STG's

 Loop Hero is an interesting card-based strategy (? not sure what the right category would be) game. It uses really lo-fi pixel art (I'd say it'd PC XT, maybe 286 era?), but is still quite adequate. Your character (you start with warrior, but can unlock others) goes around a loop, and when it kills enemies (automatically - you can't interfere at all, except changing equipment), you get cards or equipment. Equipment is what you'd expect - new weapons, armor, rings, etc, which give you certain stats, such as attack, defense, vampirism, etc. Cards can be a whole lot of things, which have good effects (giving resources when placed, when you pass them, or each day) or spawn enemies (and then still have good side effects, as giving you resources - otherwise, why would you place them). There is also a build phase, where you can place different buildings that unlocks cards, character types, weapons,etc. Overall, interesting. I do wish building didn't take so much time, thou

 Crypto against all odds is very heavily cryptocurrency themed tower defense game. It seems to have mostly what you'd expect from a TD game - different towers (which are so far Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero), and powers you can use (such as mining rigs to get you the money to buy extra towers, and lightning to kill enemies). It feels a little slow (including the mission system, which is a bulletin board), but my biggest problem is that sometimes the cursor locks up completely, while the game continues... This, with the rest of the gameplay, makes it not worth it to continue trying the game.

 Made to Order is an anthology book, with several short stories on a topic - robot revolution. It came up on my book offers, and when I read Peter F. Hamilton, I just said oh, OK and bought it. It was pretty much awesome. Some stories were nice, but many were just great and pretty memorable. I had given up on doing that, but I can't help but mention some: (watch for spoilers!) A Guide for Working Breeds - Vina Jie-min Prasad The story of a new robot and his mentor. It has a nice model I've seen before - robots are sentient, and they have to work to pay for their hardware, at which point they are free. The new robot really likes dogs, which is pretty cute (and I imagine would make a great Love, Death  + Robots episode), and the other is a little more violent. I like that the tradition of robot names based on serial/model numbers is still going. Test 4 Echo - Peter Watts Very famous author, nice, I particularly the way the sentience (and robot architecture) was approached, and ho

 I just bumped into Motherland: Fort Salem in the Star+ menu. I never had heard anything about it before. This is a fantasy(/horror?) series where in an alternate past, the Salem trials went very different when Alder, a powerful witch, did something before getting hanged (not sure what it was, frankly), and America did a deal with the witches, where they became their armed forces, and were required to present themselves for training on Fort Salem when they turn 18. The magic scheme for the series is almost all based on singing (thankfully not Disney style, just specific "seeds", or notes). That looks quite good in practice, IMHO. I am on the middle of the second season, and I quite like it so far. Very enjoyable, and while it does have obvious plot consequences, overall it feels new, and not a re-hatch of other movies/books/series, which is unfortunately rarer than I'd like.

 Desperados III is an old West themed stealth tactical game. As usual for this kind of game, each mission feels like a complicated puzzle, where you have a few elements to use - different characters with each different skills/weapons, and points on the map. Graphics are pretty good, load times are reasonable, and in particular reloading is very fast. It is so tuned toward experimenting and reloading when it fails, that it has timer reminding you of your last save. There are also a reasonable amount of options on how you finish objectives, although most felt like you had a single reasonable course of action. Tutorials felt sufficient so far, and it even has a nice screen with tutorials explaining game concepts. Overall, I really like it so far.