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Auridia is a small MV game for Steam, released in Sep 2025. It was made by a solo developer Reed, and the studio name is Norseboar Games. Auridia is its first game. This review says it took 6 hours or so to get 100%

So far it has only 143 reviews, so not yet well known. However 98% reviews are positive! At this sub Kyle Thompson said as a reply "I liked this game a lot. Picked it up after seeing it recommended on this sub and I ended up liking it way more that I thought I would." ;)

It's now bundled at Fanatical. You have to buy 3 games, and the total cost is $7.5. (Bundle seems to last until 17 Jun, but not sure.)

BTW Momodora: Reverie under the Moonlight is for $2 and Rusted Moss for $8 at Steam, each for the historically lowest price. (And La-Mulana 1/2 and Hyper Light Drifter are also on sale.)

Hope this helps. Enjoy!

# I began Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue. It's old-school and really basic, yet incredibly good.

One underrated good point of DQ11 is "Story so far", which is really elaborately prepared. After you beat the Sniflheim boss in act 2, the one I show in these pics can be read only for an instance, until >!the hero speaks to Erik!<!. See the 3rd photo. (IIUC there's no autosave this moment.)

BTW 1: I'm playing on "a hard mode", where all monsters are strong. (W/ tripes and no-exp from weak monsers.) On my first try of this boss I got wiped out, so I spent a lot of money to upgrade equipment. :p Fortunately most >!(physics related) debuffs!< work. So far B>!ooga!< was most difficult.

BTW 2: I bought DQ11 OG for Steam 6 years ago, but I'm still in Act 2! (Probably I'm the slowest player on the earth.) I'd been away from this game for 370 days, but I restarted recently, this time resolute to beat. XD

This track is really easy for Lv 7 (probably easiest) but anyway I didn't expect to get Silver and FC on the first attempt.

I'm not good at action games, and I thought it'd take a while to get the "Silver for a Lv 7 track" achivement.

Getting gold on Lv 1 is still not easy at all for me. I often fail to do so. :p

My last trophy is 100% in Lv 6, but I'm sure I won't make it within a year.

This seems too good. I forged 6 Full Moon Rings, and got three +3, two +2 and one +1, of course without using perfectionist pearls.

I spammed triple whammy, often resulting in a critical hit. I don't know if triple whammy is magical, but probably not.

# Probably I didn't need this many rings. :p

Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure (Steam page, Epic page) will be free at Epic from 8 May for a week!

Don't worry, if any. This is a contract, not piracy or something unfair. Epic pays some amount money, and the publisher has agreed. This is enabled by Epic's big income from Fortnite etc.

Almost any PC can run this I think. (There's a demo at Steam, so you can try now.) Don't miss this occasion!

Many puzzle games suppose that you take notes, pen-and-paper and/or digital.

I know OTOH there's the World Memory Championships, of which participants memorize incredible amounts of various things.

So the question. Does anyone play puzzle games completely without notes, relying only on your memory? (I do for e.g. 15x15 crosswords, but probably can't do sudoku.)

BTW I've just beaten RYB, which is completely free on Steam. It's a nice, completely logical puzzle. In a few puzzles of it I used paper. EDIT As replied, the same dev also provides 20 Small Mazes for free. It's more playful and somewhat jocular, but it's also highly recommendable.