Digging through Itch

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been looking through itch.io to see what sorts of interesting things have been developed by folks in parts of the gaming sphere that I haven't necessarily been exposed to. It has actually been an interesting activity, especially downloading some of the cheap stuff and free stuff that people have uploaded, and doing some careful reads of what has been released.

I've found it curious that a lot of the games are exploring different ways to do things, but often fall back on the same basic patterns. It's also been notable that plenty of games have indicated inspiration from games that I had considered "just another OSR red-book clone" but the mechanisms of these games have been quite different, and something I would have completely overlooked due to prejudice. As an example, I just looked at "Stirrup" by Kyler Korbo Mills, which even goes so far as to call itself an OSR product, however I'm seeing far more in common with story games and even "FU" by Nathan Russell, than what I would expect to see in anything OSR. 

Maybe I should start doing some reviews of the various things I've found and why they interest me.

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