Redemption Ark

I can say now that Chasm City is definitely preferable to be read before Redemption Ark: a key character from the former novel appears in the latter and he will mean very little to you otherwise. In fact, one should read most of the short stories in the Galactic North anthology beforehand as well -- which I hadn't done. I was quite annoyed when Redemption Ark was referring to the events in them.

Still Wakes the Deep

Ah, dammit, here we go again: yet another first person horror walking simulator with a cool title but not much else to give. Such a great name, though -- Still Wakes the Deep. It evokes the same feelings as the names of the couple of Vernor Vinge's novels I've read, that use of 'deep' as a noun. I also love how one can read the title in two ways: the deep waking yet again or the deep waking unmoving. In the game you can find a poem where title seems to have originated from -- unknown if it was written for the game or if it existed before the fact.

The Callisto Protocol

The times certainly were apt for a spiritual successor to Dead Space: EA had pretty much abandoned the into-a-dead-end-written series -- and horror games don't bring in the big bucks, anyway. The field was -- or at least had seemed to be -- open wide, but in the end Striking Distance Studios had to hurry to get The Callisto Protocol out in time: in-2021-announced Dead Space remake threatened to steal their thunder.

New Spring

I had completely forgotten about New Spring until I happened to come across it in the local library recently. New Spring is the prequel novel to the epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. It was originally published as a novella just before The Path of Daggers but Jordan later lengthened the novella to a full-size book which was released after Crossroads of Twilight. Despite that it's not even half the size of the usual Wheel of Time novel.

Evil West

Like Shadow Warrior 3, which I already played, was Evil West also a 2022 release from Flying Wild Hog. Evil West is a similar experience too: straightforward, linear entertainment.