Today on 'Off The Radar', an incremental bullet hell game and a short web browser game you can play right now for free!

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Astro Prospector:
Available on: Steam, itch.io

Price: $4.99 USD, Demo available

Release date: July 14th, 2025

Developer, publisher: Incrementalist SpaceJazz

Messenger:
Available on: https://messenger.abeto.co/

Price: Free

Release date: September 25th, 2025

Developer, publisher: Vicente Lucendo and Michael Sungaila, Abeto

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‘Off The Radar’ is available on Beehiivin text and audio form, on your podcast service of choice, and will be delivered early to my Patreon supporters when no embargoes are in the way. Speaking of, a special thanks to Adrian, Buckles Chucklo, Harry Baker, Hiro, James Boss, GoldStorm07, Svendelica, Jeet, TheCrazyEven, Patrick Thompson, and Cooking Mama for their support.

Music attribution:
Intro music, 'Jungle Waves' from DIMMYSAD
https://pixabay.com/music/drum-n-bass-jungle-waves-drumampbass-electronic-inspiring-promo-345013/
Outro music composed by AllHailBuckets
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2dWDmPnBqbOuoGGF5oclcv

‘to a T’ is still a game that gets by just OK enough on its charm. I sat down to make this episode thinking I’d end up more positive, but as each day passed over the last week I really struggled to convey how I felt while still recommending the game. After all, if I wasn’t going to recommend it then why do this at all when the point is to recommend games? Where I settled on was that a fair bit of the issue was merely in managing my own expectations. This was actually one of the games I was most anticipating this year. The first two ‘Katamari Damacy’ games under Keita Takahashi speak for themselves as gaming classics, and ‘Noby Noby Boy’ and ‘WATTAM” both are so bizarre that I can’t help but be fascinated by them. There’s just nothing else out there like them. I knew to expect something a bit more “traditional” here but even with that in mind I just feel it doesn’t go as far as I’d hoped.

Show notes:
Read the text version of this here: https://mykonosfan.beehiiv.com/p/to-a-t-review-charmed-and-whelmed-off-the-radar

Available on: Steam, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC (what this was played on), PlayStation 5
Price: $19.99 USD, Demo available
Release date: May 28th, 2025
Developer, publisher: uvula, Annapurna Interactive
Prior works: Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure

Links mentioned: Playdate

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My other podcast, with other creators involved: https://crubcast.transistor.fm/
My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MykonosFan
If you have a game you'd like me to look at, e-mail: offtheradar@mykonosfan.com

‘Off The Radar’ is available on Beehiivin text and audio form, on your podcast service of choice, and will be delivered early to my Patreon supporters when no embargoes are in the way. Speaking of, a special thanks to Adrian, Buckles Chucklo, Harry Baker, Hiro, James Boss, GoldStorm07, Svendelica, Jeet, TheCrazyEven, Patrick Thompson, and Cooking Mama for their support.

Music attribution:
Intro music, 'Jungle Waves' from DIMMYSAD
https://pixabay.com/music/drum-n-bass-jungle-waves-drumampbass-electronic-inspiring-promo-345013/
Outro music composed by AllHailBuckets
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2dWDmPnBqbOuoGGF5oclcv

Pipistrello is simply an addictive game, perfectly balancing very light “puzzles” with its constant charm. It is immediately one of the better entries in the genre I’ve played. I don’t aim to paint it as some genre-sweeping revolution, instead just as a very well-crafted experience. Every few screens has a fun, weird little character that just wants a hamburger or is pleased to pass some quirky observation about this incredibly brightly colored city. It’s yet to cross over into being overly smarmy, and I don’t expect it to in the back half of the game either. The few minutes of setup at the start is text-heavy, but after that the game smartly steps back to let you focus on acquainting yourself with its systems. The size of the game world means that even when you only have time to sit down for 30 minutes, you can still make some satisfactory progress and feel good about having done something. This is a smart, polished game that won me over within that first 30 minutes. Every time I think I’m settling into a groove I’m thrown a new wrinkle that gets my mind running once again and really excited and just…having fun. I really feel that this game will find an ardent audience to champion it, and I’m quite pleased to be one of them. It’s exactly the kind of title that made me want to spin up ‘Off The Radar’ in the first place; an addictive experience that came out of nowhere and kept impressing me. I’m excited to see the rest of the game, and even more excited to see what Pocket Trap will bring us next. Frankly, I will be surprised if this isn’t sitting comfortably on many favorites lists come the end of the year.

Show notes:
Read the text version of this here: https://mykonosfan.beehiiv.com/p/youre-going-to-hear-a-lot-about-pipistrello

Available on: Steam (what this episode is based on), Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5

Price: $19.99 USD, Demo available

Release date: May 28th, 2025

Developer, publisher: Pocket Trap, PM Studios

Prior works: Ninjin: Clash of Carrots, Dodgeball Academia

Disclosure: An early review copy was provided to me
Links mentioned: The Golden Bolt, Crub, and my mall photography

Find me elsewhere:
My BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mykonosfan.com
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/MykonosFan
My Steam Curator page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43237486/
My other podcast, with other creators involved: https://crubcast.transistor.fm/
My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MykonosFan
If you have a game you'd like me to look at: offtheradar@mykonosfan.com

‘Off The Radar’ is available on Beehiivin text and audio form, on your podcast service of choice, and will be delivered early to my Patreon supporters when no embargoes are in the way. Speaking of, a special thanks to Adrian, Buckles Chucklo, Harry Baker, Hiro, James Boss, GoldStorm07, Svendelica, Jeet, TheCrazyEven, Patrick Thompson, and Cooking Mama for their support.

Music attribution:
Intro music, 'Jungle Waves' from DIMMYSAD
https://pixabay.com/music/drum-n-bass-jungle-waves-drumampbass-electronic-inspiring-promo-345013/
Outro music composed by AllHailBuckets
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2dWDmPnBqbOuoGGF5oclcv

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:57 The progression system
05:14 The essence and takeaway