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Gunmetal Gods Review

December 7, 2022 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Gunmetal Gods is a sweeping epic from Zamil Akhtar, full of Middle Eastern flavor, complicated characters, and breakneck pacing.

Thoughts on the Astlibra Revision demo

December 6, 2022 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Astlibra Revision has been taking Steam by storm recently, sitting at 97% positive with over 5000 reviews. It's rare that an indie game comes out of nowhere with so little hype and has such success, and this one seemed to have all the elements I look for in this type of game: flashy, quick combat

Lego Harry Potter Collection Review

December 5, 2022 | Reading time: 4 minutes

With Hogwarts: Legacy releasing in February, and in the mood for a nice relaxing game, I decided now was a good time to go back to the Lego Harry Potter Collection - a set of games I first played back in 2014 on the PC

Pentiment Review

December 5, 2022 | Reading time: 4 minutes

Pentiment tells the tale of a 16th century Bavarian abbey and the townsfolk it rules. You play as Andreas Maler, journeyman artist from Nuremburg contracted by Kiersau abbey to complete illustrations in the abbey's scriptorium. A slow burn,

Add Achievements to retro games with RetroAchievements, RetroArch, and Playnite

December 5, 2022 | Reading time: 6 minutes

Now that we've consolidated our PC game library with Playnite, customized Playnite with themes and add-ons, and added some console game support with RetroArch, let's take it a step further and add some Achievement support to those console games as well.

Add your retro game ROMs to Playnite using RetroArch

December 5, 2022 | Reading time: 9 minutes

In previous articles, I covered merging your separate PC libraries together with Playnite and customizing Playnite with Themes and Add-ons like achievements and hiding duplicate games. Now, let's take a look at adding some games from consoles like the SNES and Gameboy Advance using the popular...

About

My name's Mike, and this is the Lore Depository - my spot online where I can write out my thoughts on games, books, tech, movies, and anything else I find interesting.

My biggest project is my Game Library Project. I have a ton of games collected throughout the years, and have barely played any of them. Check out the linked post to learn more about the project, and click here to be taken to the category page where you can see all my posts for the project.

Another project I'm working on is my Pokemon Living Dex Challenge, where I try to obtain one of each available Pokemon and transfer them into Pokemon Home.

Yet another project I'm working on is my Old School RuneScape "Completionist" Quest, where I'm attempting to max out all skills and see everything the game has to offer as a completely new player.

Other content comes mainly in 3 forms:
• Reviews, where I post longer-form review writeups
• Thoughts, short & quick first impressions posts
• Guides, detailed how-tos and walkthroughs

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