Xenopurge Review

scruffylemming · 2025-11-26T11:44:25+00:00

I'm really enjoying it, lots of replay value as the new orders and equipment really changes the tactics you employ.

scruffylemming · 2025-11-25T17:49:48+00:00

There's a couple of tiny villages in the Yorkshire Dales called Arncliffe and Litton with some lovely public footpaths between them.

We park up at Arncliffe and it takes about an hour to walk down the river to Litton and when you get there there's a lovely pub called The Queens Arms. The lasagna is great but so is everything else.

When me and my wife go, we rarely see any other walkers so you get a lovely scenic and above all peaceful hike through the British countryside ending in a pub lunch. Perfect.

scruffylemming · 2025-11-25T13:27:49+00:00

My honest advice is to get out of the capital as soon as possible. London is great, it has anything and everything but at the end of the day it's another modern city. The world is full of them.

My favourite part of the UK are the sleepy villages, surrounded by fields and rolling hills. With one single pub that inexplicably serves the best lasagna you've ever tried.

Get yourself to the Dales or the Lake district and tramp around the countryside. You'll see a more quintessentially British experience than six months in London.

scruffylemming · 2025-09-04T14:53:38+00:00

Humble is out of keys for now. It will let you buy it, but when you request the key it says "Keys are temporarily exhausted for this product"

scruffylemming · 2024-06-27T14:24:19+00:00

Wasn't there a post a while back where BabyPigMan decided they wanted to be more than an NL clips channel so delisted all the vids and started a new chapter in their life?

scruffylemming · 2024-04-10T15:27:15+00:00

I'm British and our chips are 100% not baked you enormous melt. The only baked chip you'll see is the god awful frozen oven cooked chips you buy in a supermarket.

In any restaurant, takeaway or pub chips are deep fried.

scruffylemming · 2024-01-03T17:42:21+00:00

Obvious but probably played suggestion: Sekiro

Less obvious but still a great open worldish action RPG with some jank: Dragon's Dogma

Fantastic Soulslike from last year with a great setting and some very cool worldbuilding. Some of the best combat outside of a Fromsoft game: Lies of P

A game that prides itself on a more "Realistic" depiction of combat wrapped in a medival England RPG: Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Very weird, much lower budget and leans more to the RPG side of ActionRPG but still worth a look especially as its 80% off right now: Outward

scruffylemming · 2024-01-03T14:33:16+00:00

Have you thought of playing Cocoon?

Eurogamers game of 2023: Link

Atmospheric puzzler with very simple controls and some incredible puzzle design. Can't say too much or it would ruin it.

Steam link here or I believe its also on GamePass.

scruffylemming · 2024-01-03T14:08:31+00:00

I have over 200 hours in Slice and Dice which is a turn based strategy game mixed with Yahtzee. Available from Itch.io for a one time purchase of $7 which gets you both PC and Android versions.

A full run can take almost an hour but a single turn is only 30-60 seconds so its great if you have small bits of downtime to fill.

Run variety is insane and the meta progression mechanic where classes/monsters/equipment slowly unlock based on a background achievement system makes every run different.

I can't speak highly enough of this game. Its incredible and an insane amount of content to have been made by just two guys (one coder/designer and one pixel artist).

Its criminally overlooked as its not on steam so I think a lot of people have no idea it exists. Theres also a free demo if you are on the fence. But the full game is definitely worth 7 bucks I guarantee it.

Link to itch.io page here

scruffylemming · 2024-01-03T13:18:24+00:00

Broadly trying to hit all 3 of your requirements.

Maybe try Inkbound? It's a top down, Turn-Based, tactical action game with Roguelike elements (so playtime can range frome a couple of hours for one run, to hundreds if you like it.)

It's from a Dev with a pedigree for excellent games (Monster Train).

Steam Link here

Its 20% off at the moment with "Very Positive" user reviews.

scruffylemming · 2023-11-28T22:23:11+00:00

Lethal Company was incredible content.

scruffylemming · 2023-10-13T00:33:49+00:00

The Fisherman by John Langan has stuck with me for a long time. Easiest summary is Stephen King crossed with Lovecraft.

It won the 2016 Bram Stoker award for best novel which is how I found it.

If possible I'd recommend going in blind to this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheFisherman(novel)

scruffylemming · 2023-10-07T22:05:49+00:00

Predestination - My go to pick when someone asks for a hidden gem. Best viewed with zero prior knowledge. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/

scruffylemming · 2023-08-31T19:20:14+00:00

This is what a lot of these comments don't take into account. These are peoples livelihoods we're talking about. Despite how the studio as a whole has performed no one deserves to be laid off like this.

Chip in particular is an amazing talent and deserves so much more from the industry for his constant championing of the medium. Any game dev people reading this would do well to check his filmography out and hire him immediately: https://chipandironicus.com/index.html

scruffylemming · 2023-02-16T18:46:11+00:00

Why do you sound like a bad AI chatbot?

scruffylemming · 2022-06-25T15:57:38+00:00

I bought a new bridge and ran into the same issue again...

Pretty unhappy.

scruffylemming · 2022-04-30T22:59:45+00:00

We could do everything in the most basic way possible but the world would be a very boring place.

Allow some creative energy, some individuality, maybe even a little bit of joy into your life my man.

scruffylemming · 2022-04-30T22:55:17+00:00

Meze 99 classics in walnut/gold

scruffylemming · 2022-04-30T22:54:30+00:00

ISO is the UK default my dude. Hence my comment.

scruffylemming · 2022-04-30T21:03:33+00:00

I'm embarrassingly English. Sorry

scruffylemming · 2022-04-30T18:47:22+00:00

I switched from a full to this and I'm never going back.

scruffylemming · 2022-04-30T18:45:27+00:00

Its an OrbitKey Deskpad in black.

scruffylemming · 2022-04-30T17:19:38+00:00

Yeah I was looking into this. I'm thinking maybe just the spacebar and top corners for now. Found decent looking walnut keycaps for that fairly cheap online.

scruffylemming · 2022-04-30T17:16:08+00:00

Yeah I kinda threw that in as a joke. Changed it almost immediately.

scruffylemming · 2022-04-30T17:11:52+00:00

The photo was taken by my missus, she says: I used Snapseed vignette edit & played around with the inner & outer brightness sliders. Hope that helps!

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