Thank you so much for joining us once again. It is the Nightly Pleasures podcast. I am your host and the author of The Peace you're going to hear this week, The Grey Knight. You can call me Daddy, you can call me Jack, as long as you call me back. I don't really like saying that.

And I'm the one who wrote it and chooses to say it over and over again. But then it exits my mouth and, uh, well, I get a little bit embarrassed.

How you doing? How's everything going?

Uh, I hope your September is going quite well.

Uh, I am here to tell you that I am obsessed with a series of super cheap, low-fi, i.e., you could play them on just about anything.

Like, you could play these on a refrigerator or a toaster. They don't require advanced systems or anything.

Games that I bought for super cheap. I bought a grab bag of games. I got a I got a 25

gift card to the old Steam and I got a I was like well I don't really see anything on here.

I want to play all that badly and so I just thought for this update because you guys are always so curious what I'm doing,

I just, I tell you about these super cheap games that I bought, and I just can't get enough of.

I played all of these games well over a dozen hours apiece.

And the third one I'm going to mention, I have literally sunk like 200 hours into this game.

So for $2.99, I think, was the purchase. It wasn't even on sale. For $2.99, I can't believe what I've gotten out of it.

So, uh, the first thing is a game called tiny folks, all one word, just like it sounds, tiny folks.

And if you've ever played a game in which a character dies and they stay dead, it's one of those. You're the king. You have to reclaim your throne in a number of days. Every day you get to go out on a quest, but the guys you send out on your quest are going

to get hurt, and then they can't go out the next day or three. And then you slowly upgrade

your village and your guys and everything, so you go to more difficult places, and eventually

you retake your throne. Now, that's a very basic dumb premise. But the execution of this

game is adorable. Everything's just in little black and white pixels. It's all done by one dev.

They didn't really balance everything right away when the game first came out. But now it's had an

update. It's got all these additional modes,

and it's very well balanced, and it's just a lot of fun. I'm really enamored with. I mean,

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