Yes! Another little Sokpop game!

This one has you boating between tiny islands, upgrading your little boat, defeating skeletons, and following treasure maps to get items which will help you destroy a huge sea monster.

The controls are a little fiddly, and it was only by accident I realised you could swap which side of your boat you could fire a cannon from (which until then had meant sea encounters were unnecessarily difficult), but like the other Sokpop titles it’s a sweet little adventure with cute graphics and a simple, solid bit of gameplay.

Yes! Another little Sokpop game!

This one has you boating between tiny islands, upgrading your little boat, defeating skeletons, and following treasure maps to get items which will help you destroy a huge sea monster.

The controls are a little fiddly, and it was only by accident I realised you could swap which side of your boat you could fire a cannon from (which until then had meant sea encounters were unnecessarily difficult), but like the other Sokpop titles it’s a sweet little adventure with cute graphics and a simple, solid bit of gameplay.

Another Sokpop game! This one is a tiny Metroidvania where you’re a robot and you have to, well, explore and collect nuts and bolts and fly a little spaceship.

Upgrades include a body (you start as just a head!), a gun, the ability to go in water, and so on. It’s all quite cute and has frogs in it. It’s got chunky graphics which remind me a bit of Atari 2600 games aside from a few bits where they have big, more modern bits which is a bit odd, but it doesn’t affect the gameplay.

I bought a bundle of cute looking games on Steam from a group called Sokpop. They seem to have hundreds on there, but the “Chill Adventure” bundle looked right up my street. Turns out it was. It’s here if you want it too.

After a brief go of some of them, once my daughter graciously allowed me to have my Steam Deck back once she’d played them, I settled on Fishy 3D. You’re a fish who has to grow bigger, by eating plants and fish smaller than you, and sometimes smaller, by swimming through some goo. You can be eaten by bigger fish, and you need to be the right size in order to fit through gratings and pipes and large enough to pull ropes and stuff.

It’s very much in the same mould as Katamari Damacy or Donut County or a million “eat bigger to get bigger” fish games, but with some actual stuff to do. Like most in this collection of games it’s a simple idea with a short game but done really well.

There’s also a Fishy game which isn’t 3D, which I probably should have played first.