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July 20, 2023 - Day 201 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 221

Game: Temtem

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Sep 7, 2022
Library Date: Jul 18, 2023
Unplayed: 2d
Playtime: 29m

The fourth review for this month's Humble Choice bundle is the second game in the bundle, "Temtem".

It's a cutesy MMO... Pokémon clone. Pokémon are Temtem, Pokéballs are Temcards, the Pokédex is now a Tempedia, etc etc. Not sure how Nintendo didn't sue (cf. Dinkum & ACNH).

The closest I ever got to a Nintendo handheld of my own is a dual-screen Donkey Kong, so I never really got into the Pokémon thing.

The closest I got was Pokémon Go, which was OK for a while, but the fun wore off relatively quickly.

The thing that worked for me was the real-world aspect of Pokémon Go.

Put that into a setting where I have to wander around in a game-world and capture creatures to make them fight other creatures, and it's just really not my thing. I didn't really enjoy it when WoW added it, it's worse when it's the point of the game.

Honestly, I'm surprised I even managed to write this much about the game, because I found Temtem to be:

2: Meh