THE RECOMMEND ME A GAME GAME

Addit's tutorial about the importance of networking hit me square in the jaw. I like to pretend I'm a tortured artist, isolate myself in my room, and write, compose, or make games. This hasn't been the best way to meet new people, so I came up with this game to expose me to more people and their games. Here's the deal: I want to play more games on this site, but there are so many that I don't know what to pick. I'm giving everyone here a chance to recommend me a game. Here are the rules:

1) This game is broken up into rounds. A round lasts until I've chosen a game.
2) Players can do any combination of the following in their post, but please limit yourself to no more than one of each category:
+2 points to a game other than your own.
+1 point to one of your own games.
-1 point to someone else's game.
3) Players can only take one turn per round, but they can comment in the thread before or after their "turn."
4) Points carry over to the next round.
5) The winning game will be played to completion and reviewed by me. I think I'm a fairly tough critic, especially with regard to writing, so keep in mind that winning might be a double-edged sword.
6) In the advent of a tie, I'll use my own discretion to pick a winner from the games that have the highest scores (in other words, I'll pick whichever one grabs me).

Here are the games I will play:
-Fun games.
-Crappy games.
-Games with the standard battle system of your engine.
-Games with neat custom battle systems.
-Games with no battle systems at all.
-Short games.
-Long games.
-Hard games.
-Easy games.
-Red games, blue games, old games, new games.

Here are the games I will NOT play:
-Incomplete games or demos.
-Episodic games--unless all the episodes are complete.
-Games that are so buggy I can't possibly beat them.
-Games that are so difficult that I can't possibly beat them. Keep in mind, though, that I can take a lot of pain.
-Commercial games.
-Games that I have already played and reviewed. Here's a list:

Halloween Bash
Halloween Flop (I kind of implicitly reviewed this in my Halloween Bash review)
Teenage Costume Squad
The Grumpy Knight
Dhux's Scar


Additionally, if you're seriously interested in working with me in the future, present, or, through some temporal anomaly, the past, shoot me a message. I'm a story and music guy, so you should probably play A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky to see my writing and music preferences; The God of Crawling Eyes will give you a decent idea in a shorter space, but it's not as representative of the direction I'd want to go in (I'm still open to horror games in the future; I just don't want to be pigeon holed). I'm also wanting to work towards commercial projects, so if that's not something you're interested in doing at least at some point in the future, it's probably best that we don't work together.

That's it! I'd like to play a lot of good games from this and hopefully meet some cool people to form a team.

You're doing it right StarSkipp. You can also recommend your own game in addition to recommending another's. So, here's a sample post from my perspective:

+1 to the The God of Crawling Eyes.
+2 to The Grumpy Knight.
-1 to Halloween Bash.

Or I could not attack and say:
+1 to the The God of Crawling Eyes.
+2 to The Grumpy Knight.

Or I could not recommend my own game and say:
+2 to The Grumpy Knight.
-1 to Halloween Bash.

Or I could only recommend another game, like you did:
+2 to The Grumpy Knight.

So, in other words, while you can recommend your own game and downvote another person's game, you have to recommend someone else's game. So you're fine. I'd prefer the format I used in this post for keeping tabs on this more easily, but saying "defend," "attack," etc. is fine too. If you want to recommend your own game, too, you can StarSkipp. Sorry if my initial post was too vague.

Alright, I was hoping to get some more recommendations, especially for everyone's own games, but, hey, this is a nice start, and at least I don't have to do much math. Since the first two posts get an extra point as per my convoluted rules (Marrend's post didn't specify where to give the extra point, so no bonus points there), the current standings are:

Dhux's Scar: 3
Atherion: 2
The Astonishing Captain Skull: 2
Uchioniko: 1
Vorlorn: 2
Marie Goes to Space: -2
Chrono Trigger: 2
Sunset Over Imdhal: 2

...which means I'm going to review Dhux's Scar. The next round starts now, so anyone who already voted can vote again, and if you want to vote for the same games, that's fine, too. Don't be afraid to hype your own games.