[PC] Da New Guys: Day of the Jackass (2012)

How:
Read about it on Gnomeslair, tried the demo an liked it. Bought it when it came out on sale with Indieroyale's The Getaway Bundle.
Pros:
- Simple, yet enthralling story
- Great characters with amusing lines of dialogue
- Voice-overs really make the characters breathe life
- Good puzzles, never gets boring
- You get to play up to 3 characters in various sections of the game
- The cartoonish style is consistent, pleasant and with smooth animations
- Music and sound effects are nice and fitting
- Amazing final action/adventure sequence in cell-shaded 3D
- Moderately long playtime
Cons:
- Buggy savestates (screenshots depicted my desktop)
- Sometimes dialogues were skipping ultra fast with a single mouse click, missed some of them

[PC] Metal Dead (2011)

How:
Read about it on Gnomeslair, and enjoyed the demo. Finally bought it with the Bundle in a Box Adventure Bundle.
Pros:
- A blackish horror comedy, full of suspense, that plays extremely well
- Rather polished, with great care for details
- Very consistent graphic style and nice animations
- Full of cutscene events and happenings
- Nice and well balanced puzzles
- Very good writing and humour, cool characters
- Probably a sequel coming up!
Cons:
- Crash when saving the game! Had to complete it in one go

[PC] Ben Chandler: Paranormal Investigator (2012)

How:
Got with the AGS Bake Sale.
The features:
- All sorts of in-jokes only about 2 people will get!
- Wacky screwball comedy with lots of terrible Australian stereotypes!
- Authentic didgeridoo music!
- A 72% Aussie voice cast!
Pros:
- A moderately funny little game
Cons:
- Incredibly linear

[PC] 9 Months In (2012)

How:
Got with the AGS Bake Sale after reading the article about it on Gnome's Lair.
Pros:
- Very nice graphics, presentation and smooth animations, rather polished as a whole
- Nice puzzles, nice dramatic story
- Likable protagonist (a pregnant inmate!)
- Interesting, novel setting inside a women's prison
Cons:
- Voiceovers have alternating quality (e.g. Susie has a constant hiss noise in all instances, the guard has no skills as an actor)

[PC] Oz Orwell and the Crawling Chaos (2012)

How:
Read the review on AdventureClassicGaming, got convinced by the graphics. Was already keeping an eye on Midian Design anyway.
Pros:
- Nice graphics and mood
- Plays well in general and it is far from boring
Cons:
- Very short, a lot of wasted potential
- Clunky animations
- No voiceovers
- Most inventory items are never used
- General lack of care for descriptions and dialogues
- Out of place humour
- Incredibly clichéd
- Very few puzzles

[PC] Planescape: Torment (1999)

How:
Was browsing through the gog.com catalogue, got intrigued by the isometric screenshots and by the very positive reviews.
Pros:
- A beautiful RPG which an immersive story lending itself to a very personal experience
- Wonderful music and voiceovers
- Excellent writing and dialogues
- A whole lot of side quests, adding a lot of depth and gameplay to the already big world
- Very good replayability value
- Tons of items and magic spells
- Highly non-linear and strongly dependent on the player's actions
Cons:
- Assorted bugs and glitches, some crashes
- Frequent path-finding bugs, with PCs getting stuck and unable to get items or talk to characters
- Every time a PC dies he must retrieve his inventory items which lie scattered on the ground
- Inventory is quite limited, many key items must be brought along for a long time and there is no possibility to deposit them somewhere temporarily (or at least no clear indication on how to do it)

[Browser] Parameters (2012)

How:
Appeared in the Best of 2012 feature of jayisgames.com.
Pros:
- A simple and engaging concept
- Addicting and well balanced
Cons:
- No sound effects
- Would have been cool having more chapters and even a simple story