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      <title>Metaphor: ReFantazio — 9.0/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/metaphor-refantazio</link>
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      <description>The Persona team leaves high school and finds something angrier to say.</description>
      <author>Astorian</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Astro Bot — 9.1/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/astro-bot</link>
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      <description>A platformer with no filler, no upgrade tree, and no interest in taking more of your time than it needs.</description>
      <author>BeeGamesLite</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hollow Knight: Silksong — 0.0/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/hollow-knight-silksong</link>
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      <description>Fourteen hours in, and it is already asking more of me than the first game did at forty.</description>
      <author>PowerManiac</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Finals — 8.2/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/the-finals</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/the-finals</guid>
      <description>The only shooter where the map is a resource you spend, and the only one that has convinced me destruction matters.</description>
      <author>XXGameGuru</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree — 9.1/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree</guid>
      <description>An expansion the size of a full game, built almost entirely for the people who already finished the last one.</description>
      <author>Astorian</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>1000xRESIST — 9.0/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/1000xresist</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/1000xresist</guid>
      <description>The most structurally ambitious story in games this decade, told almost entirely in rooms with people talking.</description>
      <author>Douka</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Balatro — 8.8/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/balatro</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/balatro</guid>
      <description>A poker roguelike that understands the difference between a good hand and a good decision.</description>
      <author>BeeGamesLite</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Manor Lords — 6.9/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/manor-lords</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/manor-lords</guid>
      <description>The most beautiful medieval town builder ever made, and about sixty percent of a game.</description>
      <author>Pepesinto</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hades II — 8.6/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/hades-ii</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/hades-ii</guid>
      <description>More of everything, held together by writing that still has no real competition in the genre.</description>
      <author>PowerManiac</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Satisfactory — 9.0/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/satisfactory</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/satisfactory</guid>
      <description>A factory builder that solved the one problem the genre could not: standing inside the machine.</description>
      <author>Pepesinto</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Silent Hill 2 — 8.3/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/silent-hill-2</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/silent-hill-2</guid>
      <description>A remake that understood the assignment everywhere except the fog.</description>
      <author>Douka</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon — 8.7/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/armored-core-vi</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/armored-core-vi</guid>
      <description>FromSoftware makes a game about building the right tool, not about being the better player.</description>
      <author>PowerManiac</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dragon's Dogma 2 — 7.4/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/dragons-dogma-2</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/dragons-dogma-2</guid>
      <description>A brilliant, hostile game that is entirely uninterested in whether you are enjoying yourself.</description>
      <author>Astorian</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — 8.4/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/indiana-jones-great-circle</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/indiana-jones-great-circle</guid>
      <description>A first-person adventure that understands the character is a scholar who punches, not a soldier who reads.</description>
      <author>Douka</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Star Wars Outlaws — 6.2/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/star-wars-outlaws</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/star-wars-outlaws</guid>
      <description>A gorgeous, weightless open world with a good scoundrel trapped inside it.</description>
      <author>XXGameGuru</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Vampire Survivors — 8.1/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/vampire-survivors</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/vampire-survivors</guid>
      <description>Two euros of code that redirected an entire genre, and it still holds up on a bus.</description>
      <author>BeeGamesLite</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — 7.2/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2</guid>
      <description>A hostile, atmospheric, deeply compromised game that no other studio would have finished at all.</description>
      <author>Astorian</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Skull and Bones — 3.9/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/skull-and-bones</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/skull-and-bones</guid>
      <description>Eleven years of development produced a ship you can upgrade and almost nothing to do with it.</description>
      <author>Pepesinto</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tekken 8 — 8.0/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/tekken-8</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/tekken-8</guid>
      <description>The most welcoming fighting game ever made, wrapped around monetisation that keeps testing the goodwill.</description>
      <author>PowerManiac</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Baldur's Gate 3 — 9.4/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/baldurs-gate-3</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/baldurs-gate-3</guid>
      <description>The rare enormous game where the size is not the point — the reactivity is.</description>
      <author>Astorian</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Helldivers 2 — 8.5/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/helldivers-2</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/helldivers-2</guid>
      <description>The best cooperative shooter in years, and a case study in how quickly a live game can lose the room.</description>
      <author>XXGameGuru</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Animal Well — 8.7/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/animal-well</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/animal-well</guid>
      <description>A metroidvania where every item is a tool and none of them are a weapon.</description>
      <author>BeeGamesLite</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Resident Evil 4 — 9.2/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/resident-evil-4</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/resident-evil-4</guid>
      <description>The remake nobody thought was necessary, and the rare one that argues with the original instead of tracing it.</description>
      <author>Douka</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Frostpunk 2 — 7.8/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/frostpunk-2</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/frostpunk-2</guid>
      <description>The sequel trades the survival horror of a single furnace for the slower cruelty of politics.</description>
      <author>Pepesinto</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lies of P — 7.9/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/lies-of-p</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/lies-of-p</guid>
      <description>A soulslike that stops imitating around hour twelve and starts arguing.</description>
      <author>PowerManiac</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Alan Wake 2 — 8.9/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/alan-wake-2</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/alan-wake-2</guid>
      <description>A game about writing that is genuinely about writing, and the only survival horror where the boldest sequence is a musical.</description>
      <author>Douka</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Marvel Rivals — 7.9/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/marvel-rivals</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/marvel-rivals</guid>
      <description>A hero shooter that understood the assignment was fun before it was fair.</description>
      <author>XXGameGuru</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cocoon — 8.3/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/cocoon</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/cocoon</guid>
      <description>Seven hours, one mechanic, no wasted minute — the most precisely built puzzle game in years.</description>
      <author>BeeGamesLite</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty — 8.9/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty</guid>
      <description>Twenty-five hours that finally deliver the game the marketing promised four years too late.</description>
      <author>Astorian</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Against the Storm — 8.8/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/against-the-storm</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/against-the-storm</guid>
      <description>A city builder with a roguelike's spine, and the first one in years that respects your evening.</description>
      <author>Pepesinto</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>XDefiant — 4.8/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/xdefiant</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/xdefiant</guid>
      <description>A competent arcade shooter that arrived with nothing to say and no reason to stay.</description>
      <author>XXGameGuru</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — 9.0/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom</guid>
      <description>A sequel that hands you a physics engine and trusts you not to need permission.</description>
      <author>Astorian</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Black Myth: Wukong — 7.7/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/black-myth-wukong</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/black-myth-wukong</guid>
      <description>Spectacular boss design carried by a world that keeps forgetting to be a world.</description>
      <author>PowerManiac</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dave the Diver — 7.5/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/dave-the-diver</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/dave-the-diver</guid>
      <description>An enormously charming game that keeps bolting on systems until the good one is buried.</description>
      <author>BeeGamesLite</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Starfield — 6.4/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/starfield</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/starfield</guid>
      <description>A thousand planets, and the best hours are all spent in four cities.</description>
      <author>Astorian</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cities: Skylines II — 4.6/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/cities-skylines-ii</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/cities-skylines-ii</guid>
      <description>A far more ambitious simulation than its predecessor, shipped roughly a year before it worked.</description>
      <author>Pepesinto</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sifu — 8.4/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/sifu</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/sifu</guid>
      <description>A fighting game disguised as a beat-em-up, where dying makes you old and old makes you fragile.</description>
      <author>PowerManiac</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Destiny 2: The Final Shape — 7.6/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/destiny-2-the-final-shape</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/destiny-2-the-final-shape</guid>
      <description>A ten-year story landing better than it had any right to, attached to a game that still cannot explain itself.</description>
      <author>XXGameGuru</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pentiment — 8.6/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/pentiment</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/pentiment</guid>
      <description>A murder mystery where the point is not who did it but what your accusation costs the town.</description>
      <author>Douka</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Stellar Blade — 6.7/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/stellar-blade</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/stellar-blade</guid>
      <description>A combat system good enough to deserve a better game around it.</description>
      <author>PowerManiac</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Callisto Protocol — 5.1/10</title>
      <link>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/the-callisto-protocol</link>
      <guid>https://hoursdeep.site/reviews/the-callisto-protocol</guid>
      <description>Dead Space's creator remade Dead Space and forgot what the good parts were for.</description>
      <author>Douka</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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