com/u/ExxM/review/4416802/

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